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‘Pony Excess’ proves athletic programs can recover

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Eric Dickerson and Craig James remain two of SMU’s most accomplished college athletes. Collectively referred to as the “Pony Express,” Dickerson and James started playing Mustang football in 1979.

By MEREDITH CARLTON News Editor mcarlton@smu.edu

The controversy surrounding Pennsylvania State University’s former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has gotten people talking about collegiate athletics and the law. Sandusky, who is accused of sexually abusing young boys, has affected the Penn State football program in a number of ways — from the program’s reputation to its future. Although Penn State’s case is a criminal one, athletic scandals come in a variety of forms, and 24

years ago, SMU athletics experienced a scandal of their own. “The Death Penalty,” which bans NCAA schools from competing in a sport for at least one season, halted the Mustang’s football program in 1987 and 1988, straining the spirit of SMU and the Dallas community. A few years prior, SMU’s football team was one of the top teams in the country. Although many football teams were involved with illegal recruitment, SMU was the first to make headlines. The SMU Sports and Entertainment Law Association

hosted two speakers on Friday that brought light to the “paying to play” topic, something that is at the forefront of ethical and legal issues in college athletics. Kyle Conder, senior associate athletic director for compliance, joined Thaddeus Matula, director of “Pony Excess,” sharing both the legal and creative sides of the issue. According to Matula, the Southwest Conference was the most penalized conference in the country, most of those infractions coming from SMU. “It was a very dirty conference,” he said. “But, in that era, everything

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Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky reaches out to defensive back Brandon Scott after the Dec. 28, 1999 game against Texas A&M in the Alamo Bowl, in San Antonio, Texas.

started ramping up in the 1970s.” He stated that in the ‘30s and ‘40s, it wasn’t illegal to provide players with benefits. “This was obviously before Dallas had the Cowboys,” Matula said. “SMU was Dallas’ team.” Dallas was busting with money in the late ‘70s to early ‘80s when the scandal came to fruition. “SMU decided it was time to play with the big boys,” he said. “And it got out of hand.” However, SMU was not the only school that was doing this. “SMU has the unfortunate distinction of being caught and

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not being able to distance itself institutionally from the violations,” Conder said. According to Conder, institutional decisions are a big part of what dictates a school’s future after scandals. “The institution made the decision we have to stop these payments, but we are going to try to control them,” he said when describing SMU’s scandal in the late 1980s. Conder then went on to explain how SMU did not permit recruits to make campus visits after “The Death Penalty” until they had been

admitted or they were clear qualifiers by the NCAA. The importance of institutional decisions can translate to Penn State today. “If Penn States’ attitude is look we are going to clean house with the coaching staff but otherwise it’s business as usual here, in terms of recruiting activities and the amount of resources we provide for the program, it [their recruiting] may not change very much,” Conder said. Just as SMU got through its’ scandal, Penn State will too. It’s just a matter of time.

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Annual event seeks to end Students, police check sexual, domestic violence lighting on campus By JAN ANDERSON

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Contributing Writer lmirgorod@smu.edu

Members of the Southern Methodist University community gathered for SMU’s annual Take Back the Night event on Monday in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center. According to the Take Back the Night Foundation’s Facebook page, the event “seeks to end sexual violence in all of its forms including sexual assault, sexual abuse, dating violence and domestic violence.” The evening began with a march around the Boulevard that included chants like “One, two, three, four, we won’t take it anymore. Five, six, seven, eight, No more violence, no more hate” and “We have the power, we have the right, the streets are ours, take back the night.” The march was followed by a candlelight ceremony on the Clements Hall lawn. During the ceremony, the leaders first asked participants to blow out their candles if they had any friends who were victims of sexual violence, and all but a few blew their candles out. The leaders then asked the crowd if they had a relative who had been a victim, an immediate family member who had been a victim and if they had been a victim of sexual violence. Each time fewer candles were blown out. The final segment of the event

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Oscar Cetina holds a candle in honor of “Take Back the Night” on Nov. 14. The annual event is hosted by the Women’s Center.

was the “Speak Out,” which occurred back in the Hughes-Trigg Varsity. Back in the Varsity, event cochairs Melissa Maguire and Sammy Partida invited members of the audience to share how their lives had been impacted by sexual violence.

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Audience members shared how they and/or those close to them had been impacted. One speaker shared that she was a domestic violence survivor, a

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The annual Lighting Survey Check took place on Tuesday night as student organizations, SMU police and the Facility Maintenance and Sustainability joined together to check areas on campus that may require additional lighting. “We would like different perspectives and want to get the community to come together to enhance public safety on campus,” Operations Manager Jim Scarnati said. Participants were split into four groups and walked to different parts of the campus to record the number of each pole that was missing a light. “We do this in four groups because the campus is split into four separate zones which include residential life and student housing, the SMU Boulevard, the Athletic and Engineering Zone and the law quad,” Zone Manager John Majors said. According to Sergeant Winn, there are 88 blue lights and approximately 300 pole lights on campus. “There is an emergency phone at every blue light and when you call, the dispatcher knows exactly where you are,”

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The University-sponsored Lighting Tour helps educate campus community members about the best after-dark travel paths, as well as to look for lighting deficiencies on campus.

Scarnati said. For people who are walking late at night, it is important that a blue light can be seen where ever they are on campus. Areas with dim lighting have to be changed because it is hard for students to see walking back from the library to dormitories. “It is important to make sure that the campus is adequately lit at night and it is my job to see if any lights are burned out or if there are areas that shouldn’t be lit,” Winn said. Police Chief Rick Shafer believes that students are the

best sources for this kind of task because they are the ones that are on campus the most. “They may know a lot more than we do and we can value their opinion to make the job go faster,” Shafer said. During this year’s walk, participants found several poles that were either dim or burned out on the SMU Boulevard. It is also important to make sure that the flags are lit with lights, and that none are out. “If a flag is up at night, it needs to be lit because it is a federal law,” Shafer said.

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Health & Fitness

• Wednesday, November 16, 2011

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Prevent the flu New law regulates laser By PARMINDER DEO Contributing Writer pdeo@smu.edu

Runny noses, coughing, headaches and fevers… this could only mean one thing: Flu season is back. Flu season peaks in November and continues into April. Individuals typically receive vaccines in October or early November, but you can still get a shot after Thanksgiving. According to the Center of Disease Control (CDC), “The best time to get a vaccine is as soon as it becomes available.” The Influenza virus varies from season to season, so even if you weren’t sick last year, that doesn’t mean you won’t get sick this time around. “The main thing people can do is wash their hands,” Community Health Educator for the Memorial Health Center Galen Laprocido said. “Wash them before you eat, after you use the bathroom, and when passing utensils. People do not do that enough. Also, be conscious of passing drinks.” It is recommended to get a flu shot annually in order to keep your body’s defenses well equipped against the flu. If you opt out of the shot, here are a few tips: Avoid close contact with individuals who are easily susceptible to the flu; wash your hands often and thoroughly, especially after touching

anything public like door handles, elevator buttons or stair rails; cover your mouth when you cough and sneeze. If you’ve avoided getting a flu shot because you are afraid of needles there is now a less intimidating option. A new shot called the intradermal flu vaccine uses a shorter and narrower needle than the average flu shot. The ultra fine needle is a mere 0.06 inches, compared to its 1 to 1.5 inch counterpart. Getting a flu shot could save you five to seven days of bed rest. “Get the flu shot, cover your cough with elbow or sleeve, and stay home if you have any symptoms,” Laprocido said. “After your symptoms have subsided, stay at home for another 24 hours.” The CDC predicts that even though 166 to 173 million flu vaccines will be available this flu season, they will still run out. For the past 20 years, the Memorial Health Center has offered flu shots to students. Vaccines will be available on campus during immunization hours. “In my two years on campus, I have taken advantage of the Memorial Health Center’s Flu Clinic,” sophomore Kian Hervey said. “I’ve received a flu shot every year as a child and thought about opting out this year until my mother cautioned me otherwise.”

hair removal in Texas By BETHANY SUBA Health & Fitness Editor bsuba@smu.edu

Sarah Aboukhair, a sophomore at SMU, has been getting laser hair removal treatments for over three years, but her first experience with the procedure did not go the way she had expected. Aboukhair said that the first time she had laser hair removal the technician didn’t know which level to set the laser on or how much pressure to use. The technician ended up changing part of the pigmentation of Aboukahair’s skin. This past September, a law was passed to regulate laser hair removal in Texas. The law requires that laser technicians receive 40 hours of classroom education from a state-approved facility and perform 100 supervised procedures before becoming a laser hair removal technician. The National Laser Institute is the world’s largest cosmetic laser training facility and is located in Dallas and Scottsdale, Ariz. The National Laser

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Institute is a medical spa as well as a medical aesthetics training school. Louis Silberman, the president of the National Laser Institute says that the regulation has not affected business at the Texas facility, but it has given customers more trust in the laser hair removal process. “What [the regulation] means for the consumers in Texas and Arizona is that they are safer,” Silberman said. Aboukhair says she is happy with the new regulation because of her past experience. Some other problems that could affect the skin by misuse of a laser are burning and blistering. “In the wrong hands, untrained hands, those would be inverse outcomes,” Sandra Nash, the spa manager at the National Laser Institute in Dallas, said. Nash teaches students at the National Laser Institute in Dallas and believes that her facility has the most experienced and well-trained staff in the country because of the training that each technician must go through. Nash teaches a two-week program where her students spend 40 hours in the classroom learning laser safety and laser

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November 17 AD Tour of Squarel Agency: meet t Owen Fine Arts Center at 3p.m. Information Session: Learn more about the Management Science major at 5 p.m. in Embrey Huitt-Zollars.

3:53 p.m. Possession of Fictitious License or ID: Main Quad/Flag Pole/ID Table. A student was referred to the Student Conduct Office for possessing a fake ID. Closed. 6:05 p.m. Theft: Owens Arts Center/6101 Bishop Blvd. A student reported theft of her Mac book Laptop and car keys. The theft occurred on 11/13 between 4 p.m. 5 p.m. Open.

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NOVEMBER 14 3:04 a.m. Driving Under the Influence/Consumption of Alcohol by a Minor/Possession of Alcohol by a Minor: 6500 Airline Circle. A non affiliated person was issued a University Park citation for driving under the influence. A student was issued a University Park citation for underage drinking and referred to the Student Conduct Office for possessing alcohol by a minor. Closed.. 8:55 a.m. Criminal Mischief: Patterson Lot/3100 McFarlin Blvd. A student reported some unknown person broke the window to the right passenger side of a van owned by the Community Engagement and Leadership Center. Open.

physics, they listen to guest speakers and representatives from laser manufacturers, and take a three hour marketing class from Silberman to learn how to find the job they want. Then the students spend the remaining six days acquiring their 100 hours of hands on practice on customers who volunteer to model for the technicians in training. Because the National Laser Institute is both a spa and a school, it receives all of its equipment for free. This allows the National Laser Institute to decrease its prices on all of its services immensely. Nash says that for private

clients, services are anywhere from 50 to 75 percent lower than at any other spa; and for people who volunteer to be models for the students, prices can be another 50 percent off. “Our slogan is luxury med spa treatments without the luxury prices,” Silberman said. Aboukhair says she would suggest laser hair removal to anyone who is tired of constantly shaving. “I don’t have to worry about going from putting on pants to oh, I want to change into shorts, because my hair just doesn’t grow back,” Aboukhair said.

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Senators discuss graduation fees By PATRICIA BOH

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As the semester wraps up and students begin to prepare for exams, the student senate is winding down its legislative activity for the semester. Lyle Senator Joe Esau proposed “A Resolution Urging the Cessation of Graduation Diploma Fee,” pushing to eliminate the mandatory $45 graduation fee, the $70 late free and the extra $45 for students with multiple majors. After researching the Internet and Senate public archives, Esau feels “there is no justification for graduation fees.” Esau said, “With tuition rates going up every year and class giving being emphasized more than ever, it seems counter intuitive to charge

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sexual violence survivor and the mother of a rape survivor who will be graduating from SMU next month. Another speaker, who identified himself as an SMU graduate student, spoke about how he learned as a teenager that he had been the result of his mother being raped at age 16 by a married 26-year-old she knew. He said that while he was the first in his family to graduate high school, he also was afraid to date in high school because he was afraid of doing to someone what his biological father had done to his mother. A women’s studies major, who identified herself simply as “Bekha,” also spoke, saying, “It is not trivializing to think or it is not weak to feel that you can count yourself among them because we are all them in some way. We all know someone. We all are someone.” The Speak Out portion wrapped up with Maguire and Partida sharing their own stories of how they had each been a victim of sexual violence. Speakers from the SMU Women’s Center, the Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) at SMU’s Memorial Health Center and the Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center (DARCC) followed. Students were encouraged to contact one of those organizations if they have been a victim of sexual violence, whether it was 20 minutes ago or 20 years ago. “Racists and sexist remarks — you hear it sometimes, and you don’t say much because you think that person is not serious, they know better. But to see that things like that really affect people, especially if that sexist remark or racist comment was said to somebody who has been victim of any kind of prejudice,” Juan Castillo, a junior majoring in fine art and one of several Sigma Lambda Beta brothers in attendance, said. “It is really important, and I do feel better for having come out here.” Val Erwin, SMU Women’s Center program advisor, is passionate about the cause. “I thought this year it was very powerful,” she said. “A lot of different people shared their stories about sexual assault.” Erwin also mentioned that the Women’s Center would be producing “The Vagina Monologues” in February 2012 to raise money for the Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center. “It is really inspiring to see people come out, to see so many people share their stories,” cochair Maguire, a sophomore majoring in Spanish and English, said. “It is often difficult, but I think through tonight, people found empowerment.” If you or someone you know has been a victim of sexual violence, contact the SMU Women’s Center, SMU CAPS or the SMU Police.

students to graduate, especially six weeks before the day of Commencement.” Some of the other senators opposed Esau’s initiative. Lyle Senator Christian Genco agrees with Esau that graduation fees are “a slap in the face” but wants to know where Esau expects the funding to come from. Dedman II Senator Jeff Whelan asked whether or not other universities require

graduation fees and how SMU compares. Law Senator Jason Sansone pointed out that without mandatory graduation fees, the $45 would be charged elsewhere, asking whether students would prefer a tuition increase initially or just pay the graduation fees at the end. In response to objectors, Esau replied, “there’s three things you can count on: death, taxes and SMU raising tuition.” “It’s a good idea, initiative [to eliminate graduation fees], but in the end, it will come down to money,” Dedman I Senator Parminder Deo said. “We will eventually have to pay elsewhere for it either in tuition, etc.”

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This week for one of my classes I’ve been watching the documentary “Pony Excess,” a film all about the demise of Brandon Bub our school’s football program in the mid-1980s. I consider myself functionally illiterate when it comes to most college football teams so the movie was enlightening for me. Repeatedly the boosters, former coaches and players who were all interviewed talked about how in Texas football is like a person’s second religion. It’s amazing to me that college football programs could so blatantly cheat when it came to recruiting a short while ago. It’s almost as if schools were outdoing each other with how extravagant of enticements they could offer potential players. And it’s not as if the outside world was oblivious to what was going on; these practices were endemic to basically all of the schools in the old Southwest Conference. The only difference when it came to

SMU was that they were the first ones to actually get caught. Following the invocation of the Death Penalty for SMU’s football program by the NCAA, our athletics program certainly has not been the same (though during the new era of June Jones it appears we’re moving in a better direction over the past few years). However, corruption in college athletics is not something that’s gone away. One need only look at the current situation at Penn State with the firing of Joe Paterno to see the impact that these scandals have. Last week as I was following the news surrounding the Penn State incident I read that not only had Joe Paterno been asked to leave, but so had the president of the university. That revelation took me aback. I tried imagining what would happen to SMU if both June Jones and R. Gerald Turner left tomorrow. In many ways, I feel like the school would cease to function. I can’t imagine the administrative turmoil at Penn State right now. That’s not to say that I think Joe Paterno’s ouster was

unwarranted. On the contrary. If the allegations against the former head coach are true and Paterno had knowledge of the abuse happening under his auspices, then I bear him no sympathy. I don’t care how long Paterno has been serving at the school nor does it really matter to me how beloved he was by the students at Penn State. Covering up a scandal of this magnitude is deplorable in my eyes, and he shouldn’t be excused because of his age or tenure. I think what’s still amazing to me about this whole affair is the sheer number of people rising up to defend “Joe Pa” and his actions. Last week, groups of students all over the campus at Penn State rose up in protest over the whole affair, as if a person getting fired for essentially enabling sexual abuse is some sort of grave injustice. That some people could so easily overlook his errors is astounding to me and is a horrible disservice to the abuse victims here for whom we ought to be advocating. Moreover, I can’t help but notice that the response here could only happen with a college

football program. Imagine an incident like this happening with a tenured college professor. Would anyone really be defending them? Would people organize protests on campus decrying the firing as unfair? I highly doubt it. Football is a very different beast. The sport is very much like a religion in that many of its followers simply don’t like having their dogma challenged, and I think this is a highly dangerous trend. Ideally, justice will be served pending the investigations at Penn State and things will return to normal in the coming months. But I sincerely hope that “normal” won’t entail maintaining a top-notch athletics program at the expense of any and all ethical obligations. If we’re going to make football into a religion, perhaps we should make room for some lessons in morality. Brandon Bub is a sophomore majoring in English and edits The Daily Campus opinion column. He can be reached for comment at bbub@smu.edu.

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ALUMNI CORNER

For some cowardly lions, scandal brings a lifetime of shame THE ALUMNI GUY

There are some things that you simply cannot believe when you first hear them. Tell me that Bernie Madoff has been doing Warren Buffett’s books all these years or that my chocolate lab, Henry, descends from a family of Shihtzus. But that the most respected coach of the most respected football program in this country is involved in a pedophilia scandal? Say it ain’t Rick Larson so, Joe-Pa. If there is a silver lining in this most atrocious cloud, it is that more of these predators will be found out and, hopefully, brought to justice. Recently, a chiropractor in McKinney was accused of child abuse with his young patient. I’d like to think that the awareness as a result of the situation at Penn State has something to do with that. Some say the media is starting to “beat a dead horse,” but the “horse” isn’t dead. It’s very much alive and lurking in most every community in this country. The Penn State scandal might well be the very fulcrum that will bring child abuse to a new level of awareness. If only we could get the victims to come out of the shadows now, too. Most of them, understandably, cannot come forward. No one knows until now, but when I was eight, some older, sick son of a bitch made an overture to me at a public swimming pool. It’s only taken me 43 years to reveal that small incident. If I can’t forget that, then I wonder what an actual victim must try to forget. I was lucky. My instincts told me to swim away. I didn’t think to call the police, but I did tell my mom when I got home. She drove back to that pool vowing to kill him. If only he’d stuck around. I wonder, now, how many other kids, more innocent than I, bought into his offer to “come home and meet some nice little girls and boys like you.” Coach Paterno was lauded for going to great lengths to protect the rear ends of his players and coaches. I wonder why he couldn’t go the length of a telephone line to protect those of the victims. I wonder why his assistant stood and watched while another committed that horrible act. I guess it was out of shock and disbelief, loyalty to the winning machine that some men in power at Penn State held dearer to them than human dignity and basic human rights. Penn State should cancel the rest of their season and then take a bulldozer to the facilities where these alleged crimes were committed. After all, who wants to dress and bathe in a place where that skin-crawling thing(s) happened? In this case, winning, revenues and BCS rankings have taken priority over basic human rights and the courage to do the right thing. When will we learn? My father often said, “It takes a lifetime to build a reputation and five minutes to tear it down.” Those who have proven to be most cowardly lions, who looked the other way, now know exactly what my father meant. Rick Larson, the Alumni Guy, is a 1981 graduate of SMU as well as a member Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He has been a stockbroker/investment banker for 26 years. He can be reached for comment at richardelarson@gmail.com

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I know I follow in the words of a disgruntled Mustang football player who found in his home stands Arnaud Zimmern a somewhat lacking school spirit. I will admit that I have not attended any football games this semester. I would like to, however, champion the minor sports, the “foreign” or “European” sports like fencing, rugby, badminton and cricket. Admittedly, SMU does a fine job of representing these. It’s not my purpose to bash disdainfully on a perfectly healthy program of eclectic athletics. Even a cursory tour of the Dedman Rec Center gets you face to face with one of Texas’ best rock-wall climbing platforms and a few colorful posters, pinned on the wall like propaganda, telling you to get your derriere in shape with squash, ballroom, bakhti yoga and 6 a.m. swim clinics. But there’s another foreign,

European, “you-probablydidn’t-know-it-was-a” sport that spans two different and often antagonistic cultures: Italy and France. The game is called alternatively bocce ball or pétanque. It’s effectively the shuffleboard of Europe. Okay, okay I take that back. The two are not necessarily interchangeable: the first is Italian, the second is French and the two will never meet. But in an effort of cultural mixing, let’s assume that two games, which objectives are to get larger spheres as close as possible to a smaller sphere, played on a flat surface of a certain organic substance, with certain ways of strategizing between players, and certain mannerisms and expressions, are by all accounts the same. Now as profoundly unexciting as that may sound, it’s surprisingly an addicting game. If you visit the Champ de Mars in Paris or the public parks of Florence, you will inevitably find octogenarians and small children taking the game very seriously. Part of its attractiveness is the

absolute cheapness of the court and equipment (rectangular hard dirt or sand court, metal or wooden spheres, Newtonian physics), the simplicity of the game (just freaking get it as close to the small ball as you can! This is not Dungeons and Dragons!), and the warm leisureliness of it all. I would guess — and this is a naive ballpark figure — that Dallas has a population of approximately 2000 Francophones and at least five times that many authentic Italians. It would be foolish to think they’re all avid bocce/pétanque players, but many of them are, or were, until they found no venue for it. In fact, Dallas Acceuil, the city’s organism for French immigrants, actually has, in its members, a competitive bocce ball team that placed second at a regional tournament (they lost to some deeply Texan little lady with a mean right wrist), and the Italian Club of Dallas has often sponsored tournaments (including Special Olympics Bocce) at the Bent

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Tree Country Club. That there are tournaments to speak of in the first place and that its champion is a little Texas lady with runner-ups from Dallas makes it pretty clear that there is noteworthy and growing populace interest. Building even a rudimentary bocce ball/pétanque court on school grounds and opening it up for tournaments would not only be a way to engage in cross-cultural discourse but would be a good source of revenue for a centrallylocated, big-town college with vast amounts of lawn space. Admittedly that’s not the most glorious of slogans (“Come to SMU — No. 1 school in the nation for some foreign sport involving balls!”) but it’s a quirky name to fame with a reasonable cost-income benefit, little maintenance, and the potential for a lot of fun. Consider it if you will. Arnaud Zimmern is a sophomore majoring in mathematics, English, French, and German. He can be reached for comment at azimmern@ smu.edu

Arts & Entertainment

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BUSINESS

FILM

Steve Jobs remembered

Deep Ellum drinks up By GRACE ROBERTS Contributing Writer groberts@smu.edu

Courtesy of “Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview”

In 1995, Steve Jobs recorded an interview for a TV series. The “lost interview” has now been turned into a film.

By CHRISTINE JONAS Associate A&E Editor cjonas@smu.edu

Just over 16 years ago, Steve Jobs was interviewed for Bob Cringely’s TV series “Triumph of the Nerds.” Only parts of the interview were used on TV and the hourlong interview has been lost ever since — until now. Recently, the interview footage was found in the director’s garage, has made into a movie: “Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview.” When Steve Jobs died on Oct. 5, an overwhelming amount of responses from around the globe showed the phenomenal impact this one man’s life had on the world. Yet, many people did not know how Jobs created and grew Apple into the powerhouse it is today. Throughout the interview, Jobs talks in depth about every step he took to get involved in technology. He started with telling a story about when he was 12-yearsold and contacted the CEO of Hewlett-Packard personally and landed a summer job there that same year. Jobs explained step-by-step and year-by-year how he and his co-founder, Steve Wozniak, created their first computers and how he did whatever it took

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along with a deep sadness at the catastrophic state the company was in at the time. Jobs also talked about the future of the company and of technological advancements, like the internet. At this point in time, he was very worried about Apple and did not believe there was a way out of the downward spiral the company was in. Jobs believed that when he left Apple, they were 10 years ahead of any other computing company technologically, but in the 10 years that he was not at the company, they only advanced about 25 percent. In that time, other computing companies, like Microsoft, had caught up and exceeded Apple. He spoke about the internet like a true visionary. While it was still only a concept at this time, he believed it would someday become the center of communication and business. Clearly, he was right. This movie shows Jobs in a light that most people have never seen him in. It is very interesting to hear him explain the company that has effected so many people. “Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview” will be showing at The Magnolia Theatre Wednesday and Thursday at 7:15 p.m. and 9 p.m.

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course, drinks. The event also kicked off Dallas Beer Week, a series of events around Dallas featuring beers from Texas and around the globe, which goes until Friday. The launch party was the first opportunity for beer-lovers to purchase the locally made alcoholic beverages where four different brews were tapped. Reardon, a former Dallas bar owner, used to be a home brewer. The DEBC founder formed a connection with fans long before construction began on brick warehouse in Deep Ellum on June 17 through his blog. The new brewery will produce over 5,000 barrels of beer a year. DEBC is “dedicated to making extraordinary beers and supporting all things local.” According the DEBC’s Facebook page, the locals are giving the brewery a warm welcome. “We love what you guys are doing! So pumped to get a day off to imbibe!” the folks behind 3 Men and a Taco, a Dallas food truck, posted. Likewise, James DeBoi wrote on the DEBC’s wall, “The

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two beers were fantastic. I am look forward to many more in the future.” Although The Common Table is currently the first and only place to purchase DEBC products, Reardon hopes to gain more distributors as the company gets started. Reardon and his employees are also planning an inauguration party that will likely take place Nov. 23 and will include a toy drive to get consumers in the holiday spirit. DEBC fans will be able to visit the brewery’s tasting room and sample the local recipes by early next year. Until then, follow DEBC to all their Dallas Beer Week events to get a taste of their Double Brown Stout or their Backslider Blonde Ale. Join the brewery at Cane Rosso for a beer dinner on Wednesday or at Trinity Hall on Thursday. To conclude the week’s festivities, DEBC is offering a special tour on Nov. 18 at their home in the heart of Deep Ellum: 2821 St. Louis St., Dallas, TX 75226.

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Sports

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

OPINION COLUMN

Women’s basketball team battles it out on the court with TCU By MERCEDES OWENS Staff Writer jyonis@smu.edu

Its time to pack the house at Moody Coliseum as the SMU women’s basketball team takes on cross-town rivals the TCU Horned Frogs. SMU is back home after defeating Arkansas-Little Rock on the road to host TCU on Thursday at 7 p.m. During their last matchup with TCU, the Mustangs fought until the shot clock ran out before losing the battle in double overtime 87-73. The first overtime left SMU and TCU in a deadlock with a score of 68-68 early on before remaining there for the last five minutes. After losing three starters to injury and fouls, the Mustangs weren’t able to hold off the Horned Frogs during the second overtime and TCU took on a 9-2 run to win the ball game. Guard Samantha Mahnesmith led the Mustangs with 19 points and put four of five shots behind the arc on the score board. Christine Elliott also had a good game and finished with a double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds. Both Mahnesmith and Elliott have returned for the 2011 to 2012 season to once again take on TCU. This season the Horned Frogs will be coming to Moody with a record of 1-1 after taking down UTSA for their season opener 83-60. TCU has lost its two leading scorers from the previous season but are being led by senior Antoinette Thompson with 13.5 points per game. With a 2-0 start, the Mustangs will be coming into the match with a strong defense holding its opponents

What college athletics should really be focusing on Ever since the Penn State’s scandals has dominated headlines, SMU’s name trails not far behind. ERICA The death PENUNURI penalty once again resurfaces and the talk grows repetitive. Many people ask will the NCAA crack down with the death penalty again? Well, those people are asking the wrong question. The real question people should be asking especially today is, what is it about college football that makes people abandon their morals and make ill decisions? The Penn State scandal is another cautionary tale that will serve as a reminder how collegiate sports tolerates corruptness. It was once SMU, it is now Penn State, University of Miami, USC, North Carolina, along with undoubtedly future accounts of the religion of football trumping the basic value of ethics. The Penn State scandal broke last week, but records show the very first credible report made to the police was back in 1998. The mother of a victim told a local Pennsylvania newspaper, the Harrisburg Patriot-News, that she was kept from speaking to the media by police. Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State coach who is now allegedly accused of sodomized young boys, abruptly retired EDITOR

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Sophomore guard Krystal Johnson attempts to make a pass during play against Rice March 3 in Moody Coliseum.

thus far to 60 points or less. Mahnesmith and junior guard Alisha Filmore have led the Mustangs in scoring this season with Mahnesmith scoring 13 in the opener and Filmore with a solid 15 against Arkansas-Little Rock. Despite last season’s loss in Fort Worth, the series history shows SMU to be the stronger team,

defeating the Horned Frogs 40-15 since the rivalry began in the 1976 to 1977 season. The Hamburger Man and the SMU Student-Athlete Advisory Committee will be sponsoring a “Burgers and Basketball” tailgate before the game. For $5 fans can purchase food and beverages starting at 6 p.m.

his longtime position as defensive coordinator at Penn State in 1999. Coincidence? I’ll leave that for you to decide. SMU was subjected to one of the largest collegiate sports scandals in history because of two factors: they got caught and the severeness of the punishment that was given. Paying players for play was no secret among the entire collegiate football realm. The Southwest Conference was practically built off it. Texas A&M had a one million dollar slush fund and Oklahoma State did not fall far behind. As mentioned before the issue is nothing new, so why does it persist? There seems to be this mentality that football is religion. It is this mentality that creates idolized football figures among the sport — Joe Paterno was one of them. He was a football deity among the Penn State community and for some reason excused . However, even today you won’t find a small town Tuscaloosca reporter digging around the offices of Nick Saban in hopes of cracking some story. The town lives off of football – literally. With all of the money in the NCAA, the power within this organization is dangerous. Communities won’t dare challenge the actions of Joe Paterno or other leading figures until it’s too late. Many SMU students and even alumni are treating the possible move to the Big East as some sort of revelation for this university. Has anyone stopped to recognize the major academic achievements SMU has made since football

has stepped down from the main platform? After the demise of the Death Penalty, SMU was able to shift its focus to academics. SMU’s 15 teams rated a perfect 100 percent and all 15 of SMU’s programs rated by the NCAA were equal to or better than the national average in Graduation Success Rates (GSR) according to data released by the NCAA. Obviously, pride in athletics for any university or community is vital. However this pride has transcended into a form of life or death among collegiate level. It seems the NCAA needs to preach it’s purpose; “to govern competition in a fair, safe, equitable and sportsmanlike manner, and to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student-athlete is paramount.” The NCAA has dropped the student part in student-athlete. In addition to these scandals the NCAA is also treading in the murky waters of professional vs. studentathlete issues like the current Ed O’bannon vs. NCAA case — but that is another story. I can only hope that when leaders in collegiate athletics begin to turn their heads from ethical issues they will turn to English philosopher Edmund Berke, “All that is necessary for triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

Erica Penunuri is a junior majoring in journalism with a minor in spanish. She can be reached for comment at epenunuri@smu.edu

Who Caught Our Eye Men’s Player of the Week By CESAR RINCON Staff Writer crincon@smu.edu

This week’s Male Athlete of the Week is none other than the Dallas native Jaime Ibarra-Perez. The sophomore has been the starting goalkeeper of the 2011 to 2012 season for the SMU men’s soccer team. “It’s a great honor being the starter. I mean there are three

other great goalkeepers on the team but unfortunately only one of us can play so I’m just grateful the coaches gave me the opportunity,” Ibarra said. The men’s soccer team has had many moments of which to celebrate on and outside the field. The Mustangs proudly held high the Conference-USA Championship trophy this last

Sunday afternoon at Hurricane Stadium in Tulsa, Okla., as they shut out UAB with a score of 2-0. “Winning that trophy was unbelievable; it encourages me because I can see so much work paying off, but I can’t say were still not hungry for the even bigger trophy that lies ahead,” Ibarra said. The Mustangs held Marshall,

South Carolina and UAB down on the road towards the C-USA Championship trophy. Ibarra recorded two shutouts while playing against South Carolina and UAB, in which he does not take complete credit. “I have to say the shutouts were work from the whole “back five.” I can’t take the credit because without the other four defenders I couldn’t have gotten the clean sheets,” Ibarra said. Ibarra says now the team is looking forward to their next opponent in the NCAA tournament, as they search for the national championship. “We don’t have much time to work before the big game, but we’re all just focusing on getting the little things right; those are the things that could make or break a game,” Ibarra said. The Dallasite says the team has the talent and team chemistry, which could lead them to the final four in the NCAA bracket. As for the next season, Ibarra says that he will have to earn again the starting position as the goalkeeper for the team. “Next season is a whole new ball game; all four of us are coming in with a clean sheet to fight for that spot once again,” Ibarra said. Random Facts Lucky charms: “I don’t have any lucky charms really, but one thing I always have written on my gloves is my father’s birthday; he passed away last year so I always write that on them in his memory.” Favorite music: “I’ve gotten odd looks from my teammates and coaches for my pump up music, but it’s a Mexican artist named Gerardo Ortiz; he gets the job done.“ Greatest fear: “Every time I walk off the field after a game, I fear that could be my last.” Favorite hangout at SMU: “I’m always at Hughes-Trigg. That place has everything: food, computers, TV and a place to nap.”