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The truth about ‘cool girls’
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Five Memphis players to watch
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Keanu Reeves makes a comeback
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OCTOBER 22, 2014
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‘It’s On Us’
SMU students sign national campaign against sexual violence
BEIRUT — Islamic State group fighters seized at least one cache of weapons airdropped by U.S.-led coalition forces that were meant to supply Kurdish militiamen battling the extremist group in a border town, activists said. FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — After emerging months ago in eastern Sierra Leone, Ebola is now hitting the western edges of the country where the capital is located with dozens of people falling sick each day, the government said Tuesday. So many people are dying that removing bodies is reportedly a problem.
National STAFFORD TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A pet bobcat that has repeatedly escaped from its owner’s southern New Jersey home is again on the loose. The Asbury Park Press reports Rocky went missing from Ginny Fine’s home in Stafford Township on Tuesday morning. GARY, Ind. — Police say an Indiana man has now definitively confessed to killing seven women whose bodies were found over the weekend in northwestern Indiana.
DALLAS — Nelson Bunker Hunt, a Texas oilman who once tried to corner the silver market with his brothers only to see the move end in financial disaster, has died.
Turner says not to worry about Ebola staff reports
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LECTURE
PayPal co-founder talks innovation at Tate Lecture katelyn hall Contributing Writer khall@smu.edu Peter Thiel began his Tate Lecture in McFarlin Auditorium Tuesday night with a challenge: “Tell me something that is true that almost no one agrees with you on.” The co-founder and former CEO of PayPal uses the same question in job interviews because it shows how hard it is to escape conventional wisdom. “We live in a world where courage is in far shorter supply than genius,” he said. Thiel’s talk revolved around this central issue of what it takes to be an innovator and what the future will look like through the course of innovation. Success in innovation cannot be copied, he says, because you don’t want to start something that’s “interchangeable.” Thiel says that
all good businesses look for the monopoly, the thing no one is doing. “I think all happy companies are different because they found something unique that differentiates them,” he said. He spoke about the same subject in his recent book, “Zero to One,” which he gave to every member of the nearly full auditorium. “I thought his ideas on the nature of competition—that it is the opposite of success, was extremely relevant,” sophomore Cameron Matson said. SMU alumna Elise McDonald also found Thiel’s thoughts on differentiating investments interesting. “These are the investments that allow an individual, business or institution to have the greatest impact on society,” she said. To stumble upon the next great idea, Thiel says, one must strive to get away from conventional truths
Texas DALLAS — Texas, which saw the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. and two more since then, has designated two containment facilities in Galveston and a Dallas suburb to treat any future patients.
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and mistruths and find the secrets. “There are many secrets left,” he said. The problem is, we aren’t looking in the right places for these secrets. “I think we are living in a society, which is dominated by hatred…, hostility, dislike of all things scientific and technological,” he said. Thiel contends that the best way for us to find the secrets of the future is to reconceive the notions of a developed world and a developing world. Instead, he suggests, we should ask the question: “How do we go about developing the so-called developed world?” Thiel ended his talk with this question, and it stuck with audience members like senior Mary Anna Billingsley. “The United States is a superpower that should continue to keep moving forward by developing new technologies for the world to embrace,” Billingsley said.
Two SMU graduate students were passengers aboard a Frontier Flight from Dallas to Cleveland that included Amber Joy Vinson, the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurse who later tested positive for Ebola, according to an announcement released by SMU this afternoon. The two students were not on the return flight to Dallas where Vinson reported showing symptoms of Ebola. "The CDC doesn’t inform anybody except the person [affected]," said President Turner at the Student Affairs Leadership Council luncheon Monday. "They were informed by the CDC that they were on a flight, but that there was very little probably at all - in fact they were saying little or no risk - that they would be involved with it." However, the students have volunteered to remain at home for 21 days to ensure that they did not contract the virus. They are being monitored as a precaution and are following the CDC requirements and recommendations by remaining in isolation, monitoring their temperatures and keeping in contact with health officials. "We don’t have any worry about it," said President Turner.
"CDC doesn’t have any worry about it. CDC is not making them stay away. County of Dallas is not making them stay away. The students literally agreed to do it just because they wanted the university to not have any worry about it." The two students will continue their schoolwork from home. According to the announcement, SMU professors and faculty are working with them to make this process easier. "[SMU students] really don’t need to be concerned about this." said President Turner. "There are people who are so irrational about this, and I know we’ll get some calls saying, 'I want to take my son or daughter out.' It’ll be safer for them to stay... I’m hoping that during family weekend, people will come and dispel the rumor aspects of it." If any other student, faculty or staff were also on the Frontier Airlines flights between Dallas and Cleveland, they are being asked to contact the Centers for Disease Control at 1-800-2324636 or the SMU Health Center at 214-768-2141. The Daily Campus will continue to update this story as more information becomes available.
STUDENT LIFE
Gerald J. Ford to speak at December Commencement staff reports One of the nation’s most successful business leaders, Gerald J. Ford, will deliver the December Commencement Convocation Dec. 20 in Moody Coliseum. Ford is a graduate of SMU and received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1995 and
the Mustang Award in 1997. In October 2013, the Fords committed $15 million to construct an SMU research center to help expand advanced computing and interdisciplinary research. He currently serves as a member of the SMU Board of Trustees and co-chair of SMU’s Second Century Campaign.
ACADEMICS
Collaboration space opens in Expressway Tower meredith carey Assignments Desk Editor mbcarey@smu.edu Think tank. Idea lab. Startup generator. SMU’s newest creative space is so open to interpretation that it has nearly 10 descriptors listed on the wall but there’s only one name you need to know: the CUBE. Open since Oct. 17, suite 600 in Expressway Towers has become what Engaged Learning administrators hope will be the next big push for SMU students to get involved. A three-room space, previously housing the Big iDeas office, is a blank canvas for individuals and student groups to create and expand on innovative ideas.
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The CUBE is available to SMU students to express themselves and create new ideas.
“It’s not study hall. It’s a place for students to come together that are working on projects that are having some sort of community impact,” said Susan Kress, director of Engaged Learning.
The CUBE offers plenty of white space for student to express themselves. The two breakout rooms, with views of downtown Dallas, have white board walls so that students can write on a big
scale from floor to ceiling. With lockers for student groups to store their items longer term, the space is open for personalization. A kitchen is also available. The Pitch Contest on Oct. 31 will
be the official kickoff for the CUBE, exhibiting emphasis on innovation in the space. The Provost Office, who recently passed the Big iDeas grant program to the Engaged Learning department, funded the renovations for the space. “The space as an office was sort of diverting the purpose,” Kress said. The CUBE has already drawn attention from campus groups, including the Entrepreneurship Club, which will be holding meetings there. The CUBE is open Monday through Thursday from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Friday noon to 5 p.m. By contacting Kenneth Cedeno, students can have the space opened after hours for meetings as well.