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Academics
National cyber security expert joins Lyle school KaTY Roden Editor-in-Chief kroden@smu.edu
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President R. Gerald Turner sat down for an exclusive interview with The Daily Campus following the board of trustee’s decision to raise the Second Century Campaign goal to $1 billion.
A $1 billion decision Board raises Second Century Campaign goal from $750 million Katy Roden Editor-in-Chief kroden@smu.edu The SMU Board of Trustees voted unanimously Friday morning to raise the Second Century Campaign goal from $750 million to $1 billion. “It’s pretty exciting when you consider there are only 34 other private universities that have ever [set a goal to raise] a billion,” President R. Gerald Turner told The Daily Campus in an exclusive interview. “It just puts us on another level. It really is a marker in terms of development of an institution when you can have a billion dollar campaign.” Among the schools on the $1 billion campaign list are Columbia, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, the University of Chicago and the University of Southern California. Turner said the decision was based on three points. First, he said, was the success of the campaign to
date and the continuing enthusiasm of SMU alumni and friends. The $750 million goal set in 2008 was hit in June, two and a half years before the 2015 deadline. “As a result we started getting more confident,” Turner said. “I didn’t start expecting to raise it to a billion really until we started talking about it in June. It’s really nice when you consider how we started.” The Second Century Campaign began on Sept. 12, 2008. “The Lehman Brothers fell on that Sunday (Sept. 15),” Turner said. “At that time with the economy going into that recession, a lot of people were suggesting we not try to do a campaign. We were really worried about getting to $750 [million] for about two years.” Turner said the second point of the decision was the commitment of the leadership of the board of trustees. The board’s five co-chairs, Caren Prothro, Ruth Altshuler, Gerald Ford, Carl Sewell and Ray Hunt have encouraged the board to
consider the $1 billion goal for the past few months. “When your leadership is encouraging, that gives you confidence,” Turner said. The third point for the decision was the continuing slow improvement of the economy. “Our friends and alumni have been very generous during a, starting off, very tough economic cycle that’s now improving,” Turner said. “I think if the conomy wasn’t slowly improving we wouldn’t [have raised the goal]. [In moving up the goal] there are quite a few assumptions in what the next two years will be like.” The $47 million Moody Coliseum renovation and construction of the Residential Commons opening in fall 2014 are two large projects that need more funding and also played a role in the decision to raise the campaign goal. Turner said the first step for the campaign is to get the word out. The campaign will be on the road
to generate support. On Oct. 25, the Friday of Homecoming weekend, the campaign will be calling in all its national steering committee members. Turner said Oct. 25 will be “a big day for energizing all of the people who are working with us.” Turner is also calling for student support at campaign events and by “giving their year.” He asks students graduating in spring 2014 to donate $20.14 through the Student Union. The $1 billion goal is on a timetable to be completed by Dec. 31, 2015. “I’m 100 percent confident [that we will reach it],” Turner said. “I totally believe we can and I think we can go past it a little bit too. But, that’s with the assurance that our leadership is going to continue to be very involved with us and the enthusiasm of our supporters will continue and that the economy will continue on its slope. If those three things continue to happen then we will get to a billion before Dec. 31.”
Frederick Chang, a nationally-recognized cyber security expert and former National Security Agency director of research, was named as the new Bobby B. Lyle Endowed Centennial Distinguished Chair in Cyber Security. He joins the Lyle School of Engineering faculty to develop a multidisciplinary program aimed at tackling cyber challenges facing individuals, business and government. President R. Gerald Turner announced Chang’s appointment shortly after he announced the board of trustees’ decision to raise the Second Century Campaign goal to $1 billion. “One of the reasons we wanted to put those two announcements together is it shows what an endowed chair, particularly a well-funded one like a distinguished chair, can do,” Turner said. “[I put] those two things together so when [people] say ‘What good does it do if you raise money for a campaign?’ — here’s
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Frederick Chang
an example.” Chang’s position was funded by SMU trustee Bobby B. Lyle. Chang is the first Centennial Distinguished Chair. His faculty position is endowed at $2.5 million, plus start-up funding of $1 million for the first five years as support for the position and related research. The Lyle school’s research in cyber security began 15 years ago. Chang will also be a professor of computer science in the Lyle school and a senior fellow in the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies. “Cyber security is an extremely difficult problem that requires an interdisciplinary approach,” Chang said at the announcement made Friday in Caruth Hall. “SMU encourages interdisciplinary thinking, so such an approach will thrive here.”
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Members of the board of trustees, students, faculty and others gathered to watch President Turner speak in Caruth Hall on Friday.
Presidential Library
Bush Institute, Cox host energy conference Katelyn Gough Assignments Desk Editor kgough@smu.edu Energy has been one of the most talked-about questions of national inquiry for years now - specifically, how to regulate energy to the full advantage of the U.S. The Bush Institute hosted a day-long energy conference Thursday, bringing together experts from the Bush Institute, SMU and key players in the Dallas energy sector itself to discuss this question of energy regulation. The program was part of the Bush Institute’s 4 percent Growth Project, “aimed at generating a national conversation focused on how the U.S. can achieve real, sustained GDP growth of four percent annually.” One of the key personalities and a panel moderator at the day-long conference was Director of the Maguire Energy Institute in Cox School of Business Bruce Bullock. “About eight or nine months ago, we were talking about various issues with the Bush Institute and...we were exploring...the issues of regulation and how to address the energy issue,” Bullock said. Bullock said as the question of regulation “has really come to the forefront” nationally and in his work
Student Senate
Student body president talks elections, assaults Christopher Saul SMU-TV Video Editor csaul@smu.edu
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The Maguire Energy Institute at the Cox School of Business teamed up with the Institute to host the conference.
over recent years, the idea for the conference last week was developed. The energy business “supports over 2.1 million jobs alone,” and Bullock listed it as one of the reasons “building energy is key to the U.S. and the global economy.” “It [is] clear that what’s happened over the past seven or eight years in terms of the energy sources...has contributed immensely to the U.S. economy,” Bullock said. Putting together the conference was something Bullock and his colleagues have been working on “since the library and the Bush Center was announced on campus.”
Because of this direct connection between the Bush Institute and Cox School of Business on campus, there have been and will continue to be numerous opportunities for student participation and experience. “[Students] work as research assistants and as interns both for us and for the Bush Institute in being able to put the program together,” Bullock said. “It’s really been a wonderful start to what I think will be a really productive, long-term relationship.” Students working on the most recent conference had “the opportunity to meet the key [people]
in city and government.” Former President George W. Bush was also present, adding to the list of key contacts made that students “would not otherwise have.” Bullock explained that while his work is within the Maguire Institute and Cox, the energy initiative and the current and future work that it will bring is something key to all SMU students, regardless of their major. “The kinds of issues that were raised at this conference...will be really key to all our students, no matter what their major or what they go into,” Bullock said. “It’s going to impact them.”
SMU-TV got a chance to sit down with Student Body President Ramon Trespalacios to talk about everything from the recent sexual assaults to SMU President R. Gerald Turner’s announcement concerning the year’s fundraising campaign. President Trespalacios said that sexual assault was not just a police problem, but a community problem. “People tell me, ‘What is SMU doing?’ and I ask them, ‘What are you doing?’” Trespalacios said. “We are SMU. So it’s not about waiting around for someone else to fix it; we need to fix it ourselves.” In addition to his comments on the handling of recent sexual assaults, Trespalacios congratulated the new firstyear senators-elect and explained the failed voting for
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Student Body President Ramon Trespalacios spoke to SMU-TV Friday.
the all-new transfer seat. “This is new grounds for Student Senate, and as you know, Student Senate is run by people,” Trespalacios said. “We all make mistakes.” According to Trespalacios, who was informed by the administration about the bugs leading up to the error, not all transfer students were listed in Access correctly, resulting in the flubbed election. The re-vote for the transfer seat on the Student Senate will be held Wednesday, from midnight to 5 p.m.