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This year, students celebrated Convocation in the Moody Coliseum.

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The first 600 students to reach 130 points on the SMU Varsity app will have priority in joining the the Mob, the SMU basketball student section.

New app aims to increase attendance Meredith Carey Assignments Desk Editor mbcarey@smu.edu The SMU men’s basketball conference season may be nearly four months away, but the fight for Mob priority student memberships has already begun.

Launched last year as a way for spirited students to sit behind the teams’ benches, the Mob quickly became the spot to cheer on the Mustangs (and heckle the other team and referees). Mob memberships were still available

up until the start of the NIT qualifying games, but were quickly snatched up to sell out the three sides of the court that make up the student section. This year, things are a little different.

By different, we mean competitive.

SMU Athletics announced last week that it will be using SMU Varsity, an app, to decide which students will be offered a chance to join the Mob. A point-based system, the app uses students’ phones’ GPS to check them in at a variety of sporting events

around campus.

“It’s a race to 130 points,” said Skyler Johnson, director of promotions and game day experience. The first 600 students to reach 130 points, accumulated by going to football (30 points), men’s and women’s soccer (10 points) and women’s volleyball (10 points) games, will be offered the chance to sign up for the Mob. The app, which will let students check-in once they’ve entered Ford Stadium, Moody Coliseum or Westcott Field for the respective game, is available for iPhones and

Androids and can also be accessed online. A check-in table with iPads will also be at each applicable home game.

At this time, there is no restriction on how long students have to remain in the stadium or watch the game. To get points, the app only requires a check in within the designated radius of the sporting event.

The “student loyalty program” allows students to also share photos check SMU Athletics’

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Students participate in 100th Convocation OLIVIA NGUYEN Opinion Editor qonguyen@smu.edu Girls wearing pastel-colored dresses and boys dawning oxfords and slacks congregate in semiorderly clusters. Peer leaders holding banners of each Residential Common crest lead the groups as they walk the Rotunda Passage.

Parents, residential advisors and teachers cheer on this year’s freshmen class as they walk through Dallas Hall (while avoiding the seal) out to the lawn to continue their passage toward the newly renovated Moody Coliseum.

This SMU tradition has

welcomed every first-year class for the past 100 years. The designated pathway from Dallas Hall to Moody Coliseum will be walked again when students graduate.

While Convocation is a formal welcoming for first-years, there is no doubt that the class of 2018 is ready to start college.

Hamiz Mushtaq Aman from Pakistan is looking forward to learning more about business.

“I’m really excited about these few startups I have in mind, and I’ve heard SMU is big in entrepreneurship so it’s perfect” Aman said.

Julia Dang, a residential advisor

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Greek life

Chi Omega unveils new house

SMU grads’ twist on cupcakes Meredith Carey Assignments Desk Editor mbcarey@smu.edu Freshman year, Daniel Poku sat in his room thinking about a fortune cookie. He didn’t exactly like the taste, but never failed to grab one to check the fortune inside.

Five years later, the idea that those fortune cookies inspired is about to come to reality: CauseCakes, cupcakes with specialized wrappers that push consumers to go outside of their

comfort zone and serve.

“At first I had the idea of just putting a fortune in a cupcake, but then I was like, wait, what if it could tell you to do something active?” Poku said.

Starting Sept. 5, Poku’s idea, with the help of at least five other SMU recent graduates, will be sold at the Original Cupcakery in Uptown.

With service quests like “Send a letter to someone who raised you” and “Help someone in a community you don’t belong to,” the cupcakes

hope to push the boundaries of social enterprise and entrepreneurial service.

“Years ended up going by and I ended up doing the same thing over and over again,” said Marc Feldman, SMU graduate and founder of CauseCakes. “The biggest benefit of this having a sort of mini-adventure.

I sound nuts saying that a cupcake is telling you to do something great, but it will push you out of your

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The new Chi Omega house opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony and donor party.

christina cox Managing Editor clcox@smu.edu The Iota Alpha Chapter of Chi Omega opened the doors to its new home Friday.

“We feel like we’ve added another beautiful building to the already beautiful buildings on SMU’s campus,” Housing Committee Chair Paula Whisenant said.

The nearly $6.5 million house provides not only a larger meeting space for the Chi Omega chapter, but also an upgraded living area.

“We built things in the house that we thought a modern sorority women would need and want,” Whisenant said.

These new additions include study areas in each room, tutorial areas, a life enrichment room, a library and a new security system.

Forty women of the chapter will reside in the new house. According to Whisenant, the girls select their rooms using a point system based on grades and campus and chapter involvement.

“There’s a lot more space for communal living so girls that don’t necessarily live in the house can also come and visit,” junior and resident Lindsey Cianciotta said.

The exterior of the house was built in the Georgian-style architecture seen throughout SMU’s campus.

“I am just absolutely blown away by how beautiful it is. I knew it was going to be nice and new, but I had absolutely no idea,” junior and resident Emily Towler said.

The house is also equipped with a safe room, which will protect the women from both a tornado and an intruder.

“The walls are double blocked, the doors are tornado doors and the roof is also made of tornado-proof steel,” Whisenant said.

“It cost us extra money but it was worth it because we felt like it would add an extra safety measure.”

The home, built by Spring Valley Construction Company and designed by Seltzer Associates, is environmentally friendly with “green” elements like LED and compact fluorescent lights and tankless water heaters.

“When I saw the drawings of this home I was delighted because I knew it would be a wonderful addition for the Chi Omegas and a wonderful addition for SMU,” President R.

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‘Who let the dogs out?’

FiRs give residence halls new mascots Claire Kelley Chief Copy Editor cakelley@smu.edu The new residential commons model has introduced some change on campus with the Faculty in Residence (FiRs) who are living in each residence hall, but they aren’t the only new inhabitants.

A few animal-loving FiRs are bringing their pets along for the ride, giving some residence halls new mascots.

Mark Fontenot of Lloyd, Rita Kirk of Armstrong, Will Power of Crow, Ann Batenburg of Virginia-Snider and Beth Wheaton of Cockerell-McIntosh will be living with their dogs, as well as student leaders Katie Bell, Tiffany Richardson and Krystal Jones.

Wheaton is welcoming her dog Lone Star to Morrison-McGinnis commons this fall.

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Professor Beth Wheaton’s dog Lone Star will be living with residents in Morrison McGinnis.

He is a Brindle colored Whippet with a white spot of fur, which Wheaton his star, on the back of his neck. He’s 8 years old and has lived with Wheaton for most of his life. He loves chasing squirrels and meeting residents who attend open house in the first floor lobby of Cockrell-McIntosh.

“Lone Star is more than the CockrellMcIntosh mascot,” said Wheaton. “He is each person’s pup and he believes that there is always room at Cockrell-McIntosh.”

If you need a puppy love fix, these FiRs and their furry roommates will be happy to accommodate.

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Health Center moves to Daniel Avenue

Alumna opens Pure Barre franchise

meredith carey Assignments Desk Editor mbcarey@smu.edu

natalie yezbick Contributing Writer nyezbick@smu.edu

After a summer split up among various buildings across campus, the Health Center has found a new, albeit temporary home.

Now that the Chi Omegas have moved into their new house, the Health Center is taking its place in its old home, at the far end of sorority row.

Located at 3014 Daniel Ave., the Health Center will offer medical, psychiatric and counseling services in its new housing.

It will also house SMU’s Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention.

The Health Center has moved to prepare for its new facilities. The 52-year-old center, located in the North Quad, is being demolished to make way for the new $5 million

SMU alumna Amanda Kovach, ’11, went from crunching numbers to crunching abs when she left a consulting job to open her own Pure Barre franchise in Allen, Texas.

A member of the SMU Pom Squad, Kovach was already accustomed to the fitness world.

She began classes at Pure Barre, a workout studio that combines yoga, pilates, ballet, and dance, five years ago.

Even while working in mortgage and banking consulting at Carlisle and Gallagher Consulting Group in Dallas, the accounting major held a part-time job at Pure Barre Dallas.

“As a former dancer, I really related well to the studio atmosphere,” Kovach said.

“I had gotten tired of the big gyms.”

After two years at the consulting firm, Kovach was ready to trade her desk for a yoga mat.

“I realized that’s what I really loved doing, was teaching,” Kovach said. “I kind of made the switch eventually.”

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The Student Health Center to Daniel Ave. relocated due to construction.

Dr. Bob Smith Health Center.

Named after a SMU alumnus and Dallas physician, the center was announced earlier this year.

Planned for completion in 2014, the new Health Center will serve the over 3,000 students living on campus, now that the living requirement has been extended to first-years and sophomores.

Students can be transported to the Health Center in a golf cart during operating hours by calling 214-274-9909, since the center’s new location is farther from the center of campus.

The Health Center will maintain normal operating hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.

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Amanda Kovach leads the Pure Barre Allen team.

Kovach is in the center of the photo.

franchise studio opened Aug. 24 in Allen.

“I finally decided to do it… to take the plunge,” Kovach said.

Despite her background in accounting, opening a business presented new challenges for Kovach.

“I think the hardest part is realizing everything that goes into opening a franchise,” Kovach said.

Kovach has had to learn multiple new skills in the past year leading up to the opening of Pure Barre.

She does her own accounting, advertising, and scheduling, and she even teaches some of the fitness classes.

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“I think people don’t realize how much goes into opening your own business,” Kovach said.

Unlike other fitness fads, Kovach sees Pure Barre being relevant for the next 20 or 30 years.

“Pure Barre continually tries to develop their brand and create new ways of modifying their exercises,” she said. “It doesn’t really get stale.”

Pure Barre currently has 21 locations in Texas, and Kovach foresees the company continuing to grow.

“I would love to open more studios in the future… It will honestly just depend on how the first business goes,” she said.

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for Kathy Crowe Residential Commons, is happy to see the new students begin their journey at SMU. “All these young freshmen have been ready to start the school year and have been so positive since they’ve arrived,” Dang said.

As the first-years line up in rows in the heart of Moody Coliseum,

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CauseCakes challenge and encourage people to perform acts of kindness with their unique wrappers.

Gerald Turner said.

Planning began in June 2011 with the creation of a formal housing committee composed of Chi Omegas that graduated from SMU or lived in the Dallas area.

“It became real apparent to those of us that are advisors on the HAC that our house was past our time,” Whisenant said.

The original Chi Omega

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comfort zone.”

The cupcakes are just the start of the movement. With a website launching the same day as the first CauseCakes is sold, the group plans to create a social media campaign, with consumers sharing their inspired missions of service. Using the hashtag #UnwrapTheMovement, followers will be able to see the true breadth of CauseCakes’ mission.

Aided by current SMU senior Eric Trexel, friends Poku, Feldman, Paul Curry, Tyler Scott, Kyle Spencer and Stephen Nelson are pushing their product into Dallas, after five years of hard work.

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the Mustang Band blares their instruments in the background as teachers and guest speakers make their way on stage.

Their speeches include warm welcomes and words of encouragement that this year’s class will continue the success that SMU has established for itself since 1911.

The convocation ends in uplifting mood as the Mustang Band breaks out in a fast-paced melody.

This marks the first completed

tradition at SMU. As time goes on, these new students will experience many more– from fountain hopping to riding the horses at Dedman, the class of 2018 has four years of tradition ahead of them.

First-year Amber Long is excited to go Boulevarding. So far she said her expectations have been surpassed since she’s been on campus.

“SMU is known for doing great things and never disappoints,” she said.

house was built in 1951 when the chapter consisted of only 60 members. Now, that number has grown to almost 160.

“The fire marshal said in an inspection said that we could no longer hold homecoming parties or senior graduation parties because the house was too small to hold all the girls there,” Whisenant said.

This news spearheaded the campaign to move from 3014 Daniel Ave. to 3024 Daniel Ave, the location of the Faculty Club.

“We negotiated with SMU and they decided it was a great move for both of us. SMU took over our house and we made an exchange of locations,” Whisenant said.

Now, 3014 Daniel Ave. is being used as the temporary location of the SMU Health Center.

The Chi Omegas are happy with the arrangement.

“I’m just so excited to live here and make this place home,” Towler said.

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The company was created by six students attending SMU in Dallas.

with my friends was great but it was a challenge,” Poku said. “We laugh and joke more than we are serious. When we had to think about this and how we could make it sustainable we had to dot our I’s and cross our T’s.”

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“We want this to be a gift, a payit-forward social movement. And this can really do some damage,” Poku said.

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social media, and keep up with which students are ahead on the leaderboard.

The app is not replacing the pickup process for tickets, though, so students can expect to camp out once again for tickets. A limited number of free student tickets will also be available.

“Even with Mob pickup, you’re guaranteed a seat but if you want to be in [section] 112, the section behind the scorers’ table, it’s going to be first come,

first served,” Johnson said.

Mob membership will cost $79, up $40 from it’s initial year, and reaching the top 600 app users does not guarantee a chance to join the elite fan group. If a student does not register in a specific time frame, his or her spot will be passed on to the next high scorer in line.

The price bump is a result of the season’s size, Johnson said.

“Last year we only had a half a season in Moody,” he said, adding that students will see at least eight additional games in the renovated coliseum.

“It’s not a money-making thing for us,” he said. “We put it all back into giveaways, T-shirts, Nike gear. We just put it all back into the Mob.” A donation to the Mustang Club is also included in the price of membership, which gives priority points to put Mob graduates above other alumni when basketball season tickets are passed out.

“We really wanted to reward the students that were the most spirited, not just the ones who can pay for the membership,” Johnson said.

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‘100 Things’ showcases Dallas bucket list activites Madeleine Boudreaux

A&E Editor mboudreaux@smu.edu

What does a world-class samurai collection have in common with a biker gang and invitations to the White House?

You can find all three in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.These and 97 other attractions, excursions and diversions are featured in the new book 100 Things to do in Dallas/Fort Worth Before You Die. Part of a series of similar books about other prominent American cities, 100 Things offers a list of one hundred unique Dallas and Fort Worth must-do’s in a “breezy, easy-toread style,” said one of the book’s co-authors, Sally Blanton. She wrote the book along with sports writer and longtime author Steve Richardson and fine-dining guru Andrea Alcorn.

“We just tried to hit some things that we think everybody ought to try, to make some good memories,” she told

The Daily Campus in a recent telephone interview.

The book features classic attractions such as the Arboretum, Neiman Marcus, the Perot Museum, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and the George W. Bush Presidential Library, as well as some more unusual features — like the samurai collection.

“It’s the biggest one outside of Japan,” said Blanton. “It’s in a favorite place of mine, St. Anne’s Court, a beautiful courtyard and bar area…go there for live music and cocktails.”

SMU-centric entries include “The Battle of the Iron Skillet” and “Boulevarding.”

Other entries that may be of interest to college students include Trinity Groves in Oak Cliff, a new and growing development at the foot of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge; Barcadia, a bar where you play arcade games; Bowlounge, a Dallas-chic bowling alley; and the Kessler Theatre, which has been dubbed the best listening room in Dallas because of its suburb

‘The Fame’ films at the Rustic Claire Kelley Chief Copy Editor cakelley@smu.edu

speaker system.

“It’s perfect for intimate concerts,” said Blanton.

Blanton also emphasized the Bishop Arts District, where many theaters, art galleries, and community events attract Dallas residents from all walks of life.

The book also includes itineraries, such as “Date Night” or “Where to Take Kids.”

These provide a good tool to use when planning your next weekend, and can help introduce new students to life in Dallas at large. The entires also include contact information and helpful insider tips for each establishment.

Check out the book for details on getting an invitation to the White House or hanging out with a biker gang.

Whether you’re new to SMU or just looking for somewhere new to take your family during Family Weekend, this book will be an invaluable tool. You can find it at the SMU Barnes & Noble bookstore.

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Daily Campus office picks: Emmys 2014 Lauren Aguirre, Editor-in-Chief; Gabriella Bradley, Style Editor; Meredith Carey, Assignments Editor; Demetrio Teniente, Associate Sports Editor; Christina Cox, Managing Editor; Madeleine Boudreaux, A&E Editor.

Best Comedy Series Aguirre-Orange is the New Black Bradley-OITNB Carey-OITNB Teniente-Louie Cox-OITNB Boudreaux-Modern Family

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Dallas-based Dreamfly Prod­ uctions and Los Angeles-based Ten East Ten West Productions have announced the kickoff of their new live show “The Fame.”

The show begins taping on Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. at The Rustic.

It will give viewers an inside look into the thoughts, goals, habits and hobbies of NFL players and celebrity guests.

Super Bowl Champion Tony Banks will host, along with Dallas Cowboys players Dwayne Harris and George Selvie, with correspondence by Lauren Hardaway, a model, actress, reporter and Emmy Award winner.

Admission to the weekly

tapings is open to the public for $10 and includes food, complimentary drinks from featured sponsors and photo opportunities for fans.

There will be appearances by many popular Dallas Cowboys players in addition to a weekly surprise celebrity. “The Fame” will air on TXA-21 Saturdays at 8:30 a.m. and Sundays at 2 a.m.

SMU senior Geenah Krisht, Associate Producer of “The Fame,” has been working at Dreamfly Productions for two years. She’s looking forward to bringing Dallasites together for the show’s tapings.

“We are bringing a live entertainment show with great hosts and awesome guests to the perfect venue,” said Krisht. “I can’t wait to see people from all over Dallas come together on

Monday nights to enjoy food, drinks and a live show with the Dallas Cowboys.”

Director/Producer and owner of Dreamfly Productions Lisa Jenkins is thrilled about producing a show that’s about more than just football.

“Our team is very excited to bring a fresh, live show to Dallas with an A-list roster of guests,” said Jenkins. “This is not a show that’s about the X’s and O’s of football. It’s an all encompassing entertainment show that will take these players and celebrities out of their comfort zones and into The Fame zone.”

Tickets for the weekly tapings can be purchased in advance, at the door or online at thefametv.com/tickets.

Film

Student filmmakers wrap a full summer Madeleine Boudreaux

A&E Editor mboudreaux@smu.edu

SMU film students enjoyed a summer full of meaningful internships and projects in Dallas without having to ship out to Los Angeles. The Daily Campus caught up with seniors Daniel Pappas and Jackson McMartin about their summers of student film.

To kick off the summer, many SMU students worked on a feature film called “Legacy.”

Alumni Rachel Wilson and Amanda Presmyck joined forces with current students Daniel Pappas, Geenah Krisht, Jackson McMartin and others to wrap the full-length feature in thirteen 18-hour days.

“It was some of the longest hours I’ve ever worked,” said senior Daniel Pappas.

“I was worried I would come into it and at the end not want to

do film anymore because it would show me what the real world was like, but at the end I really enjoyed it so that was encouraging,” said Jackson McMartin on the long hours.

After finishing up the shoot for “Legacy,” which will be released in May of next year, Pappas and McMartin both interned at Dreamfly Productions, a company near SMU’s campus that is producing the new TV show “The Fame” this fall.

They even got to work on a promotional short that featured Cowboys player Tony Banks and the famous Cowboys fanatic Mrs. Price.

“She’s been to every game for the past 20 years,” said McMartin.

“She was the most enthusiastic person I’ve ever met.”

Dallas has large commercial, corporate and reality film industries. Part of what the SMU interns worked on at Dreamfly this summer involved research for

unreleased reality TV-show ideas.

“I can’t really give you a real example because the shows haven’t come out yet,” McMartin explained. “But if we were looking into Duck Dynasty before it was made, we would start researching the family, seeing the dynamic, seeing if there’s a story that can be made from it.”

All of the work these students did this summer helps promote the film industry in Dallas, while also giving students a taste of the real world without them having to outsource to L.A. Pappas said he was pleased to find that the film industry in Dallas was not as “cutthroat” as its reputation implies.

“People talk about the film industry as really competitive, but people actually do want you to succeed...the more you work onset, the more you see that they really do want to hear your ideas,” he said.

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Forty Five Ten will be moving from its current location at 4510 McKinney Ave.

Forty Five Ten makes a big move to Downtown Dallas gabriella bradley Style Editor gjbradley@smu.edu Forty Five Ten is making a big move, a 45,000-square-foot move to be exact.

Since its opening in 2000 at 4510 McKinney Ave., the boutique has gained immense popularity, local and beyond, and a serious fan following, attracting celebrities from Oprah to Laura Bush to Jessica Simpson.

The store, called “Dallas’ most fashion forward boutique” by “Harper’s Bazaar”, features premiere luxury fashion, including brands from Balenciaga to Proenza Schouler and Givenchy to Céline, as well as home-goods.

In the back of the boutique stands the T Room, the chic, but cozy lunch destination famous

for its tuna melts among other delicious bites (make it in before their seasonal watermelon and feta salad goes away).

After 15 years of success, Brian Bolke, the owner of Forty Five Ten, is moving from Uptown to Downtown. Bolke told “FD Magazine” that if it hadn’t been for Chanel’s decent on Dallas this past December that this may not have been possible. The Main Street and Commerce street revitalization was largely due to the events and parties thrown in the area that surrounded the fashion brand’s Dallas-themed collection.

In the past few years, this block has gained some impressive new residents. Alongside the 100-yearold Neiman Marcus flagship store are now Tenoversix, Traffic LA and Paris-based Play by Comme des Garcons.

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The revered boutique will be moving into a three-story historic building on Main Street that was formerly a theater, a bar, a department store and a shoe store.

The store will be across the street from the newly renovated Joule hotel and neighbors the fenced lawn that is home to artist Tony Tasset’s giant eye sculpture. The store will still feature the T Room, and will gain an event space and a rooftop area.

Not only will this expansion offer three times more shopping space for the store’s loyal customers, but it will also offer the tools to grow the boutique’s e-commerce.

Although this move means Forty Five Ten will be farther away from the SMU campus, three floors of this Uptown hit will surely be a welcome addition to Dallas’ fashion scene.

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MONDAY n AUGUST 25, 2014 LET TER TO THE EDITOR

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New Varsity app won’t help game attendance Last week, SMU students received an email from the athletic department touting a new mobile app for basketball’s most elite group: the Mob. The Varsity “student loyalty program” rewards students who attend men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball and football.

After years in the wake of the 1986 death penalty, which struck each SMU sport in its own way, our school finally has a sport that everyone, students, alumni and strangers around the nation can stand behind. Basketball has become the shining star for SMU fans, who watched the team overcome struggles of its first season in the spotlight.

The Mob featured the student body’s loudest and wildest, who paid $49 to sit in courtside bleachers, and contributed to the second-largest increase in men’s basketball attendance in the nation since 2012.

While the Varsity app will offer a spot in the Mob to the most dedicated students, who have to accumulate 130 points by attending other sporting events, it also, to us, brings up a few sore spots.

Football has always reigned at SMU, even in the dark days after the death penalty. This is Texas, after all. But giving football 30 points over a measly 10 for the other sports underlines one of this school’s biggest problems in athletics. Volleyball, soccer and the many other winter and spring sports deserve just as much attention and attendance as football does. They deserve fans and supporters in the same way the basketball team needs the Mob. Treating them as second-class student athletes only perpetrates the stereotype that SMU cares the most about football.

While these sports need students to attend, the new app seems to be driving students to soccer and volleyball games for numbers alone. According to Skyler Johnson, director of promotions and game day experience, students simply have to check-in to gain the points. There is nothing stopping them from leaving after checking in on the GPS-based app. As a result, the Varsity app won’t help them gain and keep fan attendance. After the contest is over, those teams will once again be without fans.

We feel that the app will encourage competition among SMU students rather than renew school spirit for other sports.

Opinions expressed in each unsigned editorial represent a consensus decision of the editorial board. All other columns on this page reflect the views of individual authors and not necessarily those of the editorial staff.

Be informed and involved to support health and safety at SMU As the academic year begins for new and returning students, I’m reminded how thankful I am to be part of our SMU community. We’re here to support one another as we all work toward our goals.

I also am reminded of the serious issues we must address to support a healthy learning environment.

This week in your campus email, all students, faculty and staff members are receiving information about Living Responsibly at SMU, including a booklet posted online at smu.edu/LiveResponsibly.

All undergraduates also will receive a printed copy of the booklet by mail to keep during their time at SMU. The booklet addresses two important and serious health and safety issues at SMU and at universities across the country: sexual misconduct and substance abuse.

What does it mean to Live Responsibly? It is a commitment to respect SMU values and every member of our community. It means treating yourself and others with care.

One important way to care for yourself and others is to be informed. Please take some time this week to read the Live Responsibly booklet. You’ll find statistics showing that alcohol and substance use can carry serious risks for college students, including academic problems, injuries, sexual assault and death. You’ll learn that many cases of sexual assault on college campuses don’t involve attacks by strangers, but by other students who are acquaintances. You’ll review what it means to give consent to engage in sexual activity.

You’ll also find information about SMU and community resources that are helping students with these issues. These include: • SMU Police (911 or 214-768-3333): Students are urged to call police 24/7 for any situation involving health and safety, including when someone may be in danger due to alcohol or drugs and in cases of sexual assault. Students may call 214-7682TIP to report anonymously.

• SMU Title IX Coordinator (214-7683601): In addition to being a crime punishable by imprisonment, sexual assault is a violation of the federal law, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. SMU’s Title IX Coordinator can help students pursue an SMU internal grievance process by filing a complaint under our Title IX (Sexual Misconduct) policy.

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• Confidential counselors: SMU’s Office of Psychological Services for Women and Gender Issues (214-768-4795) and Counseling and Psychiatric Services (214-768-2277) are available 24/7. The Chaplain’s Office (214-768-4502) also offers confidential counseling.

• The Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center (972-6417273): This community resource offers a 24-hour hotline, confidential counseling and advocates.

• Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (214-3456203): The SANE program at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas provides medical care and a sexual assault exam that can aid in prosecution.

• SMU Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention (214-768-4021): The center provides confidential alcohol and drug counseling, assessments, education and support for students in recovery.

• Other resources that are here to support students include the Office of the Dean of Student Life (214-768-4564), the Women & LGBT Center (214-768-4792) and Residence Life and Student Housing (214-768-2407).

In addition to being informed, you can Live Responsibly by being involved. Discuss these issues.

Contact the resources listed to learn about training and education programs, and to join forces with others who are taking action.

Students last year adopted an SMU Values Statement and launched the “Not On My Campus” campaign.

I urge you to build upon their important work.

Students also can be involved by intervening when someone is in need of help, if it is safe to do so, or by calling 911.

The Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention offers Training for Intervention Procedures (TIPS) to help students intervene when others are abusing alcohol or drugs.

In addition, in Wellness classes this fall, SMU is launching a bystander intervention program called CARE, developed by the Department of Psychology and Health Center.

The program is one of several new initiatives recommended by SMU’s Task Force on Sexual Misconduct Policies and Procedures that has been implemented during the past year.

You can learn more at smu.edu/LiveResponsibly.

By being informed and involved, all of us working together are demonstrating that our community is founded on respect and integrity.

We are making clear that sexual misconduct is not tolerated at SMU, and that alcohol and substance abuse is not part of our culture.

We know how to support anyone who needs help, including ourselves.

We can and will Live Responsibly.

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Home on Greek row: how to The reality of the roommate agreement find a compatible house for you student life

preston hutcherson Contributng Writer phutcherson@smu.edu If there really are, as some scientists have speculated, an infinite number of universes in which every possible event has occurred, there must be at least one universe where in the early days of the modern university when someone first suggested that it might be good for undergraduates to share a room with a fellow student whom they had never met, the idea was laughed at, dismissed, and the person who suggested it was driven out of town.

The college students in that universe live peacefully in residential halls where no one ever wakes them up by coming in late, or snores too loudly, or takes the last fruit snack without asking.

Though it may sound appealing, we should count ourselves lucky to not live in that universe.

For all of its challenges, the roommate experience is in

many ways a small portrait of what we want college to be: an inherently uncomfortable paring of contrasting ideas — your whole world colliding with your roommate’s. It can be awkward, intimidating, even smelly, but the end result should be a set of wiser, more empathetic individuals.

If you are beginning this process as a first-year student, or an upperclassman living on campus, you will have several tools to help you manage the logistics of life with a stranger, such as the “roommate agreement” rules to govern how loudly music can be played in the room and who will take out the trash. These are good things to think about, though any experienced room-sharer will tell you that such agreements are rarely remembered much past the moment you sign them.

The real work of the roommate experience, and the real beauty, is in the uncharted waters, the moments of conflict and humor that serve as a window into the world the person who sleeps five feet away from you lives in every day.

Whether this person becomes

a life-long friend or merely a face in the freshman year photo album, don’t neglect the chance to exercise your powers of empathy by using moments of conflict to consider the possibility that in a different universe, with different parents, a different hometown, different means, or different morals, you might very well be them, feeling as lost or lonely or insecure as they do.

The purpose of college is not to learn how to be angry that your roommate borrowed your towel, but to be angry and still recognize that the person who borrowed your towel is a complex, complicated bundle of contradictions going through a time of intense change, just as you are, and they deserve your patience and understanding.

These are magical, difficult times for us all, but we are fortunate to live in the roommate universe — embrace it fully as an opportunity to learn how another human thinks and feels, and why they take the last fruit snack.

Hutcherson is a major in political science and economics.

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olivia nguyen Opinion Editor qonguyen@smu.edu Perpendicular to the Laura Lee Blanton building lies Greek row. Ten fraternity houses and behind, eight sorority houses reside.

Incoming freshmen pass by the Southern-styled houses during move-in day and begin to wonder if they should rush.

As they adjust to college and walk around campus, they’ll notice t-shirts and tank tops stamped with Greek letters.

During boulevards, the Greek letters will appear again across the Dallas Hall lawn, and flyers will be handed out to promote upcoming meet-and-greet events before rush.

And although 38 percent of students actually partake in Greek life (as of the spring 2013 semester), it is clear Greek life is prominent at SMU. While rush does not occur until springtime, most potential new members to Greek life will start researching early.

The SMU website offers every link to each sorority and fraternities official website along with their colors, date of establishment and philanthropy.

From there, students can look

at each group and see what they are looking for in potential new members.

However, if one were to Google “SMU Greek Life,” sites such as Betches Love College and Greek Rank will state a very opinionated and distinct description of each house.

These stereotypes created by bloggers (who most likely never attended SMU) base each ranking on looks, popularity and how hard they party.

The pyramidal tier they categorize breaks up into three sections: top, middle and bottom. Top tier houses have the most genetically-blessed students with the most money, middle houses would hold good-looking students with a matching personality, and the bottom houses will hear the cliché “nice people finish last” so it goes.

Impressionable freshmen may take these blog posts too seriously. Since it’s highly unlikely they know exactly what every sorority or fraternity is like, why wouldn’t they take this to heart?

But for anyone who hasn’t taken a discourse and discernment class yet – you should never believe everything on the internet.

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If you were to believe every stereotype you have heard in your life, how would you be seeing the world today?

With every stereotype that has been thrust upon us all since adolescence, we each face some type of adversity.

Generalizations hurt. Whether it’s looks, gender, or race, labels have the power to control our mindset and our judgement.

Although stereotypes that we have been personally called affect us more, when labeling a sorority or fraternity in a certain way, you are not only closing off yourself to potentially making life-long friendships, you’re also hurting your own chances during rush if you are too focused on being in a “top” house rather than being in one you love, and one that loves you back.

The moral of the story is – be openminded your first semester.

Don’t shut yourself out towards other houses, and get to know the members before making a judgment call.

Once you’re in a house, you’re in it for life – so might as well make that house your second home.

Nguyen is a major in business and minor in journalism.

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Stephen Nelson: the uninvited walk-on opportunity, I can make as many plays as anyone else out there,” he said.

One of the biggest advantages that Nelson has over his teammates is his versatility.

Jones can line him up anywhere on offense and trust that Nelson knows what to do, and that’s because over the course of five years, Nelson has learned every single wide receiver spot in Jones’ offense scheme.

“I started out as an ‘X’ and that’s when the receivers coach put me out there and I would just sit in receiver’s meetings everyday just trying to learn,” Nelson said. “Just over time I’m sitting in meetings, hearing the coaching points of both positions and a couple years down the road coach Phillips says, ‘Hey Stevie, can you play slot?’ and I’m like,

Demetrio Teniente Associate Sports Editor dteniente@smu.edu When Stephen Nelson graduated from Beaverton High school in Beaverton Ore., in 2010, he was completely overlooked by college scouts.

After being passed over by countless programs, Nelson found himself at SMU trying to make the football team. As an uninvited walk-on, Nelson was not allowed to practice with the team at first.

According to “the Legend of Stephen Nelson” as told by a number of SMU beat writers, who have known Nelson since his freshman year, Nelson showed up to practices anyway.

He could be seen every morning, sitting along the concrete walls that line SMU’s practice fields with a notebook in his lap and a pen in his hand.

Nelson kept notes of every single practice; listening to what head Coach June Jones said to the players, noting where receivers lined up and what their routes were on any given play.

By the time Nelson was allowed to practice with the team, his notebook was filled with the most organized and detailed notes of the SMU offense and because of this he was able to jump right in with the other receivers.

As the legend goes, Nelson studied the offense so much that when he could finally practice he knew every position and every route of every play better than most of the starters.

“Probably 10 percent of that is true,” a laughing Nelson said.

“I wouldn’t say that my notes were perfectly written. It’s funny that that’s what the rumor is. You know, it’s kind of hard to take notes when Coach Jones is on the field and is just talking through it.

I still have [the notes] by the way and I look back over them and I’m like man, I was really trying.”

To Nelson, taking notes wasn’t

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even a decision for him – he just did it. He knew that if he worked hard enough he’d get his shot and he wanted to be as prepared for that day as he possibly could.

“It was just a culmination of how I was raised and how I was

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a spot for himself in the offense, but he injured his foot and was redshirted.

So Nelson worked some more in hopes that his sophomore year would be the year he showed everyone what he could do.

The life of a walk on is tough, because no one is making you get up in the morning and do these things.

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approaching coming here as a walk-on,” he said. “I knew that if the coaches knew I was working hard and put in effort then maybe there would be a slight chance that it would happen.”

In Nelson’s first year with Mustangs he appeared in just three games and made no catches.

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He appeared in two games in 2012 and made no catches. So, that summer, Nelson did what Nelson does best: and that’s work.

In 2013, Nelson saw time in 11 games and made three starts.

However, SMU had a dangerous trio of receivers in Jeremy Johnson, Darius Joseph and Keenan Holman, who combined for over 2,957 of SMU’s yards and 282 of the Mustangs’ receptions.

As a result, Nelson made only 13 catches for 111 yards.

Then came the turning pointlast spring. Jones announced that Nelson would be put on scholarship for his senior season.

“That’s was kind of a culmination of five years of hard work,” Nelson said. “That was definitely my proudest moment.

It was a dream of mine ever since I was a little kid, to be a Division I scholarship athlete. And that was a fun phone call- getting to call my dad and tell him that I got put on scholarship. That was awesome.”

Since Jones’ announcement, Nelson has worked his way ahead of a bunch of talented receivers and into the starting lineup. After five years of summer workouts, tough practices and long seasons, he is finally getting his shot.

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One would think that after working so hard for something and finally achieving it, Nelson would take it easier on himself, but for him, his work doesn’t stop simply because he is in the first team huddle.

“I still try to look at everything with the mindset of a walk-on – I still have to go and earn it,” Nelson said.

“There are still three guys behind me that want my job and I have to protect it and I have to perform during practice and especially on Saturdays.

Even though you move up in the depth chart, that mentality never leaves you.”

During training camp this summer, all of Nelson’s hard work came to light – It didn’t matter who was covering him or where the ball was thrown, if he could put a hand on it, he was making the catch. Nelson said it is all due to wide receiver Coach Jason Phillips’ challenge to the receivers this summer.

“Believe it or not, Coach Phillips challenged us to catch 15, 000 balls this summer… so that’s 300 balls a day and we did it,” Nelson said. “So like I said, it just goes back to the work that we’ve put in and it’s paying off- not just for me but for the whole team.”

Nelson knows that there are a lot of talented receivers around him that are bigger, stronger and faster than him. So, he does his best to constantly work harder and stay hungrier than them.

“You know, we have such phenomenal receivers around me – they are amazing players and amazing athletes, but I’ll let you know that given my

‘Yeah!’ So, you just learn it and then go do it – just being available for wherever they need me, if they need a guy in slot I can jump in there. If they need a guy on the outside then I can go there.”

Nelson’s journey hasn’t been an easy one. As a walk-on, you aren’t treated the same as the high profile recruits and transfers. If a walk-on makes the team and contributes, great. If he doesn’t – oh well, he was just a walk-on anyway.

Stephen Nelson lasted five years. He fought tooth and nail for four years and finally he has a starting job in Jones’ offense.

“The life of a walk-on is tough, because no one is making you get up in the morning and do these things,” Nelson said. “So, yeah, it was tough, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

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Defense, turnovers could Tough road match against No.13 Nebraska ends in loss be making a comeback Demetrio Teniente Associate Sports Editor dteniente@smu.edu Let’s take a trip, you and me, in my time machine.

Let’s go back to Sept. 8, 2012; a day when the Mustangs presented the Hilltop with one of their most dominating defensive performances of the year- shutting out the SFA Lumberjacks 52-0.

While the score is impressive on its own, let’s add to it the fact that SFA outgained SMU by 138 total yards, had fewer penalties and had a better third down conversion rate.

SMU was able to demolish SFA by such a large margin, because they forced 10 turnovers.

On the final play of the first half, former Mustang Kenneth Acker returned a blocked field goal attempt 56 yards for a touchdown.

Acker struck again in the fourth quarter, when he returned an interception 77 yards for a second defensive score.

At the end of the night, SMU made seven interceptions and recovered two fumbles. One of those fumbles also went for a score.

The Mustangs also set the record for most interception return yards in program history, with 232.

The year 2012 was a great one for SMU defense; the Mustangs posted two shutouts, tied and NCAA season record for pick sixes, tied for third in the country in total takeaways and tied for second in fumble recoveries for touchdowns.

If you can remember, 2012 saw SMU finish 7-6 (5-3 in

C-USA) and demolish Fresno State 43-10 in the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl.

In 2012 SMU was one of the best at taking away the ball. It was a different story in 2013 – the Mustangs posted a minus seven turnover differential.

After such a big drop off by the defense, as far as turnovers are concerned, defensive coordinator Tom Mason has put an emphasis on taking away the ball.

“The main thing is getting turnovers,” junior safety Shakiel Randolph said. “I feel that last year we didn’t get as many turnovers as we should have to help the offense and stop [ other offenses].”

Whenever I think of dominating defenses that force a lot of turnovers, there are a couple components that are absolutely necessary for the unit to have.

One of those is a defensive line that can put pressure on opposing quarterbacks.

In a 3-4 scheme, that responsibility also falls onto the linebackers.

“This year we have a great [front seven] that is going to put pressure on the quarterback and help us make a lot of interceptions” sophomore defensive back Ajee Montes said.

A front seven that really knows how to get after a quarterback can help mask a lot of holes in the secondary.

The beautiful thing about SMU’s defense, their secondary might be their strength. Mason has a number of quality safeties he can roll out with Darrion Richardson, Hayden Greenbauer, Randolph and AJ Justice.

Richardson is a ball hawk and

is always making plays, while Randolph has great athleticism and speed that allows him to essentially shut down his side of the field.

At cornerback, Mason has a Horace Richardson, JR Richardson, Ajee Montes and Jesse Montgomery – all four are super athletic and have excellent coverage skills.

Sophomore Horace Richardson and junior JR Richardson have already proven to be solid corners on the outside, while Montes has been able to lock down slot receivers from the nickel spot.

The “new comer” to the group is redshirt first-year Montgomery.

At six feet three inches tall and the ability to jump out of the building, Montgomery makes it hard for receivers to get open.

Mason’s group looks good and he has a lot of depth at every position, which is very important.

Not only are there plenty of backups, but also the drop off from starter to reserve isn’t that great.

This will allow Mason to constantly pump fresh legs onto the field.

Having fresh legs benefits everyone, but most importantly, it helps the defensive line.

If you can have fresh guys in the trenches, and those guys aren’t terrible your defense will be able to tire out opposing offenses, rather than the other way around.

I know it is something Dallas hasn’t been used to in some time, but defense may be making a comeback and a turnover happy Mustang squad may be the ones leading the charge.

Follow @SMUSportsDesk for more SMU sports news

Demetrio Teniente Associate Sports Editor dteniente@smu.edu A new season means the chance to start over and a chance to put last year’s losses behind.

Ideally, a team wants to win its first game of a new season.

However, the reality is that someone has to lose.

Unfortunately for the Mustangs, they lost their opening match of the 2014 season to No.13 Nebraska 4-0.

From the onset, it was a onesided affair and the Cornhuskers were up 3-0 by the 32nd minute.

“We went down early and that made it difficult for us,” Head Coach Chris Petrucelli

said. “We got off to a slow start, and against a quality team like Nebraska, you can’t get off to a slow start.”

SMU’s lone shot in the first half came courtesy of junior midfielder Lissi Lonsberry, whose header was stopped by a diving, save from Nebraska keeper Kelly Schatz.

Lonsberry led the Mustangs with two shots on goal.

Sophomore defender Taylor Jackson, senior forward Shelby Redman, sophomore forward Kelsy Gorney and first-year forward Lauren Guerra each added a shot to the Mustangs’ total.

Junior Shannon Maroney was in goal for SMU for a the full 90

minutes of play and tallied five save, but allowed the four goals.

Despite allowing Nebraska to score four times, Petrucelli though Maroney performed well.

The Mustangs face this past Sunday Kansas and will host Texas Southern Aug. 29 at Westcott Field.

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