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WEDNESDAY APRIL 29, 2015 WEDNESDAY High 75, Low 54 VOLUME 100 THURSDAY ISSUE 85 High 81, Low 54 FIRST COPY FREE, ADDITIONAL COPIES 50 CENTS CELEBRATING 100 YEARS 1915 - 2015 NEWS ‘Will you please BRIEFS do me a Favor?’ WORLD Mali— Armed New delivery app reaches separatist fghters fred upon U.N. Dallas market, SMU students peacekeeping vehicles near Timbuktu in ARD IANA BREMER a month. northern Mali, marking Contributing Writer Johnson enjoys the tips given a further setback for [email protected] by users and the opportunities to explore new restaurants. Users the country’s fragile Downloading the app is a get to tip their runners as much as peace process. simple task. Yet ordering food they please. Additionally, a service from any local Dallas restaurant charge is included in the meal and CILACAP, through it and waiting for it to delivery order. Indonesia— come to you is even simpler. With “I get to go to places I had no Indonesia brushed just a click of a button, Favor idea existed. It makes me want Courtesy of Facebook provides personal delivery service to go visit them and eat there,” aside last-minute Mario Chavez, one of the veterans of U.S. Military Veterans of SMU, sends a photo after receiving care pack- that gets anything in the city Johnson said. ages from the organization in 2013. appeals and executed delivered to your door. The Runners can be spotted eight people convicted “I can now get everything around the city easily, as they all of drug smuggling. I want from all my favorite wear bright blue tuxedo T-shirts Local media reported restaurants,” said Marie Theresa that resemble outfits of a concierge the executions A look at the life of Ancira, who recently discovered service worker. Favor through a friend. “I order “I think wearing the blue shirt on Tuesday. through Favor at least once a makes us look cool,” Johnson said week. It’s amazing.” Favor has not only given people NATIONAL veterans returning The Favor app works as a who live in Dallas an opportunity personal delivery assistant. The to earn money as they provide LOS ANGELES— app, which recently reached the services to others, but it has also The nation’s largest Dallas area, has revolutionized helped local restaurants with sheriff’s department the food delivery experience. As their sales. to the classroom explained by their website, it has By being a personal delivery agreed to a sweeping proved to be a success among assistant, the app has made it settlement Tuesday JESSE CARR conducted on veterans and is very high. students and locals as it stands out easier for people to buy food with the U.S. Justice Contributing Writer college. However, both studies “I’m here because I want to in the competitive and crowded from restaurants. It facilitates Department over [email protected] were conducted less than 10 be. SMU is the highest ranked market of app technology by the process and thus makes it long-standing civil years since the start of the wars school in Dallas. This is our providing what people want most: quick and simple. Additionally, rights abuses by Codey Marshall paced in Iraq and Afghanistan. After life, we aren’t here just because. personal services. it delivers food from restaurants the SMU hallway nervously. the completion of these studies We’re here because we need it, “Favor is so incredibly fast. that do not offer that service and deputies in the He wasn’t on a combat many experts began comparing because we want it, and because I’ve tried DiningIn, GrubHub, and customers also get to enjoy their Mojave Desert. patrol through the streets of post 9/11 veterans to post we love it,” Marshall said. Eat 24, yet none compare to how orders at home. This has become HONOLULU— A Baghdad anymore; he was WWII, Korea and Vietnam Chris Cate, vice-president of personal Favor is,” Ancira said. an incentive for many to use transitioning into his first day veterans. Experts claimed that research for Student Veterans of Favor is user-friendly. As the the app. park ranger used a at a four-year university. Used veterans of the wars in Iraq America, published two papers user opens the app, recommended “It has helped out this Taser on a man fying to doing everything with his and Afghanistan faced a much in response to the surveys of restaurants appear on the IOS restaurant a lot as we do not a drone over a lake fellow Marines, Marshall higher dropout rate. veterans and the claim that the device’s screen. The user may personally deliver. More people of lava at Hawaii found himself alone in a sea Matt Macleod, a Marine dropout rate is 88 percent. then select any of the featured are now buying our food,” said Volcanoes National of students. Although SMU’s Corps veteran with two He believes that, “national restaurants or may search for his Gaby Bunda, of Dive Coastal campus lacked the chaos and deployments to Afghanistan data on student veterans or her restaurant of choice. The Cuisine. “We get at least four to Park, then arrested the danger that he was conditioned believes that the numbers is difficult to find, simply menu then appears and when five Runners a day.” man in front of several for, Marshall was still nervous are skewed. because no federal department the order is selected, it can be Dive Coastal Cuisine, located hundred people after and excited. “I don’t think the studies are has been tasked with the customized to any particular at 3404 Ranking St., is one of telling him that fying “When you leave active accurate because I think there collection and analysis of data needs and specifications. As many restaurants that greet an unmanned aircraft duty your world changes are a high number of veterans regarding student veterans soon as payment information is Runners every day. completely, the support network who start college without really or their academic outcomes. entered, it is now in the hands of “I think every restaurant by at a national park goes away,” said Marshall, an any intention of graduating,” This is a problem for policy the Runners. this point is getting used to seeing is prohibited. undergraduate student studying Macleod said. makers and stakeholders The Runners are the people guys and girls in their tuxedo shirts markets and culture at SMU and Some veterans have to who rely on research to make who work for Favor and therefore walking in,” Bunda said. TEXAS the incoming Vice-President for drop out because of family informed decisions.” get the job done. As customers Reaching the Dallas market SMU MilVets. Marshall served responsibilities while others While the number of veterans relax, Runners are in charge of just this November, users of the AUSTIN— Tw o in the Marine Corps from 2002- are forced to drop out due to at SMU is relatively low in driving around the city to order app and restaurants from the area years after Texas 2006 as an infantry assaultman, financial difficulties because of comparison with cross-town and pick-up the customer’s have already been discovering all adopted sweeping deploying twice to Iraq. reduction in tuition benefits. rival TCU, Nelson appreciates personalized order. of the benefits Favor has to offer. abortion restrictions, Combat is starkly different “I love the people at the that veterans on campus aren’t “Working for Favor is pretty “It is hands-down the best Republicans are pushing then the classroom, but for some VA,” said Robert Nelson, just a number at SMU. fun,” Ty Johnson said. Johnson app I have ever downloaded,” veterans like Marshall adjusting incoming president for SMU “SMU will go out of their has been a Runner for Favor for Ancira said. a smaller encore to the classroom environment MilVets, “But the system is so way to support us. Even in the of additional limits can be more intimidating than complicated and confusing that classroom professors are willing for new Gov. Greg being deployed in combat. it’s nearly impossible to get in to give us the benefit of the Abbott to sign within This semester SMU has 124 touch with the person that can doubt; whether it’s with missing the next month. New student veterans utilizing tuition help you.” class because of an appointment benefits and taking advantage of Nelson served in the Air with the VA, or turning in an battlegrounds over SMU’s yellow ribbon program. Force and is an undergraduate assignment late because one of abortion access for However, research suggests student studying economics. our kids is sick,” said Nelson. minors and insurance that before graduating more Since fall 2012 SMU has had The simple fact is that not will leave about eight than half of those veterans 722 veterans enrolled with 157 enough time has passed since abortion facilities in will drop out. of those enrolled graduating. the end of the wars in Iraq In 2012, The Huffington While that number isn’t an and Afghanistan for studies Texas if a federal Post claimed that a staggering accurate reflection of the to accurately reflect veteran appeals court upholds 88 percent of veterans drop graduation rate, school officials dropout rates, but until that new clinic standards. out of college. Since 2010 were unable to provide an exact Courtesy of bostinno.streetwise.co Favor Runners in their uniforms. there have been two studies graduation rate, but claim that it VETERANS page 3 Go to town. GoPassSM. Plan trips and save big with the FREE GoPass app.