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Tate Lecture takes Russian relations into the 21st century By SARAH POTTHARST Associate News Editor spotthar@smu.edu

A policeman gestures during looting in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. The U.N. Security Council has approved extra troops and police officers to beef up security in Haiti and ensure that desperately needed aid gets to earthquake victims. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Student Senate initiates earthquake relief program for Haiti By BROOKS POWELL Staff Writer blpowell@smu.edu

in the next two weeks to send aid to Haiti,” Kobler said.

Student Body President Patrick Kobler, along with seniors Nicola Muchnikoff and Rachel Carey, unveiled a proposal at Tuesday’s emergency Student Senate meeting. The proposal enacts a two weeklong fundraising drive to assist with relief efforts in the earthquake-ravaged island nation of Haiti. The program, titled “SMU’s Heart Beats for Haiti,” will encompass all campus student groups and academic units, which Kobler said he hopes to unite in this effort. “I felt that we, as the Student Senate, leaders of the student body—it’s our responsibility to coordinate and organize a collective relief effort to take place

Referencing recent reports of the death toll in the region, Kobler said the estimated 200,000 fatalities are unfathomable in normal terms. “I started thinking of ways to interpret the number ‘200,000’ and I thought, that’s more days than any of us have lived, more miles than are on any of our cars, more dollars than any of us have paid to go to school here, and [the number] really shocked a lot of us,” he said. Donations will be collected by campus organizations and will be deposited into a new account with the Students’ Association Comptroller located within the office of Student Activities and Multicultural Student Affairs on the third floor of the Hughes-

'CTVJSWCMGU¶ VQNN A week after the magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, it is estimated that 200,000 people have been killed. Peru, 1970 67,000 Guatemala, 1976 23,000 China, 1976 242,000 Iran, 1978 25,000 Armenia, 1988 Deadliest 25,000 earthquakes, since 1970 Iran, 1990 40,000 Iran, 2003 27,000 Indian Ocean (tsunami), 2004 226,000 Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, 2005 75,000 China, 2008 88,000 SOURCE: Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disaster

Trigg Student Center. The money raised at SMU will be sent en masse to the ClintonBush Foundation; a non-profit organization set up by former U.S. President’s Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to address the recent disaster in Haiti. In May of last year, Clinton was named the United Nations special envoy to Haiti with the purpose

of helping the impoverished nation establish and maintain stability and infrastructure after a number of crises in recent years. Now, Clinton says his burden has grown exponentially, but that he is not shying away from the immense challenge.

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Over the past 40+ years, SMU has strived to promote an understanding of Russian culture, from offering unique Russian language courses to implementing the SMU-in-Moscow study abroad program. Awareness of U.S.-Russian relations came to a pinnacle Tuesday evening when two experts spoke about Russia in the 21st century in the McFarlin Auditorium. Brad Cheves, vice president of Development and External Affairs, began the Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series promptly at 8 p.m. by recognizing the presidential scholars within the sophomore undergraduate class and then turned the floor over to SMU President R. Gerald Turner. “U.S. states face challenges around the world; prominent among them is our relationship with Russia,” Turner said. “Tonight we will benefit from the insight of these leaders as they discuss Russia in the post-soviet world.” Claire Shipman, ABC News senior national correspondent and former member of CNN’s Moscow bureau, moderated the conversation between guest speakers Ian Bremmer and Stephen Hadley. Bremmer is the president of Eurasia Group, a global risk research and consulting firm, and the youngestever national fellow at the Hoover Institution. He currently teaches at Columbia University. Hadley served as National Security Advisor under President George W. Bush from 2005-2009, the principal White House foreign policy advisor, and director of the National Security Council staff. One of the overarching questions of the discussion was summarized within Shipman’s first inquiry. “The state of U.S.-Russian relations remains a constant puzzle,” said Shipman. Now that President Obama is working to regain these relations, “What does this reset mean? Is it possible? How do you see this working so far?” Hadley relates Obama’s intention to “reset” or regain Russian foreign relations to previous efforts made under both the Bush and Clinton administrations; who “share a romantic view of the relationship between the countries.” Identifying common areas as well as areas of differentiation, and also maintaining cooperation are ways in which Hadley said he believes this

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Students see improved safety with long-awaited crosswalk By BROOKS POWELL Staff Writer blpowell@smu.edu

A new illuminated crosswalk at the blind curve located at Airline Road and Daniel Avenue is a welcome addition for students living adjacent to the intersection, including sorority members and transfer students. However, the project could have come sooner for several SMU co-eds who have fallen victim to careless drivers in the past several years. The intersection has concerned students for nearly a decade, beginning in October 2001 when two females, both belonging to the Delta Delta Delta sorority, were struck and seriously injured

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in an early morning hit-and-run accident. Katherine Gordon and Jacqueline Nochisaki were walking across the street when they were hit by a silver Jeep Cherokee and thrown 58 feet and 82 feet, respectively, from the point of impact. Each sustained a broken pelvis, scrapes, various internal injuries and head trauma that required transportation to area hospitals. Both were forced to withdraw from classes for the remainder of the term to recuperate. Last semester, Student Body Vice President Allison Reyes said that her roommate, also a member of Delta Delta Delta, was struck at the crossing. “An old man hit her, not very hard really,

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and she fell on the ground,” Reyes said. “He helped her up and was very nice about it, but it does happen” Drivers in the area prior to the construction saw flashing yellow pedestrian crossing warning signs well before the striped crossing area, but observers said few drivers slowed as they approached the crosswalk, even when students were about to cross. The Texas Transportation Code states that pedestrians have the right-of-way when they occupy a designated crossing, like the one at Airline and Daniel. Some drivers simply ignore the law, while others say poor lighting conditions after dark may obscure pedestrians waiting at

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the crossing. At the new crosswalk, pedestrians must press a button on a bollard that activates yellow flashing LED signs above the crosswalk, as well as flashing yellow lights bordering the striped pavement. It will not activate automatically when people are present. Similar installations exist between the Dedman School of Law and the law school parking garage on Daniel Avenue, as well as at the Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports. The installation phase of the project began in December 2009 at the end of the fall academic

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MEDIA INDUSTRY

Fashion magazines seem doomed as blogs boom By SARAH BRAY Style Editor sabray@smu.edu

To many people, Jane Aldridge is a typical high school senior. The North Dallas teen is applying for college, goes to movies and pizza with friends on the weekend and has begun the search for the perfect prom dress. To others, though, she’s an arbiter of style. The 18-year-old has a personal blog about shoes that is reaching fashion conscious readers across the world. She blogs about her passion for shoes on SeaofShoes. com, her site that she launched in 2006 as a hobby. Since the time of Aldridge’s Sea of Shoes creation she has developed cult-status with daily hits sometimes reaching more than 60,000 and Twitter followers massing to more than 10,000. As magazines fold, blogs boom. Independently run fashion blogs like Fashionista.com receive 1.5 million hits a month. Retailers like Forever 21, Barney’s and even EBay have tapped into the concept and each run a blog promoting merchandise on their Web sites. Local newspapers and magazines have hopped on the blog bandwagon and are counting on its online presence to secure their existence into the future, and why not? Even everyday people are making money from their personal blogs chronicling their dayto-day lives. “The future is online,” Maxine

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Trowbridge, CEO and founder of PinkMemo.com, said. “I rarely read a newspaper and can’t remember the last time I really read a glossy magazine.” 2009 was a dismal year for magazine publishers. Condé Nast Publications fared the worst; closing six titles this year including Domino, the home décor magazine with a circulation of more than 1.1 million, and Gourmet, the 70-year-old food magazine with a circulation of almost a million. Condé Nast’s remaining publications aren’t doing much better. Fashion and beauty magazines are being hard hit and advertising revenue is down by as much as half at W, Vogue and Allure. Over at rival media conglomerate Hearst Communications, America’s first fashion magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, has seen an ad revenue decrease of more than 22% from 2008 to 2009; resulting in a loss of more than $34 million for the publication. Aldridge resides in rural Trophy Club, Texas, not Manhattan or Milan, yet she has been featured in the pages of Vogue and Elle, made guest appearances on the popular television program “The City,” has a shoeline with Urban Outfitters and most recently she was invited to make her debut at the most exclusive debutante ball in the world: The Crillon Ball in Paris. Dallas resident and stylist Valerie

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Elizabeth jokes about the similarities between herself and Aldridge. “I totally would have been her if I was in high school,” Elizabeth said after hosting a holiday fashion segment for WFAA’s “Good Morning Texas.” Elizabeth is founder of SocietyStylist.com and has developed a

little more than a year, but Society Stylist really took off in August when she conducted “The Little Black Dress Experiment.” – Elizabeth’s venture where she wore the same black dress for 31 days, 31 different ways. “By the third day we started getting calls from the press and by the sixth

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The future is online. I rarely read a newspaper and can’t remember the last time I really read a glossy magazine.

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brand as a fashion expert because of her blog. The 32-year-old has been featured on the “Today Show,” was awarded second place in AOL’s “America’s Most Stylish Blogger”contest and is a regular commentator on Dallas news programs, dishing the latest trends. “There are so many things that have happened that I couldn’t even imagine,” Elizabeth said. “I never in my wildest dreams thought I would be able to meet all of these people and go to New York Fashion Week because of my blog.” Elizabeth has been blogging for a

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Many publications closed down: Condé Nast shuttered six in 2009, including Gourmet. Advertising decreased: Harper’s Bazaar saw ad revenue decrease more than 22 percent from 2008-2009. Blogs gain popularity: D Beauty is cut and topic is shifted to D Magazine blog Shop Talk. day I had been interviewed for video and print by the Associated Press,” Elizabeth said. “On day 17 they put it out on the wire and that’s when it really went insane.” Hits on Society Stylist skyrocketed over night, literally. “We had to make a dedicated server that night because my traffic and views went through the roof,” she said. Now Elizabeth is focusing less on her styling career and more on her blogging career. Personal blogs, like Society Stylist, are creating new media job opportunities and journalists

are being forced to evolve with the changing technology. Pink Memo’s CEO and founder believes that blogs are just the beginning of what she calls the “new online media wave.” “The future is about a touch screen online magazine,” Trowbridge said. “TV and online media merging into one, with our experience becoming more interactive, more customized and a more segmented niche.” Trowbridge attests that, “the media shift and consumer consumption from print magazine to online editions is a fact of life.” This year D Magazine cut its fashion and beauty publication, D Beauty, shifting the topic to its blog, Shop Talk. “Blogs give our editors a regular, immediate avenue to reach readers, by both loyal subscribers and newbie’s who find us through search engines,” D Magazine’s director of online media Julie Kinzie said. D Magazine’s seven blogs not only allow the editors to reach the readers, they give the reader the opportunity to interact with the editors. In addition to leaving comments and opinions, Kinzie said readers can access information that was not printed in the magazine, like interview transcripts, video, mp3s and pod casts. F!D Home and Dining Editor Christopher Wynn, blogs daily on the

Dallas Morning News shopping blog. According to Wynn, there are big advantages to blogs that print publications can’t provide. Along with providing immediacy for timely content, compared to print, blog posts are more relaxed as far as topic and tone. “The blog enables the writer to let more of his/her personality to show,” Wynn said. “Readers can get to know you better and feel a stronger connection to your work.” SMU senior Carolyn Angiolillo started her blog, Freckles and the Golden Goose, to do just that – express her personality. “I don’t worry about who reads it or how many Google followers I may have,” Angiolillo said. “I blog for the fun of blogging.” Angiolillo describes her blog, hosted on blogspot.com, as random things that make-up who she is. “It’s whatever I am feeling, come across or go through on a certain day,” Angiolillo said. Despite typical enterprise barriers like location and budget, Elizabeth is confident anyone can start a blog and gain a following. “It is a way for someone who doesn’t necessarily have a ton of resources, to get their word out,” Elizabeth said. “It’s about finding your niche, writing what you like and finding those people that connect with you.”

Police Reports JANUARY 9

3:45 p.m., SMU Service House/3041 Dyer Street: University Park Fire Department responded to an active fire alarm due to a water flow sensor. UPFD arrived on scene and shut off all water to the building ceasing the water flow. SMU maintenance was notified for repairs. Closed.

JANUARY 10

10:30 p.m., Kappa Alpha Theta/3108 University Blvd: A student was referred to the Student Conduct office for being intoxicated in a public place. Closed.

JANUARY 11

12:45 p.m., Moody Parking Garage/3063 SMU Blvd.: A police officer and fire safety officer responded to an activated fire alarm. It was determined it was caused by a sprinkler head on the fire suppression system on the 3rd floor was busted and gushing water. Fire safety officer turned off the water to the system and requested a technician to come out to repair the system. Closed.

JANUARY 12

10:05 a.m., Prothro Hall/5901 Bishop Blvd.: A faculty member reported theft of a digital video camera his department used for teaching. Open.

Go online to smudailycampus.com for a complete list of police reports.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Mustangs burned by Blazers in final minute Team looks to rebound against Rice on Wednesday in Houston

By NICOLE JACOBSEN Staff Writer njacobse@smu.edu

Despite posting a 24-point lead against the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the second half, which put the Mustangs up 50-26 with a little over 14 minutes remaining, SMU surrendered their second consecutive loss in a 63-62 decision Saturday night in Moody Coliseum. Derek Williams led the Mustangs with 23 points, but missed what would have been a game-winning layup with one second left, leading to the team’s third consecutive Conference USA loss. SMU fell to 6-10 overall and 0-3 in conference play, while the Blazers improved to 15-2 and 3-0 in C-USA. “We had the game,” Papa Dia told the Dallas Morning News. “We had them beat. Right now, it just feels funny because I’m like, ‘How does that happen?’” Dia finished the night with 11 points, giving him his 11th double-digit scoring game of the season and 29th of his career. The 6-foot-9-inch forward has also scored at least 10 points in eight of his last nine games. SMU led 34-20 at halftime, going up by a game-high 24 points before UAB’s Cameron Moore sealed the win for his team with a transition layup with 1:11 remaining. Elijah Millsap’s 16 second-half points and Moore’s six points ignited the Blazers’ rally, giving UAB their fourth straight win and moving them to third place in conference standings.

With zero conference wins, SMU remains in ninth place ahead of Rice, Tulane and East Carolina. Despite having one win in C-USA at this time last season, the Mustangs shot 55 percent from the field against UAB, their second-best performance of the season. Led by Williams with five three-pointers, SMU recorded a 54 percent success rate from the long range, the team’s best performance of the season. The Mustangs will take on the Rice Owls (6-11, 0-4) tonight in hopes of returning to Dallas on Saturday with their first conference win. Rivals since the 1918-19 season, SMU returns to Houston having won three of the last four games against the Owls. Last season, SMU dropped a 69-57 decision to Rice on the road. The last time that SMU defeated Rice was in 2008 in a 63-58 victory. With both teams having yet to win a game in conference play, stakes are high as SMU enters their fourth conference game after holding previous C-USA opponents to 18.5 points under their scoring average. Williams continues to lead the Mustangs in scoring, with an average of 15.8 points per game. He remains ranked in the Top 10 in C-USA in both scoring and assists (3.2 per game). Teammates Mouhammad Faye and Dia have been posting 12-point averages per game. In comparison, Tamir Jackson and Arsalan Kazemi lead Rice with 11.5 points and 10 points, respectively.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Mustangs improve to 3-1 in conference after back-to-back wins Jan. 17: SMU defeats Tulane 70-59, stays No. 3 By DORI SHOCKLEY Associate Sports Editor dshockley@smu.edu

SMU women’s basketball maintains their No. 3 rank in the Conference USA after defeating No. 7 ranked Tulane University on Jan. 17. The match started off slow for the Mustangs, who trailed behind all the way into halftime. Despite strong efforts to close the gap, SMU returned to the locker room down by three, 33-30. Head coach Rhonda Rompola has spent a lot of energy explaining to the team the

Jan. 15: Mustangs beat UTEP 72-61 By STEPHEN LU Sports Editor sjlu@smu.edu

Over the past several years, the women’s basketball team at the University of Texas at El Paso has been one of the top teams in Conference USA, consistently finishing with one of the better records in the conference. But, it seems the Mustangs have their number. The SMU women’s basketball team defeated the UTEP Miners, 72-61, at Moody Coliseum on Jan. 15. This marks the fourth time in a row that the Mustangs have beaten the Miners. The game was close until halfway through the second half, with the two teams exchanging baskets and leads the whole way. However, with roughly seven minutes left in the game, the Mustangs raced away with a 16-0 run that UTEP never recovered from. Junior Haley Day led the Mustangs with 18 points and nine rebounds. Senior Brittany Gilliam, who many teams have focused on due to her breakout performance last season, used the extra attention to her advantage, dishing out a career-high 11 assists alongside her 17 points. SMU’s defense was no pushover either; the Mustangs held UTEP’s Jareica Hughes to just seven points. The senior had been averaging 14.1 points a game. The Mustangs also held the rebounding advantage, pounding the glass for 38 rebounds compared to just 27 for the Miners. SMU’s record is still perfect this season when they out-rebound their opponent. The Mustangs also took on the Tulane Green Wave over the break in a bid to win their third straight C-USA game.

importance of playing both halves of the game with intensity and focus. Her efforts were evident Sunday afternoon as SMU took the court and scored four points immediately. The teams battled for the lead until a pair of free throws from sophomore Christine Elliot secured the Mustangs’ advantage. SMU led the remainder of the game, with a final score of 70-59. The Mustangs’ defense has been able to hold most opponents to comparable scores all season. On top of the win, SMU fans also had reason to celebrate, senior Jillian Samuels scored a total of 20 points for the second time in her career, as well as earning a total of 1,000 points as a Mustang. In addition to sinking two key shots, Elliot added 10 more points to the SMU scoreboard. Gilliam only contributed eight points Sunday. It was a low scoring game

for Gilliam, currently averaging 13.1 points per game. Tulane head coach, Lisa Stockton, appeared frustrated with the team’s performance. “We had too many turnovers… we had 23 today. You can’t be careless with the ball against good teams,” Stockton said according to tulanegreenwave.com. However, Tulane senior Chassity Brown was able to set a school record with nine steals against the Mustangs. SMU will return to the court in Houston against Rice on Jan. 28 and will then play Houston on the 30th. Rice is ranked No. 9 in C-USA and has a conference record of 2-2. Houston is a closer match than Rice and Tulane; they are ranked No. 4 and have the same C-USA record as SMU (3-1). However, Houston has an overall record of 10-7, placing them slightly behind SMU who is 13-4.

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SMU forward Mouhammad Faye dunks in a game against UAB Jan. 16th at Moody Coliseum. The Mustangs lost the game, 63-62.

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Despite Sunday’s disappointing loss, the future looks promising COMMENTARY

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t was a tragic day for the Dallas Cowboys as they stumbled to the Minnesota Vikings 34-3. Despite all their best efforts, the ‘Boys could not finish up. Coming into the game, the Cowboys were riding Bryan Manderscheid on a hot streak, having won their last four games. The defense was brought back to life thanks to the growth of Anthony Spencer as a passrushing outside linebacker to complement the star of the defense, DeMarcus Ware. The offense was blowing away teams with big plays on the ground, with a trio of running backs, and in the air, with the arm of Tony Romo and the hands of Miles Austin and Jason Witten. It seemed unlikely that the Cowboys could lose to any team with the explosive plays they were making. However, that was Sunday morning, before the game began. During the game, the Cowboys had numerous chances to take advantage of the Vikings’ mistakes, but in the end, the Cowboys never followed through. The field goal kicker, Shaun Suisham, made one of three field goals, which cut down the Cowboys’ confidence. The defensive line of the Minnesota Vikings, led by Jared Allen at defensive end, sacked Tony Romo six times, forced two fumbles, and intercepted the ball once. The injury to Left Tackle Flozell Adams only added to the problem. Normally, the Cowboys’ offensive line plays hard and manages to contain the pass rush; however, the Vikings’ defense contained the playmakers and prevented Romo from succeeding. On the other side, the Dallas defense tried

to match the play of the Vikings, but failed to finish on plays. Brett Favre, the quarterback of the Vikings, was too elusive for the tremendous pass rushers of the Cowboys to sack. The coverage for the Cowboys was good except for key plays that caused the Vikings to score. The Vikings won the game more than the Cowboys lost it. I know many Cowboys fans are disappointed that their dreams of going to Sun Life Stadium in Miami to watch their team play against the AFC Champion in Super Bowl XLIV won’t comee true. However, they should not be disappointed by how the season turned out. The Cowboys managed to win the division, despite the Giants starting out hot and the Eagles playing hotter at the end of the season. The Cowboys managed to develop young talent in Miles Austin, Anthony Spencer, Mike Jenkins and Felix Jones. Tony Romo and Head Coach Wade Phillips managed to overcome their playoff demons and lead the Cowboys to their first playoff win since 1996. This has been the best season the Cowboys have played in a long time and there’s a lot of growth still left in them. The team needs to have the offensive line play a bit better and the wide receivers and defensive backs still have a lot of room to grow. Thanks to owner Jerry Jones’s decision to retain Wade Phillips, the team can continue on its path towards Super Bowl XLV, which it can play here at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. Congratulations on a successful season, Dallas Cowboys. Bryan Manderscheid is a freshman engineering major. He can be reached for comment at bmandersch@smu.edu

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ne of the poets who is slowly rising on my list of poets I turn to for answers is Ezra Pound. Although he is an extremely influential writer and critic, he is widely unknown by people who can recognize the names of Whitman, Eliot

and Frost. Recently I’ve been drawn to the idea that money makes you miss out on life. Money is a cushion that, if given to you at the beginning of your life, can cause you to work with less passion (at least most of the time) and allow you to avoid ever truly hitting rock bottom. Of course, this is where Ezra Pound steps in with his poem “The Garret” in which he says: Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. In one of my final days at home over break, my mother and I were out for a run and she, as always, was helping me to psychoanalyze my problems. One of the things that I remember telling her while we were on the subject of men-or boys as I like to call them--in my life is that I hope to someday marry a writer. To which she said, “Who will support the two of you?” Of course, without missing a beat I said, “Oh,

I have no desire to be rich. I’d much rather live among the proletariat.” It’s interesting to me that from my third floor, two-bedroom, two-bath nearly perfect life I am still so desperately reaching out to embrace the life I believe to be the only real way to live; the one full of struggle. I chose one of the richest schools in the area to attend, as if to offer myself the opportunity to rebel against the norm. To be one of the few girls who doesn’t join a sorority, to be one of the few girls who didn’t buy her friends. But dear Mr. Pound does not end with pitying the rich; he also pities the married and the unmarried. As if to say that if you climb up on a high enough ladder you can look down on everyone. Well, I suppose since I live a life so rich with blessings and since I am far from willing to hawk my Louis Vuitton bag, I should learn to see everyone as someone fully alive in their own way. It may seem like it takes strength to be better than everyone, but I think only a truly strong person can recognize that they are no better than anyone else. Living your life among people may be more difficult, but there is not a reward for people who wind up alone. And that, my friends, is my long-winded New Year’s resolution: I resolve to recognize that I am just another human being striving for a good life, with money or without. Lauren Smart is a junior creative writing major. She can be reached for comment at lsmart@smu.edu

owards the end of last semester, I was sitting in a discussion-based class when I noticed that the girl next to me was on Facebook. A few minutes later, she was writing an e-mail. Before the class was over, Nathaniel French she searched for plane tickets, shopped online, and had a conversation on Facebook Chat with another girl in the class. I’m guessing she probably missed some of the more subtle aspects of narrative arc being debated that day. This wasn’t an isolated incident. Students frequently use their laptops to do just about everything other than take notes. They also check and send text messages, study for other classes, and jot down grocery lists. I have to admit, I’ve done most of these things on occasion, and I have a terrible tendency to use class time to make up for the sleep I so often miss. New information technologies have done great things for education. The Internet may have done more to spread knowledge than any invention since the printing press. You can download lectures from iTunes U and listen to them while you walk to class. Although professors rightly advise against using Wikipedia as a source in a research paper, its entries offer good and generally accurate background on almost any topic you need. More information is available than ever before, and there’s no end in sight to its expansion. But these new technologies can also get in the way of learning. Studies have shown that we humans aren’t nearly as good at multi-tasking as we think. We can’t really pay full attention in class while we’re surfing the web. As college students, our chief responsibility is to our education, the most important part of which is the time we spend in class. If we devote more energy to Facebook than we do to contributing to class discussions, we’re letting ourselves down. We’re also showing disrespect to our university, our professors, and the people helping pay our tuition. Students should continue to use technology to further their education. Sometimes the best way to do that is to sign off. Nathaniel French is a junior theater major. He can be reached for comment at nfrench@smu.edu

Mustang Brief Kay Bailey Hutchison and reform

n Monday, Kay Bailey Hutchison proposed a plan to reform Texas’s government. A term limit for governors is the most high-profile proviso, but Hutchison also included measures intended to curb lobbyists’ influence in Austin and a number of other sensible policies. This is a smart political maneuver on Hutchison’s part. She’s running to replace Texas’s current governor, Rick Perry, whom she’s criticized as beholden to special interests. The race has been pretty nasty, and Hutchison stands to pick up ground by running as a candidate of reform against Texas’s longestserving governor. But Hutchison’s proposal isn’t just good politics; it’s good policy, too. The line between lobbyists and public officials can be fuzzier than it should. Special interests tend to have too much power in state governments. While a reform bill wouldn’t eliminate that problem, it would show resolve on the part of the legislature to separate an official’s public duty to her constituents from her private duty to her own finances. The term limit for governors is also overdue. Perry has been governor since 2000, and if he wins reelection this year, he’ll be around for at least another four years. That’s too much power for one person to wield for so long. Change is important in government. The best way for that to happen is to elect a new chief executive every once in a while. A new administration brings with it fresh ideas and different priorities, helping chart a new direction. Allowing a governor to serve for eight years before requiring him to step down is a reasonable check on entrenched interests. Hutchison’s proposal is especially notable because, if enacted, it will limit the power of the office she hopes to win. Politicians almost always try to increase their sway; very rarely do they offer to reduce it. Hutchison deserves a lot of credit for falling in the latter camp. Hutchison still has to prove that she’s the best choice for governor. But with this proposal, she’s off to a good start. --Nathaniel French Opinion Editor

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‘Leap Year’ Movie Unoriginal, Uninspired By LISA COLLINS Associate A&E Editor lccollins@smu.edu

If you like predictable romantic comedies like “The Proposal,” “How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days,” “27 Dresses,” and “The Ugly Truth,” you’re in luck. Because “Leap Year” is exactly the same movie! The movie follows the same classic plot line. A pretty, yet obsessive girl with a rigid life plan meets a man who does not fit with her ideas, and after deeply hating and annoying each other for a period of time, they have a revelation and fall in love. “Leap Year” is the story of Anna Brady, an urban perfectionist, who works as a stager – glamming up apartments in order to make them more attractive to sell. Her quest for perfection includes wedding her cardiologist boyfriend Jeremy. Due to his failure to propose, she decides to follow him to his conveniently timed medical conference in Ireland to pop the question, taking advantage of the Irish female tradition of proposing to men on leap year. Along the way, Anna finds herself stranded in Ireland and enlists the help of rugged Irish pub

owner Declan to assist her on her journey to Dublin. You can guess what happens next. The inherent sexism in the idea that a woman has to travel across the world in order to be allowed to propose to a man once every four years is hard to ignore, although the aspect of tradition is romantic. On that same note, the Irish were portrayed in an extremely stereotypical manner; nearly every scene in Ireland took place in a bar. The opportunity to display the beauty of Ireland is not lost and in fact, it is the long shots of Ireland’s rolling hills and ancient castles that are the best part of the movie. Although the film lacked originality and humor, Matthew Goode and Oscar nominee Amy Adams performances still sparkled. It is hard to take your eyes off of either of them. Goode’s Irish accent is spot on and irresistible, while Adams is as charming as ever and her red hair and porcelain skin are perfectly complemented by the breathtaking views of the Irish countryside. “Leap Year” grossed $5 million at the box office last weekend, bringing its total gross to $17 million.

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Amy Adams and Matthew Goode star in “Leap Year”

COFFEE

Crooked Tree offers alternative to Starbucks By NIKKI PASRIJA A&E Editor npasrija@smu.edu

Coffee is for catching up with friends, a quick caffeine fix or a study break.The beverage is more than just a drink. It can be a regular habit before an early class. It can be a first date. Coffee offers a number of possibilities, and yet more often than not, we find ourselves just sticking to one: Starbucks. Dallas offers many alternatives to the behemoth, and one of these popular alternatives is Crooked Tree Coffeehouse. The outside of this Uptown coffeehouse legitimately resembles a house and the indoor atmosphere

Crooked Tree Coffeehouse is located at 2414 Routh St.

is certainly homey. Couches and tables are strewn across the small space, filling up what appears to be rooms in a house. Laptops, novels and newspapers provide comfortable clutter as customers stretch out on sofas or cluster at small tables. The crowd isn’t stifling as the environment is generally relaxed, which is great for writing papers or having a quiet conversation. However, this is only true if you can actually find a seat. The shop tends to get busy by noon, and because it is so tiny you may not be able to actually sit down. Crooked Tree provides free wireless Internet when you buy a

drink, so studying here is an easy option. There are also plenty of outlets to plug in your laptop charger, so you can spend as long as you need to on your computer. Besides the atmosphere, the coffeehouse really does have good coffee. Prices are similar to most other coffee shops, including Starbucks. A latte will run about three dollars. The Crooked Tree offers a wide selection of drinks and also carries some food. The food is just average, however. It is probably safer to stick to coffee and other drinks. Getting coffee here is more than just the in-and-out affair that a

Starbucks run has become. Get your coffee in a mug instead of a plastic to-go cup, and sit down and enjoy the tiny house. It can be a little difficult to find parking on the street, but there is a parking lot near the shop if street parking is unavailable. Crooked Tree also has live music on the weekends. Upcoming artists and bands include Enemies, Ottoman Turks, John Craigie and Sean Foster. For a complete list of who’s playing and when they will be in town, visit crookedtreecoffeehouse.com. The coffeehouse is located at 2414 Routh St. It is open daily until 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 12 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, and until 9 p.m. on Sunday.

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47 Ill-tempered 49 Defeatist’s words 50 Respectful refusal 55 “Young Frankenstein” role 56 Knock silly 58 Pic taker 59 E-file org. 60 Singing syllable 61 It’s over your head

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term. Tricia Mehis, a senior project manager for SMU Planning, Design and Construction, who oversaw the project said there are still a few loose ends to be resolved, but that the recessed pavement lights and activation controls mounted on bollards at all four corners are fully operational. Mehis said the project was designed to improve student safety at the crossing, but denied that any particular incident triggered the renovation of the crosswalk at the end of 2009. Although SMU and the city of University Park’s traffic division collaborated on the installation, SMU

picked up the entire $140,000 tab. Patrick Kobler, SMU’s student body president, said he recalls the issue of the crosswalk being a perennial issue for Student Senate candidates for many years. He is glad to finally see it installed, as are the sorority women that he has spoken to about the project. “The sorority women I’ve talked to are very happy about it, and say they have noticed a difference (since the installation)—cars slowing down and even stopping already,” he said. Kobler said he also thinks that the timing of the project was positive for Greek recruitment, which concluded this past weekend.

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Republican takes Massachusetts Senate seat Glen Johnson

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BOSTON (AP) — Four years ago, the Massachusetts lieutenant governor passed over Scott Brown as a potential running mate in her bid to replace then-Gov. Mitt Romney because she and her staff saw him as a political lightweight. On Tuesday, Brown pulled off a huge political upset, defeating Democrat Martha Coakley — in one of the bluest states in the country — to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Brown not only regained control of a seat the Democrats had held for over a half-century, but gave the GOP the vote it needed to break the Democrats’ Senate supermajority and block the health care overhaul nearly finished by President Barack Obama. He was the first Republican elected to the Senate from Massachusetts since 1972. Those who know Brown are not surprised. “He’s a triathlete,” said state Rep. Richard Ross, a fellow Republican from Brown’s hometown of Wrentham. “He’s a competitor, and a lot of people underestimated that. He outworks other people.” The 50-year-old Brown seized on Coakley’s early complacency in the abbreviated campaign to define himself as a truck-driving everyman, a doting father and the candidate best suited to push back against a Democratic-dominated Senate.

While Coakley was largely out of view after she trounced three primary opponents, Brown held daily press events. He also posted the first television ad of the final election stretch, an audacious spot in which he compared himself to Kennedy’s revered brother, the late President John F. Kennedy. Brown said his dedication to hard work and family grew out of a difficult childhood. “I didn’t come from a lot of money,” he said during a debate. “My parents are divorced a few times. My mom was on welfare for a period of time. I really came from nothing and worked my way up.” On the campaign trail and in debates, Brown drew bright lines between himself and his Democratic opponent — something Democrats believed hurt Coakley. Massachusetts Democratic political consultant Mary Ann Marsh said Brown was able to capitalize on his strengths during the brief sprint to the special election, in part because Coakley and her supporters sat back after she won the Democratic primary. “In a six-week race, he was given the advantage of having the field to himself for the first four weeks,” she said. “He was able to define himself, define the race and define her, and nobody questioned him.”

Earthquake survivors take goods from a collapsed building in the market area of Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved extra troops and police officers to beef up security in Haiti and ensure that desperately needed aid gets to earthquake victims. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12.

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The trio of SMU student leaders has already enlisted a host of volunteers to help with publicity for the campaign; students to man information and donation tables at the West Bridge and others to plan a variety of special events that will be held in the next two weeks. Kobler and Carey say they encourage competition among campus groups to see which can raise the most funds, but say they would like to ensure that all efforts are directed to this one account to provide a united front for the relief aid coming from SMU. One of the team’s concepts includes selling heart-shaped placards to students that will be posted on campus to show the level of support the program has generated. Hearts will be sold in

increasing size and value from a small $5 heart, to a medium $10 heart, and finally jumping to a large heart geared towards organizations that will donate

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It’s our responsibility to coordinate and organize a collective relief effort to take place in the next two weeks to send aid to Haiti. Patrick Kobler Student Body President

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$1,000. While many details have yet to be finalized, Kobler said he wants “to raise as much money and awareness for Haiti as possible.”

Other local universities are also stepping up to meet the challenge of rebuilding Haiti. Amy Simon, director of the Center for Leadership and Service at the University of North Texas, said her students are organizing a campus fundraising drive as well. Rather than collecting funds and sending one large donation from the school, Simon said UNT students are being asked to go online to donate directly to the American Red Cross. In this way, she said, UNT would be unable to track how much money was being raised, but she said the money would be put to good use faster if donations were made directly to relief organizations. Students involved in religious groups at Texas Christian

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international relationship can gain strength. Bremmer, believes there is a lack of progress in forming a strong relationship with Russia. “Obama has very little bandwidth to focus on administration and Russia,” Bremmer said. Part of the reason for the strenuous ties between U.S. and Russia is that Russia stumbled economically and politically after the Cold War in finding a system of government that worked best for them, according to Hadley. He said new superpowers have emerged over the past 20+ years and we have found that authoritarian regimes will not longer work. The 21st century is different, and Russia needs to democratize and modernize to compete. Despite Russia’s internal problems, Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, has a powerful pull in political issues around the world.

University are helping by collecting materials and assembling hygiene kits for a non-profit relief organization, Church World Service. Office of Religious and Spiritual life staffer Teresa Shelton said the project is now well under way since TCU resumed classes Jan. 11, the day before the earthquake struck. At SMU, Carey and Muchnikoff said they are also hoping to involve alumni in the Haiti relief effort, but said before any money can be raised; approval must be obtained from the SMU office of Legal Affairs as well as from President R. Gerald Turner. They are expecting approval within the next few days.

“There is no one in the world who runs a country anywhere near this size;” who has the capacity to do it the way he does, said Bremmer. Regardless of the political tug-ofwars associated with forming a new relationship, both Bremmer and Hadley agree that the U.S. should make an effort in other areas, such as science, to work collaboratively with the Russians. “Ultimately, the U.S. can afford to be generous,” Bremmer said. “We have economic, military and diplomatic experience to work with in [forming] a relationship with Russia.” The Tate Lecture Series now in its 28th year brings “leading minds from around the world” to Dallas to share their distinct perspectives with the community at large, according to the Tate Lecture Web site. The lecture series awards the University, chiefly Presidential Scholars Program, close to $1 million every year.

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Left to right: Ian Bremmer, Stephen Hadley, and Claire Shipman discuss postSoviet Russia relations Tuesday evening in McFarlin Auditorium.

San Diego mayor: Gay marriage stand hurt campaign LISA LEFF

Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders opposed gay marriage — until he learned his daughter was a lesbian in a committed relationship. He testified Tuesday during a trial on California’s same-sex marriage ban. that the change was a defining moment in his personal life and his political career. The mayor of California’s second-largest city took the witness stand on behalf of two same-sex couples suing to overturn Proposition 8, the state’s voterapproved ban. Sanders, a Republican, said he lost support within his party and had to work harder to be reelected after he opposed the 2008 ballot measure. GOP leaders in San Diego were even thinking of withdrawing their endorsement, he said. “The kickoff for the campaign, a lot of people weren’t there,” Sanders testified. The trial, in its sixth day, is the first in a federal court to examine whether denying gays and lesbians the right to wed violates their constitutional rights. Throughout the trial, backers of the ban have tried to show the ballot measure was not motivated by deep-seated bias toward gays. Such “animus” would make it more difficult for the measure to pass constitutional muster. Brian Raum, a lawyer for Proposition 8 sponsors, crossexamined the mayor about his onetime opposition to gay marriage. “You don’t believe that you communicated hatred to the gay and lesbian community, did you?” Raum asked.

“I feel like my thoughts were grounded in prejudice, but I don’t feel like I communicated hatred,” Sanders said. Raum also played a commercial produced by the Proposition 8 campaign claiming supporters were subjected to vandalism, slurs and physical violence during the 2008 election. “You would agree that it’s wrong for people to suffer violence as a result of their political views, would you not?” Raum asked. “I would,” Sanders agreed, adding he could not verify that supporters of the ban in San Diego experienced widespread harassment or if the ad was a campaign tactic. Raum also pressed Sanders to acknowledge that people could oppose same-sex marriage because they think it’s in the best interests of children to be raised by their biological parents. Sanders replied that such an ideal vision of heterosexual marriage is misinformed. “I was a cop for 26 years, and I know there were a lot of children who did not benefit from child abuse and they were being raise by their biological parents,” he said. In other testimony, University of Massachusetts at Amherst economist Lee Badgett, who also directs research for a gay-related think tank at the University of California, Los Angeles, said research showed gay couples preferred marriage to taking advantage of domestic partnership laws. “Marriage is an institution that is recognized by many other people outside the couple, so it has that social validation,” Badgett said.