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by Mark Norris, Editor in Chief, mnorris@smu.edu

Posted June 7, 11:15 p.m.
Six months after their son was found dead in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, Jacob Stiles' parents are demanding answers from SMU officials. Their pleas are similar to those made earlier this week by the father of Meaghan Bosch, who was found dead in a portable toilet outside of Waco on May 14. (60) comments

by Mark Norris, Editor in Chief, mnorris@smu.edu

Posted June 12, 7 p.m.
SMU has announced the membership of a drug task force created in the wake of three drug and alcohol deaths this past school year. Dean of Student Life Dee Siscoe and Associate Provost Tom Tunks are the co-chairs of the committee, according to information on the official university website. (27) comments

Posted June 5, 9 a.m.
On the day when Meaghan Bosch's cause of death was made public, her father challenged university officials to do something about the drug problems on campus. (37) comments

by Mark Norris, Editor In Chief, mnorris@smu.edu

Men's soccer player Jordan Mann died unexpectedly at his Prairie Village, Kan. home Saturday, May 26. He was the third SMU student to die in May and the fourth to die during the 2006-07 school year. An autopsy conducted by the local medical examiner was inconclusive. (0) comments

by Mark Norris, Editor In Chief, mnorris@smu.edu

First-year student Jordan Crist died from acute alcohol poisoning according to a report released today by the Dallas County Medical Examiner. Crist had a blood alcohol level of 0.4 - five times the legal limit. Guidelines and charts from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said that at least 15 drinks would be necessary to have a BAC that high. (0) comments

Dallas Police have apprehended a "person of interest" in the death of senior Meaghan Bosch, but still have not named a suspect in the case. James McDaniel, a 46-year-old parolee, is being held at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center on a sexual assault charge unrelated to Bosch's death. (3) comments

by Sommer Saadi, Contributing Writer, ssaadi@smu.edu

Dressed in purple and donning the legendary red hats, the "Jubilant Reds" chapter of the Red Hat Society strolled through the Balenciaga exhibit at the Meadows Museum on Saturday, May 26. The chapter members admired the elegant dresses and intricately designed accessories. (0) comments

The two-year-old School of Education and Human Development at SMU announced its first dean on May 31. David Chard was named dean of the SMU School of Education and Human Development. Chard will join SMU in the fall and replace the interim Dean U. Narayan Bhat. (0) comments

by Tyler Guthrie, Contributing Writer, tgutherie@smu.edu

Flipping through a celebrity magazine, Allison Catalani is searching for the perfect body, one that she believes she could be happy with for the next 20 years. She stops at a photo of the actress Jessica Alba. Catalani, a 21-year-old journalism student, was ready for her consult for a breast augmentation. (0) comments

by Hays Sibley, Contributing Writer, hsibley@smu.edu

Spread the word: Gossiping might be good for us. Social researchers estimate two-thirds of all conversation is devoted to gossip. Recent studies from the anthropology department at the University of Wisconsin and the State University of New York at Binghamton suggest gossip is not simply a trivial pasttime but is actually essential to our social, psychological and physical well-being. (0) comments

Mark Vamos, editor-in-chief of Fast Company and a former senior editor of both Newsweek and BusinessWeek, has been appointed the William J. O'Neil Chair in Business Journalism. He starts this August at the start of the 2007/08 school year. Vamos will teach business journalism and media management. (0) comments

by Mari Park, Contributing Writer, mpark@smu.edu

Sung Kim says his high school friends laughed at him when they found out he was going to a community college. "They thought it was supposed to be a place for retards, so I felt like one," he says. Kim graduated from North Garland High School in Garland with a 3. (0) comments

by Lauren Michero, Contributing Writer, lmichero@smu.edu

Eugenia Mathews, a 23-year-old student at Texas A&M, likes to go shopping when she visits her parents in Dallas. But when she decided to look for a cool new pair of jeans at Neiman Marcus recently, she was disappointed. Eugenia saw that the biggest size in the jeans she wanted was a 12, so she had to put them back. (1) comment