Daily Campus

Dashboard Confessional rocks out McFarlin

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

John Lefler, guitarist for the band Dashboard Confessional performs Wednesday night in McFarlin Auditorium during the CodeRed concert. The concert was sponsored by Program Council.

Studying for finals becomes risky business

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Matt Newcomer first took Adderall during his senior year of high school. He had free access to the prescribed drug from a friend who had been diagnosed with Attention-Deficit Disorder. He took one pill the night before an exam in his Advanced Placement biology class.

Pole dancing: the new sexy workout

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Hidden between the flashy lights of pubs on Greenville Avenue is a little red door that leads you to The Girls Room. It's dark outside, which sets the mood.

Britney Spears, Demi Moore, Carmen Electra and many more celebrities started a new workout craze: pole dancing.

Health care is prominant issue in upcoming elections

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

While most 19-year-olds are focusing on their college experience, Jessica Mareau is focusing on earning enough money to pay for her medical procedures. She cannot attend school because she works three jobs to pay for her health care.

"I want to go to school but I have to work, I don't have a choice," Mareau said.

Graduate schools report surge in applications

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Graduate school has become a waiting period before going into the work force for some college graduates. Sophomore real estate finance and journalism double major Hanna Nelson is planning on going to graduate school so that she can further her education and gain experience, without having to wait as long for opportunities that might not be there when she graduates due to the slowing economy.

Energy crunch hits SMU students

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

As gas prices continue to rise, Katie Ruppe, a sophomore education and journalism major at SMU, will be digging even deeper into her allowance pockets in order to fill up her car's fuel tank.

"My mom gives me money to pay for one tank of gas a month, everything else I pay for myself, so the higher gas prices have really started to cut in to my allowance," said Ruppe.

Spend summer in the city

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The Cox School of Business has just introduced a new minor in business for non-business undergraduate students beginning this summer. Prior to this time, non-Cox students could not enroll in business courses because of the large number of business students and a lack of resources.

SMU Sikhs tie turbans to advocate awareness

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

A group of Sikh students with the aid of the Chaplain's Office staged SMU's first Sikh Turban Day to promote awareness of the Sikh religion and the headwear that has recently become infamous in the public eye.

"The idea was to create awareness," said Jaipreet Suri, one of the event's student organizers.

Robin Fahgen leads underdog men's tennis team

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

SMU men's tennis player Robin Fahgen hopes that he and his pack of underdogs have a little more bite than the No. 25 Texas A&M Aggiesmight expect in the first round of the NCAA Championships on May 10 in Waco.

Fahgen has buried eight of his last 11 opponents at No.

'Iron Man' and 'Indiana Jones' look to heat up the summer box office

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Well, fellow moviegoers, it's that time of the year again. It's the time when temperatures climb, public pools open for business and Hollywood movie studios treat us not as intelligent humans, but mindless wallets, willing to shell out for anything loud, sexy, adapted from a comic book or all of the above.

Tokyo Police Club break the law on 'Elephant Shell'

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

These days music moves faster than ever. With "illegal" file-sharing now as pervasive as the Internet and countless new blogs popping up daily providing hot tips on this week's hottest new band, fans have an unprecedented amount of access to insight and hype.

Fashion on campus

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

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The last time around

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

At the beginning of this semester, Ed Board was ready and rarin' to go. We were stocked full of ideas and opinions, and we were ready to write. Almost 60 issues later, we're exhausted. So rather than discuss Iraq, the presidential election, gas prices, the Beijing Olympics, the rising cost of food or anything important like that, we're going to get all nostalgic on you and take a look back at this semester because, oh, what a semester it has been.

It's over, and it's been great

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

How did I spend my final moments at SMU?

Watching "Barney" in my advanced broadcast journalism class on Tuesday morning.

You could make the argument that it's everything coming full circle, from childhood to adulthood.

But I think it just shows how random my time here has been.

The definition of identity

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

As Polonius put it, "We are oft to blame in this, 'tis too much proved, that by devotions visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the Devil himself." I am always amazed how people can get away with saying any sort of offensive or audacious claim, when people add to it that it is in their religion.

Choices

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

We are defined by the choices we make. The choice to serve Jesus is not what defines a person, nor is sexuality. I am defined by the way I treat my wife, my friends and my family. I am defined by the way I serve God, not that I choose to do. We either accept all of God's word, including what it says about homosexuality, or we don't.

Stop (texting) and smell

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Sometimes I think the most common sight to see on this campus is the top of someone's head. And coming from a woman who is five-feet-five-inches on a really good day, this is saying quite a bit. It amazes me that people can walk, talk and even eat while looking down at what is in their hands instead of paying attendtion to where they are going while text messaging.

The truth as I see it

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

America rules. That is a fact. Let me make that clear because I love this country more than anything. It has made my life absolutely worth living because of the basic freedoms afforded by the First through 13th Amendments.

That said, America has a problem that it needs to deal with.