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Alumni fundraising to ‘save student media’ and on-campus free press LILI JOHNSTON News Editor lsjohnston@smu.edu On Wednesday, April 11th, alumni of the Student Media Company launched a campaign to save the institution. The Daily Campus announced two weeks ago that its parent company, Student Media Company, also home to the Rotunda yearbook, would be at the end of this school year. “The Daily Campus was the most valuable thing I did at SMU. The journalism major was fine,” said Jessica Huseman, who was Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Campus from 2010-2011 and now works for ProPublica. “SMU is not a place that values student voices or transparency,” Huseman said. “With the dissolving of Student Media Company, there is literally no incentive for SMU to be open about what it does,” she says, especially when the administration has tried many times in the past to kill stories that they find unfavorable. “Starting in 2003-2004, SMU introduced a ‘student rights’ section into the handbook,” Huseman explained. “The first two rights were freedom of speech and the freedom to uncensored student press. In 2013-2014 it went away. In fact, the entire student rights section went away… There is now no free speech or freedom from censorship right at all, per the student handbook. I don’t know why or how this decision was made,” she said. The lack of transparency also translates to the board of Student Media Company itself, Huseman said — the same institution that, in the past, so vehemently valued transparency. “The Board chose not to inform anyone of their decision [to close Student Media Company] until three months after it was made,” Huseman said. If she and the other alumni had known sooner, she said, they could have done something sooner. Student Media Company is closing due to lack of funds, board member and professor David Sedman said. The company, specifically The Daily Campus, can no longer support itself. The current business model relies on ad sales to keep The Daily Campus alive. “The financial setup doesn’t make sense,”
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Huseman said. “The Daily Campus is a small newspaper, so advertisers aren’t seeing the return on their investment that they need. It doesn’t make sense to have a full-time adult staffer who is getting ad sales. Instead there should be a full-time adult staffer doing fundraising and donations. There are grants that exist that offer money to non-profit newspapers. We would qualify for those grants,” Huseman explained. The alumni who have banded together to save Student Media Company are aiming to raise $125,000 through GoFundMe. “It only takes $125,000 a year to run The Daily Campus,” Huseman said. “You don’t have to rely on advertisements, but I don’t understand how no one has done anything about that.” Decreased interest from advertisers comes from reasons two-fold, Huseman thinks: first, the industry-wide trend in decreased readership for print papers and, second, a diminishing in journalistic quality of The Daily Campus. “Journalism [at SMU] has really gone downhill in the last four to five years,” said Huseman. “It’s frustrating for me to watch, as an alum, as they train journalists who are fundamentally disqualified to be investigative journalists.” “We have SMU students come interview with us [at ProPublica] and they don’t even make it past the first round,” she said. If the funding goal is met, Huseman and other Student Media Company alumni have plans to restructure the paper. “We can make sure The Daily Campus exists for quite some time,” Huseman said.
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Happiness researcher Shawn Achor takes over Tate Tuesday night CAMRYN LA SALA Contributing Writer clasala@smu.edu Happiness specialist Shawn Achor discussed whether happiness is a choice in his Tate Lecture. Waco’s very own Shawn Achor filled the seats of McFarlin Auditorium at 8 p.m. Tuesday night. Achor is a happiness researcher, speaker, Harvard graduate and New York Times best-selling author of two books: The Happiness Advantage and Big Potential, which speaks to his advocacy of positive psychology. Achor has worked in 50 countries, with Fortune 100 CEOs, and everywhere from Harvard University to shantytowns in Zimbabwe. He has also met Oprah. The lecture began with Achor talking about his childhood. “I started all of this academic research when I was just seven years old,” Achor said. He told the story of when he was just a young boy playing with his little sister, Amy, just two years younger. One night, well past their bedtime, they were roughhousing on their bunk beds, playing a game of “war.” Five-year-old Amy suddenly fell off the bed and landed painfully on the floor on all fours.
Achor had broken his sister’s arm just a week before this incident and had been trying to be on his best behavior for his parents. “I saw on my sister’s face this wail of pain, suffering, and surprise – threatening to erupt from her mouth and wake up my sleeping parents. So I did the only thing I could think to do,” Achor said. As Amy started to cry, Achor asked his sister how she landed on all fours like that, explaining how mystical it was. “This must mean you’re a baby unicorn,” he’d said, and suddenly the tears subsided. “Instead of crying, seizing our play and waking our parents, she focused on this newfound identity of being a baby unicorn,” Achor said. This story is the basis of Achor’s lecture: choosing positivity over negativity. Our brain receives 11 million pieces of information every second from nerve endings. “As you process life and create this reality, your brain is only processing a few snowflakes in the midst of a blizzard,” Achor says. Continued on next page
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This means our brain first scans the negatives, hassles, complaints, frustrations and threatsin the world. Then, our brain has no resources left to scan the things we’re grateful for in the present moment. Throughout the lecture, Achor explained all the distractions and struggles we all have in the midst of striving for happiness. However, one thing is a constant. “Happiness is a choice, just change the way you allocate those resources and then you can choose happiness,” Achor said. “When you wake up in the morning, write a two-minute positive email or text message praising or thanking one person in your life. A family member, a coach, a peer, a high school English teacher,” Achor said. This is one habit Achor shares everywhere he speaks has created positive change for thousands. If you consistently pursued this habit every day and tested your social connection score after three weeks, your score would be in the top 10 percent of people in the world. “Social support and connection are important because the people that you surround yourself with are the greatest predictor of your long-term levels of happiness by far. The height of our potential is actually in relation to the people that are surrounding us. Social connection is as predictive of how long you are living as much as obesity, high blood pressure, or smoking, ” Achor said. Just taking two minutes out of your day to send a short email to your old football coach can extend your life as much as if you stopped smoking, Achor said. “We fight so hard against the negative in this world but we forget to tell people how powerful positive can be,” Achor said.
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Previously incarcerated women discuss issues of privilege and social injustice MALANNA WHEAT Contributing Writer mwheat@smu.edu
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Two formerly incarnated women from “It’s Criminal,” a feature documentary bridging the social gap between students of privilege and women in prison, said reinstitution back into society, even after eight years, is far from freedom. Charlotte Gunderson and Kim Vazquez sat on the panel with tenured Dartmouth professor and co-producer of the film, Ivy Schweitzer Tuesday in Meadows museum. “In some states you can’t vote, you can’t get a passport, you can never work for the federal government,” Vasquez said. “This is the reason why the recidivism rate is so high, because no one wants to work at Burger King at 45 years old.” Vasquez is now a house manager, getting her degree in psychology and wants to work in a 90-day rehabilitation facility. “You check the yes box on every job application that asks if you have a felony. Then they ask, if yes, please explain.” Gunderson said. “Do you think anybody ever reads the explanation? Nobody cares enough.” Gunderson, now running an industrial department at a manufacturing plant in Newport, New Hampshire, wanted to be an electrician, but said it is something she’ll never be able to do because of her conviction. Despite profound hardship, they both agreed the documentary and filming process saved their lives. The idea for “It’s Criminal”w was conceived after Schweitzer heard a lecture that political activist Angela Davis gave about the prison industrial complex. She then sought the help of Pati Hernández to reshape the feminist theory course
she had been teaching. “We all need to think about this, this is our issue,” Schweitzer said. “It’s not that drug addicts need rehabilitation, we need rehabilitation. As a society, we are responsible for the dysfunctionality of their lives that causes them to become addicts.” Hernández, originally from Chile, had experience working with men in prisons and came on board as the adjunct professor to the course for her background in analyzing social and political inequities through arts of storytelling, acting, and dance. The two have been offering the Dartmouth course, Telling Stories for Social Change, since 2007. Although they typically record just the final performance as a course conclusion, “It’s Criminal” is the product of the entire process. “I’m not here because I’m a good person, I’m here because I’m an angry person,” Hernandez said. Directed by Signe Taylor, the filming process of “It’s Criminal” was one of intensity, forcing Taylor, who had never been in a correctional facility before, to reevaluate her privilege. She felt fear and shock when her equipment was searched and her ID taken as the prison doors clanked shut behind her. “I walked out of the prison and just sat in my car and cried because I recognized myself so much in this woman,” Taylor said. “There was nothing dividing us except luck.” With nine more upcoming screenings, Taylor is focusing all of her time on the publicity of “It’s Criminal” and exploring the idea of having the film shown on a cable channel aimed at multicultural youth as part of a two-month long advocacy campaign for equal justice for all women.
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Deep Ellum Arts Festival celebrates local and visiting artists EMILY RULE Contributing Writer erule@smu.edu The sidewalks were filled with many members of the Deep Ellum community as well as people from neighboring towns April 6-8 for the Deep Ellum
Arts Festival. The festival brought artists from different creative backgrounds such as painting, music and the culinary arts to six consecutive blocks of Main Street to celebrate their talents. The Arts Festival began as a block party in 1994, and since then it has grown into
one of the largest visual and performing arts festivals in the region. Property owner Don Blanton founded the event that now receives international recognition for its impressive display of visual and performing arts. Each year, the festival
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Some of the mural art that can be found at the Deep Ellum Arts Festival
showcases more than 100 bands and singer-songwriter performances, 200 visual artists selling original pieces, 30 restaurants serving their famous cuisine and even designated space for spontaneous street performances. Jessica Free has made it a tradition for the past five years to attend the festivities with her mother. They enjoy seeing what art other people have created. “I come every year with my mom and I just love how there is something for both of us to enjoy,” Free said. “We will walk the streets looking at the different styles of art and then go get something to eat and enjoy the music, and then get up and do it all over again. I’d say there really is something for everyone here.” Hundreds of companies in the nearby area, such as Deep Ellum Brewing, Red Bull and DART, sponsor the
festival to keep the event free to the public. The festival also receives generous donations and grants from individuals who support the arts. Many attendees view the festivities both as a great way to celebrate original creativity and as a fun and entertaining way to come together as a community. Sarah Singer attended the Deep Ellum Arts Festival the past two years and returns to enjoy the various types of crafts displayed throughout the streets. “I love being able to see people take a little bit of culture from all around the world and see what kind of art they are able to make out of it. You can really get a sense of the artist by just looking at their art,” Singer said. The streets were decorated with an eclectic range of artistic mediums, including
photography, henna-styled painting and even woodburning designs. Valerie Hunt is an artist from Wonderwall Designs who attends the festival not only to showcase her designs but also to admire the work of others around her. “I love to see what works for other artists and get inspired to see if something like that could work for me. I do love the great amount of artistry that they have here,” Hunt said. While many of attendees are local to the area, the invitation reached further than the DallasFort Worth area, capturing an international audience. “You see some high-scale pieces and then you see things that you really would never be able to see anywhere else. I mean you have artists coming from all across the country and nothing in the world can top that,” Hunt stated.
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JACOB PROTHRO Sports Writer jprothro@smu.edu To Caleb Smith, the game of soccer has been a lifelong love affair. The sport captured his attention when he was growing up in Florida more than 15
years ago, when he played youth soccer in suburban Miami. It continued when he moved several states away to Texas, where he began to play soccer at one of the highest amateur levels. He continued to play when he went to college in Dallas. Now, Smith is a rising senior looking at what could be his last year of playing soccer at the amateur level. It’s a startling realization for the SMU defenseman. Three years have gone by in the blink of an eye. As he begins the slow process of coming to terms with this chapter of his life coming to a close, Smith can’t help but feel a little nostalgic. “It’s been great,” Smith said. “But it’s had its ups and downs. My freshman year we made it to the sweet 16 and won the
conference, but my sophomore year, we didn’t have such a great season. This year we bounced back and finished as a top 10 program in the nation.” Wescott Field is a far cry from the fields of suburban Miami, where Smith got his start. In Dallas, the grass is green and well-manicured. The pitch is always in playing shape. The city of Dallas is more than 1,000 miles removed from where Smith fell in love with the game. Out in Miami, it’s easy to do just that. There, soccer is part of the culture, like beaches, mojitos and the wild nightclubs Miami is famous for. Another reason was his older brother. Back then, the elder Smith was the one turning heads, the one dominating on the pitch. Caleb took a backseat
to him but learned all the while. “He was always the best player,” Smith said. “I was the one who just kind of sat back and watched him take all the glory. But then he actually motivated me to train hard and get better. That’s why I fell in love with soccer.” That work ethic has been one thing that has stuck with Smith throughout his life. When the going gets tough, and Smith says it often does, he reminds himself of what he learned in those first years. When he wakes up early in the morning while the sky is still dark and the world is still, he reminds himself how he got to where he is now. Then he attacks the day. “If you want to be really, really good, you
have to sacrifice. You have to do things that not a lot of people do to be great,” Smith said. Today, soccer remains on of the fixtures of his life. Even off of the pitch, when he’s training or watching Netflix, Smith can be found in front of a television playing his favorite video game: FIFA. Or, he can be found reading his Bible. Faith is a big part of his life. It’s something he’s grown up with. While Smith feels like he might have strayed away from God just a little bit in college, he still tries to ground himself in scripture. He looks above when times get bad. When things go well, when he has a good game or helps his team score a goal, Smith gives God the glory. “He gives me the strength to kick a soccer ball,” Smith said. His parents also played a
Caleb Smith is a senior defenseman on the SMU soccer team.
big part in helping him become successful. They taught Smith the values that he believes make him a good person. They set the foundation for his life. “My mom and dad always told me to believe in yourself, believe in who you are,” Smith said. “Those values that they brought me up with, like being kind to people, being respectful, to have integrity, really defines who I am. And I really try to carry myself that way, each and every day.” Smith says he will look to play professionally after he leaves SMU. He hopes to play in the MLS but would love to play in Europe if granted the opportunity to do so. Until then, Smith has one goal on his mind: he wants to win a conference championship — maybe even a national championship.
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SMU Cheer: three-time National Champions BIANCA BONADELLE Contributing Writer bbonadelle@smu.edu SMU Cheerleading was awarded first place at the National Cheer Association’s national competition in Daytona, Fla. last week. This is the squad’s third consecutive championship win. The cheer squad competed in Division 1A against 16 college cheer teams from across the country. The first day of the event included the preliminary competition, where the six teams with the lowest scores were eliminated from the competition. On preliminary day SMU cheerleading performed a game-day routine, followed by a competitive routine filled with tumbling, stunts, and dancing. Nate Williams, a senior cheerleader, reminisced on his past performances on the bandshell at prelims and said that it is the most special stage he has ever performed on. “There is something suspenseful about the elements that makes competing on the bandshell so unique,” Williams said. “Of all of the major stages I have performed on throughout my cheer career, there’s nothing quite like the atmosphere of the bandshell. The ocean to your left, the hot sun beaming down on you and the sea breeze blowing. It’s an incredible experience.” Although prelims are exciting, there is an extreme sense of nerves that the cheerleaders experience and have to control. Sophomore cheerleader Sarah Walden described the pressure that comes with that day. “Prelims is the round
that everyone competes in and it determines whether or not you make it to finals the next day,” Walden said. “Everything relies on it.” SMU’s cheer team concluded prelims day in first place. While being in first place was a considerable accomplishment, cheerleader Ashley Anthony explained how their coach emphasized the need to remain humble, because the competition wasn’t over.
Williams said. “I remember saying how badly I wanted to score a 97 after prelims and being hungry to make it happen. We always say that we are our biggest competition and in a way we are, so it’s incredibly rewarding to take SMU cheer to the next level and outscore ourselves from the year prior.” After competing in finals, the cheer team had to wait two hours for the awards ceremony
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The SMU Cheerleading team took home first place at the NCA National Championship.
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“We still had to perform our best the next day,” Anthony said. “The score from day one doesn’t transfer over to day two, so once day one is over it’s a whole new game. Being in first after day one is an intimidating place to be in because everyone below you wants to beat you and is going to try their best to raise their score at finals.” Finals day was April 6 and held at Daytona’s Ocean Center Arena, which holds over 9,000 people. Williams said that he knew winning finals was a major possibility if they stayed focused, but his main concern was beating their own score from last year. “Last year we scored the highest score in our division and in SMU history, so coming in for my last year, I wanted to crush that score and make history again,”
to begin. At the ceremony, awards were announced starting from 10th place and finishing at first. The team held hands while the places were called out and anxiously waited for their names. The cheer team left Daytona with their third national championship in three years, and the highest score SMU cheerleading has ever received at a competition. Reminiscing on their win, Anthony repeated how their hard work throughout the year was all worth it. “It was the most amazing feeling I have ever felt. We gave it all we had,” Anthony said. “10 months of hard work flashed through my mind. I kept saying it was all worth it.”
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CALLIE ROSENWASSER Opinion Editor crosenwasser@smu.edu Remember the good ole days when men were manly and women were silent? When only men were employed as CEOs, doctors and salesmen? When their wives were homemakers and their sisters were secretaries? When the prime objective of a woman’s life was pleasing her husband and producing his children in multitude? Oh, how things have gone to the dogs in America! Life was much simpler before the second sex started spouting nonsense like “Women’s rights are human’s rights” and “A woman’s place is in the House and the Senate.” Then, as if those feminist-focused 1970s weren’t bad enough with the marches and bra-burnings, Roe v. Wade (1973) legalized abortion for at least the first several weeks of a pregnancy! Abortion is always murder. Every time. Just because it isn’t breathing and has only a few organs or bones doesn’t mean it isn’t alive. A human fetus is the equivalent of a plant seedling. It may not have emerged from the soil yet, but if it has any growth at all from its seed, then it must be viable! By this irrefutable
logic, the only philosophy a moral person can stand behind is pro-life. It is a constant battle against the immoral pro-choice
not enough to claim a deeper connection than host and dependent. If we can stop these hostbodies, commonly called “mothers,” from citing their claim to control the fate of the fetus, there would no longer be an
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heathens of America to push for this standard. The loudest prochoice troublemakers seem to be the mothers. Oklahoma legislator Rep. Justin Humphrey truly put it best when he said women are nothing more than a “host” for their fetus. Yet, the mothers consider their bodies connected to the cells in their uterus. Why? Because they are feeding and sustaining the growth of tissue in the fetus? Because their genes directly affect those tissues? That’s surely
abortion debate. Imagine a world without such a debate: no more crosses would yearly cover Dallas Hall Lawn to denote the 2500 daily abortions in the U.S.; feminists would lose traction upon accepting their true purpose is to produce children, whether by the choice of their loved one or of their rapist. Even the number of mothers who might ask for future abortions would diminish, as hundreds would die yearly as a result of the pregnancies they carried to term.
Until we as a country finally reach a point where women only use their voices to educate the children they rear at home, the only clear solution is to take away the voices of pregnant hosts. To clip vocal chords would be too permanent, but medicine has thankfully evolved to catch up to these deplorable, socalled activists. The common practice of wiring a jaw shut to allow the healing of a broken mandible can be repurposed for the protection of an unborn fetus. This solves a number of potentially harmful threats to the fetus. Without the ability to open her mouth, the host cannot protest for its removal, nor can she drink alcohol or inhale carcinogens through a smoking apparatus. The host can easily care for the nutritional needs of the fetus growing in her womb with the aid of intravenous solutions. It is our responsibility as a world power to set the example. We must care for the unborn, first and foremost, the potential future of our nation. Those who survive the birth and without unpreventable defects will thank us. Eventually, future mothers will do the same. We can make those good ole days come again.
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Meet one of Dallas’ coolest designers JADE TAYLOR Contributing Writer jade@smu.edu Dallas fashion designer Vinny Etienne knows fashion can change anyone —even someone studying investment banking. In his studio, sewing machines line one wall, with a few mannequins in the corner, a shelf of fabric in the back, a clothing rack with some pieces, sketches on a design board, a cutting station in the center and some awarded brand photography. Originally from Brooklyn, all Etienne knew was he wanted to make a lot of money, so when he started college he studied investment banking before discovering his true desire and enrolling in one of the best fashion schools in the world. Etienne attended the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and moved to Dallas, graduating as salutatorian of his class at Wade College with a major in merchandising and design. “Vinny is known for his up-to-date designs,” Etienne’s good friend Anthony Leblanc said. “It’s amazing to see how he sketches out different garments. He turns fabric into amazing works.” Etienne has always been creative, but his passion for fashion started at age 21 when he was styling and designing for his church fashion shows, where the audience’s reaction motivated him to continue with design. “I let the people who support it kind of let me know if I’m going in the right direction or not,” Etienne said. During his senior year at Wade College, Etienne competed in the Fashion Group International (FGI) Scholarship Competition at the Dallas Market Center. With his sports bomber jacket and tailored pants, he won admission to an all-expensepaid, study-abroad program in Paris, along with the FGI Paris American Academy Couture Award. After a few months, Etienne returned to Dallas and started his own clothing line, Le’Venity, an advanced contemporary women’s ready-to-wear sports brand. He presented it at the annual Designers Choice Fashion Preview show. He chose his brand name by mixing up the letters in his name, so he felt his identity was connected to his brand.
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Le’Vinity is an advanced contemporary ready-t-wear sports brand.
He added an “L” to make it sound more feminine, since he was making predominantly women’s clothing. Etienne’s most recent and well-known collection are architectural lines and “texture-blocking” to create bold, modernized pieces. He uses oversized studs, majority black with lace, mesh and pop of color to create an ultimate edgy sport look. “Vinny has an incredible gift of not only being immensely talented, but beautifully humble as well,” Le’Venity stylist Ashtin Ellis said. “He has the ability to craft luxury hand sewn garments that are edgy, bold and sophisticated. I admire him deeply and know he will continue to break barriers and rise within the fashion industry. He is my Alexander, my Lee.” With press exposure, connections and building relationship, Etienne designed for celebrities like Cardi B and Michelle Williams. As Etienne develops inspiration through his travels and culture, he currently works on made-to-order custom orders and his Fall Collection to present at the FGI Rising Star show. “We are all very proud of Vinny and how much he has accomplished in such a short time,” said Rosanne Hart, founder and owner of The Hart Agency and SMU fashion public relations professor. “I think he is a real talent; he is somebody who is up-and-coming and he is very serious about what he wants to do, and he is just very talented. We are glad to have him and we love him.”
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