Southern Methodist University

Reporting Law for On-Campus Rapes Underestimates Real Numbers

On Sunday night, an SMU student was raped while jogging just off campus. There are no details so far about the girl, other than the fact that she was assaulted in one of the nicest neighborhoods in town, in University Park. But her case is much more common than statistics would lead us to believe, d ... More >>

Cello Cacophony

An SMU Alum and Rape Victim Responds to the Daily Campus' Victim-Blaming Op-Ed

Jennifer Gerson, a 2007 SMU graduate and rape survivor, passed along her response to the Daily Campus' recent victim-blaming alcohol-and-rape op-ed, which she sent to SMU president Gerald Turner and other school officials. We're running it here in full. President Turner: Today I am ashamed to call ... More >>

An SMU Professor Claims She Was Fired for Blowing the Whistle on Sex and Nazi Fetishism in the Human Rights Program

In 2006, with the controversy over its ultimately successful bid to house the Bush Presidential Center very much brewing, SMU set to work establishing the Embrey Human Rights Program. It was a pioneering effort that aimed to raise awareness of global social justice issues and perhaps inspire studen ... More >>

SMU Student Indicted for Raping a Classmate in a Dorm Room

A 20-year-old junior at SMU has been indicted on charges that he raped a fellow student in a dorm room in February. The student, Donald Samuel Cuba, was booked into Dallas County Jail and is out on a $15,000 bond. The story -- including details on the school's controversial student-discipline heari ... More >>

Ditch the Caf: Better Food Is Truckin' to a Campus Near You

See Also: *The College Diet: Breaking Down the Food at SMU's Cafeteria *Digg's Taco Shop: Yeah, We Can Dig It Well, RFOC is out. Big surprise. I distinctly remember finding the choices so taste-numbing that I once ate nothing but a bowl of croutons for dinner during my freshman year at SMU. Perha ... More >>

"Gunga Galunga," Which Means: The Dalai Lama's Going to Receive Honorary SMU Degree

​This just in from The Hilltop: On May 9, the Dalai Lama's going to appear on the Southern Methodist University campus, where he'll speak from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at McFarlin Auditorium as part of SMU's 10th Hart Global Leaders Forum. Per the announcement, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan peoples ... More >>

As It Develops More Property On East Side of N. Central, SMU Wants to Be "Dallas's University"

Flickr user: coltera​Over the last five, six years, Southern Methodist University has slowly, surely expanded its presence along N. Central Expressway -- beginning with the purchase of Expressway Tower, once the home of the Dallas Cowboys corporate offices; 6200 N. Central Expressway, which now ho ... More >>

SMU Men's Basketball Program Slapped With Two Years Probation For Text Messages

SMU​Sure, it's not the death penalty, but the NCAA just released a statement saying it has accepted self-imposed sanctions by Southern Methodist University on its basketball program. SMU's recommendations included two years probation (March 10, 2011, through March 9, 2013), a reduction of 15 recru ... More >>

SMU Puts Some "Theatrical Treasures" Online

Southern Methodist UniversityThe Capitol opened in 1922 at 1521 Elm Street; the Rialto, in '35 after having been known as the Old Mill Theatre since its 1913 debut.​The McCord Theatre Museum on the SMU campus closed some 20 years back; says here that since then, the thousands of odds and sods coll ... More >>

At the Lakewood Last Night, A Home-Field Look at SMU Football Doc Pony Excess

Patrick MichelsDirector Thaddeus Matula introduces his film.​Mustangs young and old turned out at the Lakewood Theater last night, for a very special screening of Pony Excess -- or "Exce$$," if you prefer -- Southern Methodist film-school grad Thaddeus Matula's ESPN-bound documentary about SMU foo ... More >>

Murder, they typed at the Margo Jones; The Dog Problem's got problems at Undermain; and how to succeed in preschool at Circle Theater

Next Week at SMU, the Discovery Institute's Finally Nailing Darwin For Good

​If you fell prey to the siren call of the Discovery Institute's 2007 Darwin vs. Design conference at Southern Methodist University, well, dust off your fossil records and get your ape suit to the dry cleaners, because next Thursday night we're gonna do it all again.Next week's panel discussion, " ... More >>

J.R. and SMU Reach for the Sun

​Not together, mind you -- this isn't a joint project between Ewing Oil and the Hilltop. But both Larry Hagman, now positioning himself as the Anti-Palin, and Southern Methodist are making a singular push for solar power -- the former Dallas star in a highly publicized ad for a German photovoltaic ... More >>

Last Night: Big Boi and Girl Talk at SMU

Big Boi, Girl TalkSouthern Methodist UniversityApril 15, 2010Better than: Big Boi's set getting canceled as well.Mattie StaffordBig Boi played SMU last night. Girl Talk didn't.​Many unsuspecting local music fans had the same reaction upon hearing that there would be a free concert on the SMU cam ... More >>

Defense Department Gives SMU Millions More to Finish Developing Military's Tiny Camera

Southern Methodist UniversitySMU's creating a camera that'll allow soldiers to shoot, as it were, inside "dark places, like caves and urban areas."​Back in June, Wired directed our attention to SMU's efforts to create a powerful paper-thin camera that uses low-resolution sensors to create a hi-res ... More >>

A Transaction Sure to Inject Optimism Into Your Mavericks Thinking

I know, let's raid the rich basketball heritage of SMU and the Memphis Grizzlies! Take the White Out to yesterday's speculative depth chart and dust off Laura Miller's old parade plans, your Dallas Mavericks just signed ... drum roll ... Quintin Ross! Starred at Kimball High School. Starred a ... More >>

SMU Landed the Bush Library, But a Group of Former Condo Owners Still Want the World to Know At What Price

On the Hilltop, An SMU Prof Is Creating a Teensy-Weensy Camera for the U.S. Military

Southern Methodist UniversityWired's Danger Room blog this morning visits the SMU campus, where Electrical Engineering Associate Professor Marc Christensen is helping the military create a powerful paper-thin camera that uses low-resolution sensors to create a hi-res image. Notes David Hambling, "tr ... More >>

SMU Honors Payne Stewart With the Bestest Clubhouse in All of College Golf

Southern Methodist University AthleticsApparently, the only thing standing between SMU and a "perennial top-25 golf program" is a good place to practice. Hence, this morning's announcement that one week from today, the university will officially break ground on the SMU Payne Stewart Golf Learning Ce ... More >>

Yay, SMU! You're No. 66!

That's what U.S. News & World Report says, anyway, in its latest ranking of the best colleges in the country. Which puts Southern Methodist behind BaylorRice, the University of Texas and Texas A&M when it comes to the other Texas universities on the list. But don't feel left out, TCU: You're No. 113 ... More >>

Charlie Green Bringing an Expanded Olivella's to Victory Park in October

Beating Around the Bush Library at SMU

Yesterday The Dallas Morning News ran a story about how some Methodists are so opposed to putting the George W. Bush Presidential Library and think tank on the SMU campus that they're trying to get the church to chuck its OK allowing the construction. Today, The Daily Campus follows up with a story ... More >>

The Fishes Wear Manolos

In case you missed it, there's been a tempest roiling at Southern Methodist University over the last couple of weeks completely unrelated to nekkid women. Professors from the science departments at SMU tried to shut down a conference beginning tonight at McFarlin Auditorium dubbed Darwin vs. Design, ... More >>

Brain Spat

Snow Blind

W. and Us

Dallas, home to the George W. Bush think tank. Let's think about that.

Colbert on Bush Library: "A Great Honor for Southern Methodist University." Wink, Wink.

Last night, the glory that is Stephen Colbert spent a considerable amount of time talking about SMU -- pronounced "SMOO," apparently -- and the George W. Bush library. "As somebody who loves our president and hates books, I don't know where I stand," said the host of The Colbert Report, introducing ... More >>

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SMU Profs to Bush: Bring the Library if You Must, But Keep the "Think Tank"

Last week, Texas Monthly's Paul Burka got a copy of a December 16 missive that the "Faculty, Administrators, & Staff" of SMU's Perkins School of Theology sent to R. Gerald Turner, president of the Board of Trustees. In this letter, which is making the rounds among the SMU staff and the writers of va ... More >>

Quiet on the Screen

SMU features silent films of yore

We're Here, We're Queer, We're at SMU

Yesterday, about 60 people--students, mostly, but at least one professor--marched on the Southern Methodist University campus, protesting an editorial that appeared in The Daily Campus last week bearing the headline "Gays, the new Jews?!?" According to this piece in the SMU student newspaper, "Voice ... More >>

What's Under There?

Art Giant

Building Dallas

Big D could use a man like Gehry

Go East

Don't get lost in translation

The Devil Next Door

The chilling story of Doug Havard, SMU'S Crime Boss

Polls' Vault

Presidential campaign art, From George to George

Log On

Faculty boots up with new music

ICE, ICE Babies

SMU kids learn about life outside The Bubble

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Socialist Studies

SMU gets Smash!-ed

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Picks for the week of February 13-19

Best Fried Chicken

Bubba's Cooks Country

Best New Museum

Meadows Museum

SMU's Little Wilde Streak

The new Meadows Museum symbolizes everything good and bad about life on the Hilltop

Trojan pony

SMU engages in a stealth campaign to buy out owners of condos in an area it covets

Night & Day

March 26-April 1, 1998

Ready For Battle

DISD hired Clarence Glover to defuse a racial crisis. But is he tough enough for the job?

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