1. Did you know SMU was founded because of a conflict between the United Methodist Church and Vanderbilt University? Founded in 1911 by what is now The United Methodist Church, in 1914, the church and Vanderbilt cut ties and made SMU its flagship institution and therefore SMU opened with support from Dallas leaders. 2.motto="The truth will make you free." 3.Legend has it there’s a connection between Ford Mustangs and the SMU Mustangs, but others have also said it’s simply a coincidence. Do you think there’s such thing as coincidence?! 4.Former First Lady Laura Bush graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1968 with a degree in education, and went on to teach the second grade after graduation! 5. The all-time great basketball coach, Larry Brown is currently the head coach of the SMU basketball team. He is the first, and so far only, man to coach teams to win both NCAA (1988) and NBA (2004) titles. 6.It should come as no surprise, but there are curr...
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