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SMU Data Mining team makes strides SMU’s Data Mining team is one of the top three finalists out of 50 teams for the 2010 SAS Data Mining Shootout, a data analysis competition.

The team, consisting of Subhojit Das, Greg Johnson and Jacob Williamson, and faculty sponsor Professor Tom Fomby proposed a solution for determining the economic benefit of reducing the Body Mass Indices (BMIs) of a number of individuals suffering from diabetes by 10 percent.

The team came up with their solution by analyzing the medical, demographic and behavioral data of 50,788 affected by diabetes.

Members will be flying to Las Vegas, Nevada where the winners will be announced on Oct. 26, 2010 at the AS Data Mining Conference.

Asteroid named in honor of SMU professor The International Astronomical Union named an asteroid after SMU anthropology professor Lewis Binford.

The official name, Asteroid (213629) Binford, was found on Nov. 2004 from pictures taken in Aug. 2002 from a Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) telescope in California.

The asteroid can be found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.

New exhibit opens in Bridwell Library The Bridget Anne Braithwaite Rosary Collection is now on display until Dec. 12 in the Bridwell Library.

The exhibit is comprised of 320 19th and 20th century rosaries from various regions. The rosaries were donated in June 2008 to the Perkins School of Theology by the parents of Bridget Anne Braithwaite.

Pete Sessions to speak on campus Congressman Pete Sessions will be the featured speaker at tomorrow’s College Republicans meeting. The meeting will start at 5:30 p.m. and will be held in The Varsity.

Sessions represents District 32, which encompasses SMU. He is also the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

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By MEREDITH SHAMBURGER Senior Staff Writer mshamburge@smu.edu

The freshman student senator election race began Monday evening, where approximately 30 freshmen gathered at the mandatory information session to learn more about the position and election guidelines.

Monday evening’s session covered election basics: when and where freshmen will vote, rules for campaigning and forms candidates need to turn in. Senate Membership Chair Roza Essaw did not discuss all of the guidelines, however, choosing to focus on a few main points.

“Make sure you read the election code,” Essaw told the freshmen.

“Ignorance of the law is no excuse.”

There are five open seats for first-year senators. The five candidates who garner the most votes will fill those seats.

Student Body President Jake Torres told the freshmen candidates that losing the election would not necessarily be the end of the road in senate careers for the freshman.

See FRESHMEN on page 3

Photo courtesy of Kassandra Schmitt

Journalism student Josh Parr interviews the subject of the first-year common reading, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, outside the house of one of Zeitoun’s clients on Claiborne Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010.

Journalism students get personal account from Zeitoun

By JOSH PARR Online Editor jrparr@smu.edu

The neighborhood is quiet on Dart Street. The houses look clean and peaceful. The stop sign clearly directs traffic through the neighborhood. It’s hard to think that only five years ago, that same stop sign was completely underwater.

Hurricane Katrina rolled through this neighborhood, but the damage came after the storm when the levee broke. The city of New Orleans changed on that day, and for many residents it would never be the same.

As the levee failed in the Ninth Ward district, water began to fill the city and would cost New Orleans millions of dollars in damages as well as lives.

A few houses down from this stop sign lives Abdulrahman Zeitoun.

From the outside, his house shows no signs of the events that took place five years ago. But there are still repairs to be made inside.

The book “Zeitoun” was chosen as the 2010 first-year common reading. It

is a story that follows just one of many people who stayed in the city during Hurricane Katrina. It follows Zeitoun as he canoes through the streets of New Orleans and saves lives. A group of five SMU journalism students drove to New Orleans this weekend to cover the fifth anniversary of Katrina. While there, the team interviewed Zeitoun.

“What I’ve done here, it’s my duty and your duty too, if you see someone who needs help, you help,” Zeitoun said.

Throughout the book, Zeitoun and his family are separated by the storm.

Their separation becomes more apparent when Zeitoun is arrested and is not given a phone call.

“With Katrina, I think everything happens for a purpose; I stayed here for a reason, I go to jail for a reason, everything God desired of me perfectly,” Zeitoun said.

Zeitoun moved to the United States from Syria when he was 17.

Neighbors knew him for the painting and contracting company he and his wife operate in New Orleans. Zeitoun

carried his dedication to his clients when he decided to stay through the storm to look after their houses.

Zeitoun’s journey also tells a story about racial stereotyping. Zeitoun is immediately labeled as a threat the minute the police officer sees his first name. This action causes many misfortunes for Zeitoun, as he is taken to a makeshift prison at the Greyhound bus station and treated in an Abu Ghraib fashion. Today, Zeitoun holds no bitterness toward his captors; he only wants to reiterate his allegiance to the U.S. “We are Muslim, we are American, and we care about this country like everyone else,” Zeitoun said.

The separation between Zeitoun and his wife, Kathy, set a heavy emotional toll during the events. For a few weeks his wife, an American who converted to Islam, did not know if Zeitoun was alive or dead. While in Arizona, she broke down.

“For me, it was hard not knowing.

See ZEITOUN on page 3

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Author tells personal story of eating disorder in new book

By JESSICA HUSEMAN Editor-in-Chief jhuseman@smu.edu

Jena Morrow, the author of “Hollow,” a book about her personal struggle with eating disorders, started showing signs of a negative body image at the early age of three.

“It started really early on, but the word anorexia wasn’t tossed around until I was about 11,” said Morrow. At 12, she went into treatment and “grew out of it” by age 13. She struggled with her body image all throughout high school, and when college came around she saw it as the perfect opportunity to relapse into her old habits.

“Out from under the watchful eye of teacher[s] and parents, I sort of figured that if I leave college with a degree that would be a perk but my real goal was to get thin,” Morrow said. “I saw being away at school as being the perfect opportunity to lose weight, and that was my goal in college.”

After only two months of being away at school, Morrow went from 120 pounds to 80 pounds. With no one there to encourage good eating habits and monitor her weight, she found it easy to shed pounds.

But that much weight doesn’t disappear and go unnoticed.

“When you lose weight people will automatically compliment you, whether you needed to lose weight or not. But it soon turned into people being concerned,” Morrow said.

Her roommate was the first to ask about her drastic drop in weight and that quickly spread to the girls on her floor, and then eventually to her professors who sent her to the school’s counseling center.

Morrow found little help at the counseling center, where they simply interviewed her and gave her a business card for a therapist, but she knew that she had to do something to quell the concerns of those that were worried about her.

SPORTS

Blast from the past: SMU football three decades later

By N. HAYDEN BLAIR Contributing Writer nblair@smu.edu

Although it would be a whole year later until the ‘official’ birth of the Pony Express, 1979 would mark a fateful year for Southern Methodist football, in particular, for a small third string tight end from Shreveport, La. Clement Fox spent a year in 1976 as a redshirt third string tight end and special team player. He then took a year off in ’77, but returned a year later, bigger, faster and more determined to see some playing time.

“It was the most exciting roller coaster I’ve ever had,” Fox said.

Before the Texas game that year the coaches announced there would be some changes, naming in particular, the end position. Bob Fisher, the current starter, had a class lab that made him miss full pad practice once a week, and this week the second string was out with a hand infection.

“I had the practice of my life,” Fisher said. “I couldn’t get tired, I couldn’t get hurt, everything moved in slow motion…. as a walk-on, all you want to do is get noticed.”

And noticed he was, and a year later against the same team he would key a block that would leave fullback Craig James wide open on an option pitch for a 53-yard touchdown against the No. 2 ranked Longhorns.

It was the play that birthed the name “The Pony Express,” and would be mentioned as one of the top 90 moments in SMU football history.

“Years later,” Fisher said, “I take great pride [in it]. One play. That’s all it took to define an entire team. [We] took a lot of pride in the fact that we were a team of great football players.”

In the 1980 season the Mustangs finished 8-4 with the school’s first national ranking (20th) since 1968. SMU relied on the running of James and Erick Dickerson and would end their season on the most precarious of games.

In the 1980 Holiday Bowl, a game that is most commonly known as the “Miracle Bowl”, SMU marked 900 yards of offense that game.

That stat would be replicated by the pass heavy BYU Cougars. At

See FOOTBALL on page 6

“So I just played the game,” Morrow said. “I was just treading

SENATE

President Torres pushes for return of reading days

By MEREDITH SHAMBURGER Senior Staff Writer mshamburge@smu.edu

Photo courtesy of Jena Morrow

Morrow shares her story of anorexia in her new book “Hollow”.

See HOLLOW on page 3

Student Body President Jake Torres announced during Tuesday’s Student Senate meeting that he plans to introduce legislation to put reading days back into the academic calendar.

“When I first started, we had three reading days at the end of the semester to get ready for

finals,” he said. “Last semester we had none. This semester we have one. This spring we’re scheduled for none.”

Torres is looking for a co-author for the bill.

Reading days have brought up concerns that students use them to party instead of studying for final exams, according to Torres. However, Torres said not having any reading

See READING on page 3

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Health & Fitness

• Wednesday, September 1, 2010

The Daily Campus

Wellness is a state of mind: Q&A with Donna L. Gober

By JOVIN LIM

I got out of the interview was a truly deep conversation.

Health and Fitness Editor sylim@smu.edu

Q. What is fitness to you?

There are few moments in life when we truly have epiphanies, “Ah ha” moments that really make us pause our hectic schedules to say, “What the heck am I doing?”

As a matter of fact, in our age of materialism and idolism, it seems like an occurrence that might happen once or twice in a person’s life.

I had one of those moments in the midst of my interview with Dr. Donna L. Gober, one of the outstanding faculty members of the SMU Applied Physiology and Wellness Department. What

A. “Fitness and wellness are not necessarily synonymous. A cancer patient might not be fit but could be well [that’s right, let that digest for a minute]. For a college student, a desired level of fitness is a personal choice, but for desirable health outcomes, moderate levels of fitness are beneficial to overall health and well-being.

“Wellness is, on the other hand, a dynamic state of living.

Its cornerstones are self-awareness and self-reflection. As you’ll see, fitness is only one aspect of wellness.”

Q. We are often stressed, home-sick, and perhaps we’re not making as many friends as we’d like to. How do we change that situation?

A. “Excellent question. We don’t claim to have all the answers; rather, we strive to draw forth questions that help students think critically about who they are and what they want, and this helps them find their own answers.

These types of questions are generally weaved into the curriculum and class discussions, as well as out-of-class experiences, which provide active learning and engagement in a dimension of wellness.”

Q. For the student trying to change their lives accordingly, what would you say to them?

A. “Begin thinking about what constitutes quality for you; what is it that you really want from your experience, what is it that your name means to you and what do you want it to mean to others? Who are you becoming? Who will you become? .

“As faculty in a higher institution of learning, we’re not simply here to teach you, but instead, inspire the students to be architects of their own lives. Holding personal responsibility for our actions is an important step in self-actualization and something we can all get better at doing.”

Pakistani children at risk for waterborne disease

By ASSOCIATED PRESS PABBI, Pakistan (AP) — Five-yearold Shahid Khan struggled to remain conscious in his hospital bed as severe diarrhea threatened to kill him. His father watched helplessly, stricken at the thought of losing his son — one of the only things the floods had not already taken.

The young boy is one of millions of children who survived the floods that ravaged Pakistan over the last month but are now vulnerable to a second wave of death caused by waterborne disease, according to the United Nations.

Khan’s father, Ikramullah, fled Pabbi just before floods devastated the northwestern town about a month ago, abandoning his two-room house and all his possessions to save his wife and four

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“I saved my kids. That was everything for me,” said Ikramullah, whose 6-yearold son, Waqar, has also battled severe diarrhea in recent days. “Now I see I’m

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losing them. We’re devastated.”

Ten other children lay in beds near Khan at the diarrhea treatment center run by the World Health Organization in Pabbi, two of whom were in critical

condition.

Access to clean water has always been a problem in Pakistan, but the floods have made the situation much worse by breaking open sewer lines, filling wells with dirty water and displacing millions of people who have been forced to use the contaminated water around them.

The environment is especially dangerous for children, who are more vulnerable to diseases such as diarrhea and dysentery because they are more easily dehydrated. Many children in Pakistan also suffered from malnutrition before the floods hit, leaving them with weakened immune systems.

The Pakistani government and international aid groups have worked to get clean water to millions of people affected by the floods and treat those

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suffering from waterborne diseases.

But they have been overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster, which has displaced a million more people in recent days.

The floods started in the northwest in late July after extremely heavy monsoon rains and surged south along the Indus River, killing more than 1,600 people, damaging or destroying more than 1.2 million homes and inundating one-fifth of the country — an area larger than England.

Some 3.5 million children are at imminent risk of waterborne disease and 72,000 are at high risk of death, according to the United Nations.

The World Health Organization set up the diarrhea treatment center in Pabbi about a week ago with the help of several other aid groups. Workers have already treated more than 500 patients, mostly children, said Asadullah Khan, one of the doctors.

The aid groups set up a similar treatment facility several days ago in Nowshera, a city adjacent to Pabbi that was also engulfed by the floods.

Residents who have begun to return in recent days have encountered a scene of total destruction: caved-in houses and streets covered with mud and debris.

Most of the population lacks access to clean water, and mosquitoes have proliferated in stagnant floodwater around the city, raising the risk of malaria. Government help is nowhere to be found.

“It is trash, dirt, germs and odd smells everywhere,” said Zahid Ullah, whose 3-year-old and 10-year-old sons were being treated for gastroenteritis at the facility in Nowshera. “It is a big danger.”

Even at the hospitals where the diarrhea treatment centers have been set up, mobs of flies hovered around the patients despite attempts by staff to kill them.

The World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund appealed to the world on Saturday to provide water purification units, family hygiene kits and other items needed to increase access to clean water in Pakistan.

Guido Sabatinelli, the head of the World Health Organization in Pakistan, said the international community’s help was critical to help Pakistan avoid a second wave of death from waterborne disease.

“We are fearing the epidemic of disease,” said Sabatinelli. “Access to safer water, potable water” is critical, he said.

Asma Bibi couldn’t agree more.

The young mother searched in vain for clean water on the outskirts of Nowshera as her feverish 2-month-old son, Ehtesham, sweltered in a tent set up for flood victims. They had run out of water the day before.

“My son is sick. He hasn’t breast-fed in two days,” she said. “He needs milk.

He needs water.”

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Taste Series presents art form, experience

By LAUREN SMART

Arts and Entertainment Editor lsmart@smu.edu

Graphic courtesy of University Park

The traffic light will be changed in 2011 to encourage drivers to be more mindful of pedestrians crossing the street.

UP tries to bring drivers and pedestrians safety to Daniel, Hillcrest intersection

BY MEREDITH SHAMBURGER Senior Staff Writer mshamburge@smu.edu

The intersection at Daniel and Hillcrest Avenues will be getting a makeover, which is supposed to ease traffic congestion and create a safer walk for pedestrians.

The University Park City Council approved a plan that would create two east-bound lanes on Daniel Avenue: a through lane and a dedicated lefthand turn lane during their Aug. 24 meeting.

The south curb of Daniel Avenue will be moved about six feet to make room for the additional lane.

The estimated cost of the project is $48,000, according to Gene R. “Bud” Smallwood, UP’s director of public works.

Smallwood said the project can be completed in a short period, but UP has to order the new signal head. That order will take four to six months.

The proposal is a response to “discussions regarding the number

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water and making everyone happy. But I knew I wasn’t going to give it up.”

Morrow was eventually forced to drop out of school and go into a yearlong program at a residential treatment facility. But from the start, Morrow had decided she was not going to snap out of her disorder. She had decided that, once again, she would play the game and then descend back into a relapse. But Morrow wasn’t anticipating the level of care she would receive at the facility.

“I wasn’t prepared for the people I would meet there, or for the scriptural truth they would introduce me to,” Morrow said.

While there, Morrow also learned what it was like to feel normal. After years of battling with eating disorders, she had no method of comparison to decide whether or not she even liked being anorexic.

“After getting out of rehabilitation, I had emotions, I didn’t feel numb and a felt close to God. I just realized that I felt better when I was normal,” Morrow said.

After beating her battle with eating disorders, Morrow is now on a mission to ensure that others do not fall into the same situation in which she found herself. She now works as a behavioral health specialist at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center, a leading eating disorder center, and is hoping that her book will inspire those that she cannot.

One of the age groups that she is most concerned about reaching is college students. She says that periods in which we make changes in our lifestyle are when we are the most susceptible, and that going from high school to college is an optimal time for girls to second-guess their body image.

“College is such a dynamic time; everything is changing. We are making huge decisions about where we want our life to take us,” Morrow said.

“Couple this with the obnoxious idea of the freshmen fifteen and so many girls talking about their weight, and you end up with sort of a hotbed.”

She says that girls who are particularly concerned about their body weight need to be careful to avoid the topic of weight when they are talking to their friends. She says that girls do not even realize the amount of time they spend talking about their body image and their weight, and that these conversations can make falling into an eating disorder even easier.

Morrow encourages girls who are already struggling with an eating disorder to “take off the shroud of secrecy” and tell others that you are suffering. She says that this will create a personal support group for them and make it easier for them to pull themselves out of their eating disorder.

She also encourages going to support groups with girls who are also suffering from eating disorders. She acknowledges that sometimes these groups aren’t available, and says that more common groups like Overeaters Anonymous or Alcoholics Anonymous are also valuable opportunities for help.

“Just being around people who are also personally struggling will make it easier for you to talk about your problem. These people will welcome you with open arms,” Morrow said.

For more information about Morrow, or to purchase her book, “Hollow,” you can go to her website at JennaMorrow.com. Her book is also available for purchase on Amazon.com and in limited quantities at Barnes and Noble and Borders.

of pedestrian-vehicle accidents at the Hillcrest-Daniel intersection,” according to the agenda memo.

Smallwood said the added leftturn lane would hopefully help people be mindful of pedestrians crossing the street. Now, he said, drivers may be more worried about

making a quick left-hand turn than about pedestrians.

The additional east-bound lane will also lessen congestion, Smallwood said, and make traffic much more efficient.

“Cars won’t stack up,” he said.

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I felt like my life was stuck right here in the center. I don’t know which way to go which way to turn,” she said. “I can tell you now, had my husband perished in the storm I would have never come back to the city.”

After nearly a month of separation, Kathy and Zeitoun reunited outside the Baton Rouge prison where Zeitoun had finally been released.

Zeitoun’s story is now printed in multiple languages and raises questions of government response to natural disasters as well inner questions about racial intolerance.

Zeitoun’s drive and purpose are constantly challenged through his trials, but he clings to his faith to survive.

“I feel like I did right things, and I would do it again,” Zeitoun said.

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FRESHMEN: Candidates discuss plans for campaigns

REBECCA HANNA/The Daily Campus

Student Body President Jake Torres, and other Senate Officers, speak with first-year senators Monday evening.

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“I actually ran for first-year senator my first year and got destroyed,” Torres said. “I think I got like 10 votes or something. So even if you don’t win, that’s totally fine. You can still be involved in Senate later on.”

Candidates will campaign until the voting period begins Sept. 8.

Only freshmen can vote for firstyear senators. “[The election] sounds really exciting,” first-year senator candidate Anthony McAuliffe said. “It looks like a lot of people are really interested in it, and they want to do it, but some people have already dropped out.”

McAuliffe is from Keller, Texas.

He doesn’t have a definite campaign plan right now but said he’s thought about creating buttons and posters.

Fellow candidate, Jaimmy Koroma, of Allen, Texas is thinking about making cupcakes to hand out.

“I’m a little intimidated; there’s a

lot of people [running],” she said.

“But I’m also excited. I think the campaigning process is going to be a lot of fun. So I just hope I can get it, so I can work with, you know, a lot of people to make our campus great.”

Freshman Jeff Whelan, a candidate from Manhattan Beach, Calif., is making sure his campaign strategy takes into account the large number of candidates.

“There’s a big number of us, so I think getting out name recognition, making sure everyone votes and campaigning to the maximum will be very important,” Whelan said.

First-year candidate Parminder Deo, from Richardson, Texas., doesn’t have a campaign strategy.

“The thrill of campaigning is always fun,” Deo said. “I wish everyone the best of luck. Everyone has an equal chance, so yeah. I bet everyone else has a campaign strategy but me, so we’ll see how it goes.”

Monday night Meadows hosted the first of seven Avant Garde film screenings as part of this semesterlong event The Taste Series.

This event will focus on New York filmmakers who participated in the movement that was taking place from around 1950-80, showing films exclusively on 16mm prints on loan from The Film-Makers’ Cooperative in NYC. Monday’s screening focused on the work of Peter Kubelka from 1955-65, beginning with what is considered his most complex film “Unsere Afrikareise” (Our trip to Africa) and ending with his first, plot-driven film “Mosaik Im Vertrauen.” A still-living Austrian filmmaker, Kubelka is the only artist who is not American that will be featured in the screenings.

Kubelka was notorious for being hired for projects, and then running off with the film to work on his own project. He focused on creating something that was an overall aesthetically and psychologically

stimulating product.

One of the films shown was “Arnulf Rainier” (1960) was commissioned by its namesake and was one of the self-indulgent projects Kubelka used the given tape for. This ‘flicker film’, one of his most well-known, is made solely of black and white frames, which Kubelka strings together at different intervals.

Another of the films that Kubelka was commissioned for, yet completed his own project instead was a commercial for a beer called Schwechater. Kubelka plays with shot lengths and contrast, showing how much meaning can be applied in the editing of a film. As a note of interest, the beer company confiscated the film after Kubelka showed it to them, saying they would not run the commercial – the next day, he broke into their office and stole the tape back.

The longest film of the night was “Mosaik Im Vertrauen,” running only 16 minutes long. Overall the experience at these film screenings focused on education and experiencing a new art.

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days is a bad decision.

Torres said he met with Faculty Senate President Linda Eads to see if reading days could be scheduled in future semesters. Faculty Senate is in charge of setting the academic calendar.

Eads seemed “fairly receptive” to the idea, and faculty members are also willing to add at least one reading day to future semesters, according to Torres.

“From the faculty standpoint,

they’re not incredibly excited about it [not having any reading days] either because they go straight from teaching to finals,” Torres said. However, Torres cautioned that reading days were not a top priority for Faculty Senate.

“But I think this is something we should address from our end,” he said.

Although this semester is set in stone, Torres said there is a chance of getting at least one reading day next semester. If not, he said he definitely wants to add reading days to the 20112012 calendar.

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Opinion

• Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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MAN ON THE STREET

Students speak out about food options on campus Between running to classes, cramming in hours at the library, and finding time to socialize and sleep, we all still need to meet our daily food cravings.

So, where is the best place to go, you may ask.

The Daily Campus’ Man on the Street interviewed SMU students about their opinion. After talking to a number of students, it seems that the consensus ranks our good ole Umphrey Lee at the top of the charts.

“Umphrey is just so overwhelming with all its options, and the quality of food is the best,” said freshman Stephanie Tatum.

Aside from long lines during the peak breakfast, lunch, and dinner hours, and the questionable sushi, Umphrey Lee notoriously has the best variety of healthy foods.

Some of their most popular options include omelets, burritos, an endless salad bar, and of course, their fresh-out-of-the-oven homemade cookies.

In fact, there are so many options that most students don’t know where to begin when they enter the center. “Food at Umphrey needs to be more labeled…It’s hard to know everything that’s offered, “ complains Kyra L. McCarty.

On the other side of campus, South Quad locals rave about the convenience and intimacy of Mac’s Place. Popular for its pizza, burgers and chicken sandwiches, Mac’s offers students a quick and easy option when you’re running to the gym or just not feeling up to the hike to Umphrey.

“I only wish Mac’s Place was open in the morning,” says Bre’ann Berger, echoing the requests of numerous freshman and South Quad residents hoping to grab breakfast on the go.

Additionally, Mac’s Place is a much smaller setting, making it an ideal locale for freshman to meet other freshman in a non-intimidating atmosphere. Open from 11 a.m. to midnight on the weekdays and 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the weekends, Mac’s is the place to go for that late night crave or on-the-go meal.

Aside from Umphrey Lee and Mac’s Place, there are numerous hidden dining locations around campus.

For a stop at a quick coffee stop, head to the Meadows Starbucks Cart or Einstein Bagels in the lower level of Cox. If you’re sick of Umphrey and Mac’s, why not try one of the many fast food options in the Hughes-Trigg Center? If you’re looking for a midday smoothie, head over to the Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports.

If these aren’t enough options for you, there are plenty just a quick walk off campus in Snider Plaza, along Hillcrest Avenue.

For more information on dining locations, hours and options on campus, check out the Campus Dish at SMUdining.com.

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Letter from the President: supporting our students, strengthening our country COMMENTARY

At colleges and universities across America, students are heading into the classroom, many for the first time. You’re taking part in a journey that will not only determine your future, but the future of this country.

We know, for example, Barack Obama that nearly eight in ten new jobs will require workforce training or higher education by the end of this decade. And we know that in a global economy, the nation that out-educates us today will out-compete us tomorrow. In the 21st century, America’s success depends on the education our students receive.

That’s why, soon after I took office, I proposed an ambitious goal: by 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. And over the past year and a half, we’ve been putting in place policies to help us meet this goal.

First, we are making college more affordable.

As students, you know why this matters. Over the past ten years, college costs have shot up faster than housing, transportation, and even health care costs.

The amount student borrowers owe has risen almost 25 percent in just five years. This isn’t some abstract issue to me. Michelle and I had big loans to pay off when we graduated. I remember what that burden feels like. No one in America should be saddled with crushing debt simply because they sought an education. And no one should be denied a chance to make the most of their lives because they can’t afford it.

That’s why we fought so hard to win a battle that has been raging in Washington for years

over how to administer student loans. Under the old system, taxpayers paid banks and financial companies billions of dollars in subsidies to act as middlemen – a deal that was very lucrative for them, but unnecessary and wasteful. And because these special interests were so powerful, this boondoggle survived for decades. But this year, we said, enough is enough. As a result, instead of handing over $60 billion in unwarranted subsidies to big banks, we’re redirecting that money to upgrade America’s community colleges and make college more affordable for nearly 8 million students and families.

We’re tripling the investment in college tax credits for middle class families. We’re raising the value of Pell Grants, and we’ll make sure they increase each year to better keep up with inflation. We’re making loan repayments more manageable for more than one million more students. Future borrowers can even choose an income-based payment plan so that you don’t have to pay more than 10 percent of your salary each month. And if you go into public service, and keep up with your payments, your leftover student debt will be forgiven after 10 years.

As part of this effort, we’re simplifying financial aid forms, too, by eliminating dozens of unnecessary questions.

I’d also point out: one way we’re helping young people afford college is by helping them to afford health insurance. Because of the new health care law, young adults can stay on their parents’ health plans until they are 26 years old.

Second, a college education needs to be more than affordable; it needs to prepare graduates for the jobs of the 21st century. Community colleges – undervalued assets in this country – are wellpositioned to lead this effort. That’s why we’re

upgrading these institutions by tying the skills taught in classrooms to the needs of local businesses in growing sectors of the economy.

The third part of our higher education strategy is making sure more students complete college. Over a third of America’s college students, and over half our minority students, don’t earn a degree, even after six years. That’s not just a waste of money; it’s an incredible waste of potential that holds our country back. We don’t just need to open the doors of college to more Americans; we need to ensure that students walk back out of those doors with a degree in their hands.

Of course, that depends on students. You are responsible for your own success. But there is more we can do to remove barriers to finishing college, especially for those earning a degree while working or raising a family. That’s why I’ve proposed a College Access and Completion Fund, to develop, implement, and evaluate new approaches to improving college success and completion, particularly for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

So we are making college more affordable, gearing the education you receive to the demands of a global economy, and taking steps to lift graduation rates. Because this is how we’ll retake the lead in producing college graduates. This is how we’ll help students like you to fulfill your dreams. And this is how we’ll ensure that America prospers in this new century, and that we harness the greatest source of our strength: the talents of our people.

Barack Obama is the President of the United States of America.

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Scholars go on treasure hunt for a room of their own OPINION EDITOR

University life is an extraordinary phase in one’s development.

It presents a vast assortment of opportunities and challenges that one may never have foreseen. And among the trials of these formative years is one that I was not Adriana Martinez expecting when I entered SMU – acquiring space.

I do not mean space in the figurative sense, where it might signify independence or self-determination.

That sort of space is abundant. But rather, I mean literal space – a physical area in which to be.

As I am sure many freshmen can attest, the living conditions on a university campus, while bearable, are certainly less spacious than one might be accustomed to. Sharing a cubicle-sized room with a stranger is not exactly a luxurious experience.

Furthermore, the diverse activities in which one is engaged on a college campus demand different settings in order to be executed appropriately.

Primarily, research and projects for class require a significant amount of space.

All too often, this is space that one simply does not have in a dorm or small apartment.

Or, if one is privileged enough to have spacious living arrangements, then it is frequently the case

that the ambience is not conducive to this genre of work.

Therefore, ironically, a university student finds him or herself without the necessary space in which to complete course requirements.

Speaking from experience, this can be a detrimental problem with serious ramifications, including a total lack of motivation that results in skilled procrastination.

Twentieth century writer Virginia Woolf expounds on this phenomenon in her seminal work, “A Room of One’s Own”. She explains that if one does not have the necessary space in which to accomplish tasks, then creativity is stifled, thereby limiting the completion of work.

So what is a struggling college student to do when Facebook stalking in an overly-crowded room is no longer entertaining?

Of course, the library! There are plenty of libraries on campus, but if you are like me and find the somber atmosphere overpowering after a few days, then that solution is futile.

However, there is hope yet; SMU is filled with spacious and comfortable offices and common areas that are open to student use a majority of the time.

These precious gems, while not rare, are little known to the majority of the student body.

While I do not know the location of all of these areas, I can suggest a few. The newly opened

Embrey Human Rights Program’s office has a large conference room that is often available for students.

It can be found in Clements Hall, room 109.

Additionally, don’t forget to visit the Lawyer’s Inn on the first floor of Carr Collins. The combination of mature law students, leather seats and a cozy fireplace is almost irresistible.

Most departments on campus have a comfortable waiting area where you are welcome to study. This is a particularly advantageous option because not only are professors nearby if any questions arise, but also it is always beneficial for your professors to see that you are, in fact, working hard in their classes.

Also, on the third floor of Hughes-Trigg, the SAMSA has a lively environment and a fantastic meeting table for group projects. Finally, the brand new, highly innovative and technologically savvy Caruth Hall no doubt offers myriad options for your studying needs.

So, before the work load of the semester becomes so overbearing that there is simply no alternative, and you are forced to sit at an inadequate desk in a cramped room, go on a treasure hunt of your own!

Adriana Martinez is a political science, public policy, French and history major. Adriana can be reached for comments or questions at adrianam@smu.edu.

Intellectual opportunities abound all around us

COMMENTARY

The opportunity for intellectual risk is an often ignored benefit of attending a liberal arts university. While the college years are filled with many opportunities for risky behavior, very few of these risks reward as deeply as intellectual imagination Jordan Johansen and curiosity.

For me, intellectual imagination resonates in interdisciplinary study and research. My majors – music, history, and anthropology – support such an ideal, as do my extracurricular activities.

However, not everyone satisfies his or her intellectual curiosity through multiple majors or an obviously interdisciplinary focus.

Intellectual activity is not limited to the classroom. While formal learning has its advantages, valuable opportunities exist outside of class to stimulate curiosity and foster a sense of intellectual imagination. By combining your personal life with your academic life, unique and relevant topics of research present themselves.

Whether an interesting conversation overheard

at the gym or a television program flipped on between classes, daily life and current problems can invigorate research and focus academic thinking to particularly relevant ideas.

Students at SMU have extensive opportunities for extracurricular intellectual development and scholarly pursuits.

Increasingly valuable are those opportunities on campus that bring diverse students together to discuss important issues and encourage research in a distinctly interdisciplinary way.

Two new organizations at SMU focusing on this aspect of intellectual curiosity are the Tower Center Student Forum (TCSF) and the Student Leadership Initiative of the Embrey Human Rights Program (SLI). Both engage students to investigate issues of academic concern in real-world settings with an interdisciplinary focus.

The TCSF provides opportunities for students of diverse academic backgrounds to come together and explore pertinent topics through policy committees, practicums, and events.

The vast resources of the Tower Center are available for students, particularly the ability to meet, collaborate with, and learn from leading faculty members and visiting scholars and dignitaries.

SLI structures national and international human rights service and research opportunities for course credit. By taking classroom knowledge and applying it to global issues, SLI allows students to investigate human rights concerns from both a personal and academic perspective.

Living life with intellectual curiosity develops an intriguing foundation for independent research and future academic opportunities. At its foundation, research is nothing more than formalized, purposeful curiosity.

As Zora Neale Hurston says, “It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they who dwell therein.”

Intellectual pursuits can be found everywhere.

By keeping your mind open to the possibilities surrounding you, intellectual curiosity will transform the mundane into a magnificent world of exciting and rewarding opportunities.

Jordan Johansen is senior history, music and anthropology triple major. She can be reached for comments or questions at jjohansen@smu.edu.

Entertainment

The Daily Campus

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 •

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MOVIES

SHOPPING

Tara Paulsen brings her ‘Dinner for Schmucks’ vintage finds to campus not easily digested

By ROBERT CLEMENTS

By LAUREN SMART

A&E Intern rclements@smu.edu

A&E Editor lsmart@smu.edu

Name: Tara Paulsen

Education: B.A. in European/world history from University of Texas - Dallas

Company: Boho “I sell vintage and artisan crafted jewelry from around the world.”

Q: Where do you find your jewelry?

A: “I shop estate sales, vintage and antique shops and look for cool jewelry when I travel. I also look for local artists to showcase their work.” Tara travels all over the world to discover new styles and designs for her collection of unique finds.

Have you ever wanted to throw a dinner party for the sole purpose of laughing at the morons in your life? Then you might find some inspiration from “Dinner for “Schmucks.”

“Schumcks,” while hilarious in its original French format, fails to make an effective transition over to English. This is represented by the struggle the American filmmakers had in naming the film. The original French film is entitled, “Le Dîner de Cons.”

Traditionally, that name has been translated as “The Dinner Game,” but it should be noted that the literal French meaning is not suitable for print. The two films are similar in concept only.

“Dinner for Schmucks” begins with Tim Conrad who appears to have it all: a loving girlfriend,

an awesome condo and a decent job in Los Angeles. However, he is desperate to advance. Thus, in a staff meeting, Tim proposes a radical new idea that could make his company millions.

His boss is most impressed and invites him to a dinner party, a party for “winners,” people with special talents.

Tim is informed that not only is he supposed to bring a guest, but also that the dinner is a competition of sorts for whoever’s guest is the most ridiculous.

“But where am I going to find an idiot by Saturday?” Tim asks.

Steve Carell plays Barry, a lonely man with a special talent: mouse taxidermy. Conrad and Barry meet when Tim runs Barry over with his car, as Barry ‘rescues’ a dead mouse in the street. It’s a match made in heaven, but the movie is still just starting.

Steve Carell performs his character seamlessly; every detail

of Barry’s life, from his eccentric hobby to his bizarre personal life is so hilariously on point that it is impossible not to be reminded of at least one real person to whom he is akin.

The film’s preachy angle begins to conflict sharply with the initial mean-spirited comedy that spawned it, leaving the viewer in stitches one moment but then quickly ostracizing the characters in the next.

The filmmakers force too much on their audience in a short amount of time. Too many dynamics change for it to be an effective film.

The verdict: If you are a fan of the French concept, stay away. As for the everyday viewer, you might find yourself asking if you are the real idiot for attending this film.

For show times and more information, check: www. movietickets.com.

EVENTS

Q: Have you always wanted to own your own company?

A: “I have, for as long as I remember, wanted to own my company or business. When I was in high school, it was idea after idea. After traveling and developing a personal love for jewelry, I knew this was what I should do.”

Q: What is your favorite thing about owning your own business?

SMU STYLE to host fashion preview event with ‘PaperCity’

A: “The freedom. I need to be around people, work on my own schedule and be independent of the corporate structure. It’s just not for everyone. And neither is owning your own business!”

Q: What do you do when you’re not working?

A: “I love to travel, so I spend my time saving up money, planning my next trip. But to keep enough jewelry to keep people interested, I end up shopping for new stuff.”

Q: What are your long-term plans for Boho?

A: “I want to test and get the kinks out of my business for the next two to three years here in Dallas; then I would like to open a small boutique show in Buenos Aires within two years of moving there. Fingers crossed!”

You can check out Tara’s jewelry at the Hughes Trigg Crossing Wednesday, Sept. 1.

By LAURA COOK Assoc. A&E Editor lecook@smu.edu

Tonight at BCBG in NorthPark Center, three SMU students will be hosting a fall fashion preview in conjunction with PaperCity magazine.

Students Sarah Bray, Krystal Schlegel and Lauren Taylor have joined forces with PC’s Editor-in-Chief Brooke Hortenstine and Dallas socialite Capera Ryan to provide Dallas fashionistas with their picks for the fall.

Bray is the senior behind the popular SMU Style blog and was recently featured as the blogger of the day on the Dallas-based web site Society Stylist.

Schlegel is an SMU junior who has become

prominent thanks to her insights on Dallas lifestyle and fashion, which appear on Krystal-Schlegel – The Blog.

SMU senior Lauren Taylor has always had a love for style and got into the Dallas fashion industry when she interned for the online fashion blog, Fashionista, last spring. She now interns for D Magazine, specializing in fashion and marketing.

Among the already received RSVP’s are the SMU Retail Club, along with Dallas-based The Fashionistas.

The event is open to all those interested in what to wear for the upcoming season. Wendy Krispin Caterer will be serving hors d’oeuvres and beverages to all in attendance.

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ACROSS 1 Energy 4 It’s an example of itself 8 Pure 14 Suffix with verb 15 “Star Trek: T.N.G.” counselor 16 Bring about sooner 17 Young woman next door?

19 Green light 20 Architect Saarinen 21 Earth pigment 23 Hide-hair link 24 Adjoining floor?

28 Fireside emanation 30 “__ me!”

31 ’50s White House nickname 32 Certain fisherman 35 Annoys 39 __ Piper 41 Police sting, say 43 Grimace 44 Happen as a result 46 “Who Can It __?”: Men at Work hit 48 Exhaust, with “up” 49 [see other side] 51 Brought up 53 Proximate coins?

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68 Dividend, e.g.

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Sports

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FOOTBALL

FOOTBALL: Pressure is building CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

halftime, the game would come down to the final play.

After trailing 45-25, BYU mounted one of the most amazing comebacks in college football history. As time expired, quarterback Jim McMahon found Clay Brown in the end zone for one of his 32 of 49 passes completed for a 41-yard touchdown pass. BYU scored 21 points in the final two and a half minutes, sending the Mustangs home with a final, second defeat, 46-45.

This year’s season is much different for the Mustangs who return with a high powered, effective offense. That, and a defense with a senior core of linebackers and defensive ends that will have an ability to create turnovers this season, means that their only problems rest on maturity and consistency of the system.

For Fox, “almost every pregame, emotion-wise, was identical.”

Whether it’s going to a season opener in 1980 in Texas Stadium, or

marching in to Lubbock’s Jones AT&T Stadium on national television, the feeling of attending an NCAA pregame is hard to imagine.

Luckily, Fox was able to channel his anxiety through his pregame duties as the backup punter; a job that, he says, was much appreciated and needed. “[It was] a way to have my mind open up, clear itself and get some activity in to burn off some of the nervousness. It’s a lot easier to be successful when there’s a lot less pressure on everybody,” Fox said.

Unfortunately, the pressure will only continue to build going into Sunday’s game. This year’s team will rely on the ability of veterans, like junior tackle Kelvin Beachum and senior back number 52, Pete Fleps, to use their instinctive leadership skills and football knowledge to drive the Mustangs to another bowl-ending season. “[Our] starting offensive line, including myself, had four guys that had been there five years. These guys are under a different microscope. Now,

they could be one of the top-notch conference teams; that’s kind of an enormous amount of pressure after 25 years of not performing, “ Fox said.

Fox and the other members of the Pony Express inverted pressure on themselves, and their unity allowed them an 8-3 record with a trip to the Holiday Bowl. Whether the team will be able to pull itself together for the gathering storm that is the 2010 season will be at least partially settled this Sunday in the opener against Tommy Tuperville and his Red Raiders in Lubbock.

It looks like this year the Mustangs will have to begin by channeling some pressure themselves, and simply ignore the fact that the rest of the Mustang nation is roused, restless and ready to win.

The season opener at Jones AT&T stadium will begin at 2:30 p.m. Central Time and will be televised live on ESPN.

Rotunda File Photo

The 1980 SMU Football Team, shown above, includes Pony Express members Eric Dickerson and Craig James. Tight End Clement Fox, see arrow, provided a key block in the October 25, 1980, game against the University of Texas to allow Craig James to complete a crucial 53-yard run, beginning the Pony Express era for SMU.

COMMENTARY

Red Raiders pose historic gridiron challenge

BY EJ HOLLAND Sports Commentary eholland@smu.edu

When the SMU Mustangs’ football team travels to Lubbock, Texas this Sunday to face off against Texas Tech in a nationally televised game, history will not be on their side.

The Mustangs have not beaten the Red Raiders since 1986, the same year the infamous death penalty was imposed.

Since then, Texas Tech holds a perfect 13-0 mark against SMU. The Red Raiders also lead the all-time series 31-16.

The first game between SMU and Texas Tech was played in 1932 in Lubbock, which was coincidently the first year Peruna was introduced as the official school mascot.

The Red Raiders pulled out a 6-0 victory in the first of 47 meetings against the Mustangs.

1948 was a big year for SMU, which featured a 9-1-1 record and a Southwest Conference (SWC) championship.

Running back Doak Walker rushed his way to college football’s greatest individual award, the Heisman Trophy.

Walker also led the team to a 21-13 victory over Oregon in the Cotton Bowl.

Despite all of these significant events, many argue that the most important one was on Oct. 2 when the Mustangs defeated the Red Raiders 41-6 at the last game at Ownby Stadium, which was located on SMU’s campus.

The Mustangs played all of their home games at the Cotton Bowl, also

known as “The House that Doak Built” for the next 31 years.

In 1960, Texas Tech joined SMU in the Southwest Conference and a fierce conference battle was born. The Red Raiders won the first conference meeting 6-0.

For the rest of the 1960’s, Texas Tech and SMU enjoyed respective victories over each other as neither team dominated the series. But things would change in the 1970’s.

The Red Raiders ruled the seventies, beating the Mustangs in eight out of 10 meetings. This decade also saw Texas Tech appear in six bowls, including a 1973 victory over Tennessee in the Gator Bowl. The Red Raiders finished 11-1 that year and thrashed the Mustangs 31-14.

Meanwhile, SMU failed to reach a bowl game during the whole decade but showed promise for the 1980’s after a 35-10 victory over Texas Tech in 1979.

A 30-6 victory in 1981 behind the Pony Express (composed of running backs Erick Dickerson and Craig James) saw the Mustangs begin a new tradition of defeating the Red Raiders.

Just one year later, SMU enjoyed an undefeated season, which included a 34-27 win over Texas Tech and a 7-3 victory over quarterback Dan Marino and the Pittsburgh Panthers in the Cotton Bowl.

The Mustangs were controversially ranked number two behind Pennsylvania State in the final rankings, despite being the only undefeated team in college football.

SMU would continue their dominance over Texas Tech until the death penalty was enforced in 1986.

In 1989, the Red Raiders defeated the Mustangs 48-24 in their first meeting since the death penalty was enacted.

SMU would continue their losing streak until 1995 when the SWC diminished and died off. SMU moved on to the Western Athletic Conference, while Texas Tech moved on to the Big 12 Conference.

Six years went by until the Mustangs finally rekindled the flame against the Red Raiders in 2002. This decade has featured six match-ups between the two teams, and Texas Tech has won every game.

The most recent match up came in

2008, a game SMU fans want to erase from their memory.

Mustang quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell threw an interception on the first play from scrimmage, and the Red Raiders never looked back as they coasted to a 43-7 victory.

2010 is a whole different year. The Mustangs are coming off of their first bowl victory since 1984, and Pony pride is at an all time high.

Sept. 5 may be the day when Texas Tech’s streak comes to an end as the SMU Mustangs put their recent history behind them and go back to the winning ways of the 1980’s.

After all, history is made everyday.