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WEDNESDAY
AUGUST 22, 2012
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Kelly Addington and Becca Tieder spoke to SMU students about sexual assault awareness in McFarlin Auditorium Monday night.
Dialogue empowers SMU ASHLEY STAINTON Assignments Desk Editor astainton@smu.edu On a mission to empower generations of young students, speakers Kelly Addington and Becca Tieder stopped by SMU Monday night to talk about sexual assault awareness and prevention. More than 1,000 of SMU’s first year students crowded into McFarlin Auditorium to hear their message. “We hope to strip away sexual stereotypes and help people to know that inside everyone is the ability to make a change,” Tiedder said. The event was a collaborative effort between the Delta Gamma Foundation and SMU’s Women’s Center, New Student Orientation and Student Support, Counseling and Psychiatric Services, and Student Development and Programs for SMU. “We are proud to be a part of tonight and partner to get the word out. We want to let students know there are people
here at SMU to help and to encourage them to use their voice,” Ali Fagan, a senior and Delta Gamma’s VP of foundation, said. Every two minutes someone is sexually assaulted in the United States. Addington and Tieder hope that by sharing their story and helping to promote understanding, they will be a part of lessoning this statistic. “I didn’t want to be seen as a victim,” Addington said. “But eventually I saw the importance of helping others by telling what happened to me and gained the courage to speak up.” Karen Click, director of SMU’s Women Center sees the benefit to having first year students hear Addington and Tieder’s message. “They have a great story about how two college friends helped each other and were there for one another,” Click said. “And SMU is a community here for students as well.” SMU offers a wide variety of services to students who may find themselves facing a
similar scenario, which includes sexual assault, counseling and psychiatric services. “The first step to sexually empowering ourselves is to make the decision to be true to oneself and confident in who you are. Only then will you be able to take a stand for what you believe and rock those beliefs in a situation,” Tiedder said. Addington and Tieder encouraged students to strip away the gender stereotypes regarding sexual assault and hold everyone to an equal standard of accountability. “This is the real world, we need to get used to communicating and knowing that it’s not a man against women issue,” Addington said. “It’s not a gender issue.” In addition to talking with students around the country, Addington and Tieder have started their own non-profit organization, One Student, which is dedicated to providing programs and resources to further engage students and encourage them to make a
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positive change to stop sexual assault. “I wouldn’t feel right coming to these universities and speaking to wonderful, dedicated students without giving them an outlet to do something after,” Tieder said. “That’s why we started One Student, because it’s an outlet to do more.” One student promotes it only takes one community, one school or even one student to make change possible. SMU senior and Delta Gamma member Nicole Hodges was in attendance for the event and thinks it’s important to be a part of this change. “Since we are in a large city like Dallas, it’s critical to know sexual assault can happen and does. By being aware of this, we can be more prepared and do something about it hopefully,” Hodges said. “You can be the one to stop this and I can only hope our story effects students in a positive way and gets them talking about it,” Tieder said.
Being the first to do anything takes a great deal of courage. Barbara Hill-Moore, Meadows Foundation distinguished professor of voice, was the very first tenured African American professor at SMU and she blazed a trail for the acceptance of minority students on campus. Hill-Moore, a worldrenowned Soprano, has performed with operas and orchestras worldwide and has worked with artists such as Leonard Bernstein and Justus Franz. However, before she began teaching master classes in foreign countries and singing on tours throughout Germany, Hill-Moore was raised from humble beginnings. “I didn’t know it at the time but I was poor. I was very poor,” Hill-Moore said. “But I was fortunate because I had both my mom and dad and we lived in an area where that was not so common.” Hill-Moore grew up in the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects in St. Louis, Miss. The living conditions were less than suitable for her family, Hill-Moore recalled, and the automatic prediction for the children that grew up in Hill-Moore’s neighborhood
was failure. However, Hill-Moore had devoted parents who stressed the idea of education. From a young age she was always understood that one day she would go off to college. Although the integration of blacks and whites had only started a year prior to Hill-Moore’s attendance, the teachers at her high school were inspirational to her. “We had the best teachers,” HillMoore said. “They were devoted and inspiring.” Her teachers’ positive impact only reinforced her commitment to a dream that she had developed at the age of seven: her dream of being a teacher. Alongside teaching, Hill-Moore also cultivated another passion at a young age. She loved to sing. “Singing was always in my life, I sang when I was a child, I sang in church, I sang in school and I loved it,” Hill-Moore reminisced. After earning both her Bachelors and Masters of Science at Lincoln University and the University of Illinois, respectively. Hill-Moore’s first teaching job at the collegiate level was at Millikin University. While in graduate school, HillMoore met a professor by the name of Bruce Foote who convinced her teach vocal performance. He would eventually invite her to interview as a professor for SMU. After accepting the job, Hill-Moore
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CAMPUS LIFE
Snowballs fly in August heat TASHIKA VARMA Editor in Chief tvarma@smu.edu
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The NASA rover Curiosity is displayed on a graphic illustration on Mars.
Curiosity’s gadgets marvel BRAD SCHMIDT Contributing Writer aschmidt@smu.edu NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity, successfully deployed its robotic arm use and tested its functions recently. The remaining stressors digging into the backs of those testing the craft were finally
banished by this news. Curiosity’s seven foot robotic arm contains the equipment needed to extract, examine and relocate material to the proper testing equipment within the rover. While the rest of the machine’s equipment underwent testing during the past two-week
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Students gathered on the main quad Tuesday night to engage in an annual schoolwide snowball fight. Front of the historic Dallas Hall, students flocked to throw snowballs in hot summer weather. SMU Christian ministry group ONE28 ordered 8,000 snowballs for the event. More than 400 people were in attendance — more than 19 snowballs per person. “This event is a great way to show that ONE28 puts on great, fun events for the entire student body,” Bree Berger, a general member of ONE28 said. “As an organization we aim to do exciting events that are good, clean fun. We hope to continue to host this event
for the student body.” When students arrived in the quad, ONE28 was handing out free t–shirts of variouis colors. Each color represented a different team in the snowball fight. Before throwing delivered snowballs ordered from a local Dallas company, students enjoyed free food. Food included burgers, hot dogs and chips. “This is a really good event for the end of summer. It’s also really great way to meet other students,” sophomore Faith Miller, said. There were eight teams spread across the entire quad with an MC announcing when to start throwing as well as rev up the crowd of attendees. ONE28 also had a game of human foosball going on during the event. More than 50 students participated in the bonding event. “This is a clever idea to have a snowball fight in the first week
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A group of SMU students prepare for the 2011 ONE28 snowball fight on the main quad of Dallas Hall.
of school because it got a lot of freshmen out here,” freshman Hannah Williams said. “ONE28 really got their name out there with this event.” This was ONE28’s first event of the year. ONE28 hosts other campus events throughout the year. One of its primary goals is to connect the student body. The group will also be partnering with the SMU Athletic Department for the SMU v. Baylor game Labor Day weekend. Visit smuroadtrip.com
to get your tickets. The football game will offer SMU students the opportunity to support the Mustangs in Waco. “I am definitely interested in coming to more campus wide events now. This was a great experience,” sophomore Mehdi Hami said. A first year who chose not to be identified was excited about the SMU experience. “This is much better than anything I could have imagined. I think something like this could only happen at SMU.”