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Mustangs pull away, beat UConn Samuel Snow Contributing Writer ssnow@smu.edu Trying to collect their fourth win of the season, SMU took on the winless University of Connecticut on Saturday at Gerald Ford Stadium. Down by 10, UConn took over with 3:50 remaining in the game and a comeback on their minds. Quarterback Casey Cochran barely avoided a sack before throwing a pick-six to Stephon Sanders. That put the score at 38-21. “It was just playing defense like how we’ve been practicing,” Sanders said. “We actually had a fire zone on there, and I knew, like, when we have a fire zone on, the ball comes out quick, and that is exactly what happened so we got to stay in our coverage, and everybody did their job. It was just the whole defense executing their plays, and the result was a touchdown, which is what we needed.” Donning their new red helmets, SMU got off to a slow start offensively. The Mustang defense, however, was able to prevent UConn from getting into a groove offensively. Following a missed 42-yard field goal from Connecticut, Garrett Gilbert connected with Keenan Holman for a leaping 1-yard touchdown reception. Gilbert showed off his wheels on a 23-yard run to set up the touchdown. The Mustang defense was able to follow up by holding UConn to 14 yards before the SMU offense took over again. Then, with a 12 play, 80-
yard drive, Gilbert completed a 4-yard touchdown pass to Jeremy Johnson. With that pass, SMU took a 14-0 lead. Looking to keep it close, though, UConn followed that drive up with a 75-yard touchdown drive of its own. With a methodical drive, the Huskies scored on a 2-yard touchdown run by Max DeLorenzo bringing the score to 14-7. With 2:28 remaining in the first half, SMU took over looking to take a two-possession lead. Gilbert completed the final four passes of the half to Johnson, including a 5-yard touchdown reception that gave the Mustangs a 21-7 lead going into the half. “They were playing a lot of cover-4, so they weren’t allowing me to get on top,” Johnson said. I caught a lot of underneath routes, and I think they did a good job with not letting us get deep at all, really.” The SMU offense struggles to find a groove to start the second half, and UConn looked to take advantage of that. On the second drive of the half for the Huskies, with UConn taking the ball 62 yards, Cochran completed a fourth-down pass to Geremy Davis for the touchdown. That score brought UConn within one possession at 21-14. SMU finally got the offense going with 1:03 remaining in the third quarter. Gilbert opened the drive with a 54-yard pass to Der’rikk Thompson, and — using the hurry-up offense — followed with a 20-yard touchdown catchand-run to Holman. “It’s a huge product of how much work, again as an offensive unit, that we put in,” Gilbert said,
“From last year, about midway through the season, as I feel like we started to get comfortable with one another on into the spring, again, the work that my receivers and the offensive line, out there every day putting in extra work, continuing to get better. That’s where that all comes from.” The Huskies, looking to keep the score close, followed that up with a touchdown drive of their own. Cochran completed an impressive 25-yard catch to Davis for the touchdown to bring the score to 28-21. Late in the fourth, SMU took over the ball at UConn’s 43-yard line, following a poor punt by Cole Wagner. However, the Mustangs were only able to turn that into a 27-yard field goal by Chase Hover. With very little hope of a comeback, Cochran threw an interception to Darrion Richardson, which iced the game for SMU. “We won, that was good,” Head Coach June Jones said. “Made it, as we always do, a little harder than it is supposed to be, but playing in this new conference, these teams, regardless of what their record is are big and fast, and they are more physical, I think, than what we have been playing against, so we have to do everything right, and I am proud of Garrett [Gilbert]. I thought the [offensive] line, with the size and their front four, I thought throwing the ball 52 times, they competed pretty hard.” After picking up the fourth win of the season, SMU will travel to play the University of South Florida Saturday for a 6 p.m. faceoff. USF is 2-6, and the Mustangs will look to take their fifth win of the season.
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Mustangs wide receiver Jeremy Johnson #15 is tackled by Huskies linebacker Ryan Donohue #52.
JFK 50
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Exhibit commemorates assassination
Alyssa Parrish Contributing Writer amparrish@smu.edu As Dallas prepares for the 50th anniversary of John F Kennedy’s assassination, SMU joins in the celebration of his life by commemorating the assassination and the effects it had on Dallas and America with the JFK:50 exhibit, located in Fondren Central Library. The Fondren Library Exhibits Committee, with the help of the DeGoyler Library, put together an exhibit that showcases a wide variety of artifacts relating to the president’s assassination. “We really wanted to commemorate the assassination as a historical moment. We want to be sure to not forget,” said Robert Walker, director of the Norwick Center for Digital Services and designer of the exhibit. One of the standout displays includes six models of the camera that filmed the assassination. These models have been lined up, side by side, on a wooden board, symbolizing six seconds on the grassy knoll. “It’s one thing to know the model of the camera, but to see it and pick it up, to realize that is
weighs eight pounds, makes it more surreal,” Walker said. This item and several others came from Walker’s personal collection. He has spent 30 years researching Kennedy and his assassination. Kennedy’s inauguration address from SMU’s government documents collection to letters the mayor of Dallas received from the Earle Cabell collection to fiction books about the president and how he died are also on display. Many of the artifacts are reprinted replicas of the original documents. The Norwick Center for Digital Services played a large part in placing these items on display. The Norwick Center is able to take such detailed scans of documents that it allows for exact replicas to be printed, even down to the color and appearance of texture. Several photos of the events on Nov. 22, 1963, and the following days are scattered throughout the exhibit. All of the photos are originals from the Belo collection here on campus. A section of the exhibit also pays a small tribute to Darwin Payne, a prominent reporter at the time of the assassination and a former faculty member at SMU. This exhibit is only the most recent installment put on by the Fondren Library Exhibits Committee. “Each year the Fondren Library Exhibits Committee installs five exhibits in the library that highlight different Central University Libraries events and other topical and timely events,” said John Milazzo, digitization and lab coordinator for the Norwick Center for Digital Services and head of the Exhibit Committee. “Each exhibit showcases
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Lyft’s cars are adorned with a signature pink mustache on their grill.
New app offers a ‘Lyft’ Clara Lemon Contributing Writer clemon@smu.edu
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The speech President Kennedy was set to deliver in Dallas before his assassination is one of the exhibits on display in Fondren Library.
library materials.” While the committee has not yet received any formal feedback on the display, what it has noticed is an increased interest in the display. “People were stopping to look at it as soon as we started putting it up. While we were putting it up,” Walker said. While the exhibit explores the societal impact of the assassination, it makes no claims
as to what exactly or how it happened that fateful day. Rather, it presents original material to help the observer think about and come to their own conclusion. “We want people to remember what happened because it’s serious,” Walker said. “We want people to explore what they think happened.” New items will be added to the collection as the anniversary approaches.
Dallas has just welcomed a new car service into town: Lyft, an app-based ride-sharing system that allows users to schedule rides in their area through an app on their smartphone. The service comes to Dallas in the midst of a controversy over a similar app, Uber, which arrived in the city in August of 2012. These fast and convenient ride-sharing services compete with other taxi companies like Yellow Cab, and both Lyft and Uber have faced several legal battles while attempting to expand. Lyft, like Uber, was founded in San Francisco, and California became the first state to legalize the ride sharing service under the umbrella of “transportation network companies.” Other cities are struggling to incorporate the companies into local legal structures. In many other states the companies were issued cease and desist papers, and faced many citations from officers in Dallas. In October, Mayor Mike Rawlings led an investigation to look into
the legitimacy of a proposed city ordinance that was designed to ban the service. While Uber uses licensed limousine drivers in town cars, Lyft picks its drivers from the community who use their own cars. Lyft representatives say they hope this will give the service a friendly feel. “It’s an awesome social experience that people love and we’re super pumped to have launched in Dallas,” said Ryan Hupfer, member of the Lyft launch team in Dallas. Drivers will appear in different cars, identifiable by a giant pink mustache at the front of the vehicle, and passengers are required to pay by tip. There is also a background check for each driver, and $1 million per occurrence in excess liability insurance. It remains to be seen how Lyft will fare in Dallas’ legal system, as well as whether costumers will prefer the service to the already established Uber app. For SMU students interested in trying Lyft, the company is offering first-time users $20 in credit on their first ride with code SMU20.