INSIDE
A close look at Meadows’ Myra Woodruff
How to study and stay healthy
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Students reflect on Mandela
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Maligi impresses as assistant coach
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December 9, 2013 MONDAY High 39, Low 27 TUESday High 39, Low 28
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Weather
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A large tree outside the Kappa Alpha Theta house fell during the storm.
Ice storm hits Dallas Associated press
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Mustangs running back Prescott Line (#29) is tackled while running the ball. Line had eight carries for 28 yards total in Saturday’s game.
Mustangs denied bowl game Strong performance in icy stadium against UCF not enough to win Matthew Costa Associate Sports Editor mcosta@smu.edu The final game of the SMU Mustangs 2013 season (5-7 overall, 4-4 in the American Athletic Conference) was a cold-hearted 17-13 loss to the conference’s best team, the University of Central Florida Knights (11-1 overall, 8-0 in AAC), and a lost opportunity for a fifth-consecutive bowl bid. After taking a 10-3 halftime lead into the locker room, the Mustangs were held down for the last 30 minutes of the game on a frozen Ford Stadium while UCF’s quarterback Blake Bortles began to find the groove that he’s used all season on the way to an automatic BCS bowl game. SMU was able to force a fumble on the Knights’ first possession of
the third quarter, but was forced to punt shortly after. UCF quickly marched down the field on an 8-play drive that spanned 66 yards, culminating in a Bortles score that tied the game up. Following the touchdown, SMU was able to move within field goal range that Chase Hover nailed from 39 yards out to give the Mustangs the last lead it’d have this season. Bortles once again called his own number on the next UCF possession. Using a 15-yard scramble up the left sideline, he was able to outrun several SMU defenders and dive over the pylon for the Knights’ first lead of the game, and what would eventually prove to be the final margin. In what may very well be his last possible regular season game as a Knight, Bortles had more than 270 yards in the ice and the two
rushing touchdowns. The Mustangs had several chances to respond in the final frame, but were unable to convert any of their three fourth-down attempts, despite the strong efforts of quarterback Neal Burcham. When senior Garrett Gilbert was ruled out of the game, Burcham was once again called upon to help SMU get to the promised land. The redshirt first-year played admirably, throwing 24 completions on 34 attempts for 222 yards and a touchdown to Keenan Holman in the second quarter. He was also aided by a solid rushing attack led by running back and linebacker Kevin Pope’s 50 yards on eight carries. Despite the offensive attack, the Mustangs were unable to answer the Knights when they needed it the most and fell to their first
losing record in the regular season since 2008. SMU went on to fall by a 4-point margin and miss a postseason bid, but there were many opportunities that were lost earlier this season, including a terrible fourth quarter against rival Texas Christian University and an overall poor performance versus Rutgers University. This coming offseason will be a tough one for a team that had lofty expectations against what some called a fairly weak conference schedule. Head Coach June Jones and his staff will have to work hard in determining who will officially replace Gilbert, Jeremy Johnson and several of the other seniors that have by all accounts changed the mindset of SMU football.
North Texas will start to thaw out Sunday, with temperatures slightly above freezing and a bit of sunshine. But it will likely be a couple of days before the ice that’s coated the region melts completely. “It’s just a matter of us warming up eventually to help melt this ice,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Dennis Cain. Bitter cold temperatures followed the snow and ice late last week, so sheets of ice were still covering many roadways. The Texas Department of Transportation on Sunday was bringing in additional graders with special blades designed to break up thick ice on a particularly treacherous areas. Cain said there’s a range of conditions on the area’s highways — “It’s kind of hit and miss.” “The residential roads are ice skating rinks right now, the secondary roads are improving,” he said. Meanwhile, hundreds of departing flights were again cancelled at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Temperatures in the Dallas area were expected to reach a high of 37 in some places by the afternoon. But whatever ice is left will freeze again overnight. The National Weather Service says Monday’s temperatures will
reach into the high 30s, with 40s coming on Wednesday. Since Friday morning, a stretch of I-35 north of Dallas had a thick coating of ice, making driving conditions troublesome. Motorists inched along over the weekend and sometimes were at standstill for hours at a time, forcing them to either sleep in their vehicles or take refuge in shelters set up in the town of Sanger, located about 50 miles north of Dallas. Texas Department of Transportation spokesman Tony Hartzel said Sunday that graders with special blades will break up thick ice — anywhere from 4- to 6-inches thick — along that stretch of I-35. “A standard snow plow doesn’t work on solid ice,” he said. On Interstate 20 west of Weatherford, about 30 miles west of Fort Worth, crews were working to clear off tractor-trailers that parked on the interstate as conditions deteriorated. The area was virtually impassable, said Texas Department of Transportation spokesman Michael Peters. “TxDOT crews will be working hard over the next 24 hours to clear roadways. This is Day 4 of a 24/7 operation to keep roads passable,” Peters said Sunday. He said TxDOT will work
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Student Life
SMU jumps 10 spots in college sexual health ranking Katelyn Gough Assignments Desk Editor kgough@smu.edu The conversation about sex is nothing new to college students across the country. Neither are conversations about healthy sex. In today’s “modern sexual era,” often dominated by debates on the “hookup culture” and the campuscliche of friends with benefits, sexual health is becoming a top priority at universities nationwide. SMU is no different. “Students need to be informed so that they can make informed decisions on their sexual health,” said Lisa Joyner, assistant director of SMU’s Health Education. SMU has expanded its health education over recent academic years, including annual HIV/ AIDS testing, and condoms readily-available for anonymous pick-up daily in the health center. “Some students may decide to be abstinent and some may decide to have sex,” Joyner explained. “Knowing information about contraceptives and different sexually transmitted infections is important.”
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SMU came in at #112 out of 140 schools on Trojan’s “Sexual Health Report Card Rankings,” a 10 point jump from 2012.
So how does SMU compare to the sexual health resources at other schools? Trojan Condoms released its eighth-annual “Sexual Health Report Card Rankings” in November. Of the 140 schools that made the list, SMU came in at 112
— up ten spots from 2012. Trojan’s ranking system relies on the research surveys completed by Sperling’s BestPlaces, which used both a two-page questionnaire filled out by the university’s health center and research into
information readily available to students to determine the scoring. “It’s trying to celebrate the schools that are doing the best jobs getting information out to the students so they can make their own decisions,” lead researcher
Bert Sperling said. “[It] presents an unbiased look at the kinds of information [health centers] provide to the students.” Sperling explained that the information gathered for the rankings is useful not only to health centers for their own improvement, but to students and parents as well. The rankings set up a comparison of schools, allowing current and prospective families to see what a particular university excels in, and what higher-ranked schools offer that could improve the initial university. “Students are actually going to the administration in certain cases [to petition for greater resources],” Sperling said. “It’s great for parents…knowing that their students are safe and getting well taken care of.” Trojan initially began the rankings program eight years ago to spark “dialogue and [inspire] action” at universities from all regions of the country, as well as acknowledge the concerted efforts of health centers at the ranked universities. “We continue to see great strides made on campuses
nationwide,” Mark Gromosaik, a project manager at Trojan said. “Students and faculty [are] using the Sexual Health Report Card as a tool to shed light on the sexual health resources available to spark change on campus.” Trojan’s rankings and results saw the addition of online resources for the 2013 Report Card, including an E-Tool Kit featuring “fact-based insights, tips and resources,” as well as a Virtual Consultant — sexual health expert, Trojan Sexual Health Advisory Council member and Yale alumnus Colin Adamo. “We wanted to take the conversation a step further by not only shedding light on the amount of resources provided to students on campus but also offer them tools to help them increase their future ranking,” Gromosaik explained. Trojan hopes to continue to grow their own sexual health resources available to students nationwide, regardless of their own on-campus opportunities. Whether their school is ranked first, as Princeton was for
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