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SMU anticipates Moody reopening Hillary HirschFeld Contributing Writer hhirschfield@smu.edu As the Mustangs begin their 2013-2014 basketball season, the SMU community anxiously awaits the reopening of Moody Coliseum. Throughout the past year, the 57-year-old campus and Dallas landmark has undergone a $47 million renovation project that revitalizes the stadium as a dominant collegiate sports arena and multi-purpose facility. The first basketball games in the newly-renovated Moody Coliseum will take place in a double-header Jan. 4, in which the men’s team will take on University of Connecticut and the women’s team will compete against The University of South Florida. However, the community will get a first glance of the Moody Coliseum transformation during SMU’s December Commencement ceremony on the 21st. “The renovation of Moody Coliseum enhances a valuable resource that serves as a gathering place convenient to the entire region,” SMU President R. Gerald Turner said. “Programs ranging from academic ceremonies to George W. Bush Presidential offerings to athletic events will attract tens of thousands to SMU.” The Moody Coliseum
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SMU will get a first look at the new Moody Coliseum on Dec. 21.
renovation project was largely backed by a generous $20 million gift from the Moody Foundation in 2011. One of the most significant new attractions in the Coliseum will be The Miller Center, a project made possible through an additional $10 million donation from SMU alumnus and trustee David Miller ’72, ‘73 and his wife Carolyn Miller. Named in the couple’s honor, The Miller Center is a prominent addition to the north side of Moody Coliseum featuring The Miller Champions Club — a 5,000-square-foot furnished entertainment area on the concourse level — and 12 suites with courtside views, as well as additional resources to support
student athletes and coaches. While the renovation and expansion project maintains the historical spirit of Moody Coliseum, several modern enhancements are featured to add to the overall event experience for the public. For instance, the refurbished Moody Coliseum will allow for luxury suites, loge seating, wider concourses and raised ceilings, improved concessions, and upgraded restrooms and locker rooms. Updating the technology as well, other improvements include new video boards, scoreboards, sound system, broadcast capabilities and heating and cooling systems.
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Academics
Wheaton publishes economic model on human trafficking Emily Sims News Writer esims@smu.edu SMU’s Elizabeth Wheaton Ph.D., senior lecturer in economics, believes that finding solutions to social issues is possible by examining the economics behind the problem. Wheaton began researching human trafficking in 2005 and since then, along with two other researchers, developed an economic model of human trafficking published in 2010, which she hopes will inspire others to look at social issues from an economic standpoint. “My goal with writing the paper is to encourage people to use economics to solve huge social issues,” Wheaton said. “Whether it’s human trafficking or obesity or just whatever the problem is you can look at the economics to focus on a goal that you have. I really just want to teach people how to apply economics to social issues.” The paper, “The Economics of Human Trafficking” coauthored by Edward J. Schauer and Thomas V. Galli, was written after Wheaton and Schauer wrote a literature review on human trafficking. According to Wheaton, her interest in human trafficking came from her interest in child labor. After earning her masters in international business, Wheaton went back to school and got her PhD in economics in order to focus on child labor, which is what she wrote her dissertation on. Her co-author, Schauer, had written a paper on criminal justice and focused a lot on prostitution.
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African National Congress President Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie, greet the crowd after arriving at a rally and a week-long national ANC conference held inside South Africa in 1991 for the first time in 30 years.
Obama mourns Mandela Associated Press Counting himself among the millions influenced by Nelson Mandela, President Barack Obama on Thursday mourned the death of the anti-apartheid icon with whom he shares the distinction of being his nation’s first black president. “He no longer belongs to us. He belongs to the ages,” Obama said in a somber appearance at the White House. “I am one of the countless millions who drew inspiration from Nelson Mandela’s life,” he continued. “And like so many around the globe, I cannot fully imagine my own life without the example that Nelson Mandela set.” Mandela died earlier Thursday at 95. He had spent much of the year in and out of the hospital, and his illness prevented a meeting with Obama when the U.S. president visited South Africa this summer. Still, the former South African president’s legacy influenced nearly every aspect of Obama’s trip. Obama, along with wife Michelle and daughters Malia
and Sasha, made an emotional visit to Robben Island, standing quietly together in the tiny cell where Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years in prison. Obama also met privately with members of Mandela’s family. The president is likely to travel to South Africa for Mandela’s funeral, though a trip has not yet been announced. Other former U.S. presidents and dignitaries are also likely to attend. Obama ordered that the U.S. flag be flown at half-staff at the White House, federal buildings, military bases and embassies until sunset Monday. Obama’s political rise has drawn inevitable comparisons to the South African leader. Both are Nobel Peace Prize winners and the first black men elected to lead their countries. However, the two men met in person only once, a hastily arranged meeting in a Washington hotel room in 2005 when Obama was a U.S. senator. A photo of the meeting hangs in Obama’s personal office at the White House, showing a smiling Mandela sitting on a chair, his legs outstretched, as the young senator
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Working parttime during school pays off Bridget Graf Contributing Writer bgraf@smu.edu REBECCA KEAY / The Daily Campus
Professor Elizabeth Wheaton wrote her dissertation on child labor.
“I did my dissertation on child labor and my co-author was doing criminal justice and prostitution and in between prostitution and child labor you have human trafficking and so we wrote a paper on sex trafficking in the U.S. and it was just a literature review and then we wrote the economics of human trafficking paper,” Wheaton said. According to Wheaton, their economic model is very basic because the issue of human trafficking is extremely complex. The model breaks down the issue of human trafficking into three parts: the supply of vulnerable populations that are potential
victims, the traffickers and the consumers. The model then examines the costs, benefits and incentives of each part. “It’s really looking at the different pieces of the human trafficking market and figuring out what’s going on at each part of the market,” Wheaton said. “Then you can look at those pieces of it and say, where do we want to focus law enforcement? Where do we want to focus laws? Where do nonprofit organizations want to be involved? Where are the most efficient places for non-profits to
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Sophomore Lizzie Fitzgibbons, a business major from Kansas City, Mo. has worked at BEYOND Pedaling in Snider Plaza since August, attending the front desk and instructing pedaling classes of her own. “While I don’t think my career will be a spin instructor, I love health and fitness and would love to somehow be able to incorporate that into my job someday down the road, whether that be opening my own studio or managing health centers,” Fitzgibbons said. Like Fitzgibbons, more and more SMU students
reaches down to shake his hand. A copy of the photo also hung in Mandela’s office in Johannesburg. The two presidents did speak occasionally on the phone, including after the 2008 election, when Mandela called Obama to congratulate him on his victory. The U.S. president called Mandela in 2010 after the South African leader’s young granddaughter was killed in a car accident. Obama also wrote the introduction to Mandela’s memoir, “Conversations With Myself.” Mandela had already shaped Obama’s political beliefs well before their first encounter. As a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Obama joined protests against the school’s investments during South Africa’s apartheid era. In 1981, Obama focused his first public political speech on the topic. “It’s happening an ocean away,” Obama said, according to a retelling of the story in his memoir “Dreams From My Father.” ‘’But it’s a struggle that touches each and every one of us. Whether we know it or not. Whether we want it or not.”
are taking on part-time jobs during school, both on and off campus. While such jobs may not directly translate into an intended career path, students find that work experience leads to positive outcomes. From creating a network to learning valuable skills in the workplace, part-time jobs do more than just pay the rent. Sophomore Jayce Miller, a finance major from Allen, Texas, agrees. Miller works for the Mustang Academic Bridge Program, which aids first-year SMU students with their transition from high school to college, both socially and academically. “[Having a job during
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Icy weather, rain results in school closings Associated Press With North Texas expecting the worst of a winter storm, school districts wasted no time in cancelling Friday classes across the region. The list of school systems cancelling their Friday classes lengthened throughout Thursday evening, led by the Dallas and Fort Worth school districts. Many suburban and outlying school districts also have canceled Friday classes, while some districts are delaying the start of classes until 10 a.m. Also, the University of Texas at Arlington, University of North Texas, Texas Woman’s University, Texas Christian University and most Dallas-Fort Worth-area community colleges have canceled Friday classes. Also, Dallas County, Denton County and Rockwall County offices will be closed.