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Tate Lecture Rescheduled Because of breaking news on the death of Osama bin Laden, Tina Brown, as editor of Newsweek, will be unable to travel to Dallas to deliver the Tate Lecture on Tuesday. The lecture will be rescheduled and will be announced as soon as possible. Tickets for the May 3 lecture will be honored on the rescheduled date.

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Martinez named Student Trustee

Southern U.S. begins recovery Residents of the Southern states affected by tornadoes are beginning the recovery process. The Red Cross, Salvation Army and other groups have opened shelters and distributed food to displaced people in Alabama, Mississippi, and other states. The current death toll from those storms is at more than 340, the highest death toll from tornadoes since 1936. The Associated Press estimated that 312 tornadoes touched down in the 24-hour period from Wednesday to Thursday.

Man shaves for Osama death Gary Weddle, a 50-year-old teacher from East Wenatchee, Washington, vowed nearly 10 years ago to not shave until bin Laden was either captured or proven dead. Initially, he neglected to shave because he was caught up in the tragic news, and then, he made his pledge. As soon as the Weddles heard the news Sunday, Gary found scissors and a razor, and, in front of friends and neighbors, cut the beard and was shaving his stubble even before President Obama addressed the nation about bin Laden’s death.

bin Laden’s death sets record The Twitter feed was abuzz last night as Obama made the announcement of Osama bin Laden’s death to the American public. Twitter users posted more than 3,400 messages per second Sunday night during Obama’s address. According to the company, that is the highest rate of sustained tweeting ever.

Royal honeymoon set The Daily Mail reported Monday that Prince William and Catherine will honeymoon in mid-May on an “exclusive island in the Indian Ocean,” although the paper has opted to not publish the island’s name. The paper also said that the island is in almost “complete isolation,” with only a handful of luxury villas, each of which has its own butler.

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With the new One World Trade Center building in the background, second left, a large, jubilant crowd reacts to the news of Osama bin Laden’s death at the corner of Church and Vesey Streets, adjacent to Ground Zero, during the early morning hours of Monday in New York.

Americans celebrate death of bin Laden

By JESSICA HUSEMAN Politics Editor jhuseman@smu.edu

The site at which almost 3,000 people died at the hands of Osama bin Laden filled with celebration at the announcement of his death on Sunday night, and stayed full until early Monday morning.

Two former SMU students were among those that gathered at Ground Zero.

Cameron Cain, a former SMU student who transferred to Marymount Manhatten College this fall, said that the celebration at Ground Zero was “unlike any celebration I’d ever seen.”

“I saw people popping champagne

and dangling from lamp posts, and also saw loved ones of 9/11 victims holding portraits of those lost and weeping,” Cain said. “This was hearbreaking. Some came together in prayer, while others rejoiced by getting drunk and reciting ‘Osama is dead’ over and over again.”

SMU alumna Laura Ratliff said that there were around 4,000 people celebrating at the site. The partiers came bearing “flags, air horns, beer and other ‘patriotic’ gear” and quickly began to yell patriotic chants and sign songs in unison.

Cain said the most popular choices for chants were “USA! USA! USA!” and “Bin is in the bin.”

The song crowd favorite was the

national anthem.

While Ground Zero isn’t typically the site for celebrations, and is usually a more somber location to remember the thousands lost, Cain and Ratliff said that the celebratory crowd kept growing as people poured out of cars, apartments and local streets to join in on the chants and songs.

Phoebe Kingsak, a junior journalism major at NYU, was one of the thousands of New Yorkers who flooded the area.

She left her dorm room to join in on the celebration and ended up covered in champagne from two separate champagne showers brought on by nearby partiers.

She said that the crowd was

“exhilarating” and that one of the most touching moments was when a woman addressed the crowd saying, “I feel joy, I feel peace. I will never feel broken by the enemy.”

Bin Laden was shot in the head by a group of American soldiers at a secured compound in the town of Abbottabad, Pakistan.

The operation also killed bin Laden’s son, two other men and a woman, who was used as a human shield.

Yesterday, DNA verification of bin Laden’s identity was released.

After identification, he was buried at sea to meet quick Muslim burial requirements.

Junior Adriana Martinez has been selected as the 2011-2012 Student Trustee.

The Student Trustee sits on the SMU Board of Trustees and has full voting privileges within the board.

The Student Trustee is also charged with facilitating communication between the board and the SMU community.

“I am thrilled with this opportunity, and I excitedly look forward to every moment that I can serve the student body in this capacity,” Martinez said.

Martinez is the current opinion editor for The Daily Campus. She is also a President’s Scholar and is involved with the Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, the Honors Program and the Robert Stewart Hyer Honors Society.

Martinez interns at the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies and is a Henry S. Miller Undergraduate Fellow. She is a student representative to the advisory board of the Embrey Human Rights Program, a co-founder of the Student Leadership Initiative and a Student Foundation Ambassador.

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ECONOMY

Texans cope with higher prices at pump

Robinson selected in NFL draft

By STEPHANIE BROWN Contributing Writer sbrown@smu.edu

Hannah Davidson circles the service roads off U.S. 75 Highway searching for an affordable gas station. This time, she settles on the Techron Station located off U.S. 75 and Fitzhugh.

A recent college graduate, Davidson supports herself and likes to conserve money whenever possible.

“I’m always aware of how much gas is in my tank these days. I usually drive past a few stations and settle on the one with the cheapest gas,” she said.

She limits her driving to work and to necessary destinations. However, when Davidson needs to run errands, she carpools with friends or neighbors in her apartment complex in attempt to reduce the number of times she has to fill up with gas.

“The reason gas prices are up is

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Gasoline pump prices are shown at a gas station Monday, in Portland, Ore.

because crude oil is up,” Professor James Cooley, Senior Lecturer of the Economics Department at SMU, said.

Across the nation, people are witnessing the steady climb of gas prices.

On April 21, 2011, the price per barrel of oil traded at $112, its highest since 2008.

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By WESLEIGH OGLE Contributing Writer wogle@smu.edu

The current budget crisis in Texas may cause cuts that could take away a mother’s luxury of deciding when her baby will be born, and create more incentives for women, especially those on Medicaid, to stay healthy and carry a pregnancy to full term.

Today, healthy babies who are born through elective induction are occasionally put into neonatal

intensive care units (NICUs). If a baby is born prematurely or with health complications, he or she is also admitted into a NICU. Medicaid is used both for elective inductions that are medically necessary and for those that are not. Because of the high cost of neonatal care, Texas legislators are looking to NICUs to help reduce Medicaid spending.

The average Medicaid cost of a NICU stay in 2009 was $45,000 compared to $2,500 for a healthy baby.

Medicaid, which is administered by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), funds more than half of all births in the state. According to the HHSC, 4,370 elective inductions that were paid for by Medicaid occurred before 39 weeks of gestation in 2009.

“We’ve heard reports that healthy babies are sometimes placed in NICUs just because no other beds

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Add brain foods to add to healthy study habits

By KATIE TUFTS

common ingredients in the snack are bananas and other fruits like Goji berries, blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries. Many add nuts or granola to the Acai bowl.

Ingredients: 1 frozen pack of Acai 1 banana 1/4-cup soymilk Frozen blueberries Granola Honey

Health and Fitness Editor ktufts@smu.edu

With finals starting tomorrow, the stress level increases at an alarming rate along with the hours spent in Fondren over the next week.

Eating healthy is probably the last thing on students’ minds, but it can be one of the most important aspects of their final preparations.

Some foods can help to stimulate brain activity, which will not only help students stay healthy during finals but also be at their best.

Many studies show that there are particular foods to eat that are considered “brain foods,” which students can eat over the next week and a half to ensure that they are at their best when taking finals.

The first is wild salmon. Wild Salmon is loaded with omega-3 fatty acids, which help to build brain tissue and will help increase brain power.

Salmon also has niacin, which can help keep Alzheimer’s disease and slow the rate of cognitive decline, according to Yahoo Health.

Mackerel can also be substituted and has many of the same benefits as the wild salmon.

However, not all fats can help stimulate brain activity saturated fats can actually inhibit brain activity by blocking nutrient and blood flow to the brain.

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The juice and pulp of açaí fruits (Euterpe oleracea) are used in various juice blends, smoothies, sodas, and other beverages. Açaí has become popular in southern Brazil where it is consumed cold as açaí na tigela (“açaí in the bowl”), mostly mixed with granola.

Blueberries and Acai berries are known to help with long-term memory.

They carry antioxidants that can improve cognitive thinking and can protect the brain from free-radical damage and lower the risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

Wild blueberries have the most antioxidants, so try getting some from a farmer’s market or picking them off the vine.

Acai berries are loaded with antioxidants and carry the same

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benefits as blueberries. Acai berries taste great in smoothies or in the popular, healthy snack called an “Acai bowl.”

Acai Bowl Recipe The Acai bowl is a refreshing, healthy snack that is full of antioxidants and is perfect for a break during finals studying. It is made using Acai berries, which are grown in Brazil.

Most use frozen Acai smoothie packs that are frozen Acai pulp. Other

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Silvia Paola Nunez Graduate Voice Recital at 7 p.m. in Perkins Chapel.

Bryan Russ Callison and Brendan Johnson Elective Guitar Recital at 7 p.m. in Perkins Chapel.

Noel DaSalla Performance Diploma Double Bass Recital at 8:30 p.m. in O’Donnell Recital Hall.

Before or after a final, when the stress levels are high, students should have some low-fat yogurt (not frozen, which is high in sugar) or mixed nuts, like almonds, macadamia nuts, or Brazil nuts.

Eating them raw will give the most health benefits because they retain all of the nutrients.

“Scientists in Slovakia gave people three grams each of two amino acids—lysine and arginine—or a placebo, and asked them to deliver a speech. Blood measurements of stress hormones revealed that the amino acid-fortified guys were half as anxious during and after

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1. Blend Acai, blueberries, half of banana and soy milk 2. Pour in Bowl 3. Top with granola, sliced banana and strawberries and drizzle honey on top

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1:42 a.m. Disorderly Conduct/ Public Intoxication: Boaz Lot/3200 Binkley Ave. A student was issued a University Park citation, arrested,booked into University Park jail and referred to the Student Conduct Office for being intoxicated and urinating in a public place. Closed.

MAY 1 12:29 a.m. Fire Alarm/Criminal Mischief: Beta Theta Pi House/3058 SMU Blvd. Officers responded to an active fire alarm.

It was determined the alarm was activated by a pull station. The pull station was completely ripped from the wall and hanging by its wires.

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the speech as those who took the placebo,” Yahoo Health said.

Yogurt carries large amounts of lysine, and nuts are loaded with arginine.

They both have some protein so when choosing a pretest snack, either one would be perfect to keep students full throughout the day.

When students need to concentrate, peppermint tea is the perfect option going into take a test or doing work late at night.

“The scent of peppermint helps you focus and boosts performance, according to Yahoo Health.

Peppermint tea would be the perfect morning drink that will not cause the crash, like the effects from drinking coffee. Other studies have found that peppermint makes drivers more alert and less anxious.

Other snacks that provide health benefits are fruits and healthy spreads.

Apple slices spread with peanut butter are the perfect snack around lunchtime.

“The carb-rich fruit will give serotonin a boost, which helps calm raggedy nerves so it’s easier to focus.

The peanut butter is filled with

healthy fats,” according to the brain food success blog.

Almond butter is also a good alternative for those who are allergic to peanuts.

Grapes are perfect when students want a sweet snack. As a high sugar fruit, grapes have serotonin also and they are high in fiber, which slows down sugar absorption and the fiber can soothe stress.

Frozen grapes are the perfect study snacks for a hot day.

As well as eating healthy, it is important for students to get adequate sleep (about eight hours) and exercise on a regular basis.

Without proper sleep, studies have found it is harder to eat healthy and that students are more prone to picking up illnesses.

Students should try to get 30 minutes of cardiovascular (running or biking) exercise at least three to five times per week.

This is especially important when students are in finals and have high levels of stress.

The Acai bowl recipe is from hubpages.com.

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“Oil is a commodity that’s traded globally in dollars. And the major exporting countries realize that the value of the dollar is going down,” Cooley said.

“In order to preserve the purchasing power of the oil they’re giving up for that, they’re charging more.”

With the high price of gas, the residents of Dallas are left with thinner wallets and struggling to find ways to cope. While filling up at the Shell Station on the corner of Hillcrest Avenue and Lovers Lane, Jonathan Huntly impatiently glances at his watch as he pumps gas into his SUV. He is in a hurry to get his son to baseball practice and just stopped to fill up his empty tank on the way.

“For me, I just pull up to the nearest gas station when the light in my car turns on to tell me my tank is empty. What it comes down to is, I have to get around,

so I’m going to pay,” he said.

To fill up his 18-gallon tank, which he does about once every nine days, it costs Huntly around $70. This particular Shell Station charges $3.99 per gallon for unleaded fuel. At what may seem a high cost to pay, Huntly isn’t dissuaded by cost.

A few miles away in North Dallas, a new iPhone application led 27-year-old Bill Muncklin to the Chevron located at Preston and Northwest Highway. The popular application, Gas Buddy, allows the user to enter a zip code and find the cheapest gas prices.

“I saw that gas prices were going up and decided there was no way I was going to pay more than I had to for gas.

So I found this app online. And the app brought me here,” Muncklin said.

Gas Buddy even allows the user to enter which type of fuel for which they

are searching. With such a handy tool, savvy shoppers can find the cheapest gas nearest them.

Tina Lester works in a high rise downtown, but she lives about 10 miles away in her town home. When gas prices surpassed $3.50 per gallon, Lester decided it was time to find an alternative way to commute to work.

“Well, I’ve decided that I’m going to take the DART from here on out.

I don’t have the budget to be paying as much as the gas stations are asking for. It’s outrageous,” Lester said.

Instead of filling up her 15-gallon tank twice a month, she now saves about $40 by purchasing a monthly local DART pass.

“Not only do I feel good about saving money, but I also feel good about helping the environment too,” she said.

POLITICS

Mayoral candidates utilize social media

By MEG JONES

Contributing Writer mjones@smu.edu

Social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter were incredibly influential in the 2008 Presidential campaign. Now, social media is filtering down to local races, including Dallas’ own mayoral race.

The leading contenders for the upcoming May Dallas mayoral elections, Mike Rawlings, David Kunkle, Ron Natinsky and Edward Okpa, have developed unique campaign strategies using social media websites.

According to mayoral candidate Mike Rawlings, for instance, the two most important components of his campaign website are his calendar and blog. The calendar informs voters of where they can meet at different forums and events and the blog allows him to keep people updated with news, videos and collateral pieces.

“When people come to my campaign website, I want them to be able to see at a glance what is going on with my campaign at the moment,” Rawlings said.

Followers of @Mike_Rawlings on Twitter can also interact directly with Rawlings and express concerns and ideas for Dallas through their tweets.

“My favorite part of this campaign, whether is it traditional meet and greets or social media, is listening to people and the innovative ideas they have about making Dallas a better place to live for our families,” Rawlings said.

Rawlings has also capitalized on the video sharing power of Youtube to easily distribute his campaign videos on topics ranging from better basics to education to economic growth Candidate David Kunkle utilizes social media devices both as voter-tovoter contact to tell his story and to help elicit support, while notifying his current supporter’s of what is going on in the campaign.

The Kunkle campaign tries to create excitement by posting interesting and timely items they feel supporters and soon-to-be supporters will like.

“Recently we were endorsed by animal rights people and many started posting pictures of their pets and how excited they were that a candidate took the time to listen to their concerns and support their cause,” Clayton Henry, who manages the Kunkle campaign

said.

Kunkle reached out to volunteers with a recent tweet, “Got a free nite?

Not much on the TV? Mavericks in a five (oooh)? Come to Kunkle HQ in Uptown & call voters for David.”

Kunkle uses a scoreboard to measure the number of voters involved with social media.

“We have worked hard to use this to the fullest because we think we reach a demographic the other candidates are not tapping into very successfully,” Henry said.

Candidate Ron Natinsky is using a website, emails, as well as his accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube to reach potential voters. Online volunteers also make posts on blogs and message boards.

However, there is data beginning to indicate that society is starting to respond to social media like it has to direct mail, according to Randall White, who manages web communications for the Ron Natinsky “It is just more political yammer to throw in the digital trash bin,” White said.

But, this information inspires candidates such as Natinsky to be even more effective with online campaigns.

In municipal elections, you generally lose the percentage of the across-theboard voting population that tends to only turn out for national elections or hotly contested local referenda, White said.

“There is, however, a segment of the voter population that can be depended upon to vote in all elections. This is who we target with a web communications campaign in a municipal race,” White said.

Candidate Edward Okpa uses his Web site and Facebook page for citizen’s suggested issues, volunteer information, contributions and information on where citizens can go to meet him.

On Twitter, Okpa informed followers about upcoming events and asked them to send him a direct message if they were interested in purchasing a yard sign to display support of his campaign.

In high profile elections people are going to social media websites and looking up candidates, but in lower profile races such as the Dallas mayoral elections people may not be as likely

to seek out candidates on Twitter and Facebook, Carolyn Barta, journalism professor at SMU said.

“It’s a grass roots way to campaign,” Barta said. “I think it will trickle down to lower profile races in the future.”

According to a Pew Research Center report regarding the Internet and the campaign for the 2010 midterm elections, more than half of all American adults were online political users in 2010 during the election cycle.

Around 73 percent of adult Internet users went online to get news or information about the 2010 midterm elections, or to get involved in the campaign in one way or another, according to the Pew report.

The percentage of people who use the Internet as a main source of campaign or election news has increased from seven percent in 2001 to 24 percent in 2010, according to the Pew report.

One in five adults used Twitter or a social media networking website for political purposes in 2010, according to the Pew report.

Social media campaigning was a big part of the 2011 student body elections at SMU and candidates used Facebook to reach students.

Katie Perkins, who recently ran for SMU Student Body President, maintained a Facebook page as well as a Facebook group throughout her campaign and utilized her own personal page as well as her friend’s Facebook pages.

When people endorsed Perkins, she would take a picture of them with her campaign logo and tag them on Facebook so that it would show up on their page for all of their followers to see. Perkins also had friends change their profile pictures to her campaign poster and update their statuses reminding people to vote.

“People are more likely to check a notification that I tagged them in a picture and comment on it rather than read a mass message,” Perkins said.

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are available. That’s fine, but Medicaid shouldn’t be charged a higher rate for those services,” said Stephanie Goodman, HHSC spokesperson.

But Amanda Engler, spokeswoman for the Texas Hospital Association (THA), believes the growth is not a result of the high cost of NICUs. Engler said the reason for this increase is that Texas is a large state with a growing population of people who live in poverty and who are uninsured.

With the economic downturn, even more people have lost their jobs and insurance coverage, turning to Medicaid for assistance.

“People look at the high cost and automatically think we must be admitting too many babies, but every area can benefit from review,” Engler said.

Dr. Linda Burke-Galloway, MD, MS, and Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, thinks NICU cuts could ultimately compromise the life of baby. She has not seen an overuse of the department.

“The only healthy babies that I’m aware of that would be admitted in the NICU would be babies who exhibited something odd at birth or while in labor,” Burke-Galloway said.

Both the House and the Senate versions of the budget currently include rate reductions for all Medicaid providers. According to Goodman, the HHSC estimates that the state could save $32.5 million over two years with

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Texas to cut back on Medicaid expenses an initiative to help reduce NICU use.

“This initiative wouldn’t put any caps on the funding for NICUs,” Goodman said, “Instead, we’re looking at a couple of things that will lead to healthier babies and make sure that only babies who need a NICU are placed in one.”

One of the proposals by the HHSC would eliminate Medicaid payments for an elective induction before 39 weeks of gestation. This is because an induction earlier in the pregnancy puts the baby at higher risk for complications. Goodman said that many hospitals already have similar policies because they lead to healthier babies and lower costs.

The HHSC is also looking for ways to identify mothers who may be at higher risk of delivering a premature baby, such as those who have already had premature births. Hospitals would offer these women additional prenatal services in the hope that it would lead to later deliveries and lower costs.

Another option considered is to require Medicaid representatives to explain why a baby was placed in a NICU. Goodman said this phone call would most likely happen after the baby is put in a NICU to make sure that every baby is able to get help as quickly as possible.

“It could end a practice that causes the state to pay for additional care that wasn’t necessary,” Goodman said.

The THA is also conducting research in order to eliminate unnecessary elective inductions.

“With deliveries there’s a consumer

demand. Women want to have a definitive time frame of when they’re going to have their baby. Doctors don’t necessarily want to deliver on Saturday if they can deliver on Monday. It’s unfortunate, but that’s just the way it is,” Engler said.

Michelle Baldomar, a resident nurse at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Wittier, Calif. said her unit does not have the same problem.

California has strict regulations on which newborns can be admitted to NICUs and doctors must file official reports stating their reasoning.

Baldomar asked around the unit but could not find a mother who had had an elective induction for luxury.

Sen. Bob Deuell, R-Greenville, who is a family physician, is a proponent for evaluating NICU use. He said that there are many areas that are better prepared for budget cuts than NICUs, but no part of the state budget is immune to Texas’ budget deficit.

“We have to look for any and all inefficient spending in order to ensure that the cuts we must make do as little damage as possible,” Deuell said.

However, Engler has a more direct approach.

“To truly reform the health care system and to lower costs, you have to get doctors working together in a collaborative way so they can ultimately improve care and save money, and if Medicaid does this, others will follow suit,” she said.

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She is also a member of Amnesty International, the International Relations Club, Model United Nations and the Hispanic Leadership Council.

“As a full voting member of SMU’s highest decision-making body, this student has the honor of

2011-2012 school year

and obligation to directly represent the perspective and interests of the student body,” Martinez said. “In the upcoming academic year, I will strive to better fulfill this end by forging relationships with organizations and departments on campus, so as to have a comprehensive understanding of

the students at SMU. This way, I can be certain that what I say to the Board of Trustees and its committees is accurate, insightful and productive.”

The eight student representatives on the Board of Trustee’s standing committees have also been selected.

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Former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia comments on future US policy

By AMBASSADOR ROBERT JORDAN Contributing Writer jordanb@mail.smu.edu

The sudden killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan jolts us all into a complex mixture of emotions, memories and conclusions. Nearly all of us remember where we were on Sept. 11, 2001. Others remember hoping that Bin Laden would be quickly captured or killed. And some of us recall working with brave men and women dedicated to hunting him down, denying him access to terrorist financing, and dealing with the ideological cesspool that he so viciously promoted.

Just four weeks after the attacks of Sept. 11, while the ruins of the World Trade Center were still smoldering, I landed at night in Riyadh to take charge of my mission as the new U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. As I entered the terminal from the 22-hour plane trip, I met my new, heavily armed Saudi bodyguards. Were they friend or foe? Most of the hijackers who had killed nearly 3,000 Americans on 9/11 were Saudis. Osama bin Laden was their leader and inspiration. What was I facing?

At the time of my October arrival, coalition forces had just begun bombing the Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan, with many sorties launched from Prince Sultan Air Base outside of Riyadh. Our coalition was growing amid the worldwide outrage at the attacks on innocent men, women and children a month earlier. I began spending hours with our generals and civilian leaders, as well as their Saudi

counterparts, who were working to defeat the Taliban and find bin Laden.

I received a letter of heartfelt apology and condolence from the head of the bin Laden family, obviously devastated by the unthinkable evil of his halfbrother. Over the ensuing months, I would be alerted several times by my intelligence officers to hopeful signals that we had bin Laden in our sights. In the depths of the coalition operations center I monitored giant screens depicting drone aircraft attacks on murky images of convoys believed to include bin Laden.

None of those attacks found their elusive prime target.

Perhaps bin Laden’s greatest blunder was his decision to launch an attack within Saudi Arabia. On May 12, 2003, Al Qaeda suicide bombers struck three housing compounds in Riyadh, killing a number of Americans. Even more of the victims were Saudis and other Muslims. If there had been any doubt about the commitment of the Saudi leadership to take the offensive against bin Laden and Al Qaeda, they were resolved that night. Immediately the Saudi security forces went after Al Qaeda cells and those harboring them. Saudi citizens, outraged over the attack on innocent civilians in their homeland, began providing tips to Saudi intelligence.

Over time, Al Qaeda’s threat was dramatically reduced in the Kingdom and its adherents largely dispersed to Yemen and other locations.

To be sure, bin Laden remained a strong symbol and recruiter for those wishing to wage jihad on the West and

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tribes and villagers in the region? Will his followers launch attacks against the West and its allies? Will other Al Qaeda leadership emerge, and if so, how effectively? Will those espousing a violent, uncompromising version of Islam moderate their views?

These events also bring into relief the ongoing agony of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. The failure to resolve this political and humanitarian crisis will continue to provide oxygen to enflame violent acts of hopelessness and desperation. Can the actors in the region, with responsible, firm coaxing from their neighbors and the international community, take risks for peace to add yet another nail in the coffin of extremism?

One thing is clear: the ongoing struggle for progress and empowerment in the region will be fought less by soldiers and agents in camouflage wearing night vision goggles, and more by doctors and lawyers, truck drivers and shopkeepers, and economic and community development personnel wearing coats, ties, jeans, thobes and abayas. They will commit acts of equal bravery and heroism, likely with less fanfare. But their legacies will long outlast Osama bin Laden.

Robert W. Jordan served as U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2001 to 2003. He is Partner in Charge of the Middle East Practice of the law firm Baker Botts L.L.P. and Diplomat in Residence at Southern Methodist University’s John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies.

Has perception of biracial women changed in modern times?

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If Donald Trump were to be the next President of the United States, I would suggest that he make a TV show about his presidency.

That, at least, could generate some revenue to pay off a fraction of the national debt. It would also give Trump his much desired publicity. That is all he seems good for these days, getting himself publicity, even if it makes him look like an idiot.

His lies about President Obama’s past have been Michael Dearman about as thinly veiled as his apparent baldness.

Twice in the past few months, he has made personal attacks on President Obama.

First, Trump claimed (like others in his class of individual) that President Obama was not, in fact, born in the U.S. and should not be the president of the United States, because he has not produced his birth certificate. As it turns out, Hawaii (where Obama was born) gives out certificates of live birth, which are slightly different from a birth certificate.

The certificate of live birth was posted on the Internet in 2008, to which there were many claims that it was a forgery. After Hawaiian officials, newspapers, schools, etc. clarified that Obama was actually born and lived in Hawaii, most of the hard right conspirators gave up their attack.

But no, thanks to Trump we all get to hear the same rehashed, bogus, blown-up, charges against Obama again. He only succeeds in making himself look like an idiot that hasn’t actually done enough research (Google it!) to discover that what he is saying is a flat-out lie. And recently Obama produced his long form birth certificate, fully assuaging any claims that he was not born in the U.S. Furthermore, Trump claimed that President Obama was “a terrible student” in school, even though he attended Columbia University and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. He was also the elected editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Now I can understand that Donald Trump probably doesn’t have too much time to be looking at Obama’s grades from college but really, the unfounded claims really aren’t that funny anymore. It’s just one after the other idiotic comment and Trump looks less and less like a viable candidate, not that he was one to begin with, but he was at least a possibility.

In reality, Trump just makes the Republican Party look bad. When he is the possible candidate getting the most publicity from the press, something is really not right. Where are the actual prospective presidential candidates?

I don’t mean the likes of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman; they’re just as bad as trump. I mean real candidates that are going to run.

People like Mitt Romney have flown largely under the radar, never making too much of a splash, but I suppose the only people that make a “splash” are the idiots with the comb-overs.

With the recent demise of Osama bin Laden, I don’t know if there will be much for Mr. Trump to rabble-rouse about, Obama is coming off a very strong political victory right now and any of the normal empty words aren’t going to cause much of a ruckus.

The point is Donald Trump is doing nothing for himself by making false claims against Obama. If he is trying to get more publicity for himself, then he is succeeding at that. If he is at all serious about supporting a Republican presidential candidate, or even running for office himself, then he needs to seriously think about what he is saying now. Whereas substance is not Trump’s strong suit, neither is his bad mouth blathering. There isn’t much going for Mr. Trump, so cut your ties Republican Party, Trump is a dead end.

its allies. But bin Laden’s flight to the caves of Tora Bora and ultimately to his villa in Pakistan meant that his operational role was compromised.

Al Qaeda metastasized into splinters, often highly dangerous but no longer coordinated daily by its founder.

It is no small irony that the Arab spring we are witnessing has demonstrated how irrelevant Al Qaeda and bin Laden have become to the aspirations of millions of citizens in this part of the world. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media have allowed protestors to communicate with each other, and to promote agendas of change. Instead of resorting to suicide bombings, the people are sensing their empowerment through other, less violent, means. In many cases it is the authorities who are instigating the violence. Bin Laden’s ideology has been swept aside in favor of a largely nonviolent and ever more hopeful regional narrative.

It is premature to proclaim that we have seen the end of death in the streets, as events in Libya and Syria demonstrate. But bin Laden’s version of jihad has thus far been rejected in Cairo, Tunis, and other corners of the Arab world.

Now that justice has been dealt to Bin Laden, what next? First, there will be questions to answer. How did Bin Laden manage to live undetected in a large villa in a city not far from Islamabad? Did the Pakistanis help find him -- or conceal him? Who knew what? How does bin Laden’s death affect the struggle in Afghanistan? Will his death influence the attitudes of the

COMMENTARY

Love your mother (figure) COMMENTARY

Mother’s day is fast approaching, and many of us are looking to get our moms something special that Michael Graves says, “Hey mom, you rock.” I am so very blessed to have a mother to say I love you to.

My mother has always been right behind me, offering me support. She has become my best friend since I entered high school and knows virtually everything about me. I know I can go to her for anything. However, some do not share this blessing.

The truth is, many people on our campus do not have their mothers.

They may not get to tell someone “Happy Mother’s Day.” But I bet you they will celebrate Mother’s Day in honor of some motherly figure. I started thinking, and wondered why we all can’t do the same, even if we have a mother in our lives.

I have had several motherly figures merge with me on my pathway to happiness and support me, give me advice and even some that I have viewed as a true “second mother.”

My old pastor saved me from selfdestruction when she reminded me that I was a child of god, not matter what my sexual orientation was. She told me that God has a plan for me and to take my own life would be disrupting all the great things that God had in store for me.

My friend’s mentor and past youth

director helped to guide her through her sister’s death, crying with her and holding her hand every step of the way. The wisdom she shared helped my best friend make it out of the darkest time in her life.

Mother’s don’t have to be there just in the bad times though.

My dad’s mom was there to celebrate with him daily through life, and when she died, another matriarch of his best friend’s family took him in to celebrate all of his accomplishments.

His ‘second mom,’ Vivian, was there for his marriage to my mother, my birth, and was there to congratulate him on his career successes.

Another motherly figure was there to celebrate my acceptance into college.

My student council sponsor, who wrote my letter of recommendation for SMU, was ecstatic to find out I would attend school here. She still gives me words of encouragement each time I walk into her office.

This Mother’s Day, I think we should all honor our real moms if we get the chance. They have done more for us than we’ll ever know.

Furthermore, I think we should remember to honor those who act as motherly figures in our lives. All of us have those people who encourage us to make it through the hard times, and celebrate the good times with us as well. They deserve a little love, too.

Michael Graves is a first year religious studies and communications studies double major. He can be reached for comments or questions at mwgraves@smu.edu.

As a biracial woman myself, I find it essential that society become better informed Victoria Ahmadi of the lifealtering consequences that biracial individuals are forced to deal with.

While the media’s perceptions of identity shift, young women of mixed racial backgrounds are quickly becoming much less of the minority in society. America is in the midst of a demographic shift driven by a change in social views, immigration, and intermarriage. For some time in history, the question of “What Are You?” was much less complicated than it is today. Biracial women struggle with the idea of truly belonging to either race.

According to data collected by the Census in 2008 and 2009, those categorized as “mixed race” are steadily becoming one of the fastest growing demographic groups. In 2010, it has been recorded that 2.9 percent of Americans consider themselves as being two or more races. There has been a 32 percent increase in those in this category since 2000.

What is the significance of these statistics? The growing trend of biracial women feed into the growing trend of a number of other things: including the way the media defines beauty, politics, and religion.

Dr. Angela Gillem and Dr. Cathy Thompson’s Biracial Women in Therapy: Between the Rock of Gender and the Hard Place of Race, examines how physical appearance, cultural knowledge, and cultural stereotypes affect the experience of mixed-race women in belonging to, and being accepted within, their cultures.

The authors implies that people (women) who don’t fit into a defined racial category threaten the psychological and sociological foundations of the “we” and “they” mentality that determines so much

of an individual’s social, economic, and political experience in the United States.

As a result of America’s limited and irrational definitions of race, biracial individuals have not been able to claim all aspects of their identity.

Most children that are born to a parent of color and one white parent will generally be identified with the parent of color. Researchers often conjectured that biracial children are at risk for developing a variety of problems including racial and cultural identification issues, low self-esteem, and difficulties dealing with cultural demands.

On the other hand, recent research suggests that biracial individuals have the possibility of attaining a healthy identity. So the question is: How do we break this divide? How do we as a society, become more comfortable with a world that is no longer black and white?

As far as physical beauty is concerned, the media is becoming further accepting of biracial women in the spotlight. Some may argue that famous faces such as Halle Berry, Leona Lewis, Tyra Banks, Kim Kardashian and Jenna Dewan have recently been receiving more attention in the industry because of their mixed race. Rather than being the “odd ones” they are the “unique ones.”

Women of two or more races have gotten attention for their looks for decades now but only recently has the media begun to take them out of a negative spotlight and into a positive one.

Now is a time where success is achievable by all regardless of color, class, heritage, gender and sexual orientation. Better yet, now is a time where the leader of our country is a person of mixed race. This is a milestone to say the least, yet the biracial population still struggles to identify.

Victoria Ahmadi is a junior journalism major. She can be reached for comments or questions at vahmadi@smu.edu.

Sports

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Mustangs end season with 11-6 victory over Bears

By DAVID HAYDEN Contributing Writer dhayden@smu.edu

The final game for many seniors is a great moment of celebration.

The SMU club baseball team seniors celebrated their last game in the red and blue by beating Baylor 11-6.

Senior Caleb Quary pitched eleven and a third innings in two days, allowing one earned run while striking out six.

He also led the team in hitting with a .500 average in the series.

Quary was all smiles after being given a game ball to let him know that his time and dedication were appreciated by this few in numbers but big in heart baseball club.

The team has already started to focus on this fall and is hoping for a big recruiting class. The team is open to any full time student with a minimum 2.0 GPA. The first need of any ball club is pitching and the second is catching and everything else is third. The team ends the year with a strong

core of seasoned players who want to build on their numbers and continue to represent SMU on the field. The team has been invited to play in faraway places as Arizona, Colorado and Missouri, and is now getting calls from Texas Junior Colleges to round out their practice schedules.

The SMU team has what it takes to play and sometimes they feel like David when he met Goliath because of the structure of their recruiting.

SMU baseball recruits players who want to keep playing for the love of

the game. Most of their opponents have a school athletics program support feed into their club.

It is a lot easier to find players when you can have those not making the division one team just walk on to your team.

The SMU ball players keep their head high and keep plugging away just to play the game. They would invite you to get into the game and play against opponents such as Texas Tech, Texas, North Texas and Baylor.

NFL

Cowboys focus on offensive line in NFL Draft

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IRVING, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys are bulking up in the NFL draft.

Dallas added its second offensive linemen in its first four picks, selecting Missouri State’s David Arkin with the 110th overall pick Saturday.

The 6-foot-5, 302-pound Arkin started all 44 of his games at Missouri State, where he was on The Associated Press FCS All-American team last season. He is also smart, with a 3.71 GPA in construction management.

Dallas got 6-5, 310-pound offensive tackle Tyron Smith from Southern Cal with the ninth overall pick. Smith was the first lineman the Cowboys drafted in the first round under Jerry Jones’ ownership.

At Missouri State, Arkin played right guard for three seasons before

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moving to left tackle as a senior. He believes his versatility and a “bit of a mean streak” likely caught the attention of NFL teams, though he was a bit surprised to get a call from Jerry Jones.

“It wasn’t a team that I figured targeted me or whatever. You talk to a lot of teams, and think some are looking at you more than others,” Arkin said. “I talked to (the Cowboys) at the combine. Beside that, they hadn’t really had contact with me.”

Arkin wasn’t even watching the NFL draft on television Saturday. To ease his anxious emotions waiting for a call, he had decided to get out of the house and go to the mall to pick up a case for his phone.

He was walking into the mall when his phone rang, and Jones told him the Cowboys were drafting him.

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With only a handful of NCAA Division II and junior college offers out of high school in Wichita, Kansas, Arkin took the only Division I offer he had — from Missouri State.

He played in the East-West Shrine Classic in January, which he called a good test.

Now the kid who was spurned by home state universities Kansas and Kansas State is a fourth-round NFL draft pick.

“That’s something that put a chip on my shoulder. Coming out of high school, I didn’t get an offer from the local teams,” Arkin said. “It worked out for the best.”

Arkin described himself as a “late bloomer physically,” having been a decent player coming out of high school who grew into his big body.

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By Michael Mepham

The Cowboys on Friday got North Carolina linebacker Bruce Carter with the 40th overall in the second round and Oklahoma running back DeMarco Murray 71st overall in the third.

The Cowboys had four more picks after Arkin on Saturday, including two seventh-round selections.

This is the third time in eight years the Cowboys have used two of their first four draft picks on offensive linemen.

The only of those four previous linemen who panned out for Dallas was Doug Free, who started 16 games for the Cowboys last season.

Free and James Marten were picked in the first three rounds in 2007.

In 2004, the Cowboys selected Jacob Rogers and Stephen Peterman in the first three rounds.

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The Washington Redskins selected former SMU wide receiver Aldrick Robinson with the 13th pick of the sixth round in this weekend’s NFL Draft.

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The 18-year professional believes that “this is a great opportunity and value for SMU students interested in sports.” He also feels that by attending this event SMU students will have “a great chance to network with various professionals.” There is a $77 fee to register and an additional fee for those who plan to attend the Texas Rangers vs. Chicago White Sox following the presentation. To register visit www. voiceofthebox.com.

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Arts & Entertainment

The Daily Campus

AT THE MOVIES

Audiences being ‘drawn’ to animated features

By CHASE WADE Assoc. A&E Editor cdwade@smu.edu

With the record-breaking opening of almost $90 million dollars, the uber-succcessful series, “Fast and the Furious: Fast Five,” started off the first weekend of May at full throttle; however, before this surprising start, it was the animated films that were making headlines.

For a time, it seemed as if the only movies making any buzz at all featured colorful wild animals doing things like dancing and singing.

In fact, the demand for animated features has so high, the whole

Photo Courtesy of Weinstien Entertainment

“Hoodwinked too” (above) debuted last week to less than stellar numbers.

month of April saw the weekly box office champion come from an animated film. For the first half of April, Universal Picture’s “Hop” reigned on top, while the second half, 20th Century Fox’s ’ “Rio” saw great success.

If we look even earlier in the year, “Rango,” the animated film from “Pirates of the Caribbean” director Gore Verbinski, debuted at number one on its opening weekend, and had pretty good legs going into the following weeks.

Who are we to deny films like “Rio,” Hop” and Rango,” their successes? With a massive amount

of starpower behind the films formulaically, there were bound to be blockbusters.

“Rango,” which follows a chameleon with identity issues, starred perhaps Hollywood’s biggest box office draw, Johnny Depp.

“Rio” was no stranger to stars as it compiled the voices of celebrities like Jamie Foxx, Wanda Sykes, Anne Hathaway and Jessie Eisenberg.

“Hop” too had its fair share of famous voices as Russell Brand, Chelsea Handler and Hugh Laurie voiced its characters.

What makes these animated films so peculiarly successful, is that

usually, films like these are released in the early summer season, not late spring. Studios are obviously hoping for their films to have strong legs as the younger audience ends school and attend theater more often.

It won’t be terribly surprising to see “Rio” go on to stay in the top three earners for weeks to come.

What does this mean for the future of filmaking?

Obviously, studios will continue ordering animated fare, hoping to profit off the tickets sold to the kids and their parents.

Better get used to talking animals, they’re here to stay.

FILM

Big top dazzles big screen in ‘Water for Elephants’

By SAVANNAH STEPHENS Contributing Writer slstephens@smu.edu

For many college students getting the opportunity to see a movie is rare.

After all, with philanthropy events, studying, and the million other things we have to do, movies are somewhat of a low priority.

This is why I made it my duty to buck the system and actually go see something new and noteworthy.

Over Easter break, I got the chance to finally go see the much-anticipated film “Water for Elephants.”

This film proved to be a carefully crafted production of an enjoyable love story—and it also gave hope to those not-so-twihards out there that an acting career for Robert Pattinson, sans a gaudy amount of translucent powder, an ever-present look of pain, and Kristen Stewart, could be in the works.

The initial premise of the movie came from the bestselling book of the same name.

Since I have not read the book,

I must now apologize to those who have and ask forgiveness if my enjoyment of the movie comes at the expense of a botched attempt to re-create the book.

Because I didn’t have the story line in my head, I was able to enjoy what was presented before me.

Overall, the movie was very good.

The storyline, largely taken from the book, allowed Pattinson to move beyond Edward Cullen, and embody another frustrated lover, but this time the lover helped animals instead of ate them.

Obviously, this major switch shows the diversity of which we have come to expect from Pattinson.

Reese Witherspoon was able to carry most of the emotional drama in this film as the unloved wifes possibly because her Oscar awardwinning role as June Cash made for an easy stereotype to fall back into.

But, my favorite character of all had to have been the reprisal role Christoph Waltz made with his character August, the ringleader of

the circus.

The reprisal comes from the painstakingly similar character of Col. Hans Landa from “Inglorious Basterds.”

Indeed, these two characters even had the same odd accent.

Something I sincerely hope Waltz intended.

If anything, even if “Water for Elephants” was an amalgamation of different characters coming together for a feature film, it was the sappy love story that was needed for a 19-year-old and her friends to hold onto before the hellacious week of finals.

If anything, I recommend to see it and judge for yourself, it is certainly worth seeing.

But beware, your desire for an Elephant will be quite high once the credits start to roll.

“Water for Elephants” is currently playing in most major theaters.

Photo Courtesy of 20th Century Fox

Robert Pattinson in a still from the film “Water for Elephants.” He stars as a veterinary student who runs away with the circus.

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