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Dr. Eric G. Bing, director for global health at the Bush Institute, spoke at SMU Wednesday night.
Bing discusses globally accessible cancer cure SIDNEY HOLLINGSWORTH / The Daily Campus
The SMU Mustangs and the TCU Horned Frogs face off in the rain at last year’s Battle for the Iron Skillet at Ford Stadium. TCU won the game 24-16.
SMU, TCU fight for Iron Skillet Billy Embody Sports Writer wembody@smu.edu SMU and TCU’s Battle for the Iron Skillet is entering its 94th meeting and both teams are below .500 and could use a big win for team morale as both are coming off of losses to Texas A&M and Texas Tech respectively. “I think the best thing about what they do is they do what they do and do it well,” SMU Head Coach June Jones said. “They don’t try to do anything else, but physically beat you and know their schemes and they do a good job of that.” There are revenge games for SMU and other smaller rivalries like Houston, but it doesn’t get much bigger for SMU when they face TCU and while the players try
not to treat it as a bigger game, they know what is at stake. “It’s bragging rights. Alumni love this game. I bet they wouldn’t care if we won another game. It’s just a lot of emotion and passion,” SMU linebacker Randall Joyner said. “To be able to win two years was an amazing feeling and we’re looking to do that again.” SMU is about as close to a 0-3 start as you can get, but avoided it with their last-second comeback over Montana State. Last week, SMU had trouble with Texas A&M’s high-tempo offense and TCU has had a bye week to prepare and that could mean some new wrinkles to their offense. “He’ll [TCU Head Coach Gary Patterson] have some new wrinkles in there I’m sure,” Jones said. “You always do. As the season goes on you add things and I’m sure he’ll
be no different offensively and defensively for them.” TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin replaced Casey Pachall after Pachall went down with an injury. His dual-threat ability will be a tough challenge for the SMU defense this week. “Boykin can certainly run around. I think when he gets into the open field, you’ve got real problems because he can run,” Jones said. “Not only can he move, but he’s fast and can shake you.” Look for TCU to get back to the running game more this week after using Boykin as the main running game against Texas Tech, but Patterson would like to use their running backs to settle Boykin down a little bit. For the SMU offense, the concern has to be in the redzone, where SMU has consistently
had trouble putting the ball in the endzone and settling for field goals. “That’s been a big focus of ours during practice this week and last week has been finishing drives and turning field goals into touchdowns,” SMU quarterback Garrett Gilbert said. “We’ve had a lot of yards, but we’ve just got to do a better job of finishing.” Another concern for SMU is if last year’s Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year Devonte Fields plays. Fields racked up two and a half sacks against SMU and will be a tough player to stop for the offensive line. If SMU can force turnovers and score in the redzone, the Mustangs may be able to steal a win in Fort Worth for the second meeting in a row, but it will be a tall order for SMU given their recent struggles.
GREEK LIFE
Sororities prepare for Panhellenic Preview KARA Jones Contributing Writer khjones@smu.edu For many involved in Greek life, recruitment begins long before the formal recruitment week in January. One example of this is Panhellenic Preview, which will take place on Sunday, Sept. 29. Any first-year, sophomore or junior girl hoping to join a sorority will take part in Panhellenic Preview. This is the second year that Panhellenic Preview is a required part of recruitment. All eight Panhellenic sororities will take part in Panhellenic Preview. Panhellenic Preview is an all day event starting at 9 a.m and lasting until 5 p.m. Panhellenic Preview is essentially the first day of recruitment. The girls taking part will be separated into groups and will then visit all eight houses. Throughout the day, the girls line up in front of the houses, listen to the door chants and talk to girls in every house, just as they will four months from now during formal recruitment week, which is Jan. 12 to 16. Unlike formal recruitment, when girls are specifically told what to wear, Panhellenic Preview outfits are left up to the potential new member’s choice.
Trevor Thrall Opinion Editor tthrall@smu.edu Even in remote areas of developing countries, finding an ice cold Coca-Cola is an easy task. Less easy to find is a cure for cervical cancer, but Dr. Eric G. Bing envisions a world where medical care and soda are equally obtainable. And when vinegar is the only ingredient needed to test for signs of cervical cancer, Bing’s idea doesn’t seem so out of reach. The director for global health at the Bush Institute informed a room of SMU students that a technician could be trained to detect cervical lesions with just vinegar, and then freeze them in the same way warts are treated. Bing presented “Making a Cure for Cancer as Accessible as a Coca-Cola” Wednesday night and shared his passion for global healthcare. Cervical cancer prevention was just one example of inexpensive medical procedures, but one that is close to Bing’s heart. He told the story of a patient who found out she had cervical cancer too late. She lived in the United States where healthcare is widely available, but still experienced tremendous pain before her death. “This is my mother I’m talking about,” Bing said after the story. “I thought to myself, ‘how in the world could the mother of a doctor die of such an easily preventable disease?’” This heightened Bing’s concern for those with even less of a shot at leading healthy lives.
He now creates programs aimed at solving global health issues and encourages others to join. “Many of the solutions will come from people who think very, very differently than doctors and nurses,” Bing said. On a trip to renovate a health clinic in Zambia this summer, Bing selected SMU students majoring in different subjects to bring varied perspectives to the project. He promoted the Bush Institute as a great place for students who want to make a difference, regardless of political views. “It’s about solving problems. So whoever you are, whatever you are, you have a place there,” Bing said. Students in attendance of the event were eager to learn about the opportunities offered by the Bush Institute. Alpha Epsilon Delta, the health preprofessional honor society, hosted the lecture, so some students already knew of Bing’s work. First-year Gillian Wright said she admires Bing’s passion for global healthcare. She aspires to be a surgeon and also wants to help those in developing countries. “I’m not in it for the money, I’m in it to make people’s lives better,” Wright said. Bing sees the less fortunate as individuals full of potential, living in an environment that does not facilitate well-being. He hopes for a future where poor health would not be a limiting factor. “My real goal, my real passion is to make healthcare as accessible as a Coke,” Bing said. “And we don’t know where the solution will come from. It may even come right from here at SMU, from one of you.”
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Business leader shares entrepreneurial insight Jehadu Abshiro Contributing Writer jabshiro@smu.edu
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Students run to their new sorority houses after receiving their official bid cards following rush week in January.
According to Panhellenic President Lauren Fann, the overall goal of Panhellenic Preview is to better prepare the potential new members. Panhellenic Preview is meant to “take away the element of surprise that recruitment tends to give the potential new members. We have found that by allowing a mock run-through of recruitment that both the chapter women and the potential
new members feel more at ease when real recruitment takes place.” Whether it’s practicing door chants or figuring out logistics, many of the sororities have been preparing for Panhellenic Preview for some time now. Sorority members are finding ways to make every girl more relaxed on the day of Panhellenic Preview. Emily Heft, a sophomore Delta Gamma said,
“I hope Panhellenic Preview will help [first-years] feel comfortable about the recruitment process and hopefully we will be welcoming some to their future homes when we open our doors to them on Sunday.” Considering this is the second year that Panhellenic Preview is required the sophomore sorority
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Serial entrepreneur and investor Alan Shor shared his experience at Teavana Holdings Inc., a specialty tea and tea accessory chain, at a SMU Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Club meeting on Wednesday. The across campus club that encourages the entrepreneurial spirit invited Shor to be the first speaker of the semester because Shor has worked as both an entrepreneur and an investor. “We wanted someone who was involved in a business that
all of the students had heard of, had created tremendous wealth for the entrepreneur and was international,” Simon Mak said. Mak teaches entrepreneurship in the department of strategy and entrepreneurship in the Cox School of Business and sponsors the club. Shor wanted the audience to take away two things from his lecture. First, he wanted to instill confidence in the students. “I want them to think that they can do it and this isn’t some pipe dream,” Shor said. “There are real people
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