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Examining the “cat eye” trend

Bring alcohol to Ford Stadium

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Temple players to look out for

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‘American Psycho’ hits Broadway

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wednesday

October 23, 2013

Wednesday High 82, Low 57 Thursday High 75, Low 48

VOLUME 99 ISSUE 27 FIRST COPY FREE, ADDITIONAL COPIES 50 CENTS

STUDENT LIFE

Residential Commons presented to students Mackenzie Ferch Contributing Writer mferch@smu.edu

SIDNEY HOLLINGSWORTH / The Daily Campus

Members of Pi Beta Phi and Phi Gamma Delta construct a Fourth of July themed float for last year’s homecoming parade.

‘Pomp’ and circumstance

Students, organizations prepare floats for homecoming parade Yusra Jabeen Associate Online Editor yjabeen@smu.edu

floats for their organizations. On the last night of building floats, Program Council organizes a “Pomping Party,” providing music, food and fun for students who work until late at night. Tomorrow will be the last day of building floats. The first 200 people at the event tomorrow night will get a special 2013 Homecoming commemorative item, among other Program Council goodies.

Homecoming is a time when school spirit is high, and it has finally approached SMU. In the midst of attending classes and studying for midterms, students are also working tirelessly to prepare for Homecoming week, painting Perunas, “pomping” and building

Students and faculty gathered at noon Tuesday in Atrium AB of Southern Methodist University’s HughesTrigg Student Center, to discuss the new Residential Commons (RC), which are set to open in the fall of 2014. While the group proved intimate in number, the presentation focused in on various significant aspects regarding the RC, enabling students to catch a glimpse of the five new residential structures. As the largest single financial undertaking the university has invested in, the SMU RC claims $121 million, and draws inspiration from Duke University, Vanderbilt University, University of Chicago, and University of Pennsylvania.

relish each and every moment of Homecoming, said Carole Fineley, president of Program Council. This year’s Homecoming parade theme is “Boulevard Bound: Many Stones, One Tradition” celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of SMU’s first library. The floats will represent books that have become blockbusters. The Homecoming parade is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday.

Program Council teams up every year with Student Foundation to prepare for this night and create an atmosphere that encourages students to “keep up the good work,” said Samantha Liles, Program Council’s vice president of communication. Realizing that building floats can be a tiring and time-consuming task, Program Council aims to help students remain energized and

“We looked at lots of different places, and we literally had people go to these different places to get a grip on the different residential commons,” said Jeff Grim, Assistant Director of Residence Life for Academic Initiatives, regarding the models for SMU RC. Recognizing that learning happens everywhere, Grim stated that, starting in fall 2014, sophomores will be required to live on campus, and while current academic learning communities will continue to exist, they will no longer exist as housing communities, exclusively. To nurture student development, faculty engagement programs will continue to expand, grow and advance, as more faculty members and professors volunteer to serve as faculty in residence (FiR) — 11

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HOMECOMING CANDIDATES Editor’s note: The 24 Homecoming King and Queen candidates will be featured in groups of eight in Monday’s, Today’s and Friday’s editions. Online voting at smu.edu/elections begins today at 8 a.m. and runs 24 hours a day until Friday at noon. Winners will be announced at halftime of Saturday’s football game.

eta iota sigma

& lyle ambassadors

gamma phi beta

& beta upsilon Chi

REBECCA KEAY / The Daily Campus

Professor Will Power was one of 11 faculty members selected for the Faculty-in-Residence program.

Karin Kuusisto

Ramon Trespalacios

Kyra McCarty

Anthony McAuliffe

Kuusisto, a pre-med and biology major, is a member of the Diversity Committee, the Minority Association of Pre-Health Students, the Alpha Epsilon Delta pre-medical fraternity, and serves as vice president of Eta Iota Sigma.

Trespalacios, a native of Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, is currently serving as student body president. He is an active member of Lyle Ambassadors, a member of the professional engineering fraternity Theta Tau, and is a former resident assistant.

McCarty is the national Residence hall honorary president, a resident assistant, a member of the Alpha Epislon Delta Pre-Med Fraternity, a member of Mustang Mavericks, a receptionist at the Meadows Museum, and serves as Gamma Phi Beta’s recording secretary.

McAuliffe serves on the student senate as the Meadows senator, membership chair and the Dedman II senator. He also serves on the diversity committee for the student senate, is the vice president for the Student Affairs Advisory Board, and is the homecoming chair for his fraternity, Beta Upsilon Chi.

pi kappa alpha

kappa kappa gamma

Sarah Stanton

Jordan Miller

Mackenna Scripps

Tony LaRose

Stanton, an accounting major, is listed on the High Distinction Honor Roll, is the team captain of the SMU Mock Trial team, an orientation leader for Mustang Corral, and served as new member director and director of scholarship for Kappa Alpha Theta.

Miller, a native of Atlanta, is a finance major and a linebacker for the SMU Mustangs, serves on the Interfraternity Council hearing board, and serves on the Pi Kappa Alpha executive board.

Scripps is a journalism major and serves as president of the SMU Retail Club, is the SMU Fashion Week Fashion Show planner, has served as editor for SMUStyle, is an SMU Hilltop Stylist and is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

LaRose is a member of Alpha Kappa Psi, participates in the Cox Analyst Program and the BBA Portfolio Practicum and is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

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sigma alpha epsilon

All photos courtesy of Sidney Hollingsworth

FiR Power, wife Teyolia move family to campus Emily Sims News Writer esims@smu.edu Editors’ note: In August 2014 SMU will debut the Residential Commons on-campus living model. Eleven Faculty-inResidence were selected to live among students. This is part eight of 11 FiR profiles. When moving from New York to Dallas a little over a year ago, Marla Teyolia and her husband, Will Power, never expected they would eventually move their family onto a college campus. Teyolia, associate director of the National Center for Arts Research at SMU, and Power, SMU’s Artist-in-Residence, first heard about the Faculty in Residence Program while at dinner with other faculty members who suggested that the couple look into the program. “We had just moved into town and we were like, ‘no we can’t imagine living on campus,’” Teyolia said. “Then I was going to Cox for one semester and I met this one guy who worked in residential life who told me about [FiR]

knowing that my husband was a faculty member. So then I was like let’s just look at it and that’s how we started getting the ball rolling.” The couple, who has six-yearold twins, said the concept of living on campus with students initially felt foreign, but they realized it was an opportunity they couldn’t pass up after they considered the possibilities for their family. Both Teyolia and Power worked with young people in the past and are excited to be able to engage students outside the classroom. Teyolia previously ran a young women’s leadership group, which is an area she hopes to reconnect with through the program. “I am excited to be able to engage with the students. That’s something I had done previously in my life was working with young people — young women specifically,” Teyolia said. “I used to run a young women’s leadership program and I loved being able to work with young women and help them find their voices and figure out what they wanted to do and to figure out their dreams.” According to Teyolia, Power is also excited about having out-ofclassroom opportunities to know

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