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The importance of stretching
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The Tea Party goes too far
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Altius Quartet performs
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SMU, Viva America kick off Hispanic Heritage Month Courtney Madden Contributing Writer courtneym@smu.edu SMU kicked off Hispanic Heritage Month with a “Viva America” celebration, featuring music, food, dancing and live performances in the Hughes-Trigg Varsity on Friday. “Viva America is simply a big party. Or a fiesta if you will,” Amanda Arismendy, involved with Viva America, said. “We can celebrate all that Latino culture entails.” Hispanic Heritage Month began in 1988 and is still celebrated all over the United States to recognize Hispanic culture. It begins on Sept. 15 and is celebrated until Oct 15. “What is truly awesome about Hispanic culture is that in itself, it is so diverse,” Arismendy said. “Hispanic” includes any person/ descendant of a person born in a Spanish-speaking country; these people can be Spanish, Cuban, Mexican, Dominican, Nicaraguan, El Salvadorian...you name it.” “Viva America” was originally supposed to be held at the flagpole from 7 to 11, but due to weather conditions, it was moved inside. “We didn’t have as big of a turn out as we wanted,” Ingrid Mendoza, president of College Hispanic American Students (CHAS), said. “Last night was the big celebration, but I would like to promote upcoming events so we can have a variety of students and see new faces.” There will be a guest speaker on campus during family weekend, weekend of Oct. 4, but the main upcoming event Mendoza wants to promote is on October 16 at SMU. Belita Moreno, better known as
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A band plays in one of the “Mini-Parks” set up in downtown on Friday.
PARK(ing) Day Dallas celebrated downtown Paige Kerley Contributing Writer pkerley@smu.edu
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Actress and SMU alumna Belita Moreno, best known as “Benny” on ABC’s George Lopez, is slated to speak at SMU.
“Benny” on ABC’s sitcom George Lopez, will be guest speaking. Moreno is an SMU alumna along with her mother, who was the second Hispanic student at SMU. “Moreno graduated from Meadows School of the Arts, so we would like to get the word out to the students in Meadows,” Mendoza said.
Mendoza would like all students to know everyone is welcome to come and they would love to have a big crowd to hear Moreno’s incredible Hispanic heritage and roots. “I cannot wait to listen to “Benny” speak,” Erin VonderHaar, SMU senior Meadows student, said. “Growing up I watched
George Lopez. It is so cool to think that someone who graduated from the department I will be graduating from in May has truly lived the dream.” Be sure to keep up with upcoming events during Hispanic Heritage Month and look for “Benny” walking up and down the Boulevard.
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Christina Cox Copy Editor clcox@smu.edu The crowning of the 2014 Miss America Pageant on Sept. 15 sparked an influx of response and criticism on various social media sites like Twitter. Nina Davuluri made history as the first woman of Indian-American descent to win the pageant. The 24-year-old Syracuse, N.Y. native embraced her Indian heritage by performing a Bollywood Fusion dance for the talent portion of the show. When Davuluri won, she received criticism on social media sites. “Miss America is a terrorist. Whatever. It’s fine,” Twitter user @_AudreyAnn said. Several other users posted similar responses like, “Miss America right now or miss Al Qaeda?” @SHANN_wow said. Davuluri’s father immigrated to the U.S. 30 years ago and Davuluri is an American citizen, born in New York. She grew up in the U.S., attended the University of Michigan and won Miss America by complying with the rules. Some students at SMU were offended by the racist comments posted online. Sophomore and member of the Indian Student Association Armaan Kang, believed that the tweets displayed the
The rain might have made the afternoon gloomy around town Friday, but on Main Street in downtown Dallas things were quite lively. Live music, a dog park and a puppet show were only a few of the stops along Main Street to celebrate and promote PARK(ing) Day Dallas. PARK(ing) Day Dallas was held on Main Street parks built between Field and St. Paul Street. The concept of the event is simple: to send a message about fostering community park areas. Groups constructed installation pieces in designated metered parking spots. The 39 participating groups designed their installations in one of three locations: Downtown, Deep Ellum, or the Arts District. The event was created in 2005 by the San Fransisco-based Rebar Group. The art and design studio used a single metered parking space to create a temporary park in an urban setting. The park-promoting concept exploded around the globe to include more than 160 cities in 35 countries participating in the single-day event, according to the Rebar Group’s website. PARK(ing) Day has been a part of the Dallas community for
three years. “It’s been getting more popular. More people want to get involved,” said Jared White from the City of Dallas. White works for the Public Works Department overseeing Dallas’ bikeway system. White said two years ago the Parks Department did a miniature bike trail to promote new trails around the city and last year they created a soccer field. “I just like the creativity of the event, and all of the different ideas that people have to convert their spaces,” White said. Creativity was a key aspect in the city’s Department of Sanitation Services’ PARK(ing) Day booth. Shawn Smith, a specialist with the Waste Diversion Unit, showed off the puppet show booth put together by him and his team. Romeo, the Sanitation Services’ chipmunk mascot, was scheduled to make a few rapping appearances throughout the day to teach kids about recycling. Smith explained that the goal of the Waste Diversion Unit is to prevent toxins in our city, and Romeo was a way to get kids involved. Dallas-based urban planning company SWA took to the numbers to communicate their PARK(ing) Day message. SWA is a green-oriented group that stresses sustainability in their landscape
National Preparedness Month comes to a close Shannon Lynch Contributing Writer slynch@smu.edu
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Nina Davuluri of New York is crowned Miss America 2014 at the 2014 Miss America Pageant on Sept. 15.
ignorance of some people in the U.S. today. “It’s sad that in the 21st century, people use race as a means of insulting others,” Kang said. “It brings to light the fact that people clearly aren’t educated in the ways they should be about diversity in the U.S.” Sophomore Alex Fulton had a
similar opinion: “I also don’t think it’s appropriate to judge someone based on their appearance.” The public, online comments about Davuluri showed “the very negative side of social media,” said Tony Pederson, SMU professor and the Belo Foundation Endowed Distinguished Chair in Journalism. Social media can have a positive
side by giving people the freedom to express themselves and get information out quickly. “All of this is part of what the immediacy of social media can do,” Pederson said. Steve Lee, an expert in social media and communications professor at SMU, has witnessed the
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Recent shootings at the Navy Yard in Washington D.C., along with other threatening incidents across the U.S., serve as a wakeup call for SMU students, faculty and staff to pay more attention to campus emergency preparedness, SMU officials said, particularly since September is National Preparedness Month. The month was given the designation by the Department of Homeland Security following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, according to SMU’s Office of Police and Risk Management Emergency Manager Lisa Morris, who said it is exceedingly important that the student body and faculty at SMU recognize both the potential dangers and ideal course of action one should take should they find themselves in a dangerous situation. “Students are an important partner in their own safety so we urge students to take the warnings seriously. It is important to know
what to do when an emergency alert is issued,” Morris said. SMU Associate Vice President and Chief Risk Officer Anita Ingram encourages students to watch the six-minute “Run, Hide, Fight — Surviving an Active Shooter” video online, and to “take a look around your classrooms and offices. Think about where the exits are, and where you would hide if you needed to.” She stresses that the goal of this preparation is not to scare anyone, but rather to empower students to do all that they can to stay safe and protect themselves. According to Kim Cobb, director of SMU Media Relations, the main goal of the Office of Police and Risk Management in observation of National Preparedness Month is to empower the SMU community to take care of themselves during an emergency. To encourage this preparedness, an active shooter simulation was held in McFarlin Auditorium Sept. 10. According to Cobb,
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Reid Frye, sophomore dance major, stretches before preforming at Brown Bag qualifiers.
Prevent injury by stretching Samantha Peltier Health/Fitness Editor speltier@smu.edu The jury is still out on whether or not stretching actually helps with performance. Some research says that stretching is beneficial while others say that it has little to no effect on a workout routine. The Mayo Clinic acknowledges this fact, but says that stretching can help improve your flexibility, which can improve your athletic performance and decrease your risk of activity-based injury.
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One example that The Mayo Clinic gives is a hiker with a tight and inflexible Achilles tendon. While hiking, this person might notice that he don’t have the full range of motion in his ankle. Over time this might cause the development of tendinitis, which is when the tendon becomes swollen and painful. If left untreated, this injury could stop this person from enjoying brisk hikes. By increasing the range of motion of the Achilles tendon through stretching it can decrease the likelihood of developing
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tendinitis. This also holds true for the other tendons throughout the body. Stretching is also a great addition to a warm-up routine because it helps increase blood flow. This not only feels good, but also helps the body be more limber and easier to control during the main workout. Even though stretching can help with flexibly and injury prevention, it is important to use proper technique during a stretching routine. Start off by focusing on the major muscle groups like the calves,
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thighs, hips, lower back, neck and shoulders. Also make sure to stretch both the left and right calf. Stretching should not be done before a warm up. It may increase blood flow, but stretching cold muscle might lead to more harm than good. An easy example is to think of muscles like a rubber band. Stretching a rubber band that was left in the refrigerator will be very tight, hard to move and if pulled iwll tear or even break. On the contrary, stretching a rubber band that has been warmed up is easy to do and less likely to break. Taking a light, ten-minute jog or stretching after a workout will help prevent muscles from tearing like the cold rubber band. Another way to prevent muscle tearing is by not bouncing during a stretching routine. Bouncing in a stretch might be creating little tears in muscles that leave scar tissue. This scar tissue creates tightness in muscles that decreases flexibility and increases the chance of injury. Instead of bouncing, The Mayo Clinic suggests just holding a stretch for about 30 seconds and then releasing it. Then repeat the stretch about three or four times before moving to another muscle group. While doing stretches there may be a little bit of tension, but do not overstretch to the point of feeling pain. The pain felt may cause an injury. Back off to where only tension is felt and hold
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the stretch. Also make sure that to stretch on a regular basis. Stretcing only every so often will not result in all of its benefits. When the body is not stretched for a while it will loose some of its range of motion and have to work hard again to get it back. The Mayo Clinic suggests stretching at least two to three times a week to
increase flexibility. Even though the research on the benefits of stretching is inconclusive, it is still important to keep up a stretching routine to increase flexibility. Stretching is a something that should be added to a regular workout routine to keep up range of motion and decrease the likelihood of injury.
Beginner Stretches Calf Stretch The calf muscles run along the back of your lower leg. - Stand at arm’s length from a wall.
Hamstring Stretch - Lie on the floor near the corner of a wall or a door frame.
- Place your right foot behind your left foot.
- Raise your left leg and rest your left heel against the wall. Keep your left knee slightly bent.
- Slowly bend your left leg forward, keeping Your right knee straight and your right heel on the floor.
- Gently straighten your left leg until you feel a stretch along the back of your left thigh.
- Hold your back straight and your hips forward. Don’t rotate your feet inward or outward.
- Hold for 30 seconds.
- Hold for about 30 seconds. - Switch legs and repeat.
- Switch legs and repeat. - As your flexibility increases, maximize the stretch by gradually scooting yourself closer to the wall or door frame. The Mayo Clinic
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SMU’s Andrew McCleneghen dives to tackle A&M running back Ben Malena who finished with 71 yards rushing.
telling statistic was his quarterback rating of 25 on the night. With the SMU offense not being able to stay on the field very long, the Aggies were able to pick apart an SMU defense that looked tired against the Aggies hightempo attack. Texas A&M racked up 581 total yards including 265 on the ground. SMU was able to stop receiver Mike Evans, who went for just two receptions for 57 yards, but it was Malcome Kennedy who hurt SMU with six receptions for 83 yards and a touchdown. In a big-game atmosphere like this, it was important for SMU to play mistake free football, but
SMU first-year receiver Jeremiah Gaines fumbled a reception and it was returned by Texas A&M 12 yards for a touchdown. Jones talked about how the younger players performed, “From the opening kickoff, we had a young kid make a mental error that set you back right away,” Jones said. “It’s unfortunate that we didn’t play our best and our best was demanded today if we were going to beat them.” SMU now falls to 1-2 on the year and with their matchup against TCU looming this week, SMU will have to correct plenty of mental errors as they go on the road again.
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Women go 2-1 in tournament, prepare for conference play Demetrio Teniente Sports Editor dteniente@smu.edu
match-high 18 kills and nine digs. SMU’s Maddie Lozano tallied 13 kills, first-year Morgan Heise added a season-high 18 digs and Avery Acker finished with 44 assists. Young continued her success during the second day of the tournament and finished with 48 kills and alltournament honors. She hit .257 for the weekend and has now recorded 10 plus kills in six
Over the weekend, the Lady Mustangs beat the College of Charleston 3-1, lost to Ball State 3-1 before finishing off the Charleston Classic with a win over Alabama A&M 3-0. After falling behind Charleston 1-0 early, SMU went on to win three straight sets behind Caroline Young’s
straight matches. Acker joined Young on the all-conference team with 115 total assists including 33 in the final match against Alabama A&M. SMU sits at 8-5 heading into American Athletic Conference play on Friday when the Mustangs will face Connecticut. The match is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. CT. The Lady Mustangs will return to The Hilltop on Oct. 4 to host Louisville.
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Rain, lightning cancels match Demetrio Teniente Sports Editor dteniente@smu.edu The Lady Mustangs were unable to close out their three game home stand due to rain and lightning. Less than 30 minutes of soccer was played before the skies opened up. The initial pouring of rain passed and the turf management team emerged with squeegees in hand. Despite the field crew’s best efforts to help clear the field, the
SMU opens AAC play with 1-0 win over Rutgers SAmuel Snow Contributing Writer ssnow@smu.edu
The team was able to find some success with its short passing game, but nothing major until Keenan Holman’s 31-yard touchdown catch late in the game did SMU get anything big on the Aggies defense. Holman had a strong game for SMU, who really broke out with 133 yards, 10 receptions as well as his touchdown. SMU has had trouble finding their outside receivers to step up and especially with Der’rikk Thompson out of the game, SMU needed Holman even more. Gilbert completed 37-of-62 passes for 310 yards, a touchdown and an interception, but the most
downpour quickly resumed. Despite the cancelation, SMU was successful during its home stand; defeating TCU 2-0 and Sam Houston State 4-0. The Lady Mustangs boast a 4-1 home record (5-3 overall) heading into conference play on Thursday. Junior Shelby Redman leads the way for the Mustangs with six goals and 14 points in eight games. First-year foward, Kelsey Gorney is following closely behind Redman with four goals of her own.
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Mustangs fall to Aggies 42-13 No one said it was going to be easy for SMU taking on No. 10 Texas A&M on the road, but the Mustangs got run over by the Aggies 42-13, who were coming off a tough loss against No. 1 Alabama. Led by quarterback Johnny Manziel, the Aggies raced out to a 14-0 lead before SMU kicker Chase Hover cut into the lead to make it 14-3. Texas A&M then scored three unanswered touchdowns before another Hover field goal made it 32-6 at halftime. Manziel, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner, accounted for 346 total yards and three touchdowns and was taken out of the game early in the third quarter. “We tried a little of everything. He’s an amazing player. You blitz him and he’s accurate with the ball. You rush three and he scrambles around or makes it last forever,” SMU Head Coach June Jones said. “He’s a great college football player and he’s in the perfect system.” SMU Quarterback Garrett Gilbert, on the other hand, struggled to consistently move the offense and when SMU did get on a roll, penalties usually held SMU back as the Mustangs racked up 16 of them for 111 yards. “We had penalties that we didn’t handle the crowd noise well and they were calling out our signals. What are you gonna do?” Jones said. “You have to overcome it, but you got to deal with the crowd noise and we did not handle it very good.” The crowd noise was tough for SMU to handle with numerous false starts, but the lack of big plays also hurt the Mustangs.
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Junior Courtney Smith leads SMU in total assists with seven, followed by first-year Taylor Barg’s five and Junior Rikki Clarke’s four. In eight games this season, SMU is averaging 2.62 goals per match and is holding its opponents to one goal a game. The lady Mustangs have scored 21 total goals this season and have had 11 different players find the back of the net. SMU will travel to Storrs, Conn. to test its scoring ability against the Huskies at 6 p.m. CT.
The SMU Mustangs opened the conference schedule with a 1-0 victory over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights on the road after struggling through the early season. Rutgers held a first half advantage, leading SMU 5-3 in shots and 4-1 in corner kicks. However, a strong first half from SMU’s defense and a rebound game from Jaime Ibarra held Rutgers to no goals. “The win is a great first step for the team and the school this season,” Head Coach Tim McClements said. “We obviously had a difficult start to the season, but we have the opportunity to open a new chapter. We’ve fallen on the wrong side of results but it feels great to get this win for the team and the staff. We hope there are more to come.” SMU combined a little luck and some defensive skill in this match. In the first half Kene Eze, second on the Scarlet Knights in points with 10, left the match due to an injury. With Eze out, SMU focused on Rutgers’ points leader in Mael Corboz. Sure enough, SMU disrupted Corboz’s rhythm, holding him without a goal or assist in the match.
Heading into the match, SMU looked to Alfred Koroma to continue to put pressure on the defense. Koroma delivered. In the 64th minute of the match, Koroma lifted the ball over the Rutgers defenders for a goal inside the right post. Andrew Morales, also a key contributor on defense, was credited with the assist. “We knew we had to get into the offensive third and create more opportunities in the second half,” McClements said. “Rutgers is a really good team and I think they will do great in conference. We’ve just learned that with our schedule the margin of victory is very thin and we came back in the second half and made it a hardfought match.” Late in the game, Nathan Bruccoleri, a junior midfielder, had an attempt to tie the game up. However, Ibarra got between Bruccoleri and the goal to preserve his first shutout of the season. “Jaime played great and kept the ball out of the net,” McClements said. “Rutgers had the ball in dangerous positions and they are very effective on set pieces, but Jaime played great for us.” Looking to turn this win into a streak, the Mustangs will travel to Seattle next week to take on the No. 6 Washington on Friday at 6 p.m.
Ibarra in 2013 Games: 8 Minutes: 630 GA avg: 1.14 Saves: 16 Pct: .667
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Why students need Evernote lauren aguirre Copy Editor lcaguirre@smu.edu As students, we have busy lives. With classes, clubs, jobs and internships, it can be pretty easy to misplace important information. Luckily, there’s something out there that can help keep everything you need in one place. That something is Evernote. Evernote is a free note-taking application available on any desktop and mobile operating system. Basically, Evernote is your key to organization. You can store pretty much anything in the app: text, PDFs, pictures, audio recordings, etc. Of course, you have a storage limit (60 MB), which resets each month. Every time you save something in Evernote, it goes into a new note. Notes act like individual files on your computer, but you can have multiple file types on them. For example, you can save your typed notes from a lecture along with an audio recording of the class into a single note. You can organize your notes in various ways. You can put them into notebooks (a kind of folder) or you can tag them individually. Some people prefer to use one notebook and sort everything through tags, but I prefer to have a notebook for each subject or project I’m working with. Currently, I have a separate notebook for each class I’m taking. In these, I store my notes from class, PDF readings and essay outlines. When I open a certain notebook, everything I have stored pertaining to that class pops up. In addition to storage and
organization, Evernote has many other great features. The one I find most useful is its text and handwriting recognition. Say you take a picture of a diagram your professor drew on the board, and save it into Evernote. After the image has been processed through Evernote’s servers, a basic search will also include the text inside the image. This also works if you take a snapshot of your handwritten notes or printed text. On top of all of this, Evernote is available on pretty much any device out there. You can download the PC version for note-taking during class and have the app on your iPhone for those important snapshots. Right now, I have Evernote installed on my Mac, iPod touch and Kindle Fire. With your free account, all of your notes will sync across all of your devices that have Evernote installed. So you can review, edit and create new notes wherever you go. Honestly, I could write several articles on all of the features Evernote has to offer. So far, I’ve barely scratched the surface on the free features, and Evernote Premium (at only $5 a month) has many more. There is also an entire family of Evernote apps that sync right back to your basic Evernote account. But most importantly, Evernote and all of its related apps are completely free. You don’t have to pay a dime to get great functionality and versatility. To learn more, take a look at www.evernote.com. Aguirre is a sophomore majoring in journalism and political science.
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Student mourns loss of Nintendo giant brandon bub Contributing Writer bbub@smu.edu When I learned of the passing of a personal hero of mine last week, I was disappointed, not simply because I was sad to have to say goodbye, but also because I feel that so many people my age don’t comprehend the enormous cultural impact this man had. Hiroshi Yamauchi was a visionary businessman born in Kyoto, Japan in 1927. In 1949, he took control of his grandfather’s business: an obscure playing card company that had been around since 1889. Taking advantage of the newly booming post-World War II economy in Japan, Yamauchi saw an opportunity to expand. Such products as board games and plastic toy guns, however, did not prove as profitable as he had hoped. Then, Yamauchi seized on the new craze of the 1970s: electronic entertainment. He bet that he could expand the size of the market beyond anyone’s wildest imagination by commissioning his head video game designer to come up with a new arcade game that could appeal to audiences across the globe. The name of that company that Yamauchi led for over 50 years is Nintendo. And the name of that arcade game he had designer Shigeru Miyamoto create was “Donkey Kong.” The game took the world (and kids’ allowances) by storm. But Yamauchi did not stop there. In the early 1980s, successful home video game systems were rare. They were far too expensive, and most consumers thought that companies like Atari were well on their way out. Yamauchi, however,
envisioned a world in which nearly everyone would have one of his game systems in their houses. What is perhaps most striking about this former CEO is that he never had any formal instruction in computer science or video game design. What he did have was a strong intuition for what would be successful. In the early days of the Nintendo Entertainment System, Yamauchi had to personally approve which games would be released. That’s not to say that Yamauchi’s record was unblemished. In the early 1990s, he cancelled plans to work alongside Sony to develop a CD-based Super Nintendo system, leading Sony to develop the Playstation on their own and become Nintendo’s strongest competitor. Nevertheless, Yamauchi charted an unstoppable new path in the electronics market. The handheld Nintendo Game Boy was one of the most popular systems ever released. Additionally, in the 1990s, a survey showed that Mario was more recognizable to American children than Mickey Mouse. Video games are so ubiquitous nowadays that it’s easy to think the market must have always existed. Just last week, “Grand Theft Auto V” made over $1 billion within three days of sale. But without Mr. Yamauchi’s vision, video games might never have become anything more than a niche market for the most avid of collectors. So please, pop in a new pair of batteries to that aging Game Boy Color, dust off an old Pokemon cartridge and give it a play. I could hardly think of a better way to pay this great man tribute.
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas says he will fight “with every breath” to stop the 2010 health care law from taking effect, even if it means shutting down segments of the federal government.
Tea Party plays dangerous game w. tucker keene Managing Editor tkeene@smu.edu I first got active in politics because of the Tea Party. I attended the first ever Tax Day rally in 2009, and again in 2010. But recently, I’ve changed my mind. The Tea Party is no longer what it once was. The Tea Party was great when it started. It was a grassroots movement made up of people worried about the debt we were accumulating - that the next generation would have to pay for. Their biggest success was in 2010, when the Tea Party fueled one of the largest gains in Congress in U.S. History. That was fantastic, but even then there were hints that some were taking it too far. Calls for “purity” within the party cost us the Senate. Several strong candidates were bested in primaries by weaker candidates who were more willing to pander to the outer fringe. Easy races, like Delaware, Colorado and Nevada were lost because
of weak, far right candidates getting out of primaries in states not Republican enough to elect candidates like that. This got worse in 2012, when weak candidates in Missouri, Indiana, North Dakota and Montana cost the Republicans the Senate for a second election cycle in a row. Now, the leading candidates in Georgia’s Senate primary are poised to do it a third consecutive time. Even when the Tea Party wins, though, they lose. The debt ceiling debate in 2011 was a disaster for the Republican party politically, even if they did get some concessions in the end of it. Ted Cruz beating David Dewhurst was another fantastic victory, and one I personally was very happy with, but Senator Cruz’s new “Defund Obamacare” push is taking advantage of people on the far right who aren’t aware of how impossible the push actually is. First, Republicans control one half of one branch of government. Passing this measure through the House isn’t hard, but ultimately useless
since it will go nowhere in the Senate. Even if the Senate were to pass it, President Obama would surely veto it. No way would he sign off on defunding the most significant law he’s passed. Cruz knows this, but continues to exploit the public’s ignorance of congressional procedure and legislative process just so he can raise more money. I’m a huge fan of former Senator Jim DeMint as well, and was thrilled when he took over the Heritage Foundation, but his complicity in this “Defund Obamacare” madness marks a drastic change in the mission of what the Heritage Foundation is supposed to do. They’re supposed to craft new policy, to think about issues in ways that Congress hasn’t before. They aren’t supposed to be promoting a hashtag-driven fundraising campaign for the more radical members of the Senate. I’m not arguing that Obamacare shouldn’t be stopped. It should. But Republicans are virtually
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powerless to do so before the 2014 election. Further, after it is implemented and the American people start to see just how much of a disaster it will be, the law will be easier to remove. Wasting political capital on another exercise in brinksmanship isn’t a good strategy, and won’t help anyone in the long run. Between the disastrous “defund” plan and the continued conspiracy-mongering over Benghazi, the NSA and other issues, the Tea Party has lost it. Renew focus on coming up with new policies, stop letting politicians take advantage of the grassroots’ ignorance, and stop keeping the Democrats in control of the Senate with “RINO hunts” and maybe I’ll be happy to support the Tea Party once again. Until then, I’ll happily remain a Republican who probably likes watching “The Newsroom” a little too much.
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SMU connects students, Dallas with TEDCity2.0 Cassidy Curtis Contributing Writer cccurtis@smu.edu The TEDCity2.0 conference was held Friday, which discussed ideas on how to make a global impact by focusing on how to make our cities thrive. TEDxSMU, which opened the event up to the entire Dallas area to attend, hosted the event. The actual conference was held in The Times Center in New York City from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. TEDxSMU provided a venue to listen to these discussions by live streaming the conversation. The event featured a variety of speakers, and was primarily hosted by Chris Anderson, John Cary and Courtney Martin. “Being connected, and getting to hear these ideas, these people that are doing all this work in real time…it’s definitely a highlight,”
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and urban design in their United States and international projects. SWA illustrated their message by calculating the amount of surface parking in terms of possible park space. According to their numbers, Dallas has around 257 acres of surface parking. The 17,000 surface parking spots across the metro equates to 74 Belo Gardens area, 71 Main Street Gardens, or four Katy Trails. The green–oriented group also encourages repurposing of materials. “We’re not totally antisurface parking,” SWA’s Carrie Van Valkenburg said. “It’s about
director for TEDxSMU Heather Hankamer said. The viewing, held in the Palmer Conference Center in Caruth Hall, was an all-day affair lasting from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The conference was split into four different sections, based on topic of discussion. “It’s been a very interesting and informative day,” Hankamer said. The screening allowed for students and Dallasites to come and go as was convenient. Hankamer estimated about 30 people had arrived at some point during the discussion throughout the day. Christie Pearson, TEDxSMU coordinator, described TEDCity2.0 as one of the “smaller conferences” that TEDx hosts throughout the year. Typically, a license is required to stream a TED conference, however TEDCity2.0 was an exception as TEDx made
the event available to tune into online. Speakers discussed changes that can be made on a local level, and a new perspective that can be brought to any city. TEDx opened the conversation on education, health, safety and art. TEDxSMU’s next event is a conference, which will be held at The Dallas City Performance Hall in the Dallas Arts District. Pearson described it as “The big thing that we do, it’s really where we get our namesake.” The conference will take place on Oct. 19. Like the TEDCity2.0 event, it also will span the entire day, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets are available online and cost $150 per person, which includes breakfast, lunch, snacks and entry into the after party. Pearson looks forward to the event. “We usually get a lot of students…we are very well connected directly with the TED community,” Pearson said.
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increase people’s confidence and speed up their response time.” SMU wants to make sure that it reaches every student and faculty member in the event of an emergency. The Emergency Management team has instituted a system that reaches the campus community through every possible outlet including cell phones, text messages, emails, sirens, public address systems, websites and even social media. “The best thing you can do, and I’m not just talking to students, is to make sure that we can communicate with you during emergency,” advised Lee Arning, SMU’s director of emergency preparedness. Persky’s advice to the Office of Police and Risk Management is that they “keep information coming as they gather it. The more details people have the better.” Kim Cobb encourages students to take just a few minutes out of their day to update their contact information on access.SMU and watch the short videos found at smu.edu/emergency that provide
instructions on what to do in case of bad weather, an evacuation or a lockdown. “Those easy steps — updating contact information and watching the videos — will ensure that you know what to do in the event of an emergency, and will help SMU reach you by cell phone or text to send you a warning,” Cobb said. If personal safety isn’t enough of an incentive to watch the videos, the Office of Police and Risk Management has been holding a contest on the SMU Twitter page (@SMU) to get students more comfortable with SMU’s emergency procedures. Every Wednesday in September, The Office of Police and Risk Management asks a question about one of the online videos, and the first person to tweet the right answer receives a Starbucks gift card and a T-shirt. Wednesday will be the last round of the contest. More information on SMU’s plans for emergency preparedness can be found at: www.smu.edu/ Emergency/EmergencyProcedures.
anonymously, at a much faster rate. Despite their controversy, the posts made by Twitter users are protected under the First Amendment as freedom of speech. Disallowing these posts would be taking away a right protected by the Constitution. “Hate speech is protected speech whether we like it or not,” Pederson said. “If we start trying to limit this we run risk of censorship.” However, the American public is calling this freedom into question as hate speech is becoming more prevalent and widespread, according to a Geography of Hate Map created by Humboldt State University that maps negative tweets and their location. Davuluri did not directly respond
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Kaysy Ostromat performed the ukulele at the first Speaking Poetry in Tune performance of the year at the Meadows Atrium on Saturday.
SPIT hosts first show, students of all majors perform Ally van deuren Contributing Writer avandeuren@smu.edu “I’m not a Meadows student, but I got a few words to say,” a computer engineering major, Nariana Sands, said before getting up on stage and reciting her poem. Sands was among the students who performed at the first Speaking Poetry in Tune (SPIT) show of the year in the Meadows atrium Saturday. Thanks to senior theatre major Antoinette Crowe, who founded SPIT in 2012, all students are encouraged to speak or sing freely about any issues, triumphs or passions and to lay it all out on the stage without judgment or restriction at the monthly collaboration performances. Crowe started SPIT with the original vision of creating a place where people could get up and read their poetry. “I just want people to be able to share what they’re thinking and what they’re feeling and I felt like that didn’t exist [at SMU],” Crowe said. Students from every nook
and cranny of SMU’s campus, regardless of school or major, gather once a month on Saturday evenings in the dimly lit Meadows Atrium. The venue has an ambiance and vibe that can only be put into words by those who attend. SPIT is an open forum where there is no judgment and no censors. Performances at SPIT run the gamut. At any given show, audiences are treated to spoken word, slam poetry, a capella, songs on the piano, ukulele, guitar and many more. There is usually a balance of serious and comedic material, but the acts range from performance to performance. However, one thing is constant: everything that is performed at SPIT is original work. Once Crowe graduates, junior theatre major Ryan-Patrick McLaughlin will step in and take over SPIT. “It’s been really great seeing it progress,” McLaughlin said. “It’s been really cool seeing people who I don’t see every day participate.” McLaughlin explains that the audiences in the first couple
SPIT performances were composed mainly of theatre majors, because the people involved were mostly from the theatre department. However, by the third or fourth performance, non-majors began to show up because word was spreading throughout the school. Since she founded SPIT, Crowe has witnessed the growth and the positive impact it has had on the SMU community at large firsthand. She noticed that she was beginning to see some “regulars” and started doing features for these various performers. With regard to the future of SPIT, Crowe plans to get the word out to more people. “I’m hoping to get it to the English department and then get it out to people who don’t do art at all and then hopefully even outside the school, which might happen after I’m gone,” Crowe said. But Crowe’s vision of SPIT has already made a difference beyond just Meadows. She explained that a kid comes from her high school each month
to see the performances, even though he is not from SMU. Once, there was even an elderly couple who came in, sat down and gave her positive feedback about the performance and expressed interest in seeing more of her work. “SPIT has introduced me to new people that I normally wouldn’t get the chance to meet because I am in a different school on SMU’s campus,” junior accounting and public policy major Liz Crowell said. “I think that it provides an outlet for not only the people who go up onstage and perform but also the people who attend and watch it because even though they’re not performing, they still get to see what it does to people and how it can be beneficial. It kind of opens their eyes.” Ever have something you have wanted to share? Shoot SPIT at email at spit. poetry@yahoo.com. Stay updated on the future SPIT performances by liking SPIT on Facebook or following SPIT on Twitter @SPIT_Poetry. Catch the next performance on Oct. 20.
The Meadows School of the Arts hosted the Altius Quartet at Caruth Auditorium on Saturday. The recital commemorates the group’s honor as Graduate String Quartet-in-Residence. Cellist Zachary Reaves played host this evening, inviting people to doze off during the night’s opener of Philip Glass. The 120 people in the audience kept eyes and ears on the musicians the entire night. Rousing rhythms and breezy passages left viewers holding their heads in their hands, captivated. Viewers visibly tensed up to hold applause between movements. John Adams, a law firm librarian, caught wind of the quartet through his Meadows newsletter subscription. “They’re fantastic,” Adams said. “Their unity is amazing, like it’s one instrument.” Meadows students like Sinead O’Halloran also showed up to support fellow alumnus Reaves and violinist Sercan Danis. “Amazing,” O’Halloran said, currently studying cello for her performance diploma. Pianist Kathryn Mientka joined the group for Antonin Dvorak’s “Piano Quintet in A Major, Op 81.” Mientka’s raindrop arpeggios added color to the strings’ stirring phrases.
Mienkta first played with the Altius Quartet at the Western Slope Concert Series in Grand Junction, Colo. Impressed by their performance, the pianist made them the resident string quartet. “These guys are just incredible,” says Mientka, who’s daughter Stephanie dates Altius violist Andrew Krimm. “They’re on their way up, for sure.” The Altius Quartet formed in 2011 to perform with the Bridge the Gap Chamber Players, also becoming the group’s resident string quartet. The group has toured extensively across the country, and played with numerous musicians, including Meadows Professor of Cello Andres Diaz. The group is also accomplished, winning first prize in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in 2013. This win caught the attention of Samuel Holland, Director of the Division of Music at Meadows. Holland reached out to the quartet, offering them the first graduate residency at Meadows for a string quartet. “We couldn’t be more thrilled, honestly,” Reaves said. Reaves said the group plans to continue touring while mentoring child musicians in the DFW area. The Altius Quartet will play another recital at Meadows on Feb. 15, 2014.
About the altius Quartet Altius Quartet was formed in 2011, with the purpose of performing with Bridge the Gap Chamber Players and has since become resident string quartet of the festival. The group was the First Prize winner of the String and Piano Division at the 2013 Plowman Chamber Music Competition.
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