INSIDE
Bellacures comes to Dallas
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Davis and dirty politics
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Donovan Landon speaks at SMU
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Michael Keaton stars in ‘Birdman’
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WEDNESDay
OCTOBER 15, 2014
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NEWS Briefs World HONG KONG— Hundreds of Hong Kong police officers moved in early Wednesday to clear pro-democracy protesters out of a tunnel outside the city government headquarters, clashing with protesters in the worst violence since the demonstrations began more than two weeks ago. CHILPANCINGO, Mexico— Authorities testing remains found in nine mass graves in southern Mexico have yet to find any of 43 teachers college students who disappeared after a confrontation with police, security officials said Tuesday.
National PORTLAND, Ore.— Beachgoers in Oregon pulled a struggling swimmer to shore by forming a human chain after she and seven others were stranded on a rocky outcropping during high tide. DENVER — A federal jury found five Denver sheriff’s deputies used excessive force against a homeless street preacher who died in the city’s downtown jail and awarded his family a record $4.65 million in damages. WASHINGTON— The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked key parts of a 2013 law in Texas that had closed all but eight facilities providing abortions in America’s second most-populous state.
Texas FORT WORTH— The nation’s top disease-fighting agency acknowledged Tuesday that federal health experts failed to do all they should have done to prevent Ebola from spreading from a Liberian man who died last week in Texas to the nurse who treated him.
SMU set to award distinguished alumni Claire Kelley Chief Copy Editor cakelley@smu.edu Philanthropic, civic and business leaders will receive SMU’s Distinguished Alumni Award during a campus ceremony at 7 p.m. Nov. 13 on the Main Quad. The award is the highest honor SMU bestows upon its graduates. Its recipients are educational leader Mary Brinegar ’69, investment banker Frank M. Dunlevy ’71 and cardiologist John Frank Harper ’68. Alexandra Dillard Lucie ’05, an innovative leader in retail management and merchandising, will receive the university’s Emerging Leader Award, which recognizes the outstanding achievements of an alumnus or alumna who has graduated in the last 15 years. Brinegar earned her degree from SMU in elementary education, then worked at the non-profit sector of KERA-TV, the Science Place and the Dallas Opera. In 1996, she became
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Mary Brinegar.
John Frank Harper.
Alexandra Dillard Lucie.
Frank Dunlevy.
the president and CEO of the Dallas Arboretum. Since she assumed leadership, the arboretum has made improvements of more than $100 million, received notoriety from MSNBC and Trip Advisor, and added the $62 million Rory Meyers Children’s Adventure Garden, to name a few achievements. Dunlevy entered SMU in 1964 as a member of the swim team,
then interrupted his education to serve three years in the U.S. Army in the 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions in Vietnam. His numerous decorations include the Purple Heart and Combat Infantryman’s Badge. After his service, he returned to the Cox School of Business and graduated in 1971. He’s currently based in San Francisco as the vice chairman of the investment bank Cowen and
Company. This won’t be the first Distinguished Alumni Award for Dunlevy - he received his first in 1999. Harper earned a B.A. in English from SMU in 1968, he graduated from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas in 1972. He has been engaged in clinical cardiology practice at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas for 35 years and was chief of
cardiology there for eight years. He is consistently included in lists of D magazine’s Best Doctors in Dallas, Texas Monthly’s Super Docs, Best Doctors in America and Top Doctors. But medicine isn’t his only passion. Harper also founded and directs an annual Literature and Medicine Seminar using literature to help physicians
ACADEMICS
Meadows School opens doors to four dean finalists Claire Kelley Chief Copy Editor cakelley@smu.edu Over the next three weeks, SMU will be hosting four finalists for consideration as the next dean of Meadows School of the Arts. The position is empty after Jose Bowen left to become Goucher’s College’s 11th president July 1. Bowen was also a professor of music and the Algur H. Meadows Chair. During Bowen’s eight years at SMU, Meadows’ rankings and academics test scores rose, and he added the fashion media, creative computing and arts entrepreneurship/management majors and minors. The first candidate to visit for the position will be
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Victor Coelho, professor of music and chair of music and ethnomusicology at Boston University. Students and faculty who wish to meet Coelho may view his schedule and, following his visit, provide feedback and their perceptions of his suitability to serve as the new dean of Meadows. “A successful outcome to this search is vitally important to the life of the university and the Meadows School,” said Leon Simmons Endowed Dean David Chard who is leading the search in an email. “We hope everyone that meets the candidates will devote an equal amount of energy and stamina for every candidate, sustaining your interest throughout the process.”
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Dallas health worker tests positive for Ebola ASSOCIATED PRESS A “breach of protocol” at the hospital where Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan was treated before his death led to the infection of a health care worker with the deadly virus, and other caregivers could potentially be exposed, federal health officials said Sunday. The hospital worker, a woman who was not identified by officials, wore protective gear while treating the Liberian patient, and she has been unable to point to how the breach might have occurred, said Dr. Tom Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Duncan was the first person in the U.S. diagnosed with Ebola. The CDC confirmed Sunday afternoon that the woman had tested positive for Ebola — the first known case of the disease
being contracted or transmitted in the U.S. The missteps with the first patient and now the infection of a caregiver raised questions about assurances given by U.S. health officials that any American hospital should be able to treat an Ebola patient and that the disease would be contained. At a briefing in Atlanta, Frieden said that at some point during Duncan’s treatment, “there was a breach in protocol, and that breach in protocol resulted in this infection.” He added that officials were “deeply concerned” by the infection of the worker. President Barack Obama asked the CDC to move as quickly as possible to investigate the incident, the White House said. Dallas police stood guard
outside her apartment complex and told people not to go inside. Officers also knocked on doors, made automated phone calls and passed out fliers to notify people within a four-block radius about the situation, although Dallas authorities assured residents the risk was confined to those who have had close contact with the two Ebola patients. The worker wore a gown, gloves, mask and shield while she cared for Duncan during his second visit to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, said Dr. Daniel Varga of Texas Health Resources, which runs the hospital. Duncan, who arrived in the U.S. from Liberia to visit family Sept. 20, first sought medical care for fever and abdominal pain Sept. 25. He told a nurse he
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COMMUNIT Y
Say hello to snow days in July Year-round ski resort to open in North Texas CHRISTINA COX Managing Editor clcox@smu.edu Soon snow will be in North Texas all year round. The Grand Alps is a $215 million project that will include a 350,000-square-foot ski facility and a full service Hard Rock Hotel. The new facility will be located on Belt Line Road. According to The Grand Alps’ website, the facility, at 1,220 feet long, 570 feet wide and under 300 feet tall, will feature the longest indoor ski run in the world. There will be seven different ski runs for beginner, intermediate and expert skiers and an Olympic half pipe and snowboarding course for snowboarders.
For those who do not wish to ski or snowboard, the facility will also house an indoor snow play area, snow tubing, tobogganing, a luge track, an ice climbing wall and a winter wonderland play area. The hotel will have 300 rooms, meeting rooms, a conference center, two restaurants serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, a rooftop pool and a full service spa and wellness center. With specialty shops and eateries, guests will not have to venture outside of the resort for ski apparel, coffee or even a movie. According to The Grand Alps website, the resort expects 1.3 million visitors annually. Development for the resort will begin in early 2015.
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The Grand Prairie will feature a full service hotel, restaurants, shops, a rooftop pool and a spa.