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Dallas has the highest per capita restaurant average in the nation.
SMU named No. 1 in nightlife by Playboy Magazine DEMI STANLEY Contributing Writer dstanley@smu.edu Courtesy of AP
Quarter Garrett Gilbert avoided a sack and threw an incomplete pass down the field versus UTEP on Saturday.
Mustangs win in a landslide Strong defensive showing leads SMU to 17-0 victory MATTHEW COSTA Staff Writer mcosta@smu.edu The final score may not have been as dominant as head coach June Jones wanted, but the SMU Mustangs (2-3, 1-0 in C-USA) opened up Conference USA with a dominant defensive performance against the UTEP Miners winning 17-0 Saturday night. “The defense, of course, played very solid,” Jones said in a post game interview. After a 19-yard field goal by kicker Chase Hover gave the Mustangs a 3-0 lead in the opening quarter, SMU’s defense began showing why it will be a force to be reckoned with going forward in conference play. UTEP’s drive after the field goal quickly saw the Miners reach
the SMU 32-yard line before junior linebacker Randall Joyner intercepted his second pass of the season from and returned the ball to the Mustangs’ 27 yard line. The Mustangs carried the momentum from the turnover into its next drive, using a 40-yard touchdown pass from Gilbert to senior receiver Darius Johnson to extend the lead to double-digits at 10-0 in the 2nd quarter. Gilbert improved over his poor performance from last week, completing 22 of 44 passes for 234 yards to go along with his one touchdown pass and interception. When asked about Gilbert’s performance, Jones said, “We hit a long pass down the middle. We could’ve hit two or three, and we like to be one hundred percent.” Line also contributed to
the effort with 84 yards with 25 carries. “It was all rough tough yards. He’s just a good, solid football player,” Jones said. The final score of the evening came on another interception from a SMU linebacker against Nick Lamaison. Senior Ja’Gared Davis stepped in front of an attempted screen pass while the Mustangs defensive line swarmed UTEP’s quarterback, and Davis sprinted 30 yards for the game breaking touchdown two minutes before halftime. As the second half began, the Miners put its best drive of the game together, driving 64 yards in 14 plays before attempting a 28-yard field goal that would end the Mustangs’ shutout attempt. Fortunately for SMU, senior and NFL prospect Margus Hunt
was able to block his tenth field goal attempt of his career on a low kick. The Mustangs’ defense left its poor performances behind, holding the Miners to 285 combined yards and 13 first downs while the offense earned 14 first downs through the air alone. SMU’s second half possessions were dominated by a steady dose of running backs Zach Line and Luke Seeker, who combined for 112 yards on 29 attempts to ruin any hope of a UTEP comeback as the Mustangs went on to complete the shutout, 17-0. The Conference USA schedule will continue for the Mustangs, who are looking to get back to .500 as they travel to New Orleans for a Saturday matchup at noon against the Tulane Green Wave.
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SMU’s outstanding academic reputation is being joined by another honor. Playboy Magazine crowned the university No. 1 for Nightlife in its annual “Top 10 Party Schools” list. The magazine ranked America’s top 100 colleges across 900 data points. SMU freshman Brandon Stoll thought the university deserved the title. “The SMU area has so many places that anyone 18 and older can go to to have fun. If one place is having an off night you can just walk across the street and check another place out,” Stroll said. SMU’s home in Dallas is part of the reason the magazine put the university in first place. The city offers multiple unique locations for dining, clubbing, dancing and live entertainment. Playboy noted there is something for everyone to do in Dallas and SMU students fully take advantage of the opportunities. “Dallas is SMU’s never-ending house party,” Playboy said in the article announcment.
Playboy selected Idle Rich Pub, a popular bar on McKinney Avenue, to describe the SMU student body’s partying habits. “I definitely agree that Idle Rich is representative of the students at SMU,” junior Jacob Watts said. “It’s the perfect combination of being sophisticated, but still laid back.” SMU junior Mallorie Holguin said she thinks the student body should not be embarrassed about the ranking. Holguin said SMU’s nightlife enhances students’ college experience, and believes developing social skills is just as important as training for a future career. “I think that this should be shown as a positive attribute of the school because it shows that our students are not only working hard academically, but they are also involved socially,” Holguin said. Stoll agreed that the recognition is a positive. Although SMU did not make PlayBoy’s official “Top 10 Party Schools” list, the victory in nightlife proves the university is competitive in any area. “I definitely do not think it shines a negative light on SMU,” Stoll said. “It gets the SMU
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Meadows launches new PR major KATELYN HALL News Editor khall@smu.edu
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Sculptor Jesus Moroles presented at the Pollock Gallery Saturday afternoon.
Barrio sculptor shares life story LEILA MUSTAFA Chief Copy Editor lmustafa@smu.edu Renowned sculptor Jesus Moroles spoke to an engaged crowd about his life, sculptures and influences at the Pollock Gallery Saturday afternoon. Part of the gallery’s “Centers of Influence: Dallas’ Mexican American Barrios and Their Leaders” exhibition, the lecture
evolved from a partnership with the Dallas Mexican American Historical League (DMAHL). “It’s fabulous that our people, our community is so tight that when people go out like that, they come back to share their success,” DMAHL volunteer Juanita Nanez said. Although Moroles was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, he calls himself a “product of Dallas.” Moroles discussed his father’s
influence and impact on his life and his sculpting. Moroles’ father quit attending school in the third grade in order to work after his father passed. Moroles said his upbringing made him comfortable with tools. “We grew up so poor, we would fix everything,” Moroles said. Unlike other sculptors who send their designs to be built
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After months of behindthe-scenes labor, the Meadow School of the Arts introduced a new public relations program under the Division of Communication Studies. The division launched the major and minor program on Sept. 19 and will hold its first advising meeting on Oct. 11. “It’s been a long time coming,” SMU senior and president of SMU Public Relations Student Society of America Caroline Boothe said. “I think everyone has been waiting for this.” Boothe said she would definitely be interested in the program if she could redo her time here at SMU. Ben Voth, chair of the communication studies department, said that SMU has always had public relations courses, but notes student interest in public relations really spurred the program’s development. “What we realized over time is that most students were choosing to study communications in the context of public relations,” Voth said. “About 60 percent of
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Communication studies majors worked for CNN during the RNC in 2012.
communication studies student activity was in public relations.” Professor Sandra Duhé, director of SMU’s Public Relations program, professor Rita Men, whose background is primarily in consulting and professor Maria Dixon, who started planning the curriculum 18 months ago, will spearhead the new program. The new major program combines classes in advertising, journalism and communication studies. The new minor also includes a marketing course to give students a broad view of public relations. “When most people think of public relations, they think of one way communication and
organizations only concerned with one point of view,” Duhé said. José Bowen, dean of the Meadows School of the Arts, emphasized the benefits of an interdisciplinary public relations major. “Journalism, advertising, communications and PR are all rapidly changing industries in response to new technology and social media,” Bowen said. “As the ground shifts, Meadows is uniquely placed in having all of these things studied in the same building.” The approximately 34-hour major includes courses in areas
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Local Dallas trainer Kyle Osteen shares tips ANNE PARKER H&F Editor annep@smu.edu 1. What is the proper way to refuel after a workout? For strength training and cardio, you need to get a certain amount of protein and carbs in your system. With carbs, you can go usually go pretty high. After a workout, it is one of the few times you can eat what you want because you basically burned a bunch of carbohydrates and glycogen in the body in terms of the muscles. It’s not going to get stored as fat. Aim for 40 to 50 grams of carbs and six to 20 grams of protein. The point of refueling is that it is all going into your muscles or liver and it helps build muscles and repairing what you just did to your body. It is important to eat within 45 minutes to an hour after working out. If you drink a 20- ounce Gatorade and have a protein bar, you will be fine. You want fast-acting carbs. This is the one time you can eat white bread and it would be okay. If you eat a slice of white bread and peanut butter, you just knocked it out. Or a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. You get carbs from the jelly and the bread. Chocolate milk is a great drink for refueling. It has a good amount of protein and carbs, tastes great and is also convenient and pretty cheap.
2. Will girls really “bulk” up? Girls have a lot more estrogen and guys have a lot more testosterone, that is why we put on muscle more easily. Guys’ testosterone [levels] range is about 200 (ng/dL) to 1200 (ng/dL) and girls’ [levels] are like 20 (ng/dL) to 40 (ng/dL). Girls get so worried about bulking up, but you can not naturally put on muscle like guys can. Also, muscle really does not weigh more than fat. A pound is a pound. But a pound of muscle takes up a lot less room than a pound of fat. 3. What is the ideal amount of time to strength train? Three to five times a week. For example, you could do Monday, Wednesday and Friday. When you strength train you boost your metabolism for the next 24 to 48 hours. If you exercise on Monday and then you rest on Tuesday, your metabolism goes down and then shoots right back up when you work out on Wednesday, so that entire week your metabolism is revved. 4. Do you have to work out five to six days a week? You could do five to six days a week if you really wanted, but you would need to talk to someone and figure out exactly what you should be doing. If you are strength training every day, then you better be doing
a different body part every day. But you still need a rest day. You can do recovery days where you are still doing stuff and being active, but you are letting your body recover. 5. Is it really important to take one to two rest days per week? You want to take rest days because you can over train and totally reverse what you are trying to do. For example, say you focused on legs Monday and wanted to work out on Tuesday: you should just do an upper body workout. I suggest, for most girls, to do a full body workout because you will burn more calories and it is less boring. If you are going to do cardio, I think it is best to do intervals. Run for 30 seconds as hard as you can and walk for two minutes. It only takes 20 minutes. If you are going for an hour, you want to be at a moderate pace where you can talk because you are going to burn more fat that way. The longer you go the more fat you burn because you are going at a lesser intensity. The harder you go the more carbs you burn. 6. Do you consider yoga or pilates strength training? In yoga you get a lot of static poses to hold, so your muscles are contracted. I think yoga and pilates are
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great. Any guys who say they are more “pansy” workouts needs to know that the NFL has their players doing it all the time. It’s good stuff. It opens you up, you are more loose and for an hour you get to take your mind off of things which is great for people with stress. It’s hard to manipulate your own body weight. If you don’t think it is, sit down and do a lunge for about 20 seconds. 7. What is your ideal day of eating? Ideally, I would do six minimeals but it is hard to do. If you can only get three meals then make them three good meals of breakfast, lunch and dinner. Just watch what you eat. A lot of people make eating a lot more complicated than it really is. They know what they are supposed to eat but a lot of times we eat emotionally or because we are bored. If you make out what will eat for the day or week, it will help so much instead of just going out and quickly grabbing something. For students eating on campus, you should try to find healthy options and if you can eat six meals, I say do it. That means basically three meals and three snacks. If you eat breakfast at 8 a.m., and do not eat eat lunch again until 12:30 p.m., that is a four and a half hour gap. Around 10 a.m. grab a
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IFC Formal Recruitment Meeting in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center at 6 p.m.
Notable Women at SMU Exhibit in Fondren Library all day.
10. Do you recommend working out on an empty stomach? This is so controversial, but I do. If you wake up and immediately work out, your insulin levels are low so your body is going to pull from fat instead of carbs. It will use more fat for fuel. But everyone is different and will tell you different things. If I could work out first thing in the morning I would. 11. And it gets your day started on the right foot... Our most popular time to train people is at 6 a.m. By 7 a.m. they can go home and eat, shower and they feel like they have already accomplished something that day.
1:15 a.m. Virginia Hall: Consumption of alcohol by a minor. Two students were referred to the student conduct office for consumption of alcohol by a minor. Closed.
Three other students were referred for consumption of alcohol by a minor. Closed.
2:43 a.m. Mary Hay Hall: Possession of Marijuana/Possession of Drug Paraphernalia/Consumption of Alcohol by a Minor. A student was referred to the student conduct office for possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and consumption of alcohol by a minor.
3:22 a.m. SMU Police Department: Possession of Fictitious License or ID. A student was referred to the student conduct office for possession of fictitious license. Closed.
To contact Osteen for more information or questions inquiry about personal training contact him at: kyle. osteen@gmail.com
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yogurt for protein. Most guy trainers are going to tell you to eat protein. The reason we say that is because protein is the hardest thing for your body to break down so you will feel fuller. Between lunch and dinner, you could have string cheese and almonds. You are getting good fats from the almonds and protein from the cheese. 8. How important is sleeping to losing or maintaining weight? Very important. Get seven to eight hours. If you are not getting enough sleep, your body will not release the hormone that tells you when you are full. More importantly, sleep is when your body is repairing itself and you are building muscle. When I am in the gym, I am not actually building muscle while I am there, it is later on. 9. Is the “skinny tip” go to bed hungry true? I would say wake up hungry. You always hear don’t eat carbs at night and I am kind of a big believer in that myself. I try not to eat a lot of carbs after 4 p.m. I say if you can wake up hungry, you are doing good because you will eat immediately. Most people do not eat breakfast and that is so bad. If you get eight hours of sleep, do you go eight hours during the day without eating? No.
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Greta Christina visits SMU in Umphrey Lee, Room 241, from 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
4:10 p.m. Assault. Junkins Engineering Building. A student reported an assault at this location. Open.
october 5 1:09 a.m. Shuttles Hall: Possession of Fictitious License or ID/ Public Intoxication. A student was referred to the student conduct office for possession of a fictitious license and public intoxication. Closed.
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SMU senior feeds squirrels, plays tunes BECKY BOATMAN Contributing Writer bboatman@smu.edu Some refer to him as the “squirrel guy,” others know him as “the guy with the signs.” Whichever name he may go by, SMU senior Andrew Colias is a source of free entertainment and enlightenment on campus. Sporting his long brunette ponytail, paint-covered jeans and a button up checkered shirt, Colias is often found outside of the HughesTrigg Student Center playing the flute and feeding the squirrels. “I am a sucker for fuzzy animals,” he said. Believing that the squirrels are “friendly, misunderstood creatures with high ambitions put on the backburner due to hunger,” Colias feeds the squirrels in hopes of relieving their hunger pain. He estimates that he spends around $200 a semester feeding the squirrels. “It’s fun to watch the squirrels carry huge apples up the trees and face plant when it becomes too heavy,” Colias said. When Colias is not interacting with the animals, he can be found playing his flute. Five years ago, Colias took a trip to the battlefields of Vicksburg, Miss. where he found an Americanmade tin whistle in a gift shop.
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Colias plays the flute almost every afternoon outside of Hughes-Trigg.
Believing that not enough things are made in America, he bought it and later learned how to play folk music on it. “Music now tries to rouse you up and make you feel alive,” Colias said. “I am already alive and roused up so I prefer folk music to calm me down. I get high on 200-year-old folk songs.” Colias is also known for his unique signs. As a little boy, when asked what he wants to be when he grows up, Colias would always answer, “happy.” Today, Colias said he finds happiness through human interaction. He uses his signs to engage people and thinks of them as a public service.
“I have made all my friends by simply being the nerd I am in public,” he said. Some of his favorite signs have read, “Don’t read this,” “Do you believe in Florida?” and “Will discuss civilization for free.” Although the typical reaction of his peers is a puzzled look, he does occasionally find himself in entertaining theological discussions and arguments. Colias plans on graduating this semester with a bachelor’s degree in history. Until then he welcomes any and all company to join him at “his kingdom” outside of Hughes-Trigg.
SCHOOLS: Texas schools win big name out there — any press is good press.” Texas schools that made the party list included The University of Texas and Texas
Christian University. If SMU continues to study hard and party hard, by next year, all these rankings could be different. With the city of Dallas offering
a great night life, SMU has the potential to be named the no. 1 party school in the nation — an award usually held for large state schools.
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elsewhere, Moroles owns a workshop in Rockport, Texas that takes up three city blocks. His team can work on as many as 15 to 25 pieces at a time. Moroles presented many pictures of his work and explained the thinking and experiences behind their completion. “It’s just amazing what he was able to do with these massive pieces of stone,” Frank Valtierra, a retired City of Dallas employee, said. Moroles’ first sculpture was a fountain in 1980, but it wasn’t his first encounter with sculpting. During his last year of college, he took a sculpture class that earned him his first B. Although he later found out
that his teacher had never given anyone an A before, Moroles said the experience motivated him to improve his craft. Since then, Moroles has built sculptures, fountains, memorials and more. He often acts as an architect for many of his exhibits. He joked with the audience about the criticisms he faced from architects and engineers when he wanted to change designs. “They say all sculptors are frustrated architects and all architects are frustrated sculptors,” he said. Moroles has sculptures and exhibits all over the nation and world that have earned him distinctive awards, such as the Award in the Visual Arts Fellowship in 1982 and the
National Medal of Arts in 2008. His work is featured in places ranging from private museums, to institutions of higher education, to corporate plazas in New York City. to public exhibits. Moroles’ speech hit close to home for many audience members proud of his contribution to the barrios community. He left the audience inspired to do more for the community. “Nothing is out of reach. Everything is possible,” he said. “If you can build something, you’re a doer. You’re a builder.” The Pollock Gallery is free and open to the public on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is also open on Saturdays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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such as public relations and account management and consumer behavior. The major is not only based on interdisciplinary studies, but it is focused on real world experience. According to Duhé, every student must hold an internship as part of the program. “While developing talents and strengthening a student’s
skills is essential, strategic thinking, focused messaging and understanding the needs and interests of each key audience is most essential for a leading educational program,” Stan Levenson, member of the Communication Studies Advisory Board and Chief Executive Officer at Levenson and Brinker Public Relations, said. The interdisciplinary nature
of the program and focus on real world expertise has drawn a lot of attention. “We do have a lot of interest, and there is a lot of buzz,” Duhé said. Students can learn more information about the public relations major and minor at the Oct. 11 major information session that will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Meadows Museum.
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A new DeGolyer exhibit celebrates the life of women during the last century.
DeGolyer’s ‘Remember the Ladies’ exhibit shows off local women AMANDA PRESMYK Contributing Writer apresmyk@smu.edu A young member of Girl Scouts wrote to her mother “Miss Ross said if I did not write you I could not have any supper” on July 1, 1931 from Camp Kiwants in Dallas. The note is one of several letters, photos and artifacts in the DeGolyer Library’s “Remember the Ladies” exhibit, which presents a century’s worth of words and images of women, their families, daily activities, organizations, professions and pastimes. Pamalla Anderson, head of public services and reference at DeGolyer Library, began working on the exhibit with university archivist Joan Gosnel over a year ago to coincide with a library fundraising campaign, “Remember the Ladies”. The 10-year campaign raised its goal of $1 million for an endowed archivist position for the Archives of Women of the Southwest collection in May. The campaign and the exhibit’s
namesake come from a famous remark made by Abigail Adams in a 1776 letter to her husband John Adams, second president of the United States. “Remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors,” Adams wrote. Featured artifacts in the exhibit are from both the library’s general women’s collections as well as from the Women of the Southwest collection. “I wanted to give them a sampling of the kind of women’s collections that we have at the library and show depth of those collections,” Anderson said. SMU junior Margaret Elder has worked in the library for the past three years. She found a marble hall of empty display cases and requests for exhibit materials waiting for her when she arrived back on campus in July. Her favorite case features materials from Kidd Key College, an all-girls college in Sherman, Texas that thrived during World War I. “I have always been interested in the exhibits that they put up in
DeGolyer and the last few have come from external sources, so to help with one that was more in-house was really exciting,” Elder said. Photographs, cookbooks, papers by female SMU notables,and correspondences by Dallas businesswomen and homemakers are a few featured items from other display cases. Pamphlets, materials and memorabilia from the national women’s movement and local women’s book clubs also on display range from the historically significant to the retrospectively amusing. In a speech commemorating the $1 million mark of the Women of the Southwest Archive fundraising campaign, Director of DeGolyer Library Russell Martin said that the exhibit “help[s] bring the past to life” through the impressions of the women who came before us. “Remember the Ladies” is free and open to the public until Dec.14. The DeGolyer Library is located in the Fondren West Building and is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Anderson is available for tours at any time.
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Alumni Corner
Optimism central to the American way Rick larson contributor
I manage money for a living for people who are the very fiber of this great nation: the mom and pops who own and manage small businesses. The ones who work hard and worry. I call them “B-17s,” after the great bombers in World War II that went into battle with four engines and a crew and came back with one engine and some of the crew, the hull of the aircraft shot up but still proud and flying, ready to be patched up and sent, again, in battle for yet another day. My “B-17s” provide jobs and scrape for capital. They are successful, bright, crafty and provide goods and services for everyday use for most everyone. My clients are concerned about our country, our economy, as they should be. They are wary of the stock market and have been through a very rough time over the past 12 years. Many of these people have become somewhat negative about the investing climate, given this country’s various problems, its current leadership and our ability to continue as the greatest economic nation in the world. While I understand the negativism, I attempt to assuage their fears by providing them with a longer term perspective of this nation. There are countless times in the past 200 years that we’ve faced seemingly impossible situations, only to resolve and overcome those situations. We went on to become even stronger than most people during those periods could have ever imagined. The first thing I tell them — and my children — is that we must be positive. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Nothing.” The second thing I tell them is that, “There are no members of the ‘Forbes 400 Richest Americans Who Are Pessimists.’” If you’ll read the biographies of the people on that list, you’ll find tons of self-made people who refused to listen to all the doom and gloom surrounding them at the time they risked their money, went against the grain and eventually made it big. A client was saying how bad things are and how “we’re never going to get out this time.” I told him that was B.S. “Can you think of anything worse for a nation than a Civil War?” I asked him, “Americans killing Americans? Had you been in the Civil War in 1863, you would have, no doubt, seen no end to this country’s problems, no future, after it. Yet, the worst atrocity that has ever occurred in on this soil in history was resolved, and the start of the greatest business cycle in history consummated with the Industrial Revolution.” While he pondered that, I added, “So we’ve got some financial problems. If we can come back from a Civil War, several Wars, the Great Depression, an assassination of a President, another Civil War that was the 1960s, the threat of Nuclear War from Russia and various bank failures and collapses, don’t you think we can figure out how to get through this situation, too?” He now allowed that was possible. I told him it was a cinch. I told him to forget who gets elected. “It makes no difference. Long term, the nation is stronger than even its weakest leader, its worst crises. Worrying about that is an excuse not to take action.” What the current data doom and gloom cannot measure nor predict is the incredible will of a nation of innovative and hardworking people. Since people cannot SEE that in some report, they can’t fathom yet another comeback. Show me a negative situation and I will show you a great opportunity. The optimists recognize this while the pessimists never do.
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Fall welcomes a selection of seasonally available apples: (L-R) the Lamb Abbey Pearmain, McIntosh, Cox’s Orange Pippin, Cortland and Holstein apples.
Fall apple season the perfect time to sample exciting new flavors W. Tucker Keene Opinion Editor tkeene@smu.edu
I’m something of an ingredient snob. I have no patience for store bought versions of things I can make at home. I always pick interesting varieties of produce instead of the traditional ones, which is why I’m so excited about apple season. Now that it’s finally feeling like fall, the best varieties of apples are now available and people no longer have any excuse to stick to the boring, subpar varieties of apples so common in grocery stores. I asked a friend of mine recently what her favorite variety of apple was, and she said, “the red ones.” I’m assuming she’s talking about the Red Delicious apple, but I really hope she isn’t. The Red Delicious is bland, boring and soft. What little flavor it has is sweet, but one-note, totally lacking complexity. Anyone who
thinks this is a good apple hasn’t had any other apples. The Fuji has a similar problem. While not a terrible flavor, its boring compared to some of the better varieties. These are the most popular apples in America not because they’re particularly good, but because they’re universally available. I urge everyone to go try some of the more interesting varieties, like the Lemonade Apple: tart, very juicy and crisp. My favorite are the tender McIntosh style apples, with a flavor unlike any other and flavors that scream autumn. Most other apples have a similar flavor, but a relative of the Mac is instantly recognizable. If you haven’t tried one yet, I highly recommend them. They aren’t great for all cooking applications, as their soft texture means they’ll melt into nothing in a pie, but their texture is perfect for applesauce. I’ve tried close to fifty varieties,
and Red Delicious and traditional Fujis (some of the sports off of Fuji, like the Italian Kiku for example, are actually quite good) are certainly at the bottom of the list. They might not be the case for everyone, but during the fall, there are so many options for apples. This season, includes the tiny but full flavored Lamb Abbey Pearmain, and the famous and complex English apple Cox’s Orange Pippin. Both are worth trying. Central Market has a great stock and will give you a sample of anything you’d like in their store, which is perfect for trying and comparing the different varieties at once to find an apple truly worthy of being your favorite. Whole Foods has a unique stock of them as well, including several wonderful heirloom varieties. Of the so-called popular varieties, the Honeycrisp is perhaps the best aside from the McIntosh, with a
unique juiciness that isn’t too tart or sweet, with complex flavor notes and a memorable crunchiness as well. A very juicy apple, the crunch comes a little bit before the juice. The first bite might feel dry, but it will quickly show off its wonderful juice. Its a very good apple for cooking as well. Its crunchy texture helps it maintain its shape nicely. I could talk about different types of apples for ages, but if your favorite varieties are among the group of Fuji, Gala, Golden or Red Delicious, Granny Smith or Pink Lady, then you probably haven’t experienced the full array of what the apple has to offer. Everyone should take the time this fall to expand their palate and find a truly amazing apple variety worthy of being a favorite. Keene is a junior majoring in political science, economics and public policy.
Student offers important reminders for responsible alcohol consumption Michael Graves Contributor mwgraves@smu.edu October is my absolute favorite month of the year. It’s finally fall, Halloween decorations are popping up around the city and my birthday is only a few short days away. Oh, I almost forgot, I’m turning 21. This birthday signifies a very important milestone in a young person’s life. When you turn 21, you finally feel like an adult. You’re officially out of your teenage years, but aren’t in that awkward phase between adolescence and adult responsibility. Part of that responsibility includes responsible alcohol consumption. On Oct. 25 I will legally be able to buy and consume alcohol, something I’ve been waiting for since my study abroad in Europe. I remember finally having the ability
to have a glass of wine at dinner without my parents, and had to learn that just because you can doesn’t always mean you should. SMU reminded me of this with a lovely birthday card in my mailbox this year. I’ve always been impressed with this university and its efforts to remind students that learning how to drink responsibly is an essential part of adulthood should one choose to drink. My birthday card not only wished me a happy 21st, but urged me to learn my limits, always have a designated driver or take a cab and provided information for counseling on campus should alcohol ever begin to take control of my life. I realized that our university takes our safety and health very seriously, and openly recognizes that we’re
in college and that many of us will drink. But we should be smart about it. So let’s be smart about drinking. First, eat a meal before you start your evening’s activities. This shouldn’t be too hard considering the vast majority of us seem to love food. If we’re being honest, it needs to be carb and fat ridden (OK, maybe in moderation) because those foods absorb more of the alcohol and slow down the metabolic process. Secondly, seriously set a limit before you go out. If you know you’ll be out for three hours, maybe say you can have two drinks. If you go through those too quickly and need something in your hand, get a ginger ale or even a glass of sprite or Gatorade. If your drink is in a solo cup, no one will know, nor do I think most people care if you’re constantly downing shots and cocktails.
Finally, know your cab driver. Maybe not personally (though there are some really good ones out there) but know a few numbers for cab companies around the area. Or, switch out designated drivers for each weekend. Everyone can do their part, have their turn and be happy. If you are the designated driver, please remember that people are trusting you to get them home safely. You’ll have your fun next weekend. We love to go out, have a good time and many of us consume alcohol while we do so. However, there’s no reason that we can’t be smart about our alcohol consumption. So when you turn 21, or if you already are, grab that adult responsibility by the horns and please drink responsibly. Graves is a junior majoring in communications and religious studies.
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Freshman Cailin Bula and senior Susan Lewis (10) in the Mustangs’ victory over ECU Sept. 21. After the two wins this weekend, SMU is 3-4 in C-USA.
SMU goes 2-0 on the road, Manning breaks record Courtney Madden Staff Writer courtneym@smu.edu SMU volleyball brought home two victories this weekend against University of Central Florida [UCF] in Orlando on Friday and Southern Mississippi, in Hattiesburg, Miss. on Sunday. In the first set the Mustangs fought back from a five-point UCF lead to a one point lead, 14-13, but sophomore Caroline Young’s sethigh five kills were not enough to fight the Knights off. UCF scored six of the next eight points creating another five point lead and fought to the end. The team won the first set. The Mustangs took control in the second set, taking an early lead and did not trail by more than one point the rest of the set. With the score tied 21-21, the Mustangs scored the next three
points and took the win after Young hit her 14th kill of the match to win the set. “We had to work hard to change things we could control such as our errors, serving and blocks,” Young said. “Even though we are usually really tough on ourselves we took care of it and won.” The Mustangs came out on top taking a 10-3 run to start the third set. The Knights fought back cutting SMU’s lead to one at 19-18. Junior Maddie Lozano put the Mustangs ahead with her ninth kill and a 25-21 SMU victory. “We already know what our team is capable of and the first game did not show off how we can play,” Lozano said. “Our intensity level and fight was what helped us get through the match while fixing previous errors.” After SMU victories in the second and third sets, the Mustangs trailed 18-14 in the fourth set.
SMU scored nine of the next 11 points taking a 23-20 lead, only two away from ending the match. With a fifth set approaching, Olivia Bailey, SMU setter, tricked the defense with a kill instead of setting a hitter to receive set point. “I really hadn’t done it all game so I knew their blockers and defense wouldn’t be ready for it,” Bailey said. “And the pass allowed me to put it down with some pace catching the Knights off guard.” Young led the Mustangs with a career-high 26 kills and Lozano reached 10 kills and had four blocks. Bailey had her fifth double-double of the season with 53 assists and 11 digs. Susan Lewis reached a match-high of 23 digs. On Sunday, the Mustangs beat Southern Miss 25-23 in the first set after trailing 20-14. Courtney Manning highlighted the first set as she set SMU’s career
record for block and is now tied for third in Conference USA’s history with UAB’s Hailey Isham. SMU took an early lead again in the second set with a 6-0 run never allowing the Golden Eagles to get close. The Mustangs won 25-13 as Manning led with four kills and a block in the set. The Golden Eagles came out strong in the third set, taking an early 8-5 lead, but the Mustangs came from behind to take a 1412 lead. Southern Miss never led again and SMU took the victory with a 25-16 win. “We came out on Sunday with so much confidence,” Young said. “It’s incredible what just one win can do.” The Mustangs return to Moody Coliseum Friday at 7 p.m. against Tulane and again Oct. 14 against UTEP. The annual “Dig Pink” match will be Oct. 19 against Tulsa.
The Mustangs are now 2-22 in Conference USA after defeating the University of Central Florida [UCF] Knights Sunday afternoon. The two goals of the victory came from sophomores Olivia Elliot and Rikke Clarke. Elliot’s score came early in the 17th minute from a rebound inside the box. The rest of the first half saw no more goals from either team as possession was equally shared. Clarke gave the Mustangs its second goal in the 54th minute off an assist from sophomore Shelby Redman. Redman leads the team in assists. Her feed to Clarke was her 18th of the season and the goal was Clarke’s third of the season. Senior Mallory Baum also posted two assists in the game. A big effort came from the defensive end of the team as well. Goalkeeper Lauryn Bodden hit her career-high with seven saves in the game. “Overall, defensively we were able to hold them out,” head coach Chris Petrucelli told SMU
Athletics. “The whole team did a good job of keeping them out, not just Lauryn [Bodden]. We settled in and didn’t let them past us.” UCF brought pressure in the second half and was able to get past Bodden in the 81st minute and get on the scoreboard to reduce SMU’s lead to 2-1. Bodden’s biggest save came with nine seconds left on the clock on a UCF corner kick. The team’s record is 6-6-2 for the season after tough overtime losses to now No. 10 San Diego State and No. 25 Baylor. Despite those early losses, the recent victory over No. 8 UCF, the team that the Mustangs also defeated last season when the Knights were ranked 19th, has the Mustangs feeling confident. “I think all along we felt we were capable of winning a lot of games,” Petrucelli told SMU Athletics. “Hopefully this propels us forward.” The confident Mustangs will face East Carolina Friday at 6 p.m. in Greenville, N. C. SMU and ECU went into overtime last season at Westcott field and ECU came out winning 1-0.
Larry Brown hosts clinic Sunday
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Legendary coach Larry Brown hosted a SMU basketball clinic Sunday afternoon in Moody Coliseum with Kentucky’s John Calipari, Kansas’ Bill Self and Maryland’s Mark Turgeon. Fans and coaches from all over the DFW area came to listen to the coaches and guest speakers preach the importance of academics and accountability of athletes and the consistency and competence of coaches.
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Sophomore forward Shelby Redman leads the team in assists.
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SMU alumna takes over Dallas theater scene PARMINDER DEO Associate A&E Editor pdeo@smu.edu
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(Left to right) Actors Catherine DuBord, Clay Wheeler, Amber Quinn and Georgia Clinton in production of ‘Children’ at the Bath House Cultural Center.
‘Children’ reveals hidden family dynamics on stage PARMINDER DEO Associate A&E Editor pdeo@smu.edu Every family has its issues and skeletons in the closet so there is no exempting the family from the play Children. The WingSpan Theatre Company delivers a performance that demonstrates a well-bred upper-class dysfunctional family on the decline. It is the Fourth of July weekend in 1970 off the coast of Massachusetts at the family’s summer home, and the mother of the family is about to pass on her house to her three children. This weekend will be one the family will never forget. Susan Sargeant, director of the play, said, “This year is
WingSpan Theatre Company’s 15th Anniversary Season. I wanted to celebrate this special moment with a play that resonated for me. I am from New England and came of age in the 1970s.” Five years have passed since the Mother, played by Georgia Clinton, has been widowed. She plans to wed an old friend but doesn’t get the warm joy expected from her family. The marriage means that house must be passed to the children as the will of her husband suggests. Pokey, the estranged youngest son and an offstage presence, comes back after many years and insists the family sell the property. “I want the audience to be transported to another place and time. I want them to get caught in
the waves of the text [and] story and the family dynamic [and] relationships,” Sargeant said. “The heart [and] core of the story is about profound change within the family. What happens when these values and relationships shift.” One of the characters in the play, named Jane, is played SMU alumna Catherine DuBord. A Graduate from 2006 DuBord has been mastering her craft. “Jane is a very different character then I have been playing lately. She is very much Betty Draper from Mad Men,” DuBord said. “The way that she communicates and interacts with the world is very different than the modern type of woman that I am. Learning to be still and slide information in under the radar has
been a great challenge.” The play, written by A.R. Gurney, is partly based off the short story Goodbye, My Brother. The stage is set for audience members to enjoy the calming sound of waves contrasted to the family struggle as they try to adhere to the WASPdom (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) ways. “I hope to see folks come out and partake in this rarely produced gem by A.R. Gurney. WingSpan’s Mission Statement specializes in producing lesser known or rarely produced play by known playwrights,” Sargeant said. Children runs from Oct. 4 to Oct. 20 at The Bath House Cultural Center. Visit www.wingspantheatre. com for more information and ticket pricing.
“Knowing that you have been able to help them escape from reality for a couple hours is a wonderful gift,” Catherine DuBord, SMU graduate and actress, said. SMU alumna Catherine DuBord is taking her acting to the next level. Graduating summa cum laude in 2006, DuBord left with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Theater with an emphasis in acting from the Meadows School of the Arts. SMU pushed DuBord to achieve her highest potential. “SMU had an amazing undergrad theater program when I went through. The faculty was top rate and they pushed you on a daily basis to challenge yourself. They really opened our eyes to what the business was really like. They didn’t sugar coat things,” DuBord said. DuBord has a grocery list of plays and recognitions under her belt. Her regional credits include My Favorite Animal with Modern Stage in New York City. Her favorite Dallas credits include Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Steel Magnolias, All My Sons and many more. She fell into acting by accident after being a total jock in middle school a friend suggested that DuBord come to her audition for a school play. “I tagged along for support. When I was just sitting in the hall the theater director thought I was just nervous about auditioning. I tried to explain that I was the moral support but it didn’t seem to work,” DuBord said. “I finally just auditioned to get her off my back. And I got cast. I played the guardian of
the gates in the Wizard of Oz in an emerald green sequined mini skirt. I was hooked.” After falling in love with acting and graduating, Dubord didn’t have much difficulty finding connections in the theater community. “The theater community is one big family. For a little bit you are the new kid on the block. But for the most part everyone is out going and wants to pass on any help that they can. In general everyone wants you to succeed because it only makes our community stronger,” DuBord said. For DuBord the stage is where she feels most at home. Through DuBord’s agent she is kept very busy and has experience from multiple sides of the industry. “Being on stage is my true love. I love that each performance is different, that mistakes get made and you just have to roll with it. It’s nothing like film when you just cut and try it again,” DuBord said. “Seeing and hearing how you are affecting the audience with tears or laughter is a great feeling.” Catherine DuBord is currently portraying a character named Jane in Children by A.R. Gurney.
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Catherine DuBord with co-star Clay Wheeler in ‘Children’ production.