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Season 52 opens at NorthPark PAGE 2

What GOP must change to win PAGE 4

Mustangs prepare for battle PAGE 5

‘Skyfall’ is best Bond to date

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Author Edwin Black spoke about the link between IBM and Hitler’s Germany during World War II Wednesday.

Southern Methodist University honored 150 student veterans with a complimentary luncheon and Toys for Tots toy drive on Wednesday in Umphrey Lee’s Martha Proctor Mack Grand Ballroom. The 90-minute luncheon included speakers from both SMU and several branches of the military.

Adm. Patrick Walsh of the United States Navy was

the keynote speaker for the luncheon.

Walsh, a graduate of Jesuit College Preparatory School in Dallas and subsequently the U.S. Naval Academy, was commander of the United States Pacific Fleet and the Joint Support Force that responded to the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake that devastated Japan in 2011.

“It was a big deal getting Adm. Walsh to speak for our veterans,” Rita Kirk, director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility,

said. “We really wanted to honor our student veterans and thank them for their service and huge sacrifices.”

Kirk explained that the event has been in the planning phase for months and that SMU was extremely excited to finally be honoring its student veterans with the luncheon and celebration.

Ken Larson, president of U.S. Military Veterans of SMU, spoke right before the admiral’s

DAKOTA TAYLORContributing [email protected]

Author links IBM, Holocaust

POLITICS

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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi pushed through reforms in Japan. He was the most popular prime minister in Japanese history.

JONATHAN MACHEMEHLContributing Writer

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The John Goodwin Tower Center held the SMU Sun and Star Symposium on Thursday discussing whether reforms in Japan are dead. The symposium featured three panel sessions with a special keynote speaker during lunch.

The two-day symposium had about 50 to 60 people in attendance with about 100 people attending the lunch and about 200 attending the kickoff dinner on Wednesday night.

The lunch featured former United States Ambassador to Japan John Thomas Schieffer. He reflected on his time as ambassador, under President George W. Bush, working with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi as he implemented a number of reforms.

The symposium dinner brought in Heizo Takenaka, director of global security research institute and professor of policy management at Keio University. Takenaka is considered the architect for

the Koizumi reform and is a controversial figure in Japan. He spoke about the previous work and current work he is doing with politicians in Japan.

The symposium was attended by academics, professionals in the Dallas area and students.

“It gave me an interesting perspective Japan on the past six years,” Kevin Matejka, international studies major and director of research committee of Middle Eastern studies, said.

The Sun and Star Symposium is held every two years with the last symposium called the China-Japan-U.S. Triangle: Economic and Security Dimensions. The Sun and Star Fund funds the symposiums. The endowment came from a 1996 Sun and Star Festival that raised enough money to fund three donations, one of which came to SMU where SMU matched the donation.

M. Diana H. Newton, senior fellow at the John G. Tower Center for Political Studies, was one of the lead planners of the event.

Award-winning author Edwin Black spoke on Wednesday about the aid that the Nazis received from International Business Machines (IBM) during the Holocaust.

Black spoke to a packed room of over 100 audience members in the Hughes-Trigg ballroom. The smile on his face sharply changed after his introduction as he shed light on a story that IBM would rather not tell. Black’s book, “IBM and the Holocaust,” tells the story of IBM’s direct involvement in six aspects of the Holocaust: identification, expulsion, confiscation of assets, ghettoization, deportation and extermination of the Jewish people in Europe.

“IBM did not want this coming up decades later,” Black said.

According to Black, IBM provided Hitler and the Nazis with punch card technology that helped them categorize everything about the Jews, including their occupations, concentration camp sentencing and even their method of death.

IBM’s association and business transactions with the Nazis took place from 1933 to 1945, despite the fact that the United States joined World War II late in 1941.

The American business was apparently aware of what it was doing and sent workers to service the company’s machines in concentration camps every two weeks. Black had the documents and research to prove it, although not from IBM.

“[IBM] made all of their business orally and kept nothing written,” Black said. “Thankfully, the Nazis didn’t trust IBM and

they documented everything.”Black showed many posters

that had copies of documents pasted to them.

He invited many members of the audience to read highlighted sections and stressed the dates on them.

“When it comes to IBM, it was never about anti-Semitism,” Black said. “It was about business.”

Rick Halperin, director of the SMU Embrey Human Rights Program, saw Black’s lecture and topic as a bridge between the past and the present.

“It’s easy when you’re in the U.S. to think of World War II and that era as behind us and long gone, but the effects of that tragedy linger on and in many ways. It’s not over,” Halperin said.

Black agreed. He fears that another incident like IBM during the Holocaust is not far away.

He believes that there will be another similar event that will take place in the next few years or decades.

“I think that IBM should stand up and admit what they did and move on with it,” SMU senior Edward Gray said.

But as far as Black is concerned, they never have and never will.

Black said that IBM does not have any records or comments on the situation, but the company has also never challenged the allegations that Black has made against them.

IBM and the Holocaust can be purchased in paperback for $14. The newest edition contains 32 extra pages that are documents and pictures of signed invoices, meetings with Hitler and letters between IBM and the Nazis.

BRETT DAVISContributing [email protected]

Koizumi’s reformsTower Center hosts conference on Japan

MILITARY

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SMU student military veterans hosted a Toys for Tots drive Wednesday. The group also collected supplies and funds for care packages to send to troops stationed abroad.

SMU honors student veterans

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SMU students are expressing their voices and attempting to increase their knowledge about the Arab Spring.

“I’m assuming I don’t know much about it because of the elections, because it’s taking up most of the news coverage,” SMU sophomore Addison Bollin said.

Bollin believes that the U.S. is somehow involved in the current events in Egypt, and said that it is important for students to know about whatever America is involved in globally.

Bollin believes there are many ways that SMU can educate students about current events in other countries. Bollin said that by having a current events section in the school’s newspaper, creating a university website solely for current events or sending out a daily email blasts, SMU can get students to know about the Middle East.

The university teamed up with the Egyptian-American Rule of Law Association, The American Constitution Society and the International Law Students Association to bring Egyptian journalist and scholar Mirette Mabrouk to SMU. Mabrouk spoke to about 25

students on Wednesday, Oct. 31 in Florence Hall.

“I’m hopeful, and I remain hopeful [things will change],” Mabrouk said, explaining the situation in her country.

Mabrouk said Egypt is still in the process of establishing itself after living in a dictatorship for centuries. After former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was deposed, different people and organizations, like the Liberals, Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis, wanted power.

Mabrouk explained that many of the religious groups, such as Salafis, pick and choose what they would like to impose on people. She believes that the government should help bring an end to many cultural practices that hold families back. Mabrouk gave an example of families marrying off their teenage daughters to rich men in the Gulf so they can ensure a better life for them. Individuals can’t bring an end to such practices, she said, but the law can.

“That [the law] is one of the things the country is currently struggling with,” she said.

Mabrouk said many Egyptian families partake in cultural practices that need to be demolished by the government. Laws against unjust cultural practices could provide an opportunity to help enlighten the basic Egyptian man and woman. She sees legal intervention as a way of re-establishing the government

and a fair way of life in the country.Texas Wesleyan School of Law

professor Sahar F. Aziz, a member of the Egyptian-American Rule of Law organization, believes that it is important to host such events at universities to help students stay up-to-date with news in Egypt and other Arab countries.

Arab countries face many issues after the revolution. Aziz said that there are many complexities in the post-revolution phase in Egypt. She believes that Mabrouk has a very sophisticated understanding of the political, economic and social circumstances in Egypt that students should know in order to better interpret the news emerging from the region.

“Things are not as black and white as they appear in the media,” Aziz said.

The Arab revolts began in Dec. 2010 in Tunisia, followed by Egypt in January and Libya in February. All three countries successfully overthrew their rulers, but still struggle in building democracy. The Syrian revolution began in March 2011, and civilians continue to fight every day in hopes of demolishing the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime.

SMU recently established an SMU Gone Global blog to help educate students about international events, such as the revolts in the Middle East. Visit SMUinternational.wordpress.com to learn more.

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Arab Spring needs student voices

Police Reportsnovember 5

9:02 a.m. Theft: Dedman Life Science Building: A student re-ported the theft of their laptop. Open.

3:30 p.m. Duty on Sticking Unat-tended Vehicle: Meadows Mu-seum Parking Garage. A student reported her vehicle was damaged while parked in the Meadows Museum Parking Garage. She reported she left her vehicle parked in the garage around 8:30 p.m. and returned at 2:30 p.m.. Open.

Campus Eventsnovember 6

1:56 p.m. Theft: Smith Hall. A student reported the theft of their bike. Open.

3:31 p.m. Theft: Perkins Natato-rium. A student reported the theft of their bike. Open.

6:18 p.m. Theft: Hillcrest Manor Apartment. A student reported the theft of their bike. Open.

5:00 p.m. Theft: Moore Hall. A student reported the theft of their phone. After some investigation it was recovered. Open.

11:05 p.m. Criminal Mischief: Sigma Phi Epsilon. A student reported something had been thrown at his window causing it to break. Open.

10:45 p.m. Criminal Mischief: Heroy Lot. An officer found the north exit gate arm broken. Open.

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reSTAUrAnT

Seasons 52 opens new location in Dallas

Seasons 52 is now open at northPark Center and is currently featuring it’s autumn menu.

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Seasons 52, a casual grill and wine bar, opened its newest location in NorthPark Center on Oct. 29. This location is the second of these restaurants to open in Texas.

Perhaps the biggest appeal of the restaurant is its dedication to a healthy and balanced lifestyle. All items on the menu are less than 475 calories and are just as flavorful and satisfying as any high-caloric meal.

The fresh menu allows guests to walk away from their dining experience feeling good about their meal choice — a concept that it is rare to find when dining out.

The Dallas restaurant seats just under 400 diners and includes a main dining area, outdoor patio, three private dining rooms, and a piano bar that plays live music nightly.

As Seasons 52 President Stephen Judge previously stated, ”NorthPark Center is renowned throughout the country and is an ideal setting for Seasons 52. It is a signature shopping destination, which attracts millions of Texans and visitors to the city. The energy from the owners and other tenants make it a perfect location for us. We are very excited to introduce Seasons 52 to the Dallas area.”

The concept of Seasons 52

is apparent in the restaurant’s name. The menu, developed by chef Clifford Pleau, is seasonally inspired. It changes four times a year, and offers the best and freshest produce, cuisine and flavors that each season has to offer — 52 weeks a year.

To supplement the cuisine, the restaurant has an award-winning wine list consisting of an international selection of 100 wines with a choice of 52 by the glass, which was created and developed by Master Sommelier George Miliotes.

For its fall debut, Seasons 52

is presenting its autumn menu. Selections include seasonal dishes such as cider-glazed grilled chicken skewers with Fuji apple slaw, sun-dried cranberries and toasted pumpkin seeds and Maple Leaf Farms sesame duck with chopped greens, apples, mint, cranberries, butternut squash and toasted pecans.

One of the restaurant’s signature dishes is the flatbread. This thin-crusted pizza includes a selection of flavors like the artichoke & goat cheese flatbread (leaf spinach, balsamic onions, roasted peppers), a more filling garlic chicken flatbread

(balsamic onions, roasted red peppers, mozzarella cheese) and a Spicy Chipotle Shrimp (grilled pineapple, feta cheese, roasted poblano peppers) among others.

Entrée dishes feature a number of salads, vegetarian, seafood, meat and poultry dishes. Mini indulgences are offered for dessert and come in an assortment of flavors.

All salads are prepared with organic lettuce and greens, like the fresh Maui Tuna Crunch, which is made with sushi-grade seared tuna, organic greens, pineapple, toasted almonds and topped with a miso

vinaigrette. Another is the barbecue chicken salad, with corn, roasted red peppers, pumpkin seeds and crumbled blue cheese.

Vegetarian options are the sonoma goat cheese ravioli, prepared in an organic tomato broth with roasted garlic and sweet basil and the autumn vegetarian tasting which is served in a soft taco with chili relleno, vegetables, cedar roasted tofu and mango chutney.

Seafood entrees include fish dishes such as Prince Edward Island mussels, caramelized grilled sea scallops, grilled boneless rainbow trout, and cedar plank roasted

salmon. For a more substantial entrée, the flavorful grilled jumbo shrimp penne pasta is served with spinach, mushrooms, garlic, sour cream and sun-dried tomatoes.

Poultry and meat items include chicken dishes ranging from a spicy chicken chile relleno to a wood-roasted pork tenderloin. Another great meat dish is the classic bone-in strip steak for meat.

Perhaps the most surprising items on the menu to meet the 475 caloric count are the mini indulgences. These sweet treats are nearly impossible to surpass as the server presents each table with a display of the desserts at the end of each meal encouraging each diner to pick his or her desired flavor.

Mini indulgences come in the flavors of key lime pie, mocha macchiato, chocolate peanut butter mousse, Belgian chocolate rocky road and raspberry chocolate chip cannoli.

Fitting for this season are the pecan pie with vanilla mousse and pumpkin pie with ginger snap crust flavors.

Seasons 52 is located at 307 NorthPark Center between Neiman Marcus and Dillard’s. The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner every day. The company currently operates in over 22 restaurants across the United States and is planning to open its third Texas location in Houston in Spring 2013.

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It has been 50 years since author Ian Fleming first sat down to write, what he thought, would be the “spy stories to end all spy stories.”

While many espionage tales have come and gone through the half-century that passed since James Bond’s beginning none have been as smart, as smooth and as, dare I say it, sexy as the 007 we’ve all come to know and envy.

In the franchise’s newest installment, Skyfall, we are once again shoved into the covert world of Daniel Craig’s James Bond.

The movie opens with a blistering chase scene that is the perfect platform for Craig to make his case as the brand’s best Bond.

In the lengthy and traditionally quick-paced opener Bond jumps, drives and flies through the streets of Istanbul in pursuit of a stolen hard drive.

On that hard drive rests the names of every single agent working for MI-6, a major security risk for both the agency and the world.

The mission goes awry when Bond’s accomplice misfires, hitting Craig in the chest and sending the spy to his demise.

The scene is punctuated with a stellar, almost retro, opening sequence set to Adele’s now

famous rendition of the movie’s namesake title song — consider it classic James Bond.

In the outside world, Bond is considered a dead man.

The viewer is reintroduced to a now-scruffy, distant Bond at an undisclosed, breezy island locale. Without his crisply tailored suits and shiny handgun, the spy looks like half the man he was just minutes prior.

In a lonely bar right off the beach, Bond’s attention is drawn to a flickering TV. On the screen burns MI-6’s headquarters.

Like a phoenix from the ashes, Bond is reborn.

The attack on MI-6 acts as the major catalyst for Sam Mendes’ directorial take on the James Bond series.

From there, we follow Bond on his road to recovery and are reintroduced to Dame Judi Dench’s M, the spy organization’s shot-caller. Dench and Craig, as we’ve seen in movies past, are the perfect on screen partners.

In a way, Dench’s M is like a mother figure to the orphaned Bond. Except this mother tells you to kill people.

Bond is bent on discovering who was responsible for the attacks on MI-6’s headquarters.

This revenge soaked quest takes the spy from the boroughs of London all the way to the skyscrapers of Shanghai. Mendes’ best directorial

moments come from the Shanghai fight sequence.

Bond’s quest takes him to a tiny island of the coast of China where we meet Javiar Bardem’s Silva, one of the most sadistic and genuinely creepy villains in all of Bond’s time.

A former MI-6 agent himself, Silva harbors deep, dark resent towards Denche’s M.

After a mission led to Silva’s capture, M considered him dead. Silva simply wants one thing: M’s blood.

There are a lot of linear motifs in Skyfall that break away from the typical espionage story line.

Skyfall offers a glimpse into Bond’s childhood that many of the previous films failed to even acknowledge.

As an audience, we are finally able to figure out Bond’s driving motivation.

Craig, per usual, is on his game as the nearly half-century old spy. Even though its been close to a decade since the Englishman was introduced as the iconic character, Craig looks just as fit and fresh as he did in Casino Royale.

Many in the industry are atwitter over Javier Bardem’s take as Silvia.

While the role truly is a dark, twisted turn for Bardem, the actor’s screen time is lacking for any leading nominations.

While Bardem and Craig are stellar, the true acting powerhouse for Skyfall is none

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polarizing as M, but as the character’s story arc takes Dench away from the office and into the field, the actress really gets

to showcase the acting skills that have won her an Oscar.

Ultimately, Sam Mendes’ Skyfall is laced with tales of resurrection.

And considering the direction

the franchise was going after 2008’s Quantum of Solace, Mendes can be credited with resurrecting the franchise once again.

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Whatever your political inclinations are, President Barack Obama’s re-election signified a call for change within the Republican Party. There was no wait for Republicans to criticize what went wrong and who was to blame.

Republicans argued that Gov. Mitt Romney had the issues on his side. The economy had weak growth, unemployment was still high and the national debt was increasing. How then did Romney come to lose? There will be a lot of finger pointing going on within the party for many days to come. As a Republican who has felt isolated from some of the more extreme positions the party has taken, here is the advice that I and many other Republicans offer:

We need to understand that we are not asking the Republican Party to move to the left. The conservative ideal can still be broadened to appeal to individuals who are eager to join or rejoin the Republican Party. There will be Republicans who will say that we lost because Romney was not conservative enough. We know that this is not true because Romney had his base right behind him as he posed himself as a staunch conservative beating out Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich. What is more important to point out is that the demographics have changed across the country and also the support for certain policy issues. This is why the party must modernize itself to succeed in the 21st century.

First, the Republican Party must make a real effort to reach out to minority voters to have a better chance of winning future presidential elections. Republicans did horrible on this front and proved to be costly this year in many battleground states. It isn’t enough for the party to have some party leaders who are minorities. People care about policy issues and where the candidates or political parties stand. Let us consider some policy issues.

On the issue of immigration, the Republicans have isolated Latinos with the support of certain provisions of the Arizona immigration law and rhetoric like “self-deportation.” On Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) issues, this has not only divided the country but also the party. The lack of support from the whole party for marriage equality or non-discrimination LGBT policies has alienated the LGBT community. On science, Republicans must embrace it. Particularly the party must accept global climate change as reality since there is data and scientific consensus on this fact.

We are not asking Republicans to adopt cap and trade but at least they must realize this fact to propose solutions that are pro-business and environmentally friendly to address this important issue. On abortion, the rhetoric always seems to lead to a comment about rape, which as a society we have decided is illegal under the law and disgraceful as a society. We are not asking for Republicans to be pro-choice. We are asking Republicans to be at the very least more compassionate in their rhetoric.

If the Republican Party is able to consider and adopt some of these suggestions as people like myself, Ted Olson, Laura Bush, Dick Cheney, Kay Bailey Hutchison and Jon Huntsman are fighting for, then the Republican Party will be able to compete in the 21st century. Demographics and policy support are changing quickly and the party must adapt if it is to survive.

Luna is a junior majoring in economics with financial applications and political science. He can be reached for comment at [email protected].

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The results of Tuesday’s election have now begun to sink in for me and many other conservatives, and the predicted soul-searching has commenced. Conservatives all over the country are wondering: what has to change for us to win four years from now?

Answers have been all over the place, everyone blaming something different for why things went wrong. A sizable portion of the conservative coalition says we have to stop nominating moderates, and another says we need to moderate on social issues.

Some say we need to find a way to increase turnout among whites. Others say we need to increase our appeal among minorities. Some say we need to become more libertarian to appeal to the youth, and others say we need to de-emphasize entitlement reform to appeal to the elderly.

All of these groups are worth listening to, and many of them have good points to be made as well. So let’s analyze all the different directions the Republicans could take, and see what the best prospects for future victory might be.

Running Moderates

Every time Republicans have run a “moderate” candidate in the last forty years (Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, John McCain and now Mitt Romney), they’ve lost. Every time Republicans have run a “conservative” candidate in the last forty years (Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush), they’ve won.

In George H.W. Bush’s first term he ran essentially on a platform of continuing the Reagan legacy, and famously promised no new taxes. He won easily. In 1992 he ran as a more moderate candidate who had raised taxes and lost easily.

Further adding to this evidence is that appealing to independents in a close election is a failing strategy. In every close election going back fifty years, the candidate who won independents lost the popular vote — 2012, 2004, 2000, 1976, 1968 and 1960. Appealing generally to independents at the expense of the conservative base doesn’t work.

This doesn’t mean however that if Michele Bachmann had been the nominee she would have won, that would have surely been a disaster.

Appeal outside of the Republican base has to be more targeted than Republicans tried in the years they nominated moderates, and this is how they could win.

Social issues

Socially conservative candidates took a beating on Tuesday, but so did socially liberal Republican candidates. To place blame on one specific flank of the party coalition is wrong as candidates of all sorts failed.

Sure, the disastrous failures of Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock were very public, but less public was the failure of gay pro-choice GOP congressional candidate Richard Tisei.

Tisei was the favorite to win against a scandal-plagued incumbent in Massachusetts, but ended up losing by one percent. The main argument here is that being excessively anti-abortion as Akin and Mourdock were hurt them with women, and that is what cost them the election. Similar arguments about abortion in general is that Republicans have to stop being so pro life, because the majority of the country is not.

This simply isn’t true. A recent Gallup poll shows only 41 percent consider themselves pro-choice, compared to 50 percent who consider themselves pro-life. This isn’t a generational issue either. Gallup also shows that 18 to 29 year olds are the most likely group to say that abortion should be illegal under all circumstances, and the second least likely group to say that it should be legal under all circumstances.

I can only identify one thing that Republicans need to change on abortion if they want to start winning. They need to recognize that while God and rape are both topics that should be talked about with regards to the abortion debate, they need to stop mentioning both in the same sentence. Talking about “God’s will” with respect to rape pregnancy is where they go wrong — not that their religious views influence their opinions on abortion generally. This isn’t to say that opinions on social issues are shifting among the youth, but the shift isn’t on abortion. It’s on gay marriage.

Gay marriage is one of a very small set of issues where there is a clear generational divide: the country is clearly trending toward supporting gay marriage, and this is driven by increased support among younger voters. The GOP needs to recognize that they are on the wrong side of this issue from a historical perspective, and they’re losing voters because of it.

Changing the view quickly to agree with the Democrats would probably not work, but making incremental changes in policy toward gay rights — slowly easing in the reluctant flanks of the conservative coalition — could work.

Republicans could still distinguish themselves from the Democrats by emphasizing

protecting religious institutions from the government forcing churches to perform gay marriages, but they will need to support gay rights to some degree at some point.

Libertarianism

While Republicans as a whole have had difficulty winning youth voters, the libertarian wing of the conservative coalition has been very successful at winning over the youth. Cynics could say that this is purely because of their support for legalizing drugs, (and I would say that it is part of, but not all of their reasoning), but other things affect this as well.

Gay marriage is clearly a factor, but isn’t specific to the libertarian youth. Isolationism is a strong sentiment within the libertarian movement as well, and clarifying their views on when to use military force could help shore up support among the youth.

Perhaps the easiest way to increase libertarian support is to adapt to a more libertarian economic vision. The fiscal wing of the party is already in agreement with the libertarian economic vision so this should be a no-brainer. This is not to suggest that Republicans go all-out libertarian in any way, but leaning more in that direction would be helpful.

Another issue on economics that has caused some concern is entitlement reform. Some have suggested that Romney lost because he added Paul Ryan to the ticket, and that it hurt him with elderly voters in Florida and other places. This is absurd. Ryan’s support for entitlement reform didn’t hurt him with elderly voters, but actually with middle-aged voters who would have actually been affected by his plan.

If Republicans emphasize that reforms are inevitable and current benefit levels are unsustainable, they could win. If they point out that the status quo supported by the Democrats will also result in benefit cuts, they could win. This emphasis could also help shore up support among younger voters, who would be most affected by a failure to change the status quo.

Demographics

One of the central problems of the Republican campaign this year was that their coalition is increasingly white while the electorate as a whole is increasingly not. Romney did worse with Hispanics than any other Republican presidential candidate, and this is not the right trajectory to be on in a country that has an increasing number of Hispanics.

In the primary, Romney took one of the farthest right

positions on immigration of the entire field. This was likely to shore up his right flank as he had to go to the right on something, and to avoid further flip-flopping he had to do it on an issue that he didn’t previously have a position on. He chose immigration, and his “self-deportation” argument clearly hurt him greatly among Hispanics.

The Republican Party needs to purge itself of the nativist element supported by the likes of Steve King, Bachmann, Tom Tancredo and others. Mass deportation isn’t realistic, nor is it good policy. Some form of comprehensive immigration reform will have to be passed, and Republicans should support it if they want to be competitive with Hispanic voters in the long term.

Texas Republicans have been very successful courting the Hispanic vote, the national party should take cues from people like Rick Perry and George W. Bush if they want to be competitive.

Republicans did improve their standing among one demographic group: Jewish voters. This is likely due to Obama’s testy relationship with Israel, and Romney’s long history with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but this is certainly good news. He improved his support by 50 percent since 2008, going up to 32 percent from 22 percent. We must continue our strong support for Israel, and this trend will likely continue.

The African American vote would be most difficult for Republicans to break into, but an emphasis on education reform might help.

The Democratic strategy of throwing money at the problem has not helped, and there are several prominent Republicans who have succeeded with education reforms that help inner-city students in failing schools.

Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida are perhaps the two most prominent examples. Emphasizing abortion could help with African Americans as well as they are much more pro-life than the nation as a whole.

Looking forward

The Republican Party is far from dead or dying, and with a re-emphasis on certain party planks such as abortion, fiscal libertarianism and education reform we could do well in the future. The only things that the national party needs to change their stances on are immigration and gay marriage. With these reforms in mind, the Republican party could rise once again.

Keene is a junior majoring in political science, economics and public policy.

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SMU women’s basketball opens its season in Moody Coliseum Saturday against Alcorn State at noon.

Ranked No. 20 in the country by Dan Olson’s Collegiate Girls Basketball Report and rated as the top recruiting class in Conference USA, the Mustangs are looking forward to a breakout season.

"I am thrilled about signing

this top-20 class in the country. August can't come fast enough. I am ecstatic about working with and developing these athletes," head coach Rhonda Rompola told SMU Athletics in May.

"Combining one of the top signing classes in the country with the group of student-athletes we already have in the program will help [the team] compete at the level we expect to be at year after year."

The Mustangs signed seven players for the upcoming season, including three transfers.

Keena Mays, a transfer from Kansas, started off the spring 2012 semester at SMU. The Mustangs also added another player in January, Brittney Hardy, who transferred from Oklahoma State and was able to start in 10 games last season due to her immediate eligibility.

“These girls are now like my little sisters and we work hard for each other each and every day,” Alisha Filmore, senior, said. “We definitely will be surprising some people this season, so watch out for the women's basketball team.”

SMU is coming off of a disappointing 42-17 defeat at the hands of University of Central Florida (UCF) last weekend and is now in a true must-win situation as the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles come to Ford Stadium Saturday with SMU’s West Division title hopes on the line.

“We’re in what we call ‘desperation beast mode.’ We know we have to win,” senior running back Zach Line said.

The Mustangs are 3-2 in C-USA this season while fellow West Division member Tulsa is 5-0. The Hurricanes play UCF this weekend and if the Knights can beat Tulsa, SMU will have a shot at a West Division title when the team plays Tulsa in the final game of the regular season.

The Mustangs welcome the winless Golden Eagles in a game that can get the Mustangs on the right track after UCF’s win.

Southern Miss beat SMU last year in Hattiesburg, Miss. 27-3, but lost all of its key pieces — including head coach Larry Fedora.

SMU quarterback Garrett Gilbert will need to rebound from his poor performance against the Knights, where he threw for just 133 yards and had a completion

percentage around 50 percent.The Mustangs count on Line to

produce. Line had 147 total yards, and led the team in receiving and rushing against the Knights.

With the teams’ back against the wall, Gilbert knows this is the beginning of the biggest three games of the season for SMU.

"We've got a must-win mentality. We need to win our last three games and it starts with this one. We're a very focused team," Gilbert said.

Southern Miss would love to play the spoiler role, but the team’s offense will need to step up.

Golden Eagles’ quarterback Anthony Alford has passed for 550 yards and zero touchdowns this season.

Southern Miss has two receivers in Tracy Lampley and Dominique

Sullivan who have just over 200 yards each.

Southern Miss has two running backs that are averaging over five yards per carry each but have seen limited carries due to the Golden Eagles getting down early to opponents.

Desmond Johnson and Jalen Richard have combined for 759 yards and six touchdowns this year, but face an SMU defense that is fuming after being gashed by UCF’s Latavius Murray last week for over 150 yards.

If SMU can control the clock and shut down the Southern Miss offense like so many teams have done this season, SMU should be back on the right track and continue to have some hope for getting into the conference championship game.

The Dallas Mavericks beat Toronto 109-104 Wednesday to sweep its three-game home stand.

Last season Dallas started off 1-4, but this year the Mavs are 4-1 for the first time since 2007.

“We have a lot more legs. We’re a lot younger,” center Brandan Wright said. “There’s a lot more bodies that are interchangeable, so this year it shouldn’t be a thing where we run out of gas or anything like that.”

The Mavericks lost all-star forward Dirk Nowitzki in the offseason after a knee injury and surgery that sidelines him for at least another six weeks.

In his absence Dallas has played solid team-oriented basketball led by the consistency of its back court.

Point guard Darren Collison has averaged 16.2 points, 7.2 assists a game and has two double-doubles this season. O.J. “Juice” Mayo, is shooting 63.6 percent from downtown, 50 percent from the field and is averaging 21.6 points a

game with 3.2 assists. Mayo’s offensive presence early

this season led to Toronto’s double teams. Mayo responded with 22 points and a team-high 6 assists.

“You just have to deal with it,” Mayo said. “They’re trying to switch it up and make us play differently but we have a good team so there’s no problem giving it up and trusting the other guys to make plays.”

On Monday, Mayo’s 25th birthday, Dallas hosted Portland in what was supposed to be a tough, grind-it-out physical game. Instead, the Mavs held a scoring clinic, and beat Portland 114-91 with Mayo shooting a flurry of 3-pointers and a season-high 32 points.

Heading into Wednesday’s matchup against the Raptors Dallas was without Nowitzki, Shawn Marion (knee), Roddy Beaubois (ankle) and Elton Brand who was in New York for his wife’s delivery.

Marion is the Mavs’ “x-factor.” He is long, athletic and plays both sides of the ball.

In his absence, Vince Carter gave Dallas what it needed in the second half by hustling up and down the court making plays.

“For what [Marion] brings to the

table defensively, rebounding and running the floor, everyone has to pick it up,” Carter said. “I think for everyone it was important for us to just play our game.”

In the team’s five games the Mavs have the No.2 offense in the league with an average of 108 points per game.

Dallas is also averaging 41.4 rebounds, 24.6 assists a game and is shooting 50.5 percent from the field and 48.5 from downtown. The Mavericks margin of victory is third in the league at +8.8 while the team’s next opponents, the New York Knicks, come in at No.1 with +19.34.

“New York is a legit championship-contending team now, especially with [Jason] Kidd,” Carlisle said. “So that’s going to be a different kind of test for us.”

Friday will mark the first game against former point guard Kidd who left the team during the offseason to play for the New York.

Owner Mark Cuban was very disappointed in Kidd’s decision to leave since the Mavericks offered him a deal similar to the one he took in New York.

Friday’s battle is set to tip off in New York at 7:30 p.m. ET.

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“We wanted to focus on Prime Minister Koizumi and the legacy of his reforms. He is obviously not a well-known name in American society but he was a maverick of a politician in Japan,” Newton said.

Each panel focused on former Primer Minister Koizumi of Japan and the changes he was able to accomplish during his time in office. The economy, politics and foreign policy during and after Koizumi’s rule were discussed.

“We wanted look at reforms, why did they last,and what can we suggest for Japan moving forward. People are so focused on China but Japan is at a very important place both

geographically in the Pacific and on the world stage right now,” Newton said.

The panelists consisted of distinguished professors from a variety of universities from the U.S. and Japan. The panelist each briefly presented their research.

After each presented, the panelist took questions from the audience as a panel.

Tomohito Shinoda from International University of Japan was able to lighten up the atmosphere during the foreign policy panel when he presented diagrams that showed the rapid change since Koizumi left office through pictures.

Vignesh Shanker explained that he found the panels informative and mentioned that the “panelist[s] gave their own

take on events.”The Tower Center is planning

to hold another symposium next week on national security.

The conference will focus on America’s national security concerns, especially given America’s looming fiscal cliff.

Military budget cuts have been brought up by Democrats, now in control of the Senate and the presidency, to help decrease the deficit.

Many Republicans want to increase the military budget and cut social service and welfare programs.

“It was great seeing academics and policy experts talk about a country we don’t talk about often in the United States,” sophomore Mehdi Hami, said.

“I’ll definitely be back for the conference next week.”

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keynote address.“I’m glad Adm. Walsh

followed me and I didn’t have to follow him,” Larson said. “He really gave a great speech. This was a really nice event to have us honored with.”

The U.S. Military Veterans of SMU, started in 2011, provides an outlet for SMU’s small, but active student veteran population. The organization hosts a tent at every SMU Boulevard, collects toys for children and sends care packages to active duty soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It also helps student veterans bond with students similar to themselves.

“I was very excited about this event,” Larson said. “It was something that everyone needed.”

Candy Crespo, assistant director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility, echoed Larson’s thoughts on the luncheon’s need at SMU.

“SMU’s been needing to honor its student veterans for a while,” Crespo said.

“They’ve served this country, so it’s our turn to do something for them.”

The luncheon also collected toys for the Toys for Tots program.

Besides just bringing toys, people coming were asked to bring supplies to put together care packages for soldiers on the front lines.

Kirk ended the luncheon with inspirational closing remarks, and then everyone began filing out quickly for pictures.

Many of the student veterans took photos with the high profile speakers while their family members mingled and visited with other veteran parents.

Veteran or not, the event was a bonding experience for all involved. SMU and the Maguire Center plan to continue to honoring veterans year round.

In time, more events will be planned for student veterans, especially as more come home from deployments abroad in Afghanistan and Iraq and find their way to SMU for higher education.

Veteran students often have problems integrating with the larger student community and groups like the U.S. Military Veterans aid students in connecting with campus life and events.

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MAVerIcK: Koizumi pushed reforms, made long term impacts