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NEWS BRIEFS
Still time to compete in the Homecoming challenge
By TAYLOR ADAMS News Editor tadams@smu.edu
Today is the last day to donate money in order for your organization to receive a check for $1,000. The group with the highest percentage of donors will win the check and be able to give it back to SMU in the area of their choice. The contest began after The Union challenged all organizations to take part in Homecoming and has been happening all week. Students may donate up until 5 p.m. via www.smu. edu/theunion.
A new twist to pumpkin carving As Halloween approaches, many students, faculty and staff will take part in pumpkin carving. And, if they are Rangers fans, they can now make Rangers jack-olanterns in support of the team. This year, Rangers fans will be happy to know that free pumpkin carving stencils are available on the Rangers’ website. Fans can choose from six stencils that can be printed as PDF or GIF files. People may access these stencils by going to http://texas. rangers.mlb.com/tex/fan_forum/ pumpkin_stencils.jsp.
Interested in J-Term? Sign up today If you would like to earn three credit hours in just eight days, J-Term is the perfect alternative to regular classes. J-term is SMU’s winter term that takes place on the SMU-in-Plano campus from Jan. 4 through 13. Students will have the opportunity to choose from a list of over 30 courses ranging in disciplines. Although students are responsible for their own accommodations and food, there are a variety of places to stay and eat close to campus. Applications are due on Nov. 23 and may be submitted electronically via e-mail, dropped off at Enrollment Services on the first floor of Blanton, or faxed to 972-473-3433. For more information visit www.smu.edu/ jterm.
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CASEY LEE/ The Daily Campus
SMU quarterback Kyle Padron hands the ball off to running back Zach Line during play against Tulsa Oct. 9. SMU faces off against Houston for control of first place in Conference USA West this Saturday at Ford Stadium.
Can Mustangs stand Cougar pounce? By JORDAN JENNINGS Sports Editor jjennings@smu.edu
It’s Homecoming week on the Hilltop, and SMU has packed the weekend with events of all kinds to lead up to the Mustangs’ fourth Conference USA game of the season against in-state competition, the Houston Cougars. The teams will meet for the 25th time in history. Last season, the Cougars devoured the Mustangs 38-15 in Robertson Stadium, led by then junior Cougar quarterback Case Keenum. Keenum, who led the nation in passing and total offense in 2009 and
who ranked No.1 in total offense in 2008, will sit out the remainder of the 2010 season due to a torn ACL knee injury that occurred in UH’s game versus UCLA on Sept. 18. Houston’s backup quarterback, junior Cotton Turner, was also injured during the UH vs. UCLA game, suffering from a fractured clavicle. True freshman David Piland will start for the Cougars at Gerald J. Ford Stadium this Saturday. Piland averages 291.5 yards and has thrown five touchdown passes in two games. It is UH head Coach Kevin Sumlin’s third season at Houston, and he has yet to see the Cougars fall to the Mustangs. It is also SMU head Coach
June Jones’ third season. Houston currently ranks in the top-21 nationally in total passing and scoring offense. The Cougars are 3-3 on the season and 2-1 on conference play. The Mustangs are 4-3 on the season and undefeated in conference play. Houston holds a 14-9 record in alltime series with SMU, including a 4-1 record in C-USA play. Both teams participated in bowl games in 2009. Houston fell to the Air Force Falcons 47-20. SMU saw positive results in their first bowl game in 25 years, beating Nevada 45-10 at the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl.
Other UH standouts include junior running back Bryce Beall and leading receiver Patrick Edwards. Beall is ranked second in the conference in scoring and 14th nationally with 10 points per game. SMU’s Zach Line currently ties Beall for second in C-USA with 90.7 rushing yards per game. Line has 365 yards in seven games, while Beall has 544 yards in six. Edwards leads the team with 32 receptions for 433 yards and five touchdown passes on the season.
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SMU students and people across the country have known for a while that artifacts from the George W. Bush presidency would reside in the future George W. Bush Presidential Center on our campus. However, beginning Saturday, a number of these items will be in the Meadows Museum and open to the public. Alan Lowe, director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library, gave a short tour of the small exhibit Thursday to selected media. “We want to give a sneak peak into our archival collections,” he said. The exhibit, “Breaking New Ground: Presenting the George W. Bush Presidential Center,” has been designed to show visitors a taste of what the future Center plans to offer: action-oriented initiatives and opportunities to learn of significant moments of the nation’s history. Display cases line the blue-painted walls of the exhibit’s small room. Situated under a spot light in the middle of the room is a carefully designed model of the future center. Among the miniature trees, projected tennis courts and soccer field is the building where all the plans of the Center are to take place. The building has been designed to meet LEED platinum standards by including various sustainable strategies. Plans for the actual structure continue onto the wall displays. The former president and Mrs. Bush “welcome’’ visitors with an introduction to the Center’s exhibit.
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HOMECOMING
Students ‘pomp’ it up in preparing for parade By SARAH KRAMER Staff Writer skramer@smu.edu
Blaring music could be heard around the corner of North Central Expressway and SMU Boulevard as students teamed up to build floats for Saturday’s Homecoming parade. Although students are not dancing and singing to Broadway songs, they are decorating their floats in keeping with the Student Foundation’s 2010 Homecoming theme of “Broadway on the Boulevard.” Students from an array of organizations entered into a week of chaos at 6200 N. Central Expressway as they have been building and decorating their floats. The theme is Broadway Musicals, which include, among others, “Hairspray,” “Wicked” and “Mary Poppins.” The sounds of sawing, hammering, singing and laughing competed with the voices of students as they created their floats Wednesday night. “It’s really fun—slightly
overwhelming, but fun, and a lot of work,” said freshman Lauren McKaig, a member of The Union. Homecoming chairs selected options for float themes and then each one had his or her organization vote on their favorite pick. Senior member of Pi Beta Phi sorority and one of the homecoming chairs, Cassie Nelson said, “We wanted to have our musical be an original Broadway musical, not a movie that was made into a musical.” Although “Mamma Mia” was not on Pi Phi’s original list, it did not stop them from having fun. The girls sang and danced while they “pomped.” Pomping consists of poking tissue paper through chicken wire and is how all floats are decorated for Homecoming. “We want it to be the best it can be. We want an impressive float for our alumnae as well as SMU alumni,”
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TYLER WILLIAMS/ The Daily Campus
Members of the Delta Delta Delta sorority and Sigma Chi fraternity work on their float for the Homecoming parade, which will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday on Hillcrest Avenue.