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Hurricane Sandy hit the northeast Monday and could affect elections.
Hurricane Sandy could have electoral impact KATELYN GOUGH News Editor kgough@smu.edu SIDNEY HOLLINGSWORTH/The Daily Campus
Autumn at the Arboretum is a Halloween outing that features more than 40,000 decorated pumpkins.
The horror never ends
Dallas offers spooky, fun Halloween options BRIE STRICKLAND Contributing Writer astrickland@smu.edu Whoever said Halloween was for children has never experienced a frightfully fun time in Dallas. Young adults can celebrate without going door-to-door snagging mass quantities of sugary goodness from Highland Park families. Whether it’s autumn festivals to costume parties, to movies on the lawn, the city of Dallas has something for everyone. So don’t spend the week on the couch, go explore everything Dallas has to offer. For adrenaline junkies, visit Six Flags over Texas for Fright Fest. Shows, attractions and haunted houses take over the theme park when night falls This is the largest Halloween festival in North Texas, but hurry because the last night for this bone-chilling event is Wednesday. I Heart Cinema, an organization that connects movie lovers to screenings and film events, is
throwing a “spooktacular” viewing party at the Texas Theatre. The feature film will be none other than the classic film, Halloween. There will be a DJ from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and live music from Savage and the Big Beat following the film. For foodies, visit any Chipotle location dressed in costume after 4 p.m. on Wednesday and scare up a $2 burrito. All proceeds, up to $1 million, benefit the Chipotle Cultivate Foundation. Patrons in costume can also enter the costume contest for a chance to win $2500. Costume parties can be a great way to celebrate Halloween. SMU Kappa Sigma’s Heaven & Hell annual bash has been ranked as one of the top college parties in the nation by Playboy magazine. Festivities will take place on Friday, Nov. 1. Busses leave from sorority park at 9:30 p.m. One can also go see the beauty of fall at Autumn at the Arboretum, which is going on until Nov. 21 at the Dallas Arboretum. A Sleepy
Hollow and Cinderella themed pumpkin patch will grace the festival. It’s the perfect location for a fall date or a night of family bonding. There are over 66 acres of more than 40,000 uniquely decorated pumpkins and gourds. The Arboretum is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For those who love to be scared, there are dozens of haunted houses in the DFW area. The Cutting Edge is a favorite. Located in downtown Fort Worth, The Cutting Edge holds the Guinness World Record for the planet’s largest walk through haunted house. The attraction has also been featured on the Travel Channel and in the pages of Hauntworld magazine. Hangman’s House of Horrors is another great house thats donates more than $1.7 million to charity. If haunted houses are too contrived, take a local tour of paranormal activity. The Parker county tour looks at two cemeteries and a “glowing” tombstone, while the Arlington tour focuses on the
story of the “screaming bridge.” For those who fall into the 21 and up crowd, Dick’s Last Resort will host its second annual “Most Inappropriate” Halloween Costume Wednesday. A $1000 cash prize will be awarded to the most wildly offensive outfit. This event is not for the politically correct or faint of heart. House of Blues is rocking out this Halloween with its “Howling Halloween Party” featuring Back to Blue. The doors open at 7 p.m. and there will be a costume contest for a chance to win free concert tickets. This event is open to all ages and there is no entrance fee. No matter what students plan to do this Halloween, there are plenty of ways to make the best out of this spooky holiday. “I’m going to Kappa Sig’s Heaven and Hell this year because its been the best Halloween party since I was a freshman. It’s been ranked in Playboy and is always hoping,” junior Eleanor Rosler said.
LECTURE
Native Americans face environmental threats, experts say ALEXANDRA SPITZER Food Editor aspitzer@smu.edu Two Native American community members spoke to an audience of SMU students and faculty Monday night in McCord Auditorium. Environmental and cultural issues were the primary topics of discussion as the speakers stressed the need for contemporary people to help protect Native American habitats. Calvin Grinnell, a historian for the Tribal Historic Preservation Office of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation, began his speech by sharing some of his tribe’s meaningful rituals. The mood quickly changed, however, when Grinnell introduced the 1910 Homestead Act—just one of the problems that his people have faced over time. The act opened the Northeast to white homesteaders and vastly impacted the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation making
them the minority on their own reservation. Although it was a struggle to adapt to this abrupt change, Grinnell maintained a positive attitude when he proudly declared that for the first half of the 20th century his people were a self sufficient and prosperous tribe. While he mentioned various environmental issues such as truck traffic, oil and chemical spills, Grinnell focused his discussion on the changes that are taking place in order to preserve the land and his tribe’s culture. Grinnell also mentioned various groups that are taking action, including various oil companies who are forming focus groups and providing training in order to prevent oil spills. People are also working to protect water resources from being polluted. The issues that Grinnell presented and the actions that he discussed to prevent future problems and preserve the environment impacted students
in the audience and captured their attention. “It’s clear that we need to make a conscience effort to be more careful because our actions not only affect us, but they can also jeopardize the way of life for many people around the world,” freshman Sammie Oliva said. Kerry Thompson, assistant professor of anthropology at Northern Arizona University, spoke after Grinnel. She shared a less hopeful approach about the struggles she has experienced as a member of the Navajo Nation. Thompson discussed uranium mining, which first began on the Navajo reservation after World War II, as the primary environmental issue Navajos face. The mines have polluted their water, air and soil, and miners have become sick from radiation exposure. Although there have been several attempts, Thompson said her people have struggled to ban the uranium mines from their land.
No effective progress has been made and the Navajo continue to live with contaminated water. “It was interesting to listen to these tribal member’s perspectives because I feel like we take a lot for granted. They continue to face problems due to environmental issues and I think it’s important that everyone makes an effort to try and help,” sophomore Cameron Stratton said. Thompson stated that the Navajo people continue to live in substandard conditions with no access to water or electricity. She resentfully explained that they have had to release their lands to exploitative industries while simultaneously trying to preserve their culture and religious autonomy. “At every level, our environmental issues are also our cultural issues. The two cannot be separated. We’re often required to compromise our beliefs and values for much of the things our country takes for granted,” Thompson said.
Hurricane Sandy struck the east coast Monday night, just a week before the presidential election day. With both President Obama and Gov. Romney neck-and-neck in the current polls, the response the Obama administration shows in the coming days will play a critical role in the election outcome Tuesday. Cal Jillson, a professor in the SMU political science department, said the storm could benefit Obama and “leave the race where it is,” or it may knock him back in voter confidence. “We have a big storm and how the federal government through FEMA responds to that storm could affect the way people feel about President Obama,” Jillson said. “If the federal government looks like it’s on its game, that could benefit him a little bit, but more likely just leave the race where it is.” The Bush administration lost
a substantial amount of American support after many believed it failed to effectively respond to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. If Obama is also ineffective in responding to Hurricane Sandy quickly and adequately, it could secure a win for Romney, despite many analysts predicting Obama winning re-election as of Monday. “[Obama] has returned to Washington to oversee the response to the storm because he knows if the government is seen as being ineffectual he would be punished for that.” While the first priority is the safety and well-being of all those in affected areas on the east coast, Jillson explained that the election will none-the-less inevitably remain on the minds of both parties. “Both candidates hope that there will be several days of active campaigning after the storm hits and the initial response has been effective.” As of Tuesday at 5 p.m., there were at least 40 deaths reported by the Associated Press as a result of Sandy. Disaster relief efforts are in effect.
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Hurricane Sandy Aftermath: Storm Leaves Millions Without Power, Dozens Dead ASSOCIATED PRESS Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas waited wearily for the power to come back on Tuesday, and New Yorkers found themselves all but cut off from the modern world as the U.S. death toll from Superstorm Sandy climbed to 40, many of the victims killed by falling trees. The extent of the damage in New Jersey, where the storm roared ashore Monday night with hurricane-force winds of 80 mph, began coming into focus: homes knocked off their foundations, boardwalks wrecked and amusement pier rides cast into the sea. “We are in the midst of urban search and rescue. Our teams are moving as fast as they can,” Gov. Chris Christie said. “The devastation on the Jersey Shore is some of the worst we’ve ever seen. The cost of the storm is incalculable at this point.” As the storm steamed inland, still delivering punishing wind and rain, more than 8.2 million people across the East were without power. Airlines canceled more than 15,000 flights around the world, and it could be days before the mess is
untangled and passengers can get where they’re going. The storm also disrupted the presidential campaign with just a week to go before Election Day. President Barack Obama canceled a third straight day of campaigning, scratching events scheduled for Wednesday in swing state Ohio. Republican Mitt Romney resumed his campaign, but with plans to turn a political rally in Ohio into a “storm relief event.” Sandy will end up causing about $20 billion in property damage and $10 billion to $30 billion more in lost business, making it one of the costliest natural disasters on record in the U.S., according to IHS Global Insight, a forecasting firm. Lower Manhattan, which includes Wall Street, was among the hardest-hit areas after the storm sent a nearly 14-foot surge of seawater, a record, coursing over its seawalls and highways. Water cascaded into the gaping, unfinished construction pit at the World Trade Center, and the New York Stock Exchange was closed for a second day, the first time that has happened because of weather since the Blizzard of 1888. The NYSE
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WEDNESDAY n OCTOBER 31, 2012 trends
Fall trends perfect for the upcoming weather HILLARY SCHMIDT Style Editor hjschmidt@smu.edu Cold weather has officially hit Dallas, but that doesn’t mean you have to resort to huge coats that will hide your style. These trends are sure to keep you warm while helping you stay stylish. And, the best part of this season’s trends is that most of them can be worn together.
back, straight from the ‘90s. Jean material isn’t just for jackets, bottoms and dresses anymore. It might seem shocking to tap into the decade you were born in, but it’s worth giving it a try because it is becoming increasingly popular by the minute. Chambray oxfords are the perfect way to showcase this trend. Pair a light-shaded chambray top with darker jeans to show off how fashion-forward you truly are. Boots can complete look.
Animal Prints
Fluorescents
The best animal prints to sport are always the prints with brown tones They’re easy to incorporate into your wardrobe this fall because you are bound to have neutrals laying around — perfect shades to pair with this shade or pattern. Stick with leopard when it comes to this trend. This pattern is easy to find and always looks classy. But, to look classy, keep it simple [and] throw on a leopard print cardigan, or leopard print heels or flats. Gold jewelry complements animal print the best. Animal prints add a “wild” side to your ensemble for extra fun.
The color that is the most relevant to this trend is yellow. These shades add a pop to the typical neutrals that are sometimes overused in the fall. But don’t overload it — a dress in a fluorescent shade is great for a formal, but otherwise stick to only throwing in fluorescent accessories or single pieces into your outfit To tone it down, mix and match this color with black — add a black pair of pants, a black bag or a piece with black incorporated into it.
Chambray
Geometric patterns are really high-fashion, runway type of trend.
The jean-on-jean look is coming
Geometrics
But you can still include the patterns into your wardrobe in more subtle ways. Contrasting-color pieces are an easy way to incorporate this trend into what you’re wearing. They’re best in bright hues so finding them in fluorescents is perfect — you’ll hit two trends in one outfit. Another way to sport this look is with structured items, like a blazer with a boxy feel or jewelry with defined edges.
Earth Tones
Earth tones can make the always popular neutrals more exciting. Warm browns will jazz-up the solemn shades. Pair earth tone shades with other neutrals, or with something a little more colorful to appeal to the fall season and your personal style. This season, pairing brown and black together is no longer a fashion “don’t.”
Black & White Black and white have been inseason colors since the beginning of fall. Pair separates of each shade together, or items that include both in a single piece. When it comes to accessorizing, add a chunky
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white bangle with a chunky black bangle on the same wrist. The strict color contrast will be sure to modernize your look. These shades allow you to play it safe, but also look sharp thanks to these inevitably classy colors.
Stripes
Pants with stripes running down the side of the leg is one of the fun upcoming trends of the fall. They add a sporty look to any outfit. Stay fashionable by wearing skinny pants. The stripes look best in contrasting colors in relation to the pants, which should be in the skinny style. Just like the black and white contrast, these striped pants will also adding a modern touch.
Steer Clear Of... As Heidi Klum says, “one day you’re in, the next day your out.” Not all trends stay in style as seasons transition. The most important ones to drop from your closet are neons (note that this is not the same as fluorescents, which are appropriate colors for the fall), oversized totes, multi-finger rings and moccasins. Appropriate transition pieces are neutrals and earth tones, simple (yet geometric) jewelry and boots.
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WEDNESDAY October 31
PwC SMU Athletic Forum featuring Danica Patrick at the Hilton Anatole from noon to 1:30 p.m. IFC Trick-or-Treat on the Boulevard at 4:30 p.m.
1. Madewell 2. Madewell 3. Hudson 4. Kate Speed 5. Joe’s Jeans
THURSDAY November 1
The Noblest Man: The Art of Diego Velazquez in the Meadows Museum from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
FRIDAY
November 2 Chamber Music Cookie Concert in the Taubman Atrium from noon to 1 p.m. The Twelve- Author Justin CroninLecture and Book Signing in Umphrey Lee from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
1:11 a.m. Public Intoxication/Possession /Delivery of Drug Paraphernalia/Criminal Mischief: 3000 SMU Alley. A student was referred to the student conduct office, arrested and booked into Dallas County jail for public intoxication and for possessing drug paraphernalia. Student caused damage to street sign and light pole. Closed.
October 29 7:52 p.m. Theft: Cockrell/McIntosh Hall. A student reported theft of his bicycle. Open.
10:04 p.m. Possession/Delivery of Drug Paraphernalia/Possession of Fictitious License or ID: McElvaney Hall/6000 Bishop Blvd. A student was issued a university citation and referred to the student conduct office for possessing drug paraphernalia. Another student was referred to the Student Conduct Officer for possessing a fake ID. Closed.
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WEDNESDAY n OCTOBER 31, 2012 cross country
Mustangs take home fourth Conference USA title Christopher Saul Contributing Writer csaul@smu.edu
Courtesy of Mary Alenbratt
Senior Mary Alenbratt holds SMU’s 2012 C-USA Championship trophy.
The SMU Women’s Cross Country team woke up early this morning to get in a long run before class. There is no additional time off for the team, even after this weekend’s victory at the Conference USA Cross Country championship. The victory, which is the fourth title in the last five years for the Mustangs, was marked with many of the women breaking personal records, as well as defeating a perennial rival in the Tulsa Golden Hurricane.
Of the seven runners that went to conference, three, Mary Alenbratt, Shanoah Souza and Caitlin Keen all topped their previous bests. In addition, five of the women placed in the top 15 runners, capping an excellent race. Many of the runners had their success rewarded with after-race accolades. Freshman Ashlee Powers received Freshman of the Year awards and was named First Team All-Conference along with teammate Alenbratt. Keen, Souza and Karoline Skatteboe also received all conference second team honors. This conference championship
was a unheralded success for the Mustangs, who have a team composed mainly of freshmen. “Adding [this] many freshmen sometimes you don’t know what to expect,” head coach Cathy Casey said. “But with this group they are so close and love to compete not just for themselves but for the team.” The Conference USA is not the last stop for the Mustangs, as the team moves on to the NCAA South Central Region Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. on Nov. 11. In order to move on to the NCAA championships after regionals, SMU must be one of the top two finishing teams.
Top times from C-USA Championship 5k SMU Total Time - 1:26:24.60 SMU Team Average - 17:16.92
Courtesy of Mary Alenbratt
The SMU cross country team celebrates its first-place finish Monday.
Senior Mary Alenbratt - 16:53.0 - 2nd overall Freshman Ashlee Powers - 17:03.9 - 4th overall Freshman Shanoah Souza - 17:27.4 - 10th overall Junior Caitlin Keen - 17:38.8 - 14th overall
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Halloween memories from athletes “Last year we had Conference USA championships on Halloween and after we won I wore my Halloween sweatshirt and cat ears back on the airplane while I carried our trophy.” —Caitlin Keen Cross Country “At home our entire neighborhood took Halloween really seriously. We had decorating contests and almost every other house on the street was haunted house. It made Halloween growing up so fun because everyone wanted to come to my street to trick-or-treat.” —Hanna Axeen Rowing
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Election fraud far too easy to commit W. Tucker keene Opinion Editor
Two years ago I committed voter fraud. It was completely unintentional, but despite my best efforts my vote was counted as someone else’s, and this was all because of the way in which the system in Massachusetts is set up. Like many college students, I mailed in my absentee ballot in 2010. What made my case different was that in Massachusetts, you don’t have to be a registered voter to vote absentee. So long as you are eligible to be a registered voter and are a resident of Massachusetts but absent from the state, overseas, or in jail for anything but a felony conviction, you can vote absentee in Massachusetts. I thought this was strange, but it allowed me to vote so I didn’t mind much. I filled out the application, with my full name, my address, date of birth, and everything else. My social security number wasn’t needed. I got my ballot in the mail a few weeks later, voted, and sent it back. I didn’t think anything of it again until I got a call from my father on election day, and he told me that my absentee vote had been counted as his vote. Because we had the same first and last name, same address, and he was registered and I was not — whoever counted the votes counted my vote as his. To do this, our middle names would have had to be ignored, as well as our birth dates. Further, my father was able to talk his way into getting another ballot without much difficulty, which if this hadn’t been a mistake. It would have been a fairly easy way to vote twice. The entire system was broken. I called the town clerk later that day to try to clear it up, and it was already cleared up by that point, but nothing made me more a proponent of protections against fraud than my own experience with accidentally committing it. If I was able to do it purely by following the system and its rules, how easy would it be for someone else to vote twice? Why aren’t there any protections against this? What is stopping someone from intentionally sending in a ballot in someone else’s name? If a social security number isn’t required, wouldn’t it be very easy for someone who knows a person’s full name, birthday and address to commit election fraud? There is so much about this situation that worries me for the integrity of our elections, not just in Massachusetts but nationwide. A Voter ID law wouldn’t have solved this problem, but requiring a social security number in the application might have. Requiring me to be a registered voter in order to vote absentee would have solved it as well. I’m not worried about this happening again this year because I voted in person and am now a registered voter. But just because it won’t happen with me again doesn’t mean it won’t with someone else. Massachusetts doesn’t have many close races, but I’m sure there are other states that have a similar situation and do have close races. I understand totally the argument that any restrictions on voting, including efforts at stopping voter fraud, inherently help the Republicans because of the demographic breakdown of the two parties. But a main part of this argument is that voter fraud is so infrequent and rare that disenfranchising any number of people to combat it would be unnecessary and an overreaction. However, requiring voters to be registered in order to vote absentee and requiring social security numbers wouldn’t disenfranchise anyone who wasn’t already disenfranchised by the registration requirement to vote in person. We cannot trust the outcome of close races so long as committing fraud is this easy, and going into a presidential race as close as this one with that in mind should not be comforting.
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WEDNESDAY n OCTOBER 31, 2012
Students debate: What was the lowest point of the campaign? Republican
Democrat Brandon Bub Contributor bbub@smu.edu The number of low points in this campaign has been so high that it’s difficult to tell what the lowest point may be. I could tell you that the lowest point of this campaign season was last July when Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum signed a pledge supporting traditional marriage that suggested that “a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a twoparent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President” (this portion of the pledge was eventually removed after public outcry). I could say that the lowest point occurred when Newt Gingrich revived President Ronald Reagan’s racist rhetoric about “welfare queens” when he started calling President Obama a “food stamp president.” I could say that the lowest point was when congressman Todd Akin (the man who represents a preponderance of my family in St. Louis) went on television to tell us that victims of “legitimate rape” rarely get pregnant. Maybe the lowest point was when Gov. Mitt Romney said at a private fundraiser that “47 percent of the people will vote for [Obama] no matter what” and that he would “never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” Moreover, I would point to the less remembered parts of his remarks where he suggested that being a Latino would be more advantageous to him as a candidate and that, at political events, he prefers to use his wife Ann “sparingly right now so people don’t get tired of her.” Perhaps the dumbest part of this campaign season involved the debate about new Voter ID laws, a controversy I think was best encapsulated by Republican Pennsylvania House majority leader Mike Turzai’s suggestion that the new law would “allow Gov. Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania: done.” I could tell you that the dumbest moment involved the horrible miscommunication between the State Department and the White House regarding the terrorist attack in Benghazi and Obama’s attempts
to effectively shut down discussion about this incident at the second presidential debate (I can call my side out too, you see). Who knows? It could even have been the time when Priorities USA, the superPAC supporting President Obama’s re-election, suggested that Romney was effectively complicit in the death of a steelworker’s wife after Bain Capital shut down the man’s plant. I’m also inclined to think of Stephen Colbert’s superPAC “Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow” and the group’s efforts to support “Rick Parry” in an Iowa straw poll nearly a year and a half ago. Colbert’s brilliant satire doesn’t faze me. I’m more bothered by the amount of undisclosed money flowing into these campaigns both left and right. The dumbest moment could also have been about a week ago when Donald Trump promised an “October Surprise” of his own, saying that he would donate $5 million to a charity of Obama’s choice if the president merely released his college transcripts and passport information. This campaign season has been rife with racist dialogue, sexually insensitive remarks, glaring miscommunications and outright lies. I find new reasons to be outraged about what’s happening to this country every day, as I’m sure most of my friends do too. However, even after an elected representative tries to convince me he knows more about rape than the people I know who have actually suffered sexual abuse, I do not lose hope. Even when Romney suggests that his detractors effectively live off the teat of the nanny state. I have hope for this country. I have hope for rational discourse. I know it doesn’t happen a lot anymore. But I’ve seen it happen before. I still believe, rather naively, that we can come together in spite of our differences, talk out our problems, build a genuine consensus, and put the interests of this country above our own myopic passions and outrage. I cling to this hope because in today’s political environment there’s little else to which I have left to cling.
Bub is a junior majoring in history, English and political science.
Hailey Dunn Contributor hdunn@smu.edu Politics has long been a field fraught with lies, deceit and character assassination. In this day and age, with these countless technological avenues at our dispense, allegations against a party or candidate not only come from campaigns. Today anyone with an internet connection has the means to slander a candidate or party whether they are the originator of a claim or merely passing it along. Perhaps the greatest piece of baseless slander from Barack Obama’s campaign and liberals toward Mitt Romney and the Republican party in this election cycle has been the “war on women.” The alleged war on women did not begin in 2012 with its exact origins being debatable. Has the war been around since a caveman asked his cave-wife to make a salad while he threw the meat on the fire? Did it start when all men were given the right to vote but no women the right to the same? Did it originate when Sandra Fluke went to the pharmacy and was asked for money in exchange for a product she intended to use? As I said — debatable. However not since the failure to pass the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970’s has the issue of sex discrimination been so prevalent in the American lexicon. With the national debt topping $16 trillion, most Americans consider the economy to be the biggest issue. However as the Obama campaign clearly cannot run on his past performance, especially with the economy, the left has resorted to pitting the sexes against one another. In doing this liberals have inadvertently suggested that women are no more than their gender — an oppressed minority in this country at the mercy of men. Of course Republicans like Todd Akin have done nothing to quell the left’s allegations of misogyny as they question the definition of rape, but it cannot be stressed enough that these opinions, with no basis in science, are not indicative of the intellect of the vast majority of the Republican party.
The current “war on women” is hinged on the issues of reproductive rights with feminists such as Fluke leading the charge. With the crises in the Middle East and little discernible progress in the economy, the Obama campaign has had to rush to find a new issue with which to divert the attentions of the American voters. In an attempt to do this, the campaign has in the recent weeks amped up the issue of women’s rights with truly uncomfortable commercials being released featuring the politically astute minds of women such as Lena Dunham, Eva Longoria and Scarlett Johansson all in some form saying, “Mitt Romney doesn’t care about women.” Compared to the last election, Obama has been losing votes left and right as people have lost hope since 2008 and seen no change for the good since his administration began. The phrase “the war on women” just rolls off the tongue nicely and thanks to men like Akin voicing their inane opinions, the left has perfect sound bites to accompany their position. This absurd charge that Republicans are looking to deny women healthcare rights has no basis in reality and is a last attempt at a vote grab by the left. I would argue that taking these cheap shots at Romney and the Republican party and expecting women in 2012 to actually believe that an entire party is out to get them is an attack on the intelligence of female voters. The expectation that conservatives have of women to be accountable for procuring their own healthcare and responsible for their own reproductive health is what I would consider to be the official position of the Republican party in regards to women and definitively pro-equality of the sexes. We do not go out of our way to make sure that men’s reproductive health and healthcare in general is addressed by the government, and in the spirit of equality I assert it would be logical to not assume women need government assistance in this area either.
Dunn is a junior majoring in political science.
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Keene is a junior majoring in political science, economics and public policy. He can be reached for comment at tkeene@smu.edu.
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said it will reopen on Wednesday. A huge fire destroyed as many as 100 houses in a flooded beachfront neighborhood in Queens on Tuesday, forcing firefighters to undertake daring rescues. Three people were injured. New York University’s Tisch Hospital evacuated 200 patients after its backup generator failed. About 20 babies from the neonatal intensive care unit were carried down staircases and were given batterypowered respirators. A construction crane that collapsed in the high winds on Monday still dangled precariously 74 floors above the streets of midtown Manhattan, and hundreds of people were evacuated as a precaution. And on Staten Island, a tanker ship wound up beached on the shore. Some bridges into New York
Yorkers surveyed the damage as dawn broke, their city brought to an extraordinary standstill. “Oh, Jesus. Oh, no,” Faye Schwartz said she looked over her neighborhood in Brooklyn, where cars were scattered like leaves. Reggie Thomas, a maintenance supervisor at a prison near the overflowing Hudson River, emerged from an overnight shift, a toothbrush in his front pocket, to find his Honda with its windows down and a foot of water inside. The windows automatically go down when the car is submerged to free drivers. “It’s totaled,” Thomas said with a shrug. “You would have needed a boat last night.” Around midday, Sandy was about 120 miles east of Pittsburgh, pushing westward with winds of 45 mph, and was expected to make a turn into New York State on Tuesday night.
reopened, but some tunnels were closed, as were schools, Broadway theaters and the metropolitan area’s three main airports, LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark. With water standing in two major commuter tunnels and seven subway tunnels under the East River, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was unclear when the nation’s largest transit system would be rolling again. It shut down Sunday night ahead of the storm. Joseph Lhota, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said the damage was the worst in the 108-year history of the New York subway.Similarly, Consolidated Edison said it could take at least a week to restore electricity to the last of the nearly 800,000 customers in and around New York City who lost power. Millions of more fortunate New
Although weakening as it goes, the storm will continue to bring heavy rain and flooding, said Daniel Brown of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. In a measure of the storm’s immense size and power, waves on southern Lake Michigan rose to a record-tying 20.3 feet. High winds spinning off Sandy’s edges clobbered the Cleveland area early Tuesday, uprooting trees, cutting power to hundreds of thousands, closing schools and flooding major roads along Lake Erie. In Portland, Maine, gusts topping 60 mph scared away several cruise ships and prompted officials to close the port. Sandy also brought blizzard conditions to parts of West Virginia and neighboring Appalachian states, with more than 2 feet of snow expected in some places. A snowstorm in western Maryland
caused a pileup of tractor-trailers that blocked part of Interstate 68 on slippery Big Savage Mountain. “It’s like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs up here,” said Bill Wiltson, a Maryland State Police dispatcher. The death toll climbed rapidly, and included 17 victims in New York State — 10 of them in New York City — along with five each in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Sandy also killed 69 people in the Caribbean before making its way up the Eastern Seaboard. In New Jersey, Sandy cut off barrier islands and wrecked boardwalks up and down the coast, tearing away a section of Atlantic City’s world-famous promenade. Atlantic City’s 12 waterfront casinos came through largely unscathed. Jersey City was closed to cars because traffic lights were out, and Hoboken, just over the Hudson River
from Manhattan, was hit with major flooding. A huge swell of water swept over the small New Jersey town of Moonachie, near the Hackensack River, and authorities struggled to rescue about 800 people, some living in a trailer park. And in neighboring Little Ferry, water suddenly started gushing out of storm drains overnight, submerging a road under 4 feet of water and swamping houses. Police and fire officials used boats and trucks to reach the stranded. “I looked out and the next thing you know, the water just came up through the grates. It came up so quickly you couldn’t do anything about it. If you wanted to move your car to higher ground you didn’t have enough time,” said Little Ferry resident Leo Quigley, who with his wife was taken to higher ground by boat.
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Student Senate passes game-day parking bill, approves new centennial logo TIM WELCH Senate Beat Writer twelch@smu.edu On Tuesday, Student Senate voted on and passed a bill regarding game-day parking in the Law garage. However, it still debated the major and minor points of the bill. There was a home football game on Thursday Oct. 18th that caused a major on-campus parking issue. Namely, law students, who are mandated in their tuition to pay for parking in their garage, weren’t able to park in the Law Garage due to the excess vehicle population. This resulted in many law students being late, and even some of their classes being canceled. Under the auspices that at a university education and academics take primacy over extracurricular events (such as football and tailgating), Sen. Christopher Cornell authored a resolution to urge the SMU Athletic Department to better manage the parking situation. The resolution stated that law students could use the law garage, regardless of what other events are taking place on campus at the time. Voices of opposition stated
that the university wants to bring in people — students and the Dallas community — on game days and that the Big East move will bring much more exposure (including television cameras) to the university and the football team. Indeed, as for most American universities, the football team is a major source of revenue and branding for SMU. Moreover, Sen. Emily McIntosh, who abstained from the final vote, expressed concern that the bill pertains narrowly to law students. At that point, it was countered that the power of the bill is its specificity, that it doesn’t hurt anyone to pass it and that it indeed helps a group of people to pass it. Furthermore, it was said it
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Five Spooky Halloween Flicks to Watch PARMINDER DEO Assoc. A&E Editor pdeo@smu.edu Masked goblins are out, witches are casting their spells, and the dead are coming to life. Halloween is here and is screaming its way into the night. Trick-or-treating is in full force, but this ghoulish holiday is not for everyone. Dressing up and parading around for candy or going to parties is not on everyone’s agenda. If staying home and eating candy is at the top of your list then enjoy Halloween with some classic horror flicks. Spend the night curled up waiting in anticipation for Freddy or Leatherface to come knocking with these Halloween favorites. The Ring (2002) This modern Hollywood horror is not to be underestimated. Yes, the classics are great and provide plenty of screams and gore to go around, but newer movies are just as good. A videotape, an eerie phone call and seven days are all you get for the characters who watch the disturbing footage. This horror movie is a twisted mystery that has suspense around every corner and the end may even surprise you. This movie will have watchers jumping to the ringing of a phone days after. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) With so many remakes, sequels, and even prequels it is wise to stick to the original 1974 version. This slasher classic has a cult following that extends into all generations. The unnerving film may be based on actual events, but that is still up for debate. Good ol’ Texas is the setting for the bloodbath that is to take place for a group of young adults. Scream-filled and at times unpleasant scenes will leave viewers wanting more.
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Rachel played by Naomi Watts in a scene from ‘The Ring.’
Halloween (1978) Sticking to the classics can never go wrong. Both violent and scary movies will have watchers locking their doors, but that won’t stop Michael Myers. When watching any of the Halloween movies either recent or old one thing is certain: the characters who are living up their youth will be the first to go. The suspense-filled movie that created a unique genre is about an escaped, emotionless mental patient that returns back home to finish what he started in 1963. The movie is a race against time to help keep Judith Myers, played by “Scream Queen” Jamie Lee Curtis, and her two friends alive. While watching the movie figure out the solution to avoiding the wrath of Myers: it’s easy. Poltergeist (1982) Steven Spielberg wrote and produced this chilling, yet great haunted house story. A typical suburban house becomes the target of a ghostly invasion. Physical evidence amounts when chairs stack on tables and a lamp floats across the room. Who would have thought a
house would be built on top of an Indian burial ground. Some say the movie is loosely based off the Hermann family poltergeist haunting on Long Island, but whether or not that is true, this movie deserves a looking into. The Exorcist (1973) This is one of the all-time classics that everyone should see if they are looking for a good scare. The infamous battle between good and evil continues as all hell breaks loose. Twelve-year-old Regan becomes possessed by Satan himself and unleashes waves of evil that will have viewers hiding under the
covers. Profanity, green vomit, and 360 degree head turns make this a Halloween must, but be prepared to sleep with the lights on. Don’t stop with the handful of movies listed. There are plenty of more movies that will have sleeping with the lights on. Psycho, Silence of the Lambs and The Shining are a few more that will have you grabbing for the person next to you. Spending Halloween without a costume can still be fun and even make for a scarier night that expected. Just remember to have a change of pants after watching some of these films.
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Father Merrin played by Max von Sydow in the movie ‘‘The Exorcist.’
CHASE WADE A&E Editor cdwade@smu.edu Robert Zemeckis is no stranger to dramatic, sweeping dramas. Having worked on such titles as Cast Away, What Lies Beneath and Forrest Gump, the living legend is the go-to guy when studios pick up scripts like Zemeckis’ newest film Flight. Flight focuses on Denzel Washington’s character Whip Whitaker and the aftermath of Whitaker’s heroic landing of a doomed airliner. Zemeckis is no stranger to computer-generated imagery and special effects, in Flight, Zemeckis used the tools to his advantage. “We have a scene in the movie where Denzel’s [Washington’s] character has to invert the airplane to move it out of a nosedive,” Zemeckis said. “That was the trickiest to do from a cinema standpoint and from a physical standpoint, because we had to weld the airplane cabin on a gimble and turn all of the passengers upside down.” While the film may seem to focus greatly on the heroic crash landing, Flight is also an introspective character study for lead actor Washington. Washington is already garnering Oscar buzz for his portrayal of the pilot. “Denzel [Washington] was my
first and only choice [as Whitaker],” Zemeckis said. “His is pretty much one of the best actors who is alive today in the world and I just felt that he was an actor who brought all the sort of power and ability to reach down into his most inner self and pull this performance off.” Even after his heroic landing, government officials, who claim that Whitaker had alcohol in his system during the landing, investigate Washington’s character. Whitaker is an imperfect hero, a character study Zemeckis is all too familiar with. “Most people are imperfect heroes,” Zemeckis said. “I think that I’m drawn to those characters because they lend themselves to the most drama and we can all relate to them because nobody’s really perfect.” Considering Flight’s source material, some critics are comparing Whitaker to Capt. Chesley Sullenberger, the airline pilot who landed a 747 on New York’s Hudson River. “This story has nothing to do with the Capt. Sullenberger story at all,” Zemeckis said. “As a matter of fact, the screen play that I read was dated 2009 and I believe Mr. [John] Gatens wrote the first draft of the screenplay in 1999. So the Sullenberger incident has nothing to do with this story at all.” Flight opens in theaters nationwide this Friday.
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