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The plan is said to call for a mix of strategic spending and selective national belt-tightening. More details will be released after Monday’s meeting. King Tut is now missing Egypt’s minister of antiquities announced Sunday that at least 17 artifacts are missing from the Museum of Cairo following a break-in. The famous statue of King Tut and other pharaohs are among the missing items. Police have several suspects in custody regarding the looting of Egypt’s ancient treasures. Zuckerberg stalker is served Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, was awarded a temporary restraining order against a man identified as Pradeep Manukonda. According to court documents, the suspect is accused of trying to contact Zuckerberg numerous times and the CEO has been keeping a low profile since the incident. CEO caught in prostitution sting Michael Gilliland resigned as CEO of Sunflowers Farmers Market after he was arrested in a child prostitution sting. He was one of eight people arrested in the sting. Gilliland now faces a charge of felony child prostitution. FIRST COPY FREE, ADDITIONAL COPIES 50 CENTS OPINION | PAGE 6 The Daily Campus Ed Board gives opinion on winter closings See what they said Find out how the Mustangs faired this weekend MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2011 VOLUME 96, ISSUE 65 Texas is facing a shortage of a key component of the cocktail used in lethal injections – sodium thiopental. With an angry European Union beginning to ban exports of the drug, Texas has been left with only enough to carry out two lethal injections scheduled for the end of this month. Texas’ shortage comes as a result of Hospira, the only American producer of sodium thiopental, which announced that it would no longer produce the drug, which was to be manufactured in an Italian plant. But after Italian authorities wanted Hospira to insure that the drug would not be used in lethal injections, the company decided to shut down production because it has “no other viable plants” where the product can be produced, Daniel Rosenburg, a spokesperson for Hospira said. He said that because the drug is sold through wholesalers, it is almost impossible to keep track of where it goes. “Unfortunately, there is no way for our trading partners to monitor or control what their thousands of customers in the COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL By JESSICA HUSEMAN Politics Editor [email protected]Texas faces shortage of lethal injection drugs Dallas dogs celebrate adoption,Valentine’s Day By SARAH KRAMER News Editor [email protected]SARAH KRAMER/The Daily Campus The Dallas Animal Services and Adoption center’s “spokes dog,” Grace, sits during the DASAC’s second annual Valentine’s Day kickoff adoption event. Grace was rescued several months ago, and has shown marked health im- provements in her time with the center. See LETHAL on Page 2 DEATH PENALTY Egypt struggles to find stability SOCIAL MEDIA By ASHLEY WITHERS Associate News Editor [email protected]See EGYPT on Page 5 Before the days of newfeeds, Twitter- feeds, tweets and statuses, breaking up was easy. You just stopped answering their calls, put all of their stuff in a box and stuck it on their porch (or perhaps, in the garbage). Now, constant reminders of the life you aren’t a part of make getting over your ex almost impossible. YourTango.com, a website on relationships and dating, released a series of survey results detailing how the social networking scene has affected relationships. Seventy-four percent of people look up their ex on the Internet, 86 percent admit to clicking through photos of them (14 percent of those people are married) and 50 percent called, texted, emailed or IMed an ex when that probably wasn’t the most advisable move. Arguably because of all of this mess, 71 percent say that they think about their ex too much. To solve this, YourTango.com even called a “Break up with your ex” day yesterday, making the day before Valentine’s Day the day to purge your Facebook of former flames, delete those pesky exes from your cell and stop tracking their daily movements on FourSquare and Twitter. And once you accomplished all of these things, YourTango even provided an “I broke up with my ex!” badge you could post on your Facebook wall. So, in this new world of throwing all of your personal details on the Internet for the world to see, how hard is it to “break up with your ex,” and is that even the right thing to do? Daniel Windham, a junior mechanical engineering major, says no. He and his high school sweet heart broke up last year after almost three years of dating. He said that “unfriending” would probably cause more harm than necessary, and while it’s hard to see them every day, there are other options. “At the beginning it was difficult to get away from her day to day life that I wanted to comment on and know about, and eventually I just had to get her off of my Facebook,” Windham said. “I didn’t unfriend her, but I made sure she didn’t show up on my wall anymore and I took her off my phone.” Windham said that once the constant notifications stopped, it was easier to move on. Though he still saw her on mutual friends lists and other friends’ profiles, which, he admits, wasn’t easy but was probably less of a hassle than having to deal with questions as to why he deleted her off his friend list. Jeff McBride, a freshman, agrees with Windham and said that if he deleted his former girlfriend of five months, it “would have been out of anger and would have been petty.” He said that Facebook actually provided an informal way for them to communicate, and allowed him to avoid awkward face-to-face interactions with her. Though he did admit that Facebook made it harder to get over her, he said he simply “didn’t need” a day to break up with his ex. But Marcy Harsaran, a junior biology major at the Texas Women’s University, disagrees with Windham and McBride. She said that she created a “break up with an ex day” of your own when she found that Facebook was making it impossible for her to get over her former girlfriend of two years. “The internet in general, I think, prolonged closure on my relationship for about four years,” Harsaran said. “It actually took getting the balls to delete her off of my Facebook to get everything over with. There’s that deciding moment where you’re hovering over the ‘delete friend’ button, and you have to stop caring whether or not they’re hurt by it.” She said that finally getting up the courage to hit that “delete friend button” was the “final step” in getting over her ex, and she encourages others who are having problems like she did to do the same. Ben Voth, chair of communication studies at SMU, said that communication technology like Facebook and Twitter “clearly increase our ability to monitor other people and it tends to reduce our reaction times in communication.” He said that this reduced reaction time does heighten the risk of damaging relationships, and perhaps getting over an ex. “Most people recognize that impulses often lead to poor decision outcomes and these communication technologies can and do accelerate this possibility,” Voth said, who noted that some churches have even gone as far as banning facebook for members in an effort to reduce the failure of marriages and stable relationships. But Voth said that technology “does not have any intrinsic moral character.” While it might be the new fad to delete your exes or for churches to ban their members from having Facebook profiles, he said that they aren’t necessarily “bad” tools for communication. By JESSICA HUSEMAN Politics Editor [email protected]Break-ups made harder through Facebook, Twitter F a c e b o o k T w i t ter F a c e b oo k T w i t t er F a ce b o o k T w i t t e r F a c e b o o k T w i tt er Fa c e b o o k T w i t t e r F a c e b o o k T w i t t e r F a ce b o o k T w i t t e r F a c eb o o k F a c e b o ok T w itt e r F a ceb o o k T w i tte r F a ce b o o k T w itt e r F a ce b o o k T w i t t e r T w i t t e r F a c e b o o k T w itte r F a ce b o o k T w i t t e r F ace b o ok It’s Complicated Single In a Relationship In an Open Relationship Married Tagged Photos Profile 140 Ex Social Media Profile Tagged Photos A few months ago, the City of Dallas animal rescue crew found Grace the Great Dane starving to death in a crate that was too small for her. Today, Grace has gained 53 pounds and shows off her newly painted red toenails and heart bandana in honor of Valentine’s Day. More than 100 people and dogs joined Grace at the second annual Dallas Loves Animals Valentine’s Kick-Off Event held by the Dallas Animal Services and Adoption Center Saturday afternoon. Grace, the “spokesdog” for the event, “greeted” other dogs and shared her rescue story as other dogs came to take Valentine’s photos with their foster or adopted families. Kathee Crough, a volunteer for the Dallas Animal Services and Adoption Center, wanted to create an event to show that Dallas residents care about animals. After already having a Christmas event where dogs could take a picture with Santa, Crough wanted to expand photo opportunities for other holidays, encouraging people to adopt dogs. According to The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), approximately three million to four million animals are euthanized a year. Sixty percent See DOGS on Page 5 TECHNOLOGY Verizon iPhone 4 launches: Crowds disappoint, find success online The iPhone 4 officially launched on the Verizon network last Thursday, however in-store crowds were much smaller than expected. According to The Dallas Morning News, AT&T passed along a note from Hudson Square Research analyst Daniel Ernst who surveyed 131 iPhone buyers in line at stores early in the day. Ernst wrote that the longest line he saw had 35 people. Ernst’s unofficial survey included stores in Arizona, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. He found that 70 percent of in store buyers were current Verizon customers, and only 11 percent were AT&T customers making the switch. “It is commonly agreed that Verizon’s network has a greater coverage area as well as less dropped calls,” SMU senior Michael Todd said. “I came to the same conclusion by comparing my iPhone user experience with that of friends signed to AT&T.” There are a variety of possible reasons why the in-store crowds were slim. A poll on the Dallas Morning News website found that just 14.29 percent of poll participants planned on buying the iPhone on launch day despite the cold weather. Another 5.16 percent were planning to buy the iPhone, but did not feel the need to buy it on launch day. By ASHLEY WITHERS Associate News Editor [email protected]See VERIZON on Page 5 Freedom, revolution, Egypt. These are the words that have filled national headlines for the past three weeks. Major steps for democracy have been made and The Daily Campus wants to make sure SMU students are up to date on the controversy. Egypt exploded into mass demonstrations and protests on Jan. 25, as citizens demanded the removal of President Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak had ruled the country with a heavy hand for almost 30 years and officially resigned Friday after 18 days of angry political protests. He placed the country in the hands of the military until the upcoming elections. The military dissolved Egypt’s existing Parliament and suspended the country’s Constitution on Sunday. Sunday also marked the first time Tahrir Square was clear and open since the protest began and the majority of STATUS STATUS Tagged Photos It’s Complicated Newsfeed
A hundred killed in SudanMore than 100 people have
been killed in the clashes between the new Southern Sudanese government and forces loyal to the militia. The clashes took places last Wednesday and Thursday and began as a result of the elections of the new Southern Sudanese government.
Obama outlines new budget
President Obama is proposing a new 2012 federal budget that the White House says will cut deficits by $1.1 trillion over the next 10 years. The plan is said to call for a mix of strategic spending and selective national belt-tightening. More details will be released after Monday’s meeting.
King Tut is now missing
Egypt’s minister of antiquities announced Sunday that at least 17 artifacts are missing from the Museum of Cairo following a break-in. The famous statue of King Tut and other pharaohs are among the missing items. Police have several suspects in custody regarding the looting of Egypt’s ancient treasures.
Zuckerberg stalker is servedMark Zuckerberg, the founder
and CEO of Facebook, was awarded a temporary restraining order against a man identified as Pradeep Manukonda. According to court documents, the suspect is accused of trying to contact Zuckerberg numerous times and the CEO has been keeping a low profile since the incident.
CEO caught in prostitution sting
Michael Gilliland resigned as CEO of Sunflowers Farmers Market after he was arrested in a child prostitution sting. He was one of eight people arrested in the sting. Gilliland now faces a charge of felony child prostitution.
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Texas is facing a shortage of a key component of the cocktail used in lethal injections – sodium thiopental. With an angry European Union beginning to ban exports of the drug, Texas has been left with only enough to carry out two lethal injections scheduled for the end of this month.
Texas’ shortage comes as a result of Hospira, the only American producer of sodium thiopental, which announced that it would no longer produce the drug, which was to be manufactured in an Italian plant.
But after Italian authorities wanted Hospira to insure that the drug would not be used in lethal injections, the company decided to shut down production because it has “no other viable plants” where the product can be produced, Daniel Rosenburg, a spokesperson for Hospira said.
He said that because the drug is sold through wholesalers, it is almost impossible to keep track of where it goes.
“Unfortunately, there is no way for our trading partners to monitor or control what their thousands of customers in the
The Dallas Animal Services and Adoption center’s “spokes dog,” Grace, sits during the DASAC’s second annual Valentine’s Day kickoff adoption event. Grace was rescued several months ago, and has shown marked health im-provements in her time with the center. See LETHAL on Page 2
Before the days of newfeeds, Twitter-feeds, tweets and statuses, breaking up was easy. You just stopped answering their calls, put all of their stuff in a box and stuck it on their porch (or perhaps, in the garbage). Now, constant reminders of the life you aren’t a part of make getting over your ex almost impossible.
YourTango.com, a website on relationships and dating, released a series of survey results detailing how the social networking scene has affected relationships. Seventy-four percent of people look up their ex on the Internet, 86 percent admit to clicking through photos of them (14 percent of those people are married) and 50 percent called, texted, emailed or IMed an ex when that probably wasn’t the most advisable move. Arguably because of all of this mess, 71 percent say that they think about their ex too much.
To solve this, YourTango.com even called a “Break up with your ex” day yesterday, making the day before Valentine’s Day the day to purge your Facebook of former flames, delete those pesky exes from your cell and stop tracking their daily movements on FourSquare and Twitter. And once you accomplished all of these things, YourTango even provided an “I broke up with my ex!” badge you could post on your Facebook wall.
So, in this new world of throwing all of your personal details on the Internet for the world to see, how hard is it to “break up with your ex,” and is that even the right thing to do?
Daniel Windham, a junior
mechanical engineering major, says no. He and his high school sweet heart broke up last year after almost three years of dating. He said that “unfriending” would probably cause more harm than necessary, and while it’s hard to see them every day, there are other options.
“At the beginning it was difficult to get away from her day to day life that I wanted to comment on and know about, and eventually I just had to get her off of my Facebook,” Windham said. “I didn’t unfriend her, but I made sure she didn’t show up on my wall anymore and I took her off my phone.”
Windham said that once the constant notifications stopped, it was easier to move on. Though he still saw her on mutual friends lists and other friends’ profiles, which, he admits, wasn’t easy but was probably less of a hassle than having to deal with questions as to why he deleted her off his friend list.
Jeff McBride, a freshman, agrees with
Windham and said that
if he deleted his former girlfriend of
five months, it “would have been out of anger and
would have been petty.” He said that Facebook actually
provided an informal way for them to communicate, and allowed him to avoid awkward face-to-face interactions with her. Though he did admit that Facebook made it harder to get over her, he said he simply “didn’t need” a day to break up with his ex.
But Marcy Harsaran, a junior biology major at the Texas Women’s University, disagrees with Windham and McBride. She said that she created a “break up with an ex day” of your own when she found that Facebook was making it impossible for her to get over her former girlfriend of two years.
“The internet in general, I think, prolonged closure on my relationship for about four years,” Harsaran said. “It actually took getting the balls to
delete her off of my Facebook to get everything over with. There’s that deciding moment where you’re hovering over the ‘delete friend’ button, and you have to stop caring whether or not they’re hurt by it.”
She said that finally getting up the courage to hit that “delete friend button” was the “final step” in getting over her ex, and she encourages others who are having problems like she did to do the same.
Ben Voth, chair of communication studies at SMU, said that communication technology like Facebook and Twitter “clearly increase our ability to monitor other people and it tends to reduce our reaction times in communication.”
He said that this reduced reaction time does heighten the risk of damaging relationships, and perhaps getting over an ex.
“Most people recognize that impulses often lead to poor decision outcomes and these communication technologies can and do accelerate this possibility,” Voth said, who noted that some churches have even gone as far as banning facebook for members in an effort to reduce the failure of marriages and stable relationships.
But Voth said that technology “does not have any intrinsic moral character.”
While it might be the new fad to delete your exes or for churches to ban their members from having Facebook profiles, he said that they aren’t necessarily “bad” tools for communication.
A few months ago, the City of Dallas animal rescue crew found Grace the Great Dane starving to death in a crate that was too small for her.
Today, Grace has gained 53 pounds and shows off her newly painted red toenails and heart bandana in honor of Valentine’s Day.
More than 100 people and dogs joined Grace at the second annual Dallas Loves Animals Valentine’s Kick-Off Event held by the Dallas Animal Services and Adoption Center Saturday afternoon.
Grace, the “spokesdog” for the event, “greeted” other dogs and shared her rescue story as other dogs came to take Valentine’s photos with their foster or adopted families.
Kathee Crough, a volunteer for the Dallas Animal Services and Adoption Center, wanted to create an event to show that Dallas residents care about animals.
After already having a Christmas event where dogs could take a picture with Santa, Crough wanted to expand photo opportunities for other holidays, encouraging people to adopt dogs.
According to The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), approximately three million to four million animals are euthanized a year. Sixty percent
The iPhone 4 officially launched on the Verizon network last Thursday, however in-store crowds were much smaller than expected.
According to The Dallas Morning News, AT&T passed along a note from Hudson Square Research analyst Daniel Ernst who surveyed 131 iPhone buyers in line at stores early in the day.
Ernst wrote that the longest line he saw had 35 people.
Ernst’s unofficial survey included stores in Arizona, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
He found that 70 percent of in store buyers were current Verizon customers, and only 11 percent were AT&T customers making the switch.
“It is commonly agreed that Verizon’s network has a greater coverage area as well as less dropped calls,” SMU senior Michael Todd said. “I came to the same conclusion by comparing my iPhone user experience with that of friends signed to AT&T.”
There are a variety of possible reasons why the in-store crowds were slim.
A poll on the Dallas Morning News website found that just 14.29 percent of poll participants planned on buying the iPhone on launch day despite the cold weather. Another 5.16 percent were planning to buy the iPhone, but did not feel the need to buy it on launch day.
Freedom, revolution, Egypt. These are the words that have filled national headlines for the past three weeks. Major steps for democracy have been made and The Daily Campus wants to make sure SMU students are up to date on the controversy.
Egypt exploded into mass demonstrations and protests on Jan. 25, as citizens demanded the removal of President Hosni Mubarak.
Mubarak had ruled the country with a heavy hand for almost 30 years and officially resigned Friday after 18 days of angry political protests.
He placed the country in the hands of the military until the upcoming elections.
The military dissolved Egypt’s existing Parliament and suspended the country’s Constitution on Sunday.
Sunday also marked the first time Tahrir Square was clear and open since the protest began and the majority of
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Clements Center Brown Bag Lecture
12 p.m. in DeGolyer Library. This week’s lecture is titled “Bull Chic: Urban Cowboy, Saturday Night Fe-ver, and Seventies Discourses of Region and Class”
1 p.m. in the Hughes-Trigg Com-mons sponsored by the Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship. Christopher Gornold-Smith will fi eld questions from the student body.
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8 p.m. in McFarlin Auditorium This month’s Tate Lecture fea-tures Joshua Cooper Ramo, one of China’s leading foreign-born scholars.
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medical community do with the product after they obtain it, including potentially selling it to prisons,” Rosenburg said.
Sodium thiopental, which Hospira marketed under the name Pentothal, is one of three drugs used in the lethal injection process. Sodium thiopental is an anesthetic that renders the person unconscious before two other drugs are injected that stop the heart and lungs leading to death.
According to Rosenburg, Hospira never condoned the use of Pentothal in lethal injections.
“Hospira regularly contacted every U.S. state to make clear that we produced the drug to improve lives and don’t approve of the use of our drugs in capital punishment,” Rosenburg said.
Hospira last reached out to states in a 2010 letter, which was scanned and put online by Amnesty International. The letter said that while the company understood that states received the drugs “through a variety of sources without ordering directly from Hospira” they felt it was important to relay their position against using its products in capital punishment procedures.
But Hospira’s decision puts Texas, which leads the country in the amount of lethal injections carried out per year, in a bind. With only enough of the drug to carry out two more executions, Texas must act fast if it is to carry on its record of capital punishments.
Senator John Carona, who represents the SMU area, spoke about Texas’
predicament in a recent interview. He said that he is supportive
of the death penalty as he feels it is “a just punishment for those convicted of certain heinous crimes,” and that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is currently “evaluating their options for replacing sodium thiopental.”
But other states that have found alternatives are still facing problems.
Ohio and Oklahoma both turned to pentobarbital, a drug with similar affects to sodium thiopental, as a replacement. Oklahoma uses it in a three-drug cocktail similar to Texas’ cocktail, and Ohio uses it in a
one-drug overdose. But pentobarbital is also only
produced by one company operating in the U.S., Lundbeck Inc., which is based in Denmark.
Denmark has long opposed the death penalty, and recently asked both Oklahoma and Ohio to discontinue the drug’s use in lethal injections. Neither state has any plans to comply with their request.
Rick Halperin, director of SMU’s human right’s program, said he believes Texas will most likely turn to an overdose of one drug to solve its lethal injection problems. He does not believe that Texas will turn back
to methods other than lethal injection, such as hanging or the electric chair, to get back on track.
But he said he “won’t be surprised” if efforts are made in the Texas Legislature that espouse other methods after Texas’ problem begins to drastically slow down the rate of executions.
“That will come out of stupidity and frustration of the slow pace of killings,” Halperin said. “I have no doubts that we will sink to the lowest common denominator in time.”
Rep. Dan Branch, who represents the SMU-area in the Texas House, said that he approves of “humane delivery of capital punishment.” He said that since Hospira has decided to stop production, Texas will simply have to look for the “next alternative.”
He said that this may even present an opportunity for other manufacturers to produce the drug in the United States.
But, until that happens, the United States may continue to face a shortage. The European Union is currently in talks over banning the exportation of sodium thiopental to be used in lethal injections. The United Kingdom and Italy have already taken this step.
Halperin said that, eventually, the international opposition to the death penalty will catch up to Texas, but that it is too soon to have any real impact. Branch disagrees, saying that international opinion will have no impact on Texas’ decision to move forward with the death penalty at any time.
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Texas is currently facing a shortage of sodium thiopental, which is one part of the three-drug cocktail used in lethal injections. Texas only has enough of the drug to carry out the two executions scheduled at the end of this month.
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It takes a lot to remake a classic. A good refashioning will find a new angle, while still showing the proper respect to the original and it needs a good cast – a really good cast. With those parameters, Dallas Theater Center’s production of “Arsenic & Old Lace,” could be considered a good remake.
Thanks to the powerhouse actresses, Betty Buckley and Tovah Feldshuh, the Brewster sisters are reinvented in such a way that brings the entire production to life.
This timeless play by Joseph Kesserling, (adapted to film in 1944 by Frank Capra) tells the story of two sisters, who live together in their family home in Brooklyn. They have taken up the hobby of helping lonely old men to their grave, perhaps a little bit ahead of time, but they see it as their charity to those who are all alone in the world.
Their beloved nephew Mortimer Brewster (Lee Trull) has just proposed to his girlfriend Elaine Harper (Abbey Siegworth), who happens to be the daughter of the minister who lives next door. When Mortimer discovers what his adorable aunts are up to, he becomes frantic, unsure whether or not to call the cops or blame it on his brother Teddy (J. Brent Alford) – who happens to believe that he is President Theodore Roosevelt.
Just when you think this story couldn’t get any more loony, the third Brewster brother Jonathan (Jason Douglas) shows up. And after a good dose of plastic surgery thanks to Dr. Einstein (Nehal Joshi), Jonathan looks like Boris Karlov when he played Frankenstein’s monster.
This play is as eccentric as it sounds. Feldshuh and Buckley have managed to create Aunts who are as adorable
as they are mad, and they bring some much needed clarity that makes you wonder what skeletons you might find in your sweet, little aunts closet (or the cellar).
It is obvious that these women make this show happen, as they both take advantage of every moment that could produce laughter.
Trull hits the mark with his portrayal of the theater critic (a career the play delightfully attacks), as he slowly works himself into a state of hysteria. The duo of Douglas and Joshi as the creepy out-of-towners is a delight to watch.
The SMU students and professor who appear in this show, offer solid performances. Sean O’ Conner and Chris McCreary add yet another comic element to the play as the beat cops and James Crawford is quite amusing as the night cop, Officer O’Hara.
Along with the humor, the design of the show is superb. A majestic, antique Brooklyn home has been built on the Kalita’s revolving stage, giving Teddy stairs to charge up and a cellar in which to dig the Panama Canal and giving Trull plenty of furniture to jump over.
The show itself plays with the conventions of theater, from the dummies used for the dead bodies to the revolving stage that gives Dr. Einstein trouble, to the entire scene that takes place ‘in the dark.’ It is obvious that Scott Schwartz had fun directing this show.
Whether you’ve seen the film or not, this stage production has found the recipe for comedy: two stars, a good script, and a little drop of poison.
“Arsenic & Old Lace” runs through March 13 at the historic Kalita Humphreys Theater. For more information visit, dallastheatercenter.org.
Feldshuh, Buckley deliver strong dose of comedy in ‘Arsenic & Old Lace’
In the new comedy starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, “Just Go With It,” Sandler, who plays a plastic surgeon caught in a web of lies, does all he can to win over his dream girl, Palmer played by model Brooklyn Decker.
Playing Eddie, Sandler’s off beat, is Nick Swardson. Swardson, an accomplished stand-up comic who has starred in shows like “Reno 911” talks about “Just Go With It,” and the fun he had while on set.
“I had a blast filming this movie,” Swardson said. “It is one of my favorite movies that I have worked on.”
In the film, Swardson’s character is convinced to lie about being married to Jennifer Aniston. Being Swardson’s first time to work with Aniston, Nick recalls the experience.
“Jennifer’s comedic abilities didn’t surprise me one bit. She was hilarious on ‘Friends,’ so I knew she’d be funny on set,” Swardson said. “The media spends so much time just making rumors up about her, that they really forget how funny she is.”
With “Just Go With It,” set during Sandler’s vacation, the decision was made to film the movie on the picturesque island of Hawaii.
“There are good things and bad things about filming at such a beautiful place,” Swardson said. “All I wanted to do was go swimming, but then work would get in the way. It was very easy to lose your focus in such a beautiful place.”
With both Sandler and Swardson being well-versed comics, needless to say, the set was full of hijinks. One in particular, started with a dare from Sandler and ended with Swardson in pain.
“There was one scene where my character had to jump off a
rock,” Swardson said. “So Adam dared me to jump off the rock, do the splits, and land on my balls. I only did that take once though.”
Typically, when comics like Swardson and Sandler collaborate on a movie, a lot of the material comes from improvisation. In “Just Go With It,” Swardson was able to improv during certain scenes.
“One scene I improved a lot during was a dinner scene when I’m supposed to be completely drunk,” Swardson said. “It was written in the script that I was an Internet sheepherder, so I went with that and just made a snowball of lies.”
The movie, which Swardson claims is “sweet, but not annoyingly sweet,” is one of the many projects the comic/actor has on his plate at the time.
“I’m trying to do everything,” Swardson said. “I’ve got three movies coming out, the second season of my television show, and I’m hoping to get back on stage with a comedy tour around some different colleges.”
Even though he may be a major movie star now, Swardson credits comedy as the way he started his career.
“I was in theater in high school,” Swardson said. “After high school, I performed at a comedy club in downtown Minneapolis. There is nothing like doing stand up. Stand up will always be my first love.”
Even though stand up may be Swardson’s main source of comedy, in “Just Go With It,” Swardson’s comedic skills were put to the test when he was asked to wrestle a sheep.
“That’s was probably the hardest scene to film,” Swardson said. “I remember I just kept yelling at the editors to shoot the scene as fast as possible.”
“Just Go With It,” opened Friday and is in theatres nationwide.
In this fi lm publicity image released by Columbia Pictures, Brooklyn Decker, left, and Adam Sandler are shown in a scene from “Just Go with It.”
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The Daily Campus Arts & Entertainment• Monday, February 14, 20114
Deep within the plains of Duba, Africa, Beverly and Dereck Joubert stand still with their cameras in hand, waiting for the latest drama to unfold between Duba’s fragile lion habitat. The married couple, who has been shooting lions for the past 28 years, has just completed a new National Geographic documentary entitled, “The Last Lions,” an epic feature that focuses on a widowed lioness and the struggle she encounters to keep herself and her three cubs alive.
“We’ve always wanted to tell these stories on a larger screen,” Dereck said. “Africa is a huge country and its has not been seen like this in a very long time.”
The story revolves around Ma di Tau, whose name translates to “Mother of the
Lions,” and her journey to safety after being forced out of her regular habitat by another pride of lions.
The Jouberts’ documentary makes an obvious point to characterize the lions. The couple’s filming style utilizes the transition from big, broad, strokes to just a frame of the lion’s eyes to draw emotion from both the audience and the lions.
“At one point in the film, you start forgetting that Ma di Tau is a lioness and you start to look at her as a person,” Beverly said.
To capture the events that unfold, Dereck and Beverly live their lives out of tents, and are prone to working 18-hour workdays in less than ideal conditions.
“We are working in a place that it is very easy to die in,” Beverly said. “We never will have to pick up an extreme sport, we get our adrenaline from our
jobs.”One of the more dangerous aspects
of their jobs arise when they are forced to cross swelled rivers to reach the lions they are filming for the day.
“One time, we found ourselves stuck in the middle of a river that we shot a couple days ago that had humongous crocodiles in it,” Dereck said. “I have to be honest, when I went to pull the car out, I was not entirely comfortable with the things I felt moving around my ankles.”
The film does not restrain from the harshness that is the animal kingdom. With some scenes so intense that they make movies like “Taxi Driver,” look like a children’s movie, “The Last Lions,” is more than thrilling to watch.
“A lot of times, to get the shot we desire, we have to act like a predator,” Dereck said. “We’ll just patiently sit
waiting for something to happen, you never know when something like a fight will break out.”
Having witnessed a countless number of fights between lions, the Jouberts’ have seen over 3,000 kills in their lifetime. In this movie’s case, losing a lion could mean losing their main character.
“The animal kingdom is very unpredictable,” Beverly said. “Every morning, we were faced with the situation that our movie’s focus could be dead. We are constantly out heels, ready for anything that could be thrown our way.”
Spending so many hours observing these animals, the Jouberts sometimes tend to form emotional connections with their subjects. “The Last Lions” was no exception.
“There is a great emotional investment in these chracters.” Beverly said. “We pretty much get
into the same rhythm as the animals. The emotions we are feeling for the day are truly the emotions depicted in the film.”
At times, the emotional capacity took its toll.
“There would days where we would come back from filming, and emotionally, we were just exhausted,” Beverly said. “We lose lions all the time, but in this film, losing a lion was like losing part of our family.”
At times in “The Last Lions,” the film exhibits the strong will that Ma di Tau possesses just to stay alive. The movie demonstrates the incredible lengths a mother will go to keep her young safe and nourished.
“Today, we have so much assistance in every way possible,” Dereck said. “The film really makes you start to wonder if you could survive in just a tooth and claw world.”
“The Last Lions,” is part of
National Geographic’s “Big Cat Initiative,” a global program that has a goal of protecting the dwindling lion population.
“We need a shift in the way we view lions,” Dereck said. “We can’t keep shooting the males and hanging them on our walls. If this continues, our children’s children might not even get to know what a lion is.”
“The Last Lions” opens in theatres Feb. 18. Even though the film is marked as a documentary, it holds all of the drama and intensity of any studio-shot feature as well. With a captivating story that never once gets old, “The Last Lions” is a must see for moviegoers.
“So many people have been cut off from nature,” Beverly said. “So if I can just draw them into the African wild for just 92 minutes, and make them realize how precious these animals are, then I have succeeded at my job.”
Directors of “The Last Lions” Derreck and Beverely Joubert speak with associate arts and entertainment editor Chase Wade Friday morning at the Hotel Palomar.
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are dogs. “The only way I thought I could
make a difference was to take pictures to get people to adopt,” Crough said.
After watching so many dogs returning with their adopted families, Teresa Cleek, a supervisor at the Dallas Animal Center, wants to also include a St. Patrick’s day photo shoot.
“Seeing dogs come back, many who had been affected by cruelty cases, and are now looking great really encourages us to keep having these events,” Cleek said.
Although the Dallas Animal Center volunteers and staff were excited about seeing the costumed dogs, many people from the Dallas metroplex came out to adopt a new pet or just let their dogs mingle with other dogs.
Sam Childers and Jeff Hemphill adopted their dog, Delano, 10 years ago.
Outside of City Hall there was a table with dogs that were about to be put down.
That was when Hemphill and Childers decided to welcome Delano into their family.
With the first pretty and warm day in two weeks, Childers decided to “finally get out of the house and take pictures for Valentine’s Day.”
Beth Whitacre of Allen, Texas took the opportunity to adopt a puppy at the Valentine’s event.
The second dog for her to adopt, Whitacre chose a beagle mix and named her Dixie.
“I wanted to adopt a puppy anyways but I saw the article in the paper and decided to come out this weekend and take pictures,” she said.
Regardless of whether people came out to take pictures or adopt a dog, everyone enjoyed the pretty Saturday afternoon with their dogs.
“Dogs bring a lot of happiness to people,” Paul Fountain, an assistant for the City of Dallas Animal Services, said. “People are here today because they care—they really care.”
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SMU’s Omega Psi Phi fraternity held a dinner Friday night honoring the Harlem Renaissance, an African-American cultural movement of the 1920s and ‘30s. “Hilltop Renaissance” included soul food, live jazz and poetry readings.
African-American culture entered mainstream America in the early 1900s. Black musicians, authors, playwrights and poets rose to fame during this time. To commemorate their works, the stage opened up for spoken word.
“The spoken word really gave me goosebumps,” freshman Jaimmy Koroma said. “I really felt what they were saying.”
Held in the Hughes-Trigg Varsity, the event welcomed some 50 alumni, students and their families. The Omega Psi Phi fraternity brothers served the guests Momma O’s soul food as light jazz played in the background. The small Dallas-based family business served pork chops, mashed potatoes, macaroni and pound cake.
“They had everything that we could think of and all of it was cooked to perfection,” senior Omega
Kyle Degroat said.SMU alumnus Mat Houston
and his band provided musical accommodations. The jazz trio played continuously for an hour and accompanied students performing during open-mike.
Students sang favorites about love and religion.
“They got up and shared their creative sides with us,” Degroat said.
The music and food portion of the program was met by soft laughter, smiles and photo opportunities. Students wore semi-formal fashion for the “jazz club” setting.
“I posted 110 photos on Facebook,” senior Linwood Fields said.
Students shared original compositions about race, pride and struggle. Several National Pan-Hellenic Council Greek students also read historic pieces from their respective sorority and fraternity alum. Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, Phi Beta Sigma and Alpha Phi Alpha were represented.
“It was definitely an honor to site the words of a Great Sigma, a greater man,” Fields, a member for Phi Beta Sigma, said.
Many people enjoyed the laid back atmosphere.
The best part, according to Komora, was “the opportunity to sit [and], relax in a chill atmosphere in the celebration of the Renaissance.”
“When the brothers of Omega Psi Phi get together, we always have a great time,” Degroat said. “Everyone’s reactions were positive.”
Black History Month events will be held on campus throughout the month of February. This week, National Pan-Hellenic Council will be hosting several programs for students to attend. Times, dates and locations are available in SAMSA on the 3rd floor of Hughes-Trigg.
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Many others have decided to hold out for the upcoming iPhone 5.
Online sales, however, were a different story. In just two hours the online pre-sale sold more phones than any other first day launch in the company’s history.
Verizon made pre-orders for existing customers available Feb. 3.
Pre-orders for the Verizon iPhone 4 sold out within a day, according to Mashable.com.
Thursday’s launch officially ended Dallas-based AT&T’s monopoly on Apple’s iPhone.
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shops in the area were open. Some protesters remain in the
square, vowing to keep up the fight until the country is under civilian rule.
Egyptian banks will stay shut until Wednesday as protesters try to force top banker’s resignation.
The stock exchange will also freeze transactions from officials who are now under investigation.
More protests have broken out in other countries across the region as a result of Egypt’s revolution and the change of regime will drastically change U.S.-Egypt relations.
Military takes control
On the fi rst day that the popular iPhone was available at Verizon Wireless stores Allen Young, left, and others
wait outside in the single-digit temperatures for their chance to buy the phone in Beachwood, Ohio Thursday.
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I have been a student at SMU since 2003. Over the past eight years, I have been appalled by SMU's approach to inclement weather. With the recent
"snowmageddon," in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, I have gone from appalled to downright outraged. During my years at SMU, there have been countless occasions when all school districts and universities in DFW are closed, while SMU remains open.
President R. Gerald Turner and the rest of the SMU administration who make the decisions regarding inclement weather do not give enough thought to those of us
who are commuters. I believe they view SMU students as being in the protected bubble of on-campus living. Indeed, much of SMU's student population lives on campus, in a dorm or sorority/fraternity house and can roll out of bed 15 minutes before class starts and (cautiously) walk. President Turner himself lives a mere few blocks from campus.
However, a great deal of SMU's students and faculty are commuters. Approximately 10,000 students commute in their own vehicles while, according to greenreportcard.org, another 20% of SMU students commute to campus via alternative methods, such as public transportation.
While attempting to drive from my home from Colleyville to campus on Feb. 3, my son's third birthday, I spun on a patch of ice and smashed into a guardrail with my son in the
car. On Feb. 9, I stepped out of my car, slipped on a patch of ice and bashed the back of my head against the concrete.
Although SMU eventually closed the campus on Feb. 3, the administration's original intention was for the school to be open, as stated in the mass e-mail sent the evening before. The campus was open on Feb. 9; Texas Christian University, The University of Texas at Arlington and The University of North Texas, to name a few, were all closed.
Commuters are not the only ones in danger. A young lady in two of my journalism courses fell and injured her arm while attempting to walk to class in the snow and ice; she later received stitches and is currently wearing a sling. According to the SMU Daily Mustang news site, students are openly expressing their displeasure with SMU on social
networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, as well as on local television stations. Students have even posted photos on Twitter of injuries they sustained while trying to make it to and around campus.
I dislike missing school and getting behind on course material just as much as the next person. However, I would rather get behind on my schoolwork than risk my safety. I urge President Turner, Provost Paul W. Ludden, and the SMU police department to take the same approach to inclement weather as other universities and school districts in the area. After all, if students and faculty cannot make it to class safely, what is the point of having class in the first place?
Shelby Miller is a senior journalism major. She can be reached for comments
Remaining open during icy weather is a risk SMU must stop taking
COMMENTARY
Shelby Miller
This past week, a Catholic bishop in South Bend, Indiana officially approved an iPhone application that facilitates
the process of confession. The “app” is not a replacement for the sacrament, but it does allow iPhone users to examine their consciences via their mobile device.
Surprisingly, there seemed to be rampant criticism of the Church’s decision. Many critics came out of the woodwork to claim that the Church had marginalized the sanctity of the sacrament, reducing it to a mere technological exchange.
While it is important to maintain the sacredness of any sacrament or religious exchange, I found many of the criticisms to be untenable at best.
After the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church has made significant efforts to reconcile its institution with the modern world. Pope John Paul II spoke extensively on the church needing to keep up with technology and to use its prevalence to further the kingdom of God.
There is no doubt that as we continue in a modern society that computers, smart phones and other technological resources are becoming more prevalent
and powerful. Amidst criticisms that the Church is
becoming irrelevant, it would seem that the Church adopting a technological tool — such as an iPhone app — would be welcomed. Technology indeed has been significantly utilized to exploit and injure others. Why would it be abhorrent for technology to be used for good?
This app, while certainly not essential to the sacrament of confession, seems like a positive effort for the Church to be more accessible and relevant to its people.
Indeed, church is not a one-sided experience. Church is a function of relationship. Thus, the Church must listen to its people and properly respond. This app is an exemplary effort to this end. There is nothing mutually exclusive about an iPhone and an examination of conscience.
Indeed, the sacredness of the sacrament is not sacrificed. The app personalizes the process making it more personal. Something being sacred is not the same as it being un-human. We are human beings, and if we live our lives on an iPhone, then the Church must follow us there. The Church must consider and embody our human experience.
Moreover, consider the individuals that would use the iPhone app. They are likely the demographic most infected by spiritual poverty and apathy. In other words, they are people who might have drifted from the Church or who feel like the Church is not serving their needs.
This app, simple as it is, provides an accessible, easy, personal way to interface with a sacrament feared by many Catholics.
However, this app does not only serve the needs of the upper and middle class. This app, personalized as it is, can be a tool for addressing social sin and asking questions that may not be considered in a regular examination of conscience. Whereas the regular examination of conscience may not include questions like, “Have I cared for the poor among me?”, “Have I tithed to charitable organizations?”, or “Have I lived in solidarity with those marginalized locally and globally?”; this e-examination of conscience may. It could serve as a tool to create social justice and structural change that is otherwise ignored.
Finally, one ought consider what an examination of conscience is. Its goal is eliminating sin and living justly in relationship with God, self and other. How can we protest making this more accessible or prevalent in society? Why would we contend that this is detrimental to the sacredness of a sacrament?
Living in right relationship and reflecting on our sin is a welcome practice. I applaud the Church for this technological endeavor.
Drew Konow is a senior religious studies, foreign languages and literatures
major. He can be reached for comments or questions at [email protected].
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There is no doubt that the extreme weather conditions of the past two weeks in Dallas are out of the ordinary, to say the least.
According to Brad Cheves, vice-president for development and external affairs at SMU, preliminary historical research shows that four days of school closings due to inclement weather are unparalleled in the first 100 years of our university. It was with this statement that the editorial board meeting with Cheves began.
Cheves continued on to outline the process and policies of the university for inclement weather. Per this policy, it is the primary goal of the university to remain open so as not to disrupt a productive learning environment beyond what is necessary for security reasons. Also according to this policy, decisions regarding university closures due to inclement weather will err on the side of accuracy and not on the side of advanced notice.
The night of Wednesday, Feb. 2 was an exception to this stated policy. In the eyes of the administration, the reversal of the decision, made on Thursday morning, proved why waiting until the morning of leads to better decisions regarding university closings. On the morning of a day where inclement weather conditions may not permit the university to open, the chief of the SMU police department and his staff assess the campus grounds, local and personal reports and the surrounding area to determine if safety risks are such that the university should close operations. Once the research and surveying on the ground have taken place, Provost Paul W. Ludden and Vice-President Brad Cheves are added to the call. Along with the director of operations management, a recommendation is made.
When President R. Gerald Turner is added to the line, the recommendation is presented, along with any concurring and/or dissenting opinions. President Turner then makes a decision which is communicated to the SMU community via e-mail, the SMU website, Facebook, Twitter and local television and radio stations. It should be noted that the past two weeks, every day that the university was closed, President Turner, Provost Ludden and Vice-President Brad Cheves were all on campus.
While the editorial board staff believes that the policies of the university are effective and reasonable, there are elements that can be improved and made more comprehensive to avoid an uproar like the one of the past two weeks. Regarding communication, regardless of whether it is accurate or not, there was a perceived antagonistic sentiment from the administration towards the student body. To the editorial board of the Daily Campus, this seems entirely unreasonable and unnecessary. The students and the administration are not on opposing sides. The administration should consider what further measures can be taken to ensure that students are informed and aware of the process and policies enacted in these extraordinary circumstances.In addition to the early morning e-mail with the decision about closures, an “evening inform” that anticipates when the decision will be made and other important considerations would be helpful. While this may seem excessive and perhaps unnecessary, including safety precautions within the body of this e-mail or below the decision in the morning e-mail would show concern and express attention toward the student body.
Finally, as the editorial board and staff of a news outlet, we would also like to note that Vice-President Brad Cheves did confirm that the Facebook, Twitter and other means of social media were considered when making the decision regarding closings. As gauges of public opinion and sentiment, these means are useful tools and an efficacious means of communication, even with the administration of the university.
Communication is source of confl ict in recent SMU
inclement weather decisions
Questioning necessity of Facebook wall post
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Taylor Adams
On of my best friends had her 21st birthday on Friday.
And I did what was generally expected of me. I sent her a text message saying, “happy birthday,” with
an obnoxious number of exclamation points.
I baked her cupcakes from scratch I later wished her happy birthday in person.
Even so, I still found it beyond necessary to write “happy birthday,” on her wall (also with too many exclamation points) among the many other people who did.
I realized after clicking “share” on her profile, that this social medium has become so important that I would actually feel badly if I hadn’t wished my friend “happy birthday” on her wall last week, despite all my texting and baking.
I find this crazy, yet I know I’m not the only one who does this.
I find the wall post to be one of the lamest attempts at personal communication. Still, my best friends who will call me, bring me presents and go to dinner with me on my birthday will also write “happy birthday” on my wall.
Taylor Adams is a senior journalism major. She can be reached for comment
SMU’s five-game winning streak came to an end Saturday night following a 67-57 loss to the University of Texas at El Paso.
Needing to win to break into the top spot in Conference USA standings, the Mustangs (15-9, 6-4 C-USA) led the game at the half, but failed to hit a shot in the final three minutes, keeping the Miners (19-5, 7-2 C-USA) as the leading team in league play.
The Mustangs controlled the game in the first half, going up by nine points with seven minutes left before ending the half up by four. Freshman Jeremiah Samarrippas scored 11 of his 12 points in the first half, including three shots from the behind the arc.
“I’m mad because we should have won this game at UTEP where in the last few years I was happy we had a close effort and it was somewhat of a moral victory,” Head Coach Matt Doherty said.
SMU clung to the lead through the majority of the second half, but a three-pointer from UTEP’s Julyan Stone put the home team 55-52, as the Mustangs were rendered nearly scoreless for the remainder of the game.
Stone’s bucket sparked an 11-2 run from the Miners, as they turned a 50-46 deficit into a 57-52 lead. SMU, the leading team in C-USA for field goal percentage and three-point percentage, was held to just 8-of-20 from the field and 22 percent in three’s in the second half.
A lay up by Collin Mangrum put SMU within 61-57 with 2:53 remaining, but none of the visiting team’s shots were successful. UTEP sealed their 14th consecutive win at home with four free throws by Randy Culpepper.
After SMU ended the first half shooting 53 percent and going 5-for-12 in three’s, UTEP’s defense quickly shut down SMU’s offense, holding the Mustangs to only 21 points on 8-for-20 shooting in the final 20 minutes.
“There’s no more moral victories at SMU,” Doherty said. “We came here to win this basketball game, I’m very disappointed we didn’t execute better.”
UTEP’s defense, led by Stone, managed to hold SMU’s Robert Nyakundi, who averaged 16 points
per game, to only one field goal and four points.
Papa Dia had one of his better nights, scoring 18 points and adding 10 rebounds for his 11th double-double of the season. Mangrum added 12 points and career-high eight rebounds, while Samarrippas, also with 12 points, reached double-digits for the fourth time in the past five games.
UTEP’s Christian Polk scored a team-high 18 points while Culpepper added 14, as UTEP finished the night shooting 50 percent from the field and out-rebounding the Mustangs 26-25.
SMU now sits in a two-way tie for fifth place with the University of Tulsa.
Mustangs fall to UTEP Miners 67-57 to end their five game win streak
The SMU track and field team showcased a strong performance and set records at the two day Iowa State Classic in Ames, Iowa this weekend.
The Mustangs broke school and meet records in sprints, distance and throwing events against a field that included the host team Iowa State as well as Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Auburn among others.
After already being named Conference USA Athlete of the Week twice this year, Simone du Toit had another stellar outing in the shot put event.
Du Toit, who has already qualified for the NCAA Championships, set a meet record with a throw of 17.41m. This impressive score was enough to give her the victory for the event in Iowa.
SMU’s Helena Perez came in fifth in the event with a 14.33m throw.
Sophomore Mary Allenbratt led the way for the Mustangs in the distance events setting a new school record in the one mile run with a time 4:47.70.
This extremely fast speed amongst competition put her in fifth place for the afternoon.
Allenbratt finished nine seconds faster than her time in last year’s event.
Sweden native Klara Bodinson placed thirteenth in the event posting a personal best time with a 4:51.74 run.
Fellow Sweden native Lovisa Lindh placed eighth in the 800-meter run with a 2:10.44 time.
Junior sprinter Amber Evans placed eleventh in the 60 meter dash and set a new school record with a 7.64 qualifying run.
She also placed ninth in the 200-meter dash with a 24.75 run.
In the 600-yard run, junior Lakeisha James bested her personal record with a 1:25.55 time.
SMU will now travel to Houston, Texas on Feb. 25 to compete in the Conference USA Indoor Championships the week of Spring Break.
The Mustangs will then face a big match up against many Texas schools hosted by cross town rival TCU the following week in the TCU invitational.
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SMU breaks multiple records in Iowa and gears up for C-USA tournament
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Members of the SMU community cheer for the SMU basketball team as Tulane guard Jordan Callahan attempts to move the ball around the court last Wednesday inside Moody Coliseum. SMU lost to UTEP this Saturday 67-57.
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By Ian Livengood 2/14/11
(c)2011 Tribune Media Services, Inc.
The Daily Campus Sports• Monday, February 14, 20118
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
SMU defeats Tulsa 66-58 to get yet another win on its home court
The Mustangs hosted their second consectuive home game this week Sunday against Tulsa.
After coming off the Marshall game on a good note with a shut out, SMU was fired up to get back out on the court.
Christine Elliott had her second double-double of the season, 15 points, and 13 rebounds.
Haley Day yet again had an impressive game, putting a team-high 16 points on the board for the afternoon and eight rebounds.
“I think today her confidence was
there, she’s been playing not to make mistakes so I think it helped that she hit some tough shots and the bottom line is Haley needs to be on the floor for us” Rompola said.
The first half started out a little rough for Tulsa, and they only shot 12.9 percent, they picked up the speed in the second with 52.8 percent but SMU’s 54.5 percent in the second allowed them to keep possession of the game.
“The first half we played very good defense, but the second half they started to figure it out,” Rompola said.
The Mustangs were up by 17 with 1:42 left on the clock so coach Rhonda
Rompola dug into the bench a little bit and then their lead started slipping.
“They scored ten points just like that to cut the deficit and thats frustrating. It was a sloppy game on both ends” Rompola said.
Samantha Mahnesmith had another successful game after shooting 100 percent in the Marshall game, and finished with 11 points.
Delisha Wills added 15 points, and made it four players that shot in double digits for the afternoon.
“We feel like with each game that Delisha progresses, and her biggest issue is staying out of foul trouble. Sam and D play so well together, and we really saw that today with both of
them putting up 15 points” Rompola said.
The Mustangs have five games left before the conference tournament that will be tough.
“ECU is going to be hard along with Memphis, and the fact that today we didn’t have as many points as I would have liked worries me when I hear that ECU put up 91 points in their last game” Rompola said.
The pink game or “pack the house” is on Feb. 20 against UAB. It’s usually a sell out game, and will be the second to last game at Moody Coliseum for the season.
Fresh off their 8-4 victory over Delaware State, the SMU equestrian team could not continue their winning ways as they fell 7-4 on Saturday at Buck Branch Farm in Dallas against Fresno . This was SMU’s second meet of the Spring term and the team dropped to 1-1 overall after going 0-6 in the Fall.
After falling behind early on the flat 2-0, freshman Renick Townsend rallied the troops and gave the Mustangs a 3-2 by taking care of Kimberly Steinbuch 75-72.
This came after junior Claire Wenholz earned MVP honors by defeating Lisa Beach 74-67.
SMU freshman Julianna Fischer also earned a point against Lanie Madrazo for a 69-65 loss for the afternoon.
Fresno State sophomore Marissa Mohn concluded on the flat competition with a 61-54 win over SMU freshman Rachel
Cline to knot the score at 3-3. SMU combined to outscore Fresno State, 403-399, in the event.
SMU junior Jordyn Pettersen, who has earned four MVP honors this year, suffered her first loss of the season after winning seven straight. Pettersen’s first loss (81-74) came against Fresno State junior Nicole Roworth who earned MVP honors in the event.
Fischer was so close to earning her second point of the day, but she suffered a heartbreaking 77-76 loss to Hillary West.
One point losses seemed to doom SMU as Wenholz was defeated by Chelsie Stone 70-69 which locked up a 7-4 victory for the Bulldogs.
SMU junior Emily Gardner was the only rider to earn a point over fences for the Mustangs with an impressive 82-63 win over Kimberly Hewson Budnik.
The Mustangs will travel to Waco to take on Baylor and the Sacred Heart in their last meet of the month on Friday at 10 a.m.
The mens tennis team hosted Alabama on Saturday at Turpin Tennis Center, and faced a rough match-up. The Roll Tide ranked 39th in the nation, finished the day winning all lines of singles except one, and only giving up one line of doubles.
No. 1 player Artem Baradach was victorious in his match against Ricky Doverspike of Alabama, the score 6-3, 1-6, 6-4. The pair of Baradach and el-Adham Effendi also won their line of doubles against Doverspike and Vikram Reddy.
El-Effendi faced a tough three setter in his line four singles match, but ended up losing 3-6. 6-3, 6-2.
This match against Alabama was much closer than the final score led on, with several three setters.
Gaston Cuadranti also went to three sets, and made his opponent really work for the win, the final score was 2-6, 7-5, 7-5.
This was the Mustangs first match since they traveled to Arkansas a few weeks ago, and their next opponent will be the number ninth ranked team, Baylor, who they hold a 28-17 record with. It will be hosted at the Dallas Country Club on Sunday.
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SMU Head Coach Ronda Rompola speaks with members of the team during a timeout Thursday evening inside Moody Coliseum. SMU won the game 62-46.
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