Daily Campus

by The Daily Campus Ed Board

The Daily Campus Editorial Board is proud to announce that Bill McElvaney and Susanne Johnson are the SMU Persons of the Year. Their courage to speak out against the George W. Bush Presidnetial Library complex triggered the discussion within the SMU community about what the project would do for our school. (2) comments

by Liz Healy, lizh@smu.edu

…It's about new chairs in Dallas Hall. It's about a new scholarship to benefit future student leaders. It's about better dance facilities in Meadows. It's about buying new books for students who get tutored at the ICE House. The Senior Class Gift is not about the money. (0) comments

by Sarah Scott, Chief Copy Editor, sescott@smu.edu

I'm graduating in two weeks, and somehow I can't seem to muster up anything to say besides this: Thank God it's all over. Don't get me wrong. My four years at SMU were the best in my life - I found tons of organizations to get involved in, I dove headfirst into some pretty fascinating classes (and some not-so-fascinating jobs) and I even found the time to study abroad twice. (0) comments

It's disheartening (though revealing) when people demonize their opponents in order to argue against them. Anika Smith and Sarah Levy wrote a serious article defending intelligent design (ID). Unfortunately, SMU biology professor John Wise has chosen this demonization approach, opening his rebuttal (published on 4/25/07) to Ms. (1) comment

Eternal God of time and space, of every single human trace: our time has flown, so quickly gone since we came to this place. We measure years in moments now, centuries in but a breath; we've reached and stretched, new boundaries set. Profound has been our growth. (0) comments

by Joseph Grinnell, jgrinnel@smu.edu

Earlier this week, at their ceremonial first meeting, Mayor Miller addressed the newly elected Student Senate about their capacity to reinstate the Senate Environment Committee (EC) next year as an operational Standing Committee. Many of the new senators may have never heard about this issue beforehand, but they will soon realize how much of a difference they have the opportunity to make in the senate. (0) comments

by John Wise, Contributing Writer, jwise@smu.edu

Because science gives us methods to accurately understand and manipulate the world we live in. Few people would dispute that our present scientific understanding of the physical world has led to a tremendously long list of advances in medicine, technology, engineering, the structure of the universe and the atom, and on and on. (47) comments

It's so weird that I'm graduating from college in two weeks. I know you hear every senior say it, but you can't recognize the feeling until you've experienced it. Lately, I've been feeling really emotional, like I could cry at any second. I'll walk by Dallas Hall and get a lump in my throat. (0) comments