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Turkish baby rescued A 2-week-old baby girl was rescued from a fallen building 72 hours after the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in southeastern Turkey. Rescuers pulled the baby, Azra Karaduman, from the rubble and handed over to paramedics. Her mother was rescued afterwards, although her father is potentially still trapped. At least 366 people died in the earthquake so far.
Aid workers abducted A Somali gunmen kidnapped two aid workers on Tuesday. The aid workers, a 30-year-old American women and a 60-yearold Danish man, were abducted in northern Somalia. The two aid workers are affiliated with the Danish Demining Group, an organization that helps to dispose of unexploded bombs, and teaches communities about land mines. Americans in Kenya have been warned of a heightened terror risk since Kenya sent 1,600 forces into Somalia to fight the terrorist organization Al-Shabab
HPV vaccine promoted The Centers for Disease Control panel voted to recommend boys as young as 11 to receive the HPV vaccine on Tuesday. Doctors claims that vaccinating boys and men will help prevent the transmission of the virus that causes cervical cancer to women, as well as protect males from rectal and penal cancer. Although the vaccine has been approved for males since 2009, it has not been heavily promoted. The vaccine is currently recommended for girls between the ages of 11 and 26.
Hurricane grows stronger Hurricane Rina seems to be heading for the Yucatan coast of Mexico, and should hit land on Wednesday. Rina has officially reached Category 2 classification at 105 miles per hour, and is predicted to get even stronger as it nears land. Mexican authorities are preparing more than 1,100 shelters that can accommodate up to 200,000 people. Hurrican Wilma badly damaged this area in 2005, effectively washing away much of Cancun’s beaches.
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SMU history celebrated through film By LARA MIRGOROD Contributing Writer lmirgorod@smu.edu
The Fondren Library’s bi-annual film festival presented “Films of SMU’s Past” Monday in honor of the SMU Centennial Celebration. Lisa Wall, cinema specialist for Fondren Library, made the event possible. The evening started with two retired SMU faculty members, James Brooks and Marshall Terry, who created a video archive project on the history of SMU. They conversed about SMU’s past presidents and how each made history in their own way. “I remember when one of the presidents thought the Mustang was an inappropriate mascot,” Brooks said. “He thought it resembled the deans who ran away from their job.” Interviews with important faculty members proceeded. One interview was between Neil McFarland, former SMU provost and vice president for academic affairs, and the first black professor at SMU, Irving Baker. “I feel blessed that I was able to watch the change in the general attitude of the students,”
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Peruna V and VI meet during SMU’s Oct. 2, 1965 Cotton Bowl matchup against Purdue.
Hollywood actor Bob Hope kisses Shelly Knight after being crowned Homecoming Queen during the 1968’s half-time ceremony.
Irving said. “Some students walked out of my classroom and could not learn to accept me.” Irving then went on to say that, generally speaking, students accepted him as a teacher. “My students made me love my job,” he said. Former SMU trustee William Clements spoke about his experience at SMU and how he made it possible for SMU to build Atkins Hall, known today as
“I found the issues that the university faced to be quite interesting,” Sally Spaniolo, SMU academic adviser and audience member, said. “Films of SMU’s Past” ended with a news package created by KDFW, Channel 4 News, in the 1960s. Charles Wall, husband to Lisa Wall, agreed with Spaniolo.. “I am a huge oral history man, and I loved learning about SMU’s past,” Wall said.
Clements Hall. “It was the second building to be built after Dallas Hall,” Clements said in his video interview. Footage of past SMU homecomings in the 1960s was shown in addition to a promotional film of SMU that was made in 1963. The film featured each department while students spoke about the university. Audience members enjoyed learning about SMU’s past.
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Celebrity activist speaks on Afghanistan women’s rights
Senate discusses budget, organization charters By PATRICIA BOH
By STEPHANIE COLLINS
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Mavis Leno has grown accustomed to being surrounded by celebrities courtesy of her husband, Jay Leno. However, she said it wasn’t until she found herself surrounded by truly good people that she appreciated the difference. Leno, who is chair of the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Campaign to Help Afghan Women and Girls, spoke at the Dallas Women’s Foundation luncheon Monday. Leno was interviewed on stage in front of luncheon attendees by Maria Ebrahimji, director and executive editorial producer for network booking at CNN Worldwide. Ebrahimji also co-edited “I Speak for Myself,” a collection of 40 personal essays written by American Muslim women. When Ebrahimji asked why supporting Afghan women was a cause Leno was passionate about, Leno explained that around 1998 she felt American feminists were “kind of dropping the ball” when it came to helping women globally. She slowly began to learn more about women in Afghanistan who were being oppressed by the Taliban regime and worked tirelessly to spread awareness about what she found. “I wanted to tell them, ‘We know about you; we’re coming for you,’” Leno said. Leno worked to get the American
SMU Student Senate attempted to tackle a variety of housekeeping issues to prepare for the spring semester at its meeting Tuesday. The finance committee held a retreat on Sunday, where they allocated funds to make the senate’s budget for next semester. Each organization of the senate has to make a budget, requesting funding in order to receive financial support. Due to “communication errors,” the official budget was submitted late and had yet to be processed. During the meeting, this caused confusion among the senators as to why the budgets had not yet been approved. Finance Chair Rachel Fox will address “the exact number of funding” at next week’s meeting. Fox also acknowledged that, due to an “accounting error,” the finance committee thought it had a smaller budget. Now that the error has been corrected, the committee has more funding to allocate. Three clubs sent representatives to appeal to the senate after their clubs’ charters were revoked. Students Jordan Lee and Emily Moses represented Bhakti Yoga Club, which had its charter revoked due to a lack of signatures at the most recent mandatory organizations meeting (MOM). Bhakti Yoga meets in HughesTrigg on Wednesday nights. Lee
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Political activist Mavis Leno discusses the issue of women’s rights in Taliban-occupied Afghanistan with CNN producer Maria Ebrahimji.
media to spread the word about what Afghan women were being subjected to but said that all of them declined to publish stories on the subject. According to Leno, many of the reporters who declined to give the issue coverage said, according to their publishers, the American people “were not interested in human rights issues,” especially those pertaining to women. She called upon the resources afforded to her by her celebrity husband. “He knew that I was going to try until I died to make [the Afghan women’s] lives better,” she said. She was able to get coverage on the topic in People magazine and said that once the story was published, all of the other media outlets became
According to Mr. Wall, students and faculty who missed the lecture will soon be able to see the footage on the SMU website. Although those who attended the lecture thought it was informative, Brooks said the project is nowhere near complete. “There is so much history that people don’t even know about. I took the era of each president and saw this as one big project,” Brooks said. “We hope everyone appreciates this place the way we always have.”
interested. Most Americans, unlike Leno, did not find out about the Taliban and the way it was treating women in the country until after 9/11. “The most important thing I took from [Leno’s] talk was her effort to create the awareness and how long it has taken her to do that,” Regina Weaver, an attendee of the luncheon, said. Leno said that although things have improved since the Taliban’s initial takeover in the country, women and girls in Afghanistan still need help. Since the start of Leno’s foundation, over 80 Afghan girls have been given scholarships to help them return to their country and make a positive impact.
SMU STUDENT SENATE explained that there are usually 15 to 20 members present, although individual attendance is inconsistent. Lee stressed that the club does not really use any SMU resources other than a room and that it offers students a venue to “meditate and relax” and have “discussion about all sorts of different topics.” Also appealing their charter revocation was the University Libertarian Club. Junior Stephen Ceccon attended the senate meeting to explain how the club benefits the SMU community. “We [provide] a unique and increasingly popular political perspective here on campus,” Ceccon said. However, Alexis Goldberg, organizations committee chair, reiterated that the charters have to be revoked because the clubs did not comply with MOM rules. “The MOM exists to make sure SMU is in compliance with Texas state laws,” Goldberg said. The clubs can, however, immediately reapply to reinstate their charters.
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Professionals from Ernst & Young, Pepsi Co. and other companies across the United States advised students to study abroad before pursuing an international career at the Work Abroad event Tuesday afternoon. More than 50 eager students filled the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Promenade to hear about the panelists’ experiences working overseas. The panelists included Chris Springfield, Tom Box, Evan Shaver, Angela Eddington and Aliya Khan;
all who have previously worked internationally. The professionals spoke about the difficulties of working in a foreign country and how students can conquer their own international dream jobs. “I didn’t realize that working abroad is not all fun and games,” Joe Cooper, SMU senior, said. “I can see it is more important to be able to adapt to the culture.” The professionals explained that students must learn how to communicate the correct verbal and nonverbal cues in each particular environment. Evan Shaver of Pepsi Co. urged
students to differentiate themselves from their peers. “Show people you understand a market before going into it, so a company doesn’t have to teach you from scratch,” Shaver said. “Studying abroad shows you have a curiosity beyond the United States.” Chris Springfield of Ernst & Young also said that is important to be a cut above everyone else. “Companies are looking for people who will be able to get things done while still adapting to a new culture,” Springfield said. Students listened in as panelists described the worst parts about
working internationally. Aliya Khan, who started Khan Consulting and worked in several countries such as Pakistan and Kenya, said it is never easy to move to a new country. “I was so homesick every time,” Khan said. “There is a certain point where people do not speak English anymore.” Tom Box, who worked with post-conflict emerging markets and various groups in Iraq, agreed with Khan. “At times weapons are being fired directly at you,” Box said. “Find out what you want to do before you move abroad.”
Toward the end of the discussion, panelists advised students to really consider if working abroad is the best decision for them. Khan said it is necessary to have prior experience in the particular culture you aim to work in. “Knowing the language is very important,” Khan said. “Study that language and it will get you there.” Box encouraged students to be optimistic. “Ask yourself what it is you want to do, keep your options open, experience as many things possible, and you will be surprised where life will take you,” Box said.