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Student discusses fashion trends

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Shakespeare meets ‘Simpsons’

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Texas wants to secede, again

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Men’s soccer falls short PAGE 5

WEDNESDAY

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

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POLITICS

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Admiral Walsh (Ret.) is a senior fellow at the John G. Tower Center.

Seasoned admiral brings expertise to the Hilltop SIDNEY HOLLINGSWORTH/TheDailyCampus

Jane McGonigal, video game designer and futurist, emphasized the power of games to change society’s complex problems.

Gaming offers social solutions KATELYN GOUGH News Editor kgough@smu.edu “We’re going to take games very seriously for the next hour.”

Jane McGonigal, a game designer focused on using her work for social change, began her Tate Series lecture on Tuesday evening preparing her lecture attendees to realize gaming “as an extremely powerful platform.”

“This is today’s phenomenon,” McGonigal said.

The designer and author believes that when, on average, a person spends 10,000 hours gaming before the age of 21, a mere 84 hours short of time spent in school, society needs to recognize and utilize this means to make a social change for the better. “[Gaming changes] the way our brain activates when we face everyday problems,” she said. “It effectively changes our notion of what is humanly possible.”

McGonigal has made it her life mission to use video games to make world impacts by providing

gamers the means to look at real problems and effectively bring positive change.

Sharing a study on child cancer patients, McGonigal explained that patients who played games based on the chemotherapy fight remained consistent with their chemo treatment and thus were overall more successful in staying cancer-free. “[The games] allow them to feel more empowered to look at [cancer] as something they can control in their lives.”

She explained that such “personal efficacy” and a strong belief that a person has control over their own life psychologically attracts gamers to play.

“When we play games we feel fired up and we want to engage with what is difficult,” McGonigal said.

One of her own designs was based on the poverty crisis in Africa, and part of the game involved the player going out into their community and completing a project that presented a solution to a real life problem.

Her games advertise educating gamers in “mental, emotional and

social resilience,” reaching out to the more than one billion gamers internationally.

One study was released warning parents of gaming activating the part of the brain that is also associated with addictions.

McMonigal never denied this. However, she was certain to clarify the positives neglected in the published study.

“It’s true. It’s the same part activated by a cocaine addiction,” McMonigal said.

“It’s also the part that lights up when we’re determined.”

Such willpower and resolve engaged through gaming provides the opportunity for social change, according to McMonigal. Gamers spend 80 percent of their time failing, and the designer said that the experience of failing and immediately making another attempt is one of the biggest key factors.

Junior Claire Bauman attended the lecture as an usher and said the experience posed many questions and ideas she hadn’t before considered.

“I never thought about using gamers to solve world problems,”

Bauman said.

Though not a gamer herself, Bauman thinks that using games as a means to create a change can reach a diversity of social groups.

“You can be as old as you are and as young as you are. You still enjoy that competitive spirit,” Bauman said.

As to whether or not such a “do good” concept could materialize on the larger scale, freshman Joe St. Angelo had his doubts.

“You have the large game companies that aren’t aiming to solve world problems,” St. Angelo said.

“They’re aiming to make money.”

Regardless, as a recreational gamer himself, St. Angelo still left inspired by McMonigal’s very apparent passion for her field.

“I thought it was fascinating,” St. Angelo said.

Despite differing opinions of such designs’ true applicability, one of McMonigal’s biggest points was the community created by co-op gaming.

“Social gamers are more likely to help others in real life,” McMonigal said. “They’re very collaborative.”

REPRESENTATION

Minority groups thank senators for diversity legislation TIM WELCH Senate Beat Writer twelch@smu.edu Last week, Student Senate passed a bill requiring mandatory diversity training for incoming first-year students. On Tuesday, its constituents were thankful.

The bill was drafted in response to an act of vandalism against Multicultural Student Affairs’ boulevard sign on Sept. 8th. Many of SMU’s multicultural organizations pleaded Senate to take action against the act.

The legislation passed last Tuesday with only four Senators — Devin Kerns, Jared McCluskey, Emily McIntosh and Caleb Pool — voting against the diversity initiative.

The diversity initiative intends to increase multicultural tolerance and understanding within the SMU community.

The result was the diversity committee’s resolution to mandate isolated diversity training for incoming SMU students.

One by one, representatives from many organizations addressed the chamber from the podium and sincerely expressed their thanks.

Harvey Luna, co-president of SPECTRUM (an SMU LGBT organization), spoke first: “Thank

you for your service to the Senate and the student body. Thank you to Kim Elmazi and the Diversity Committee.”

He concluded his thought by saying, “We need affirmation on diversity issues, which brings dignity and respect to all.”

D’Marquis Allen, a representative of SMU’s Association of Black Students, said, “Thank you. You all listened to our concerns, and I express my gratitude.”

Ariana Hamilton, president of College Hispanic-American Students, said, “I’m just so excited to thank you. After the vandalism happened, I was nervous to see how the student body and senate would respond, but I’m very happy with your response.”

Oscar Cetina, president of SMU’s chapter of Sigma Lambda Beta fraternity, said, “Thank you for this legislative initiative. We still have a long way to go for an

environment where all people are treated equally.”

Zain Rizvi, president of the Muslim Student Association, said, “This is a big deal and a big step for the SMU community. This is great.

Keep up the good work.”

Kim Elmazi, chair of the Senate Diversity Committee, said, “I address you as a member of the Senate and as a student: thank you for all your hard work and concern.”

She then read an email correspondence from President Gerald Turner, which mentioned the president’s commission on the Status of Racial Minorities’ mission to “promote an environment of individual dignity and worth.”

Student Body President Alex Mace, in his weekly address to the chamber, thanked every visitor for coming to Senate and representing their organizations, said, “It’s encouraging to know that we’re doing our job.”

RAHFIN FARUK Managing Editor rfaruk@smu.edu Local Jesuit product Admiral Patrick Walsh (Ret.) served the nation for more than 34 years.

From commanding the U.S. Pacific Fleet during Japan’s 2011 tsunami to leading the U.S. Fifth Fleet in the critical Persian Gulf, Walsh has impacted U.S. foreign and military policy across the globe.

Walsh, who now calls SMU’s John Goodwin Tower Center home, serves as a senior fellow and the director of the national security program at the center.

“It’s great to be part of the SMU family,” Walsh said.

“National security and defense have always interested me.”

The admiral isn’t out of place at a university. After graduating first in his class in his master’s program at Tufts University, he went on to receive a PhD. His academic specialty is in law and diplomacy — skills he has put to work.

When the Tohoku tsunami and earthquake struck Japan in 2011, the U.S. Pacific Fleet provided critical assistance to the Japanese people. The tsunami, caused by an earthquake off the coast of Japan, resulted in more than 15,000 deaths and $235 billion in damage.

Walsh, 90 navy servicemen, Japan’s Self Defense Forces, USAID and nongovernmental organizations created a Joint Support Force that provided critical aid to an ailing Japan.

“We were in a position to respond to humanitarian need — a tradition of ours since the 19th century,” Walsh said.

When it comes to disaster preparation, Walsh stresses the importance of the U.S. military network and military networks around the world.

“The military comes very well prepared for disaster and humanitarian operations,” he said.

Because of a combination of communication and supply chain capacity, the military can respond to humanitarian disasters rapidly.

U.S. military aid has also helped America’s image abroad, Walsh said.

“It’s a way to operationalize relations that we have with our allies,” he said.

But, after Japan’s earthquake,

Walsh wasn’t worried about the U.S.’ diplomatic power.

“I wasn’t thinking about soft power when the tsunami struck. I was thinking about friends in need,” he said.

Many political scientists call the U.S.-Japanese relationship one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world.

“I think the relationship is fundamental to the region. Other countries see the relationship as stabilizing for the entire region,” Walsh said.

With the rise of China, Walsh said that the U.S.-Japanese relationship has to be adaptable.

“We must work closely with Japan as times change. We must do everything we can to understand China and to understand its trajectory,” he said. “Everyone wants China’s rise to be constructive for the region.”

Walsh stressed the importance for mutual understanding between the U.S. and China.

U.S. interests include continued access to market and freedom of navigation in East Asia.

In recent years, islands in the South China Sea that have precious minerals, natural gas and oil reserves have been a point of contention between Japan and China — along with other nations like Vietnam and the Philippines.

Walsh said that historical disputes prove the current points of conflicts can be resolved.

“Countries have found a pragmatic way to work around differences that they have,” he said.

“But, it is very concerning that a local problem can quickly turn into a regional problem.”

The East Asian region is not the only area where he holds expertise and experience. Walsh also served from Sept. 2009 to Dec. 2012 as commander of the Pacific Fleet.

Adm. Walsh, the recipient of two Distinguished Service medals, will be the keynote speaker Wednesday night at the Tower Center’s annual two day National Security Conference.

He will also be one of five panelists on a military perspective roundtable Thursday morning. Other panelists on the military roundtable will include representatives from the Air Force, Army and the Marine Corps.

“With the coming fiscal cliff and proposed military budget cuts, I’m very excited to see what a former admiral and other experts have to say about our military, present and future,” junior Tyler Anderson said.

TECHNOLOGY

‘Access the Night’ app connects bars, restaurants to customers OMAR MAJZOUB Contributing Writer omajzoub@smu.edu College students are always

trying to figure out what the next big invention or business plan will be. It seems like everyone has come up with that one idea that they think is genius, but no one ever really acts

on it.

In Feb. 2011, three 22-year-old college students decided to finally act on their great idea. It was called “Access the Night” and its goal

was to change the way bars and restaurants communicated with their customers.

Sam Kessler, the founder and CEO, originally ran a website online

to help his friends and fellow students at the University of Colorado find great deals at local bars and restaurants. Once the website began picking up popularity, Kessler

decided to team up with Kevin King, an environmental studies major, to figure out a way they could

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STYLE

The Daily Campus

WEDNESDAY n NOVEMBER 14, 2012 interview

SMU junior shares his interest in men’s fashion HILLARY SCHMIDT Style Editor hjschmidt@smu.edu

tailored jacket or a tailored pair of pants, more or less dressed up for me.

Zack Shumway, a junior from Florida studying Finance, is certainly fashion forward.

Shumway shared his experiences and interests with The Daily Campus, and gave insight on men’s fashion.

4. Why did you start working at Forty Five Ten? I kind of needed a job, and then I thought about it and Forty Five Ten would be the perfect place. Moving on in the future, it’s a good company to work for.

1. When did you get into fashion?

Well I’ve always been interested in design and all of that mess, but as of like last year when I got my job at Forty Five Ten I became a lot more interested in it.

5. What do you do at Forty Five Ten? I’m a sales associate now.

I was a runner when I first got hired. I went between stores and I would deliver customer orders.

Once I came back from the summer I got a promotion and now I’m a sales associate.

2. What is your favorite trend this season?

All the leather everywhere. I think girls look great in leather leggings. I can’t get enough leather jackets for myself so it’s good that it’s really apparent this season.

3. How would you describe your personal style?

I’m pretty casual, laid back, I wear a lot of T-shirts — T-shirts and jeans are pretty much my uniform.

Any shoe that slips on, I don’t really like to tie my shoes. And, I mean, if I’m going somewhere nice I’ll mix it up and throw on a

6. Are you involved on campus? Anywhere else?

I was on Mustang 11 Freshman year but I went abroad last year so since I’ve been home I haven’t really been as involved on campus as back then.

7. Where did you go abroad?

Paris. I went during the fall of last year. I wanted to have a change of pace for a little while.

I have a hard time staying in one place for a very long time. I like to hop around so I just felt like I needed to go.

8. Do you have a favorite brand or designer?

Givenchy — my co-workers call me “Mr. Givenchy,” and so do my friends. I wear it all the time. I’m obsessed.

9. What do you like about Givenchy?

I like the style. It’s kind of like gothic in a good way and has a darker outlook.

Riccardo Tisci is the creative director for them. His most relatable things are the graphic tees and that’s what most people buy just because they’re more accessible than his other good stuff.

I have a leather hoodie by him — it’s impeccably tailored and it’s really well made. A lot of black.

10. What is your future dream job?

I think it would be amazing to be the creative director of some well established brand like Givenchy or Lanvin or something like that.

I know Olivier Rousteing is the creative director for Balmain and he’s 25 years old, so it’s pretty impressive and that would be amazing.

But ultimately I will try to do my own thing with my own company.

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Zack Shumway, a junior at SMU, poses in a Givenchy graphic T-shirt.

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ARTS

WEDNESDAY n NOVEMBER 14, 2012 Performance

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Rick Miller in his one man performance of ‘MacHomer.’ The groundbreaking stage show blends classic the classic Shakespearean text of ‘Macbeth’ with the iconic voices of ‘The Simpsons.’ Miller has performed the show 850 times.

Shakespeare meets ‘The Simpsons’ in Rick Miller’s storied stage show ‘MacHomer’ CHASE WADE A&E Editor cdwade@smu.edu Few entertainers can boast that they’ve performed the same oneman show 850 times.

Rick Miller is one of them.

What started as a joke backstage as a cast member in a production of Macbeth has taken Miller across the globe and onto some of the world’s most famous stages.

What exactly does Miller do, you ask? Simple: he re-enacts one of Shakespeare’s most revered works in the most diluted way he can — playing the entire cast of The Simpsons.

From Homer Simpson to Krusty the Clown, Miller bends and breaks his voice to accommodate Shakespeare’s five-act work with a variety of Simpson characters — both popular and obscure.

While the show has garnered Miller worldwide acclaim and a bevy of fans, the Canadian comedian is hanging up his Macbethturned-The Simpsons hat shortly after Thursday’s performance at the Winspear Opera House.

“There are a lot of reasons I’m doing this,” Miller said over the

phone from his home in Toronto.

“I’m on the road a little too often for my family and I think it really takes a toll. I’ve been doing it for a long time. I just have so many other projects that I need to be involved with.”

The beginnings of MacHomer are humble and can be traced back to Miller’s time as an amateur actor. To let loose after a long week of performances, Miller would joke with fellow actors and perform Macbeth, or whatever other work her deemed fit, in the now-iconic variety of voices found on The Simpsons.

Word spread about Miller’s talents and before he knew, Miller found himself on stage performing the bit. As the show’s popularity grew, the actor became increasingly worried that Fox and The Simpsons would try to stomp the show out for copyright infringement.

In fact, the response was quite the opposite.

“I called Fox during the beginning of the show and they were like ‘Go ahead Canadian boy,’ and I kept doing the show and it kept getting bigger and bigger and they were nice enough to continue to let me use their characters,”

Miller said.

Miller’s MacHomer popularity is undeniable. As more and more people experienced the show, audience members, some of them educators, saw more than just entertainment value in his product. Today, Miller’s MacHomer is used in schools across the continent to teach high school students Shakespeare’s stapled works.

“Both Shakespeare and The Simpsons, in a way, acted as a mirror

to society and I think there’s a lot to learn from that,” Miller said. “Let’s be honest, high school students hate Shakespeare and if I’m making that learning more experience more enjoyable for them, I can’t complain.”

Miller claims that his favorite cast member to imitate is Mr. Burns, the series’ super rich villain. While characters like Krusty the Clown can strain Miller’s throat, one character in particular is a challenge for Miller.

“Bart is tough,” Miller said. “I try to keep Bart’s time in the show to a minimum, I know how much I can abuse my voice. I can only do MacHomer for a couple weeks at a time.”

With two kids at home, Miller is excited to spend more time with the family. However, that doesn’t mean he’s not a busy man. In fact, Miller has multiple projects in the works that span from the stage, to television and

even the silver screen.

While Miller left the idea of returning to MacHomer in the air, the actor is optimistic when ending the show that made his career.

“After 850 performances, this is pretty much it,” Miller said. “It’s gonna be a crazy seventy minutes.”

Catch Miller in one of his last performances of MacHomer on Nov. 15 at the Winspear Opera House at 8 p.m.

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The world is my classroom

Student discusses Engaged Learning Monica FInnegan Guest Contributor

I feel hands-on experience is the best way to learn anything.

I’m that kid in the classroom who is constantly fidgeting. Even if I love the class, it’s hard for me to sit for an hour or more taking notes dictated by my professor.

I’d much prefer to be doing something that can engage me on the topic at hand.

If I had the choice between listening to someone talk about a theory or witness the theory in action, I would choose the latter every time.

One of SMU’s greatest strengths is that the administration is progressive enough to realize the importance of real-life learning as well.

Engaged Learning is a program on campus that allows students to find a topic within their major that they are passionate about and work outside the classroom.

Students find a mentor, propose a project, apply, and can get up to $2,000 in grants to pay for the tools or travel that the project requires.

The project title goes on your final transcript and it can double as an internship or civic engagement.

One of my good friends Jean Paul Destarac (economics major and markets and culture major) worked in Belgium where he researched the European debt crisis. I remember Skyping him this summer from across the world where he got to use Europe as his classroom.

These projects are not limited to research, but can be creative work as well.

I was taking classes at the SMU-in-Taos campus this summer while my friend Dylan Smith (English major) was working on completing a novella for his Engaged Learning project.

Now, when he leaves SMU, he won’t only be walking away with the classroom understanding of English. He will graduate college with his published work in hand.

In addition, my Resident Assistant in Taos was Kimberly Mendoza (biological sciences major and chemistry major), and I watched her as she was preparing to leave for Guatemala where she’d begin her project.

Her project involved health-related problems and solutions in the indigenous Mayan community.

Her enthusiasm for her project was contagious, but even more exciting is the fact that her civic engagement could someday help to provide better healthcare.

After seeing the wonderful success of my friends, I am ready to apply for a project myself. SMU has given me the opportunity and the means to learn in the best possible way.

Anyone who wants to use the world as their classroom should apply because Engaged Learning allows us to imagine a project and make it happen.

The application cycle is Nov. 15th to Feb. 15th. For more information and to find the application, go to http://smu.edu/ engagedlearning.

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Texas Governor Rick Perry has come under fire on several occasions for seeming to support calls for Texas to secede from the United States to form its own country.

I QUIT THE COUNTRY: Sore losers petition to secede from the United States W. Tucker Keene Opinion Editor tkeene@smu.edu In the wake of last week’s presidential election, some Mitt Romney supporters are so upset that they’ve decided that they would rather leave the country than suffer through four more years of President Barack Obama’s so-called far left radical socialist agenda.

Because of his re-election, there have been petitions for secession from the U.S. in about thirty states now, and, unsurprisingly, Texas has been the most successful — gaining upwards of 90,000 signatures as of this writing. The online petition in Texas has gained enough signatures to actually bring it to the attention of the White House. It passed the 25,000 signature threshold set by the White House’s website.

Because it wouldn’t be a story about secession without including a comment from Texas Gov. Rick Perry, he has now issued his own comment on secession-mania, saying that while he “shares the frustrations” of those who signed the petition, he “believes in the greatness of our Union and nothing should be done to change it.”

Currently Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina and Florida are the only petitions which have reached the required threshold, but South Carolina, Colorado, Arizona, and Indiana are very close as well.

I’m surprised I have to

actually say this, but calls to secede from the United States because your side lost an election are ridiculous, petty, unrealistic and immature.

In the game that is electoral politics, calling for secession because your side lost one election is akin to flipping the chess board over because your opponent captured a pawn.

Losing one election is not a reason to quit the country in a fit of rage. It’s a reason to fight

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that no other country would be better than America for a conservative right-winger that has led to this desire to join the Republic of Texas or the countries of Louisiana or Florida — where their reactionary brand of conservatism would surely be shared and accepted.

But as much as Obama might like to see a U.S. without Texas in it, and as much as Texans might like to live in a country without Vermont in it,

Calling for secession because your side lost one election is akin to flipping over the chess board because your opponent captured a pawn.

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harder to win the next one.

The loss of one election is not a major set back, and certainly isn’t worthy of secession.

Similarly immature and laughable are the countless threats to move to Canada or some other country if the candidate you want to win fails to do so.

These kinds of threats are particularly senseless for American conservatives, as Canada has precisely the kind of socialized medical system that they are so afraid Obama will try to implement in the U.S. If you’re a conservative in America, moving to nearly any other country in the world will put you in a country further to the left than even Sen. Bernie Sanders wants.

Perhaps it is this realization

petitioners must know that their attempts to quit the country are in vain. A petition with 25,000 signatures isn’t anywhere near enough support to actually secede, nor is a petition even the right way to go about it.

Furthermore, if every time one side lost an election they decided to secede, the country would fall apart.

Part of the democratic process is accepting that your side will be in the minority from time to time. As soon as people give up on this aspect of democracy, popular government would cease to exist. The system would collapse.

The last time a popular wave of secession madness struck America because of the results of a presidential election it led to one of the bloodiest wars in American history, and

the states which seceded were reincorporated into the United States just five years later. There is no reason to believe that a secession movement this time would be any more successful in the long term.

The sudden popularity of secession-themed petitions has led to some equally silly counter-petitions, such as one which would exile or deport everyone who signed petitions in favor of secession, and my personal favorite: A petition for the city of Austin to secede from Texas and remain a part of the United States in the event of Texas’ secession.

Political parties lose elections all the time. Before 2008, the Democrats had lost two in a row, and before 1992 had lost five of the last six. Between 1932 and 1952, Republicans didn’t win any elections at all.

But they didn’t give up and quit, they kept fighting for the cause until they could win, and this is what the Republican party should be doing. Instead of saying “This was a stupid game anyway,” and unplugging the figurative video game console that is the American political process, the party should work for change.

Instead of quitting the game, they should regroup, restrategize and figure out how to make sure that when the party’s turn comes along again in four years, it makes a winning play.

Keene is a junior majoring in political science, economics and public policy.

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Lady Mustangs are 2-2 in 3-game homestand, look to top North Texas ANDREW HATTERSLEY Staff Writer

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Senior T.J. Nelson chases the ball against Tulsa on Oct. 3 — the team the Mustangs ultimately fell to in the Conference USA Championship game on Nov. 11.

Men fall short in C-USA crown, prepare for NCAA tournament DEMETRIO TENIENTE Staff Writer dteniente@smu.edu After advancing to the final round of the C-USA Tournament for the second year in a row, SMU fell to Tulsa 5-0 Sunday at Regions Park in Alabama.

The Mustangs clinched the Conference-USA title after finishing 6-2 in conference play and was the top seed going into the tournament — earning them a first round bye.

SMU beat Kentucky in the semifinals on Nov. 9. The game was tied 2-2 after two over time periods and headed into penalty kicks.

SMU’s freshman John Lujano scored the first goal, bringing the score to 1-0.

Mustang goal keeper Jaime Ibarra then saved Kentucky’s first shot.

After goals by SMU’s Eddie Puskarich and Andrew Morales, Michael King sealed the victory with his kick to lift SMU over Kentucky 4-1.

SMU headed to the C-USA championship to face Tulsa, a team they had narrowly beaten 1-0

on Oct. 3.

Unfortunately, this time the Golden Hurricane left no doubt in the 5-0 rout of SMU. Tulsa led 3-0 at the half and had closed the scoring by the 68th minute.

It was the worst and most disappointing loss suffered by the Mustangs who are now 10-5-4 for the year.

The SMU team must dust itself off and prepare for the NCAA tournament.

In the past two years SMU has made the tournament and has only missed it twice in the last 18.

The Mustangs have 28 postseason appearances with a 3122-7 record.

In 2000 and 2005 the Mustangs advanced to the College Cup. In 2010 SMU reached the Elite Eight but were eliminated by No. 4 North Carolina on penalty kicks.

Thursday’s matchup will mark the first time the two teams have ever face one another.

Despite finishing in sixth place in the Big South, Winthrop won the conference title on Sunday to earn the automatic bid into the

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The SMU Women’s Basketball team stifled Texas Southern Monday Night en route to a 6650 victory.

The Mustangs have started out the season 2-0, and won both games by more than 15 points.

These resounding victories are bringing plenty of excitement to the team and its players.

“Oh super excited, we are starting a tradition of winning early, and it’s always good to go into a cross-town rival undefeated,” Alisha Filmore, senior captain, said.

The team was particularly impressive on defense throughout the game forcing Texas Southern into 30 turnovers, 19 of them being steals.

SMU capitalized on these turnovers and scored 29 points off them.

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The Eagles will be led by Alex Isern who has 26 points (9 goals, 8 assists).

Thursday’s winner will battle No. 10 seed Louisville in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Heading into the NCAA Tournament, SMU has accumulated a number of awards.

Ibarra was awarded Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year. He was also selected First Team All-C-USA. Head coach Tim McClements is the Conference USA Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season.

Morales was named third-team All-C-USA, and Lujano and King were named to the C-USA AllFreshman team.

Senior and Team Captain T.J. Nelson, along with junior Juan Castillo and sophomore Morales were named to the C-USA AllTournament Team.

Nelson and sophomores Tyler Engel, Damian Rosales and Aaron Simmons made the All-Conference USA second team.

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at the quick pace that the team will see from North Texas, who dropped its season opener to Texas State, 88-83.

In the matchup against Texas State, North Texas had close to 100 possessions in the game while the Mustangs are only running approximately 75-80 plays per game.

The Mustangs will have to keep a close eye on freshman Alexis Hyder, who opened her collegiate career with a solid double-double.

For SMU the key will just be to continue to execute and keep the defense at a high level.

The Mustangs will look to get out and run after the team forces turnovers, which has been a key to the offense during this good start.

The team is forcing an average of 25 turnovers per game.

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strong point for the team. Junior, Mallory Singleton earned a career high record for points in a game.

Singleton had 16 points on 7 of 13 shooting from the field.

Filmore and Korina Baker both finished with 12 points and Destynee Hives-McCray chipped in with 11 to give the Mustangs the extra offensive boost.

However, the Mustangs cannot celebrate this win long, as the team faces another tough matchup on Thursday night.

The team will face off against cross-town rivals, the University of North Texas at 7 p.m.

The Mustangs will look to build off of Monday night and put up another strong showing at home.

“Every game we are just trying to improve, playing all 40 minutes, getting the post involved, the guards good shots and just keep making good decisions,” Filmore said.

One of the keys to the game will be tempo.

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Marine vet, student attend SMU together tauni hopkins Contributing Writer thopkins@smu.edu For many father-daughter relationships the college years can be a time of distance and separation, but for two of SMU’s very own, the college experience has created an even stronger bond.

SMU senior Amie Kromis and her father, U.S. Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sgt. Thomas Kromis now share more in common than just kinship—they are also peers.

Thomas is now a transfer student on the Hilltop studying Applied Physiology and Sports Management after honorably serving 21 years in the U.S. Marine Corps.

He entered SMU as a junior, and received credit he earned while in the Corps.

Amie Kromis, a senior communication studies and religious studies major, is thrilled that her father is now a fellow Mustang.

She said that at first, her father was torn between attending SMU or TCU. She is glad he chose SMU and able to give her additional support in her final year. Her decision to attend SMU stemmed from an earlier visit to campus with her father.

“About five years ago my father bought season tickets and we came to SMU to see a football game. I fell in love with the campus,” she said.

Before Thomas Kromis decided to attend SMU, the two found it difficult to spend quality time together as Thomas pursued a career in the Marine Corps and Amie dedicated herself to her studies.

They now find their close proximity

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Thomas Kromis and Amie Kromis both attend SMU.

to be a positive change of pace in their lives.

“This college experience has brought us more close together, especially since normally these might be the years when a father would see less of their daughter. I get to see more of her now than ever before,” Thomas Kromis said.

Although on campus together, the two find it to be a real treat when they are able to carve in time for dinner after class said Thomas Kromis.

The father and daughter see each other every Tuesday and Thursday after her political communication seminar.

“This is mostly due to our nontraditional relationship during my career as a U.S. Marine. Before, her and I being together involved plane tickets, hotels, etc., so it became very expensive,” Thomas said.

Thomas finds that his years serving our country have served him well as he completes his degree.

“The lessons I learned as a young

Marine helped me succeed during my career, school, and life in general,” he said.

He is able to attend SMU while receiving G.I. bill benefits, the SMU Opportunity Award, and the Tuition Equalization grant.

Thomas and Amie are both busy individuals as full-time students committed to extracurricular activities.

Thomas works full-time as department head at Life Time Fitness between classes.

Amie is a resident assistant in Boaz Hall, the political action chair for the Association of Black Students, a student representative on a board of trustees committee and SMU student ambassador.

“This experience has brought us together on an entirely different level. We relate to each other as students and peers in addition to family,” Amie Kromis said.

advance the website.

Once they graduated, Kessler, King and Andrew Tuffin, an international studies major from the University of Kansas, decided to make the website into an application for iPhones. “We created an app we wish we had ourselves in college,” said King. “It’s a direct line of communication between students and their favorite places to party.”

“Access the Night” simply allows bars and restaurants to push information to a specific subsector of people who have interest in them.

This allows clients to stay up to date on every deal at their favorite places to go out. The services, venues, and products on the application update every five minutes to ensure nothing is overdue or expired. Clients can find bars and places to hang out based on their interests, age and Facebook Chase Wildes, a 21-year-old SMU senior economics and finance major, has been using the application since June and loves it. “It’s perfect for SMU because of the students’ lifestyle here,” Wildes said. “Plus, it saves me a lot of money with the drink deals and specials.”

In just three months since the launch, the application already has over 2,000 users and 40 bars and restaurants in the Dallas area.

Tuffin, the chief operating officer, views SMU students as the perfect market to target. “We’re fresh out of college so we understand what college students want and look for,” Tuffin said. “And we developed the best platform for it.”

Fueled, a company based in New York, helped with the design,

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“Access the Night” has map, review and coupon features for its users.

development and functionality of the application. Kessler wanted to make sure it was simple to use but effective.

“Nightlife websites are so poorly run and constructed,” he said. “We just really wanted to pull everything together for our users and make it convenient and easy to find.”

Although it is using very unconventional and grassroots marketing, “Access the Night” hopes to expand. For example, next month the application is expected to start in Austin and San Marcos. “We want to come up with a template here in Dallas that we can pick up and move to other cities,” Kessler said.

“Then we can hire a team, set up an infrastructure and put them in place to go out and do the same thing were doing here.”

They started in Dallas because both Kessler and Tuffin attended Dallas Jesuit High School. At first, their parents were skeptical of the idea for their business, but the success of the application has convinced their

families to endorse it.

“They just thought it was an idea we were kicking around,” explains Tuffin. “But now that we have come this far, it’s a full scale business.”

The application has five tabs: the map, the loop, my favorites, my deals and account settings.

“I like how it allows people to pick their favorite places and only get information from them,” Virginia Boswell, a 21-year old junior history and fashion major at SMU, said..

“You can also request a bar or restaurant via email if it’s not on the app already.”

The application is available at the iTunes store for free. You can also follow “Access the Night” on Twitter, Facebook and its own company website. Kessler, Tuffin, and King are always working to improve and expand their business.

“Students and young professionals are the perfect target market for us,” Kessler explained. “As you know, any good idea or happening spreads like wildfire on a college campus.”