Each academic year, one student is selected to serve on the highest governing body of Southern Methodist University: the Board of Trustees. The Student Trustee has one vote in the 42 person board, just like any other. He or she represents the student perspective along with nine other students who sit on the board’s standing committees, including the student body president.

The Task Force on Sexual Misconduct initiated by President R. Gerald Turner last fall released 41 recommendations Wednesday that seek to solve issues with reporting, communication, accountability and Title IX. The Daily Campus is generally pleased by their findings and recommendations.

To be honest I’ve been dreading writing this “goodbye” since the beginning of my senior year. The Daily Campus has been a huge part of my life since I joined the staff at the beginning of my sophomore year. Back then I was just a nighttime copy editor and I had no idea that the newspaper office would become my second home.

Class is officially finished. We’ve made it through the big push, and now we’re all anxiously awaiting our final examinations. Although class has concluded, we are all still cramming for those finals, and often times realize that all of the libraries are full.

Over the past two semesters, I have been more or less “reporting live on South Asia.” The SMU campus is as international as it gets — students from all over the world are here, either as full time students or exchange students. But the experience that an international student goes through in college can no doubt be sometimes entirely different from what a native student would have.

In 1973, Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes consecutively, making him the first Triple Crown Winner in 25 years. But what is more striking is that in the 40 years since Secretariat made horse racing history, no horse has been able to break his record.

Different careers, life paths reward us differently

Five presidents were on the SMU campus. Five of the most influential people to have walked the earth. Decisions that they made are etched into history. They changed the way the majority of people across the globe lived. Through war or through peace. Through economics or though diplomacy.

Walk through the streets of Tehran, the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and you will come across several churches and synagogues. What you will not encounter, however, is a Sunni Muslim mosque to accommodate the over one million Sunni Muslims in the capital city.

As our weekly column on religion draws to a conclusion, I thought it might be useful to reflect on why Michael and I took up this challenge in the first place. Last semester, I was writing a weekly column in which I was a sort of lefty apologist. The idea was that every political issue has two sides worth debating and that both perspectives were equally valuable.

For one of my religious studies classes, we’re required to submit blog posts each week about religious influence in international development. I thought this past week’s post was germane to several events happening in the United States. We have been talking about black communities in Latin America and how black people are “stronger” in their faith than whites.

Everyone loves a jungle story. The call of adventure in the wild is one of those lures that few people can ignore, especially if the stories are about tigers or leopards; even more so, of the stories that are about some man-eating carnivore. India has some of the richest tropical evergreen forests in the world.

The idea struck the authors as the sun shimmered off the translucent plastic of that Taj Mahal of a tent that Ducky-Bob’s(SMU’s favorite event specialist) was asked to set up on the Dallas Hall Lawn for the past week’s Library festivities. If in fact the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) is struggling with increasing population and terrible tent/housing conditions at refugee camp sites the world over, SMU may be able to contribute, if not a full solution, then at least a step towards fulfilling that one burning wish of every Miss America: world peace.

The manhunt for Dzhokar Tsarnaev in the early hours of April 19 was morbidly fascinating. Those of us still awake were tuned in to the Boston police scanner to listen in, Google Maps to watch along and Twitter to follow the updates. Every out-of-breath Boston accent could have been the break — resolution to the drama.

Ten years after the invasion of Iraq, people often criticize the absence of weapons of mass destruction, the loss of American lives, and the instability and endless sectarian violence it brought about. What many people do not realize is that for Iraqi Kurds, George W.

God not necessary for love Ever since I was young, I was taught that love is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, freely given by God to man in spite of his flawed nature. So if as many other people buy this interpretation as my religious teachers might suggest, I have an uphill battle when it comes to defending love without God.

Just think about it. On the first of May, it will all be over. The president will be back to handling domestic and foreign affairs. The former presidents will go back to golfing, boating, or skydiving, and the Bush Center will be open for business. The Bush Center is a boon for this campus and its environs.

  In the last issue of The Daily Campus, I read a wonderful article written by Michael Graves making the point that taking time off to travel is as much a worthy way to spend your time after graduation as can be to hunt for a full time job right away or continuing into higher studies.

The outrage at the Kermit Gosnell infanticide case is universal, and understandably so. The details are gruesome and get worse with every day of testimony. The prosecution rested on Friday, with more than enough gory details to send Gosnell away for life.

In two weeks the class of 2013 will spend their last days on this campus as enrolled students. When I ask my senior friends how it feels to almost be finished with college I get several answers. Some are stressed because they don’t have jobs yet, or don’t know where they’ll be going to school next.