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Inside the ‘SYTYCD’ Dallas auditions

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College GameDay comes to SMU

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NEWS Briefs World ROME— Four smugglers brandishing Kalashnikovs threatened an Italian Coast Guard motorboat involved in one of several operations that rescued more than 2,000 migrants leaving Libyan shores on Sunday.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—The slain gunman suspected in the deadly Copenhagen attacks was a 22-year-old with a history of violence and may have been inspired by Islamic terrorists in Paris, Danish authorities said Sunday.

National PORTLAND, O.R.— Legal experts say a subpoena used in a federal grand jury investigation into Oregon’s fallen governor indicates that authorities are investigating possible violations of public corruption laws and financial crimes including wire or mail fraud, bribery and tax evasion. The subpoena was sent during the govenor’s resignation.

KAILUA-KONA— Authorities say three people are dead after a fiery crash in KailuaKona. Hawaii County police say a Kia sport utility vehicle traveling south and a Nissan pickup truck traveling north crashed into each other early Saturday on Queen Kaahumanu Highway.

Texas LUBBOCK— For a decade, an 80-acre dump of wood, asphalt, tar shingles and tires has sat festering just off Interstate 27 on the northern fringe of Lubbock. On two occasions since 2002, the debris has burned for at least a week, leaving behind blackened piles of debris. Officials are looking to the Legislature for financial help to clean up the debris piles across the highway.

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Rece Davis, Jay WIlliams and Seth Greenburg anchor for ESPN College GameDay at Moody Coliseum.

Crowd breaks attendance record for College GameDay Nikki Chavanelle Associate Sports Editor nchavanelle@smu.edu The SMU men’s basketball team brought Moody to a whole new level on Valentine’s Day by beating the defending NCAA champs, the UConn Huskies, and bringing in a record breaking crowd of 7,395 fans.

The Mustangs, undoubtedly aided by the publicity from ESPN’s College GameDay broadcasts, managed to break the previous single-game attendance record that was set last March at 7,305 fans in a huge match-up against Louisville.

“Having College GameDay at SMU really legitimizes everything Larry Brown

has been trying to do since he got here,” said Brett Solomon, SMU senior and former Mustang 11 Spirit Advisor. “The energy from the GameDay recording really carried over into the game so it wasn’t that surprising that we got a great result.”

With a packed Moody, incredibly loud Mob and student sections cheering them on, the Mustangs dominated the Huskies 73-55. SMU had four players score 10 or more points with 13 points a piece for Markus Kennedy, Yanick Moreira and Sterling Brown and 10 for Nic Moore.

“It was probably the loudest that Moody has ever been and I couldn’t hear a thing,” Sterling Brown, SMU starting guard, said.

“I would try to call for a screen but no one could hear me.”

Not only did the Moody crowd break the single-game attendance record, they also broke the single-season home attendance mark by over 3,000 fans. SMU has won 19 of the last 21 games and their success has directly translated into heaps of support from the SMU and surrounding Dallas community.

“We actually have some school spirit now. It’s been great to see the transformation during my four years from no crowd to a group of students that have become a force that can impact a game,” said Solomon.

One reason for the uprising in SMU spirit from students and non-students alike could be the dominant force that is head coach Larry Brown. Brown’s record is

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63-32, which is third best in SMU history, and 39-10 in SMU home games making Moody an intimidating arena to play in for opponents.

“There have been a lot of positive things but today, today was the best. To see our students there early and to feel the school spirit, that’s something we all hoped would happen. I’m walking around campus and everybody’s wishing us luck, so having GameDay, I hope it’s something that becomes a regular thing,” SMU head coach Larry Brown said.

The Mustangs will return to Moody Coliseum on Feb. 19 at 6 p.m. to hopefully more record breaking numbers when they face the Temple Owls in the second to last regular season home game.

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Marc Lamont Hill addresses changes still needed at SMU Shabnam Amini Contributing Writer samini@mail.smu.edu The black freedom struggle in the 21st century, the practice of deep listening, and ‘the age of Obama’ were some of the main topics Marc Lamont Hill focused on while talking to students and faculty Thursday night in the HughesTrigg Theater at SMU. A crowd of almost 70 people started taking their seats around 6:15 p.m. while others mingled outside the theater doors.

“I follow Dr. Marc Lamont Hill on Twitter and on the news, so I would like to see his personality in real life,” said Bobby Williams, administrative assistant at SMU. The lecture was hosted by SMU’s Association of Black Students (ABS) in order to shed light on Black History Month.

D’Marquis Allen, president of SMU’s ABS, greeted everyone. He introduced MacKenzie Jenkins, freshman chair of SMU’s ABS, who introduced Hill to the stage.

Hill flew in from New York just to speak to the students at SMU.

“I am always excited to speak to people,” said Hill. “But I am particularly happy to be here at SMU for Black History Month.”

Hill is known for covering topics on culture, politics and education. Hill also provides commentary on outlets like NPR, The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel where he was a political contributor and regular guest on “The O’Reilly Factor.”

Black History Month is one of those opportunities where people of color and those who are not of color come together and honor the life, legacies, ideas, values and cultures of African people here in America.

Hill explained the age of Obama, and that it marks an important moment in history for the collective condition of blacks in America.

“When Barack Obama walked into the office in 2009, it was proof of our collective success,” said Hill. “It is not about whether you like him or not.”

The age of Obama and everything surrounding his presidency is cause to be

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Artist Joanne Shenandoah signs autographs for fans.

Grammy award-winning Iroquois artist visits SMU Lauren AGUiRRE Editor-in-Chief @laurencaguirre Grammy award-winning Native American artist Joanne Shenandoah visited SMU Saturday. She performed a free concert in Hughes-Trigg Theater Valentine’s Day evening, alongside percussionist and SMU alumna Laurie

Gerard, her daughter Leah Shenandoah and violinist Erik Hokkanen.

“Leave all your worries on the curb outside. They will be there for you when you leave,” Shenandoah said at the beginning of the concert.

“Just be in this moment. Music is a healing vibration.”

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“So You Think You Can Dance” auditions took place in McFarlin Auditorium this weekend.

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Dancers began lining up early Saturday morning.

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Paula Abdul joins the judging panel this season.

‘So You Think You Can Dance,’ SMU? The Daily Campus covers auditions for FOX hit dance show Blair Croce Arts and Entertainment Editor bcroce@smu.edu This weekend on campus, a slew of reporters flocked to Moody Coliseum for College GameDay, the SMU men’s team pulled out an impressive win against UConn, and the famous roaming gnome graced the campus with his presence.

But that’s not all. The FOX hit TV show “So You Think You Can Dance” filmed their Dallas audition footage at McFarlin Auditorium. Even though I had the constant urge to channel my inner fan girl, I managed to not make a fool out of myself and get you all the details of this weekend’s auditions. Now let’s get this show on the road…

On Saturday morning at 7 a.m., a crowd of anxious dancers stretched from the entrance of McFarlin Auditorium to the steps of Dallas Hall. Performers at the front of the line noted they arrived around 4 a.m. in order to ensure an audition time. Considering the show now divides performers based on their style of dance, either street or stage, two lines formed holding two very different types of dancers.

On the street side, the music blared, the dancers free styled with each other, and their energy soared. On the stage side, numerous dancers clad in sophisticated dance attire anxiously stretched and prepared for their impending audition.

One street performer, Jason Grey, traveled all the way from Mobile, Alabama to audition for the show’s esteemed judges Paula Abdul, Nigel Lythgoe, and Jason Derulo.

When asked about the most nerve-racking and exciting thing about auditioning he replied, “Well I am excited that I am auditioning here today, but I’m nervous because my mom couldn’t really be here with me, and she’s normally with me for everything that I do with my dance career.”

Grey also named Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” as his favorite song to groove to. Just keep on

moving those feet to that funky tune and making your momma proud, Mr. Grey.

The perspective contestants auditioned for executive producer Jeff Thacker Saturday, and those who impressed Thacker continued to Sunday’s televised round with the panel of judges.

With friends and family in the audience, the performers on Sunday took McFarlin’s stage with confidence, style and upbeat attitudes. When someone was auditioning on stage, another performer was preparing to the left (and stretching their legs to heights I never imagined), while all the other upcoming dancers encouraged the one on stage. Contemporary performers displayed a great degree of skill, control, and emotion, while the hip-hop dancers gave the audience a thrill and exhibited spunky choreography.

Jason Derulo, a skilled dancer himself, gave wise constructive criticism and didn’t shy away from sharing his honest opinion.

Like previous seasons, Nigel was the hardest to please but specific and helpful in his critiques as well as in his praises. Similar to her role as an “American Idol” judge, Paula Abdul brought a sweetness and nurturing aspect to the panel and used her extensive dance background to give insightful feedback.

Though some of the hip-hop dancers failed to reach the caliber of street dancers in the previous audition city, New York, the contemporary performers held their own with their raw emotion and talent.

Corey White, a street dancer originally from Arkansas but raised in Dallas, has been dancing since he was just 3 years old.

White noted that the process of auditioning the past few days “has been very different” and not what he anticipated, but he said, “Besides all the cameras and stuff in your face, it’s not that bad because you get to meet new people and interact with people who do and love the same thing you do. It’s been an amazing experience. If I get the ticket, then that’s a plus, but I’m just happy to

be here with people who share the same gift that I share.”

Briana Butler, 22, has also been dancing since she was only 3 years old and is now a professional dancer.

When asked about her performance style, she replied, “My style is contemporary- jazzfunk. It’s a little different. I tell people as a joke that it’s my way of being able to do whatever I want, but really is jazz with elements of street, elements of contemporary, and elements of acrobatics. I’m a very versatile dancer. You know, you learn a lot in 19 years, so I like to create what I call fusion movement, and it’s my own choreography.

I’m really excited to share it with the judges, because I know for a fact they haven’t seen anything like it.”

Judges Jason Derulo, Paula Abdul, and Nigel Lythgoe and host Cat Deeley took time out of the day’s crazy shenanigans to answer some of our questions.

Enjoy this Q&A. I sure did.

Cat Deeley: The DC: So you’ve been here since the beginning?

Cat: “I started doing the second season, and now we’re on season 12, and now I’m like ‘Oh my God, I’m going to be 76 years old and they are just going to shove me out in like a wheelchair or something and I will probably have a cigarette with a really long cigarette holder, and I’ll wear a turban and I’ll start drinking at 11 am.’ So I think it’s all going to go pretty well.”

The DC: How has the show evolved over time in your opinion?

Cat: “I mean, for me, what’s happened most of all, is the dancers have become better and better and better. It’s developed into such a thing where it’s not enough to just have great steps or great technique anymore, they really understand that now you have to project so much more than that, and so much about it

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Jason Derulo spoke with the DC about his experience so far on the show.

is emotion and star quality and all those kinds of things that are almost kind of indefinable.

You have to be able to do that as well as the dance steps to make a difference. If you’re really going to make it all the way to the end, you’ve got to be the whole package.”

Paula Abdul: The DC: If you had any words of encouragement you could give to a dancer right before they go on stage, what would you say?

Paula: “First of all, breathing is so important because dancers forget since their adrenaline is going so much, so take some deep breaths and remember why you are here. This is what you love to do. If you fall, get back up. How you leave the stage is sometimes more important than how you start. Just remember that it’s your talent that needs to be shown, and it’s your heart-place to be up here dancing. Dancers are not like any form of entertainers I’ve ever witnessed because their spirit and psyche are so in tune with the part. Forget the steps, dance from the heart. Let go of the steps, and perform from your heart and be unique. Don’t think you’ve got it all figured it out what we’re looking for, because sometimes we don’t even know. But the one thing we definitely know is someone who stands out. You can tell before they even dance that their presence commands attention. Just have fun. It’s easy for me to say, but I’ve been on the other side, too. I’ve fallen on my a** many times and I’ve made a career out of it. People want to say ‘see how she got up?’”

Jason Derulo: The DC: What’s the best piece of advice you could give to a dancer before coming on stage?

Jason: ”For ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’ the best advice I can give is forget all of the lessons that you’ve learned prior and just perform. A lot of times dancers can get too caught up

in technique, and this show is about wowing your audience and captivating them. So, I feel like you have to have the technique in the back of your mind, of course, but you have to have it so well rehearsed that it’s second nature, so that you can just perform.”

The DC: So this is your first season on the program. We were wondering what made you want to join in the first place.

Jason: “Being a fan of dance, man. I was a guest judge one time, and it was really cool and I had a good time. They asked if I would do it permanently, and I was like ‘Uhhhhhhhhh I don’t know man.’

It’s a rough thing because you don’t want to tarnish anybody’s dream. This is more than just hurting somebody’s feelings with a ‘no.’ Somebody can walk away and be like ‘I should never do this again.’ The thing I love about this show is that it’s so positive, and even if it is a ‘no’ we’re leaving them constructive criticism and they know why and they know what to go work on. We have repeat contestants all the time.

You’ll see people coming up and be like ‘Yeah this is my fourth time,’ and think that’s why. You leave with a sense of positivity and a sense that you can do it.”

The DC: Is there a particular difference you can identify between New York dancers and Dallas dancers so far?

Jason: “So far, to be honest, I thought there were better hip hop dancers in New York. New York is such a big place, so it’s kind of unfair, and that culture is really big there. That’s all I can say, but there’s really good people here too.”

Nigel Lythgoe: The DC: You have two new judges, Paula and Jason, joining you on the panel. Is there going to be anything different in how you adapt your judging style with them being added?

Nigel: “I don’t think so.

Judging style is for the kids rather than for the judges. At the same time, Paula and I have known each other for a long time with working together on ‘American Idol’ for so many years, so there’s good chemistry there, and it’s going to be interesting. Jason has got a really good insight into street dance, so it’s going to be interesting to see what he’s got to say, and whether we agree or disagree with things.”

The DC: So how do you think that the change in format with street dancing versus stage dancing will affect the show?

Nigel: “At the end of the day there’s not going to be a lot of difference because it always has been there to a certain degree, but what I think is going to happen now is we will get a lot of really interesting, good street dancers going into the top 20 because they will be in two different ladders. It’s what happens when we get that top 20, both the stage and street dancer will be pithed together.

We’re not always going to use couples this year either. We’re going to do trios and quartets to see different groups and different styles work together.”

The DC: How has the talent been shaping up in Dallas so far?

Nigel: “I’m a little disappointed with street at the moment. I think contemporary has been pretty good. At the same time, we see an awful lot of really good little girls that just have a low center of gravity and legs that go up behind their ear, and they’re not impressive to us anymore because we’ve just seen so many of them. We’re always looking for something unique, especially with the street kids.

Give us something that we can go ‘Wow, we have not seen that before and that was tremendous.’

I think that street has got it really difficult. They’re not going to be choreographed in any other style until they get in that top 20, so they really have to look like they’re going to be capable of doing other things.”

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Nigel Lythgoe has been with the show since day one and continues to play a huge part in it.

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inspired. Hill said people have to appreciate the fact that he becomes president in 2008, just a few hundred years after Jamestown.

When people talk about Black History Month, they should start at 1619, Hill pointed out.

When black folks came to America, they came as property and black hands picking cotton; picking up, arguably, the most significant piece of the engine that drives America’s capitalist age. In the same way you had machinery, in the same way you had tools, you had black folks.

Hill then moved on to the topic of deep listening.

The practice of deep listening is a belief that all voices are worth listening to. People live in a world filled with talk, not just with voices, but with all this technology around us like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Everyone’s voice is being released in a way we couldn’t even imagine 20 years ago; everybody is the star of their own show.

“All of this cacophony of of our own voices makes it hard to realize that other people’s words, morals and lives are worth listening to,” said Hill. “Deep listening is a humanizing project and realization that there is value in the voices of people who are different than you.”

Suddenly, Hill interrupted himself and moved away from the podium.

“Even though y’all didn’t do it, at the beginning of Black History Month, we sing the Black National Anthem, do y’all know it?” Hill asked the audience.

The crowd slowly stood up and started singing their freedom song in unison after his reminder.

“Young folks have a vision and voice, that is why we have to invest in them, all of them,” said Hill.

Hill pointed out that we have no idea who’s going to be the next person to make a difference.

“Do you think Dr. King’s kindergarten teacher knew she had Dr.

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Marc Lamont Hill speaking at Hughes-Trigg Theater.

King in her class?” said Hill. “We must operate from the assumption that all of our children have the capacity to be extraordinary.”

Schools in America are filled with black, white, red and yellow geniuses, and we have to mine it for all that it is worth. Hill said to listen to the young folks and listen for every generation’s freedom song, and every generation’s song is not going to sound like the others.

Hill recalls “when those airplanes hit the buildings” and people thought America was under attack on 9/11, and suddenly everyone felt unsafe and subjected to random violence.

“That reminds me of one of Jay-Z’s lyrics,” said Hill. “‘Bin Laden been happenin’ in Manhattan, crack was anthrax back then, back when police was Al’Qaeda to black men,’ sometimes we have to listen to a different kind of freedom song.”

Hill urged the students in attendance to join organizations at school and around the community.

“All y’all don’t have to make something, you just have to join something,” said Hill.

“There are thousands of names out there that never got recorded in the books but were still vital to the movements.

Jesus was a radical Palestinian Jew who tried to change this world from the inside out. Don’t be part of an organization where all you do is party and brag about what you did. Don’t be good for nothing, be good for brave action and brave truth-telling.”

“Brave action is,” as Hill quoted King, “when dogs bite us in Birmingham, we bleed everywhere.”

According to Hill, what that means in 2015 is, when police shoot us in Ferguson, we die everywhere. When we get choked down in Staten Island, we can’t breath anywhere.

We need a collective sense of work, but a local sense of action.

Hill then quoted the Prophet Muhammad, “speak the truth though it may be bitter.”

That means that you have to tell your Democratic friends that getting corporate welfare is bad no matter who is president. You might have to tell your friends who are team Obama, that some people aren’t “feeling the love” on the less fortunate side of town.

Hill went in to further detail explaining how people who are young should get the truth out.

“You think that Iraqis and Syrians being gassed by their own government is better now that it is a democrat not doing anything about it? You think if you are in Yemen or Iran and you’re only 16 and in combat, you feel better that it is Obama’s drones and not Bush’s drones that are killing you? You think if you are occupied in the largest open air prison in Gaza or in the apartheid state of the West Bank, you feel better that it is our nation supporting it not than when it is was 20 years ago? You have to be brave, you have to speak the truth when it is bitter.”

Hill pointed out, when you stand up for the truth, you may feel alone sometimes. There are going to be people who turn around when they get harmed, but it is your job to keep going.

“Just because we have an Obama and Oprah, and Tyler Perry does not mean we are done,” said Hill.

You have to continue to convince people that the world can be different, the world can be freer, more loving and more livable.

Shenandoah performed several pieces from her various 17 albums. During “I Feel Your Love,” she asked the audience to join in. At least 50 different voices sang along with her.

Halfway through the performance, Leah Shenandoah broke down in tears. She had lost a friend and had not sung since his death. After collecting herself, she performed a song acapella from her debut album, “spektre.” After she had finished, the audience erupted into applause.

“Thank you,” Leah Shenandoah said. “That was more weepy than I usually sing it.”

Once the performance was over, the audience asked for an encore. Joanne Shenandoah finished the night with a short piece on a Native American flute.

Then, a shout came up from the audience. Joemaine Perry, a spectator, requested a song called “Dancing on Mother Earth.”

Shenandoah finished the night with the requested song.

Perry has been following Shenandoah’s music for 12 years.

He came to SMU specifically to attend the concert.

“She has a very nice, clear

Students attempt to navigate the maze inside Meadows Kristy Lee Contributing Writer kclee@mail.smu.edu

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The Owen Fine Arts Center has a reputation of being the most confusing building on campus.

start their room search all over again.

Another unfortunate fact is that there are a number of unexpected dead ends in the building. Hengst pointed to a few on our tour. This makes finding classrooms nearly impossible for students at first because they will see the number next to the one they are looking for, then see a dead end rather than the classroom they need.

Even the dance, theater and other arts majors that spend the majority of their time in the building have had their share of OAC mix-ups.

Reid Conlon, a sophomore dance major, explained that during the second week of class one of his fellow students got injured.

Instructed to retrieve ice, Conlon wound up running all around the first and second floors searching for the cold stuff without any luck.

He was then forced to brave the most confusing floor: the basement.

He searched each hallway until he finally ran across the ice machine and some Ziploc bags.

“The whole endeavor took about 10 minutes, when it should have only taken three,” said Conlon. “I can only imagine how hard it is for non-Meadows majors to find their classrooms.”

voice,” Perry said. “She’s a phenomenal contemporary Native American folk singer. She uses her traditional vocal skills combined with a contemporary format to create beautiful music.”

Shenandoah is the only artist to win a Nammy, a Grammy and a Pulitzer nomination. She has performed at five presidential inaugurations, Carnegie Hall and the Smithsonian Museum, before the His Holiness the Dali Lama and the Vatican.

Shenandoah’s husband, Douglas George-Kanentiio, also visited campus this past weekend.

They gave two workshops.

On Friday, Shenandoah presented “Our Relationship to Water-The Vibration of Voice and Music.” She analyzed how human voices can affect the environment.

On Saturday, George-Kanetiio presented “Native Survival During a Time of Prophecy.”

He discussed the Iroquois predictions and perspective of current ecological changes on Earth and strategies for survival.

The visit was sponsored

by SMU’s Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute, the Scott Hawkins Lecture Series, the Gartner Honors Lecture Series, the Clements Center for Southwest Studies and SMU’s Department of History.

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2015 Strong Man competitors raise the bar OLIVIA NGUYEN Managing Editor qonguyen@mail.smu.edu

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The Owen Fine Arts Center, or the OAC, is home to where creativity comes alive. It is a place where the truly innovative and expressive minds of SMU’s campus congregate to let their imaginations roam free.

If only students could find their way around the dang place.

“The OAC isn’t just a whirlwind of art and talent, it is a labyrinth full of amazing surprises and unexpected stairwells,” says dancer Rene Johnsen. “I have to say I still get lost walking around as a sophomore.”

The building, which faces Bishop Boulevard on the east and Hillcrest Road to the west, was designed by George Dahl in 1965.

Dahl was a prominent American architect and had many other famous works in the Dallas area, including the First National Bank Tower located downtown. The OAC has also had some renovations over the years, adding the Jake and Nancy Hamon library in 1990, followed by the Greer Garson theatre in 1993. These additions have transformed the building into three separate entities all under the same structure.

With a rep as the most confusing building on campus, I decided to get to the bottom of why the building is designed the way it is and find out how to make it easier to navigate with a few tips and tricks. I took a tour with OAC Director of Facilities Jay Hengst for a crash course in decoding the layout of this tricky building.

“Oh it’s not that hard!” Hengst chuckled as he printed out a map in his office. To someone whose office resides in the building, he is no stranger to all the jokes about the building’s setup. Each year on the first day of classes, professors gather in the halls to help guide first years in the right direction. Even students who have taken classes in the building for years still struggle with getting around it.

Jessie Craft, a Meadows student, has experienced this herself.

“I’m an advertising major, so I’ve had a few classes in the OAC before, but even as a senior I sometimes find myself going in circles trying to find professors’ offices and classrooms,” said Craft.

Hengst explained that what many do not realize is that the building is formed just like city blocks. The building basically revolves around the Caruth Auditorium, the Bob Hope theatre, and the Taubman Atrium. In this way, students might be able to think of these as starting points or points of location to find their classrooms more easily. By thinking of the building in city blocks, students can remember how their classes wrap around those key spaces.

However, another problem that throws students off at times is the way the rooms are numbered. Sometimes first years get confused and do not realize that the rooms that have a ‘B’ preceding their room number are the ones designated to the basement. They will disregard the ‘B’ and try to look for those rooms on the main floor or the second floor.

The trick to getting the room numbers down to a science is to remember that for all of the 600 plus rooms in the OAC, the numbers are arranged clockwise. Essentially, from left to right and from the basement to the second floor, the rooms ascend in number.

“The basement is where most of the students get lost because that is where the most rooms are and they are so packed together,” said Hengst.

The building has three floors, including the basement. The basement has rooms labeled ‘B’ followed by digits in the hundreds, the first floor runs in the 1000s and the second floor in the 2000s.

There are also some doors in the building that are open only to dancers or musicians and require a key card to access them.

Sometimes students will get to one of those doors and not understand why they cannot get through. Then they will have to

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The 5th annual Strong Man Competition was held Feb. 12 at the Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports.

A total of 15 competitors, 12 men and three women, tested their strength to see who would win the title of this year’s Strong Man and Woman.

Three lifts were evaluated: bench press, dead lift and chinup. Participants were divided into weight classes and had three attempts to execute each exercise.

In order to equalize the platform, a mathematical equation dividing the contender’s best score with their body mass was used to calculate their strength ratio.

Sophomore Matthew Brown, SMU personal trainer and Strong Man Competition coordinator, explained why the three lifts were chosen.

“We didn’t want it to be a powerlifting meet – we wanted it to be open for anyone,” Brown said.

“When you put in chin-ups and take out the squat portion, it lessens the risk of injury and shows how strong of an athlete you are.”

SMU Personal Training, the Mustang Fitness Club and Group X collaborated for the event.

They hoped their efforts would gain students’ attention regarding health and fitness.

Freshman Molly Coughlin, president of the Mustang Fitness Club, encourages students to live an active lifestyle.

“We wanted to get people involved in fitness,” Coughlin said.

“We wanted people to see

what’s going on and get excited about lifting weights and do fun things like this.”

Nutritional product companies, Muscle Milk and Kind Snacks, sponsored this year’s competition, with representatives handing out items to participants and winners.

Winners received Kind Snacks and Muscle Milk gift bags and all participants received T-shirts sponsored by Mustang Fitness Club.

Competitors snacked on the nutrient-dense foods while talking about their lifts, numbers and experience in weight training between sets.

Daniel Brooker, 21, participated in his first lifting competition this year. He hit two personal records (PR) for dead lift (480 lbs) and bench press (295 lbs).

“For my PR on dead lift it was a little unnerving because I couldn’t use a belt,” Brooker said.

“But my form was good so that helped. Overall I think I did pretty well for my first competition.”

Contender Andrew Elrod, 33, competed for the second time in the Strong Man competition. He has been lifting on and off since he was 16 and won the 2014 Strong Man competition.

“I hit a personal PR in bench press with 425 pounds, dead lift with 550 pounds and completed 28 chin-ups,” Elrod said. “Last year I hit 385 pounds for bench press, 545 pounds for dead lift and did 24 chin ups.”

Elrod won the men’s division for the 2015 Strong Man competition. Owen Klaiss and Ben Baker placed second and third.

For the women’s division Ami Elrod placed first, followed by Gel Greene and Emily Field.

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Family and friends mourn the loss of three Muslim-Americans after their funeral.

Mainstream media under attack over the coverage of three dead Muslim-Americans Three Muslim-Americans were murdered Tuesday night in what appears to be an antiMuslim terrorist attack.

The attack took place at a condominium complex near the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, at 5 p.m. EST. Officers were called to reports of gunshots at 5:11p.m. at an apartment block largely housing academics and young professionals on Summerwalk Circle in Chapel Hill.

The victims were found shot dead at the scene.

Some residents described not even being aware there was an incident until police arrived. Sources told local WRAL News that all three had been shot in the head.

“Eight hours after the attack (which occurred at 5 p.m. EST), there is still very little media coverage, and no national coverage by any major news outlets,” journalist Ben Norton wrote on his Twitter account.

It wasn’t until Wednesday morning when CNN broke the news on their website and featured it as their top story. FOX News also published the story on their website but it did not make it one of the top headlines of the day. In fact, it was the link to The Independent’s and Al Jazeera’s take on the story that went viral on Facebook early Wednesday morning.

“A lot of the initial reports and posts were from private sources, family, and friends who knew them,” said Karma Orfaly, majoring in Political Science and Human Rights also the president of SMU’s Muslim Student Association.“That was the only way the story was being told at the moment and awareness was being spread.”

A lot of people expressed that they felt there was a lack of media coverage over the story.

“The sad fact is that the mainstream media that recently brought us ‘I am Charlie’ has no interest in humanizing Muslims,” posted Imam Zaid Shakir, an Islamic public figure, on Facebook.

Though opinions were strong about the coverage, Robert Hunt, Director of Global Theological Education at SMU, pointed out that the media does try its best.

“The mainstream media does do a good job, just not good enough,” Hunt said.

It is noticeable that the mainstream media puts most stories of violence connected to Muslims in a way where Islam is behind the atrocity, when in fact it could be that the person who caused the violence is unstable.

“I think that people are quick to jump to the conclusion that Islam is to blame, like the Charlie Hebdo case or the attacks in Sydney Australia in the coffee shop,” said Orfaly. “But when the roles are reversed, we don’t blame certain religions for the same actions because that would be considered ridiculous.”

The three victims were identified by police and school officials as Deah Barakat, 23, who was a sophomore at the University of North Carolina’s School of Dentistry and his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, who was set to enroll there in the fall. The third victim was Abu-Salha’s 19-year-old sister, Razan, a student at nearby North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

Barakat’s last Facebook post was about providing “free dental supplies and food to over 75 homeless people in downtown Durham.”

Barakat and Abu-Salha were newlyweds.

Barakat had been fundraising for a service project to bring Syrian refugee children dental care in Turkey.

A 46-year-old man, identified by police as Craig Stephen Hicks, has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder.

Hunt went online and looked up many of the

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major news organizations headlines on the Chapel Hill incident, asking questions like: ‘What’s the headline? What’s the lead? and What’s the timing?’

It appeared from what Hunt saw, the story was covered in the UK before it was covered in the U.S. “We need to see who is in the newsroom at that time of night,” said Hunt, explaining why the U.S. news stations may have been late to cover the news.

At the time that police issued their first statement, the first morning shifts were coming on and most U.S. news outlets were putting the stories of the day to bed.

“That may be an explanation,” said Hunt.

“Or maybe that news wasn’t that important at the moment.”

Orfaly still believes that Muslims are covered in the news only when it portrays them in a negative light.

“When it comes to covering a Muslim victim versus a non-Muslim victim, they seem to care more when the Muslim is the perpetrator,” said Orfaly.

The more important questions we need to ask ourselves are ‘what are the headlines?’ and ‘what’s the lead?’ and ‘how does the lead vary between the different news outlets like NBC, ABC, CBS, Al Jazeera, USA Today, CNN and Fox?’ First, journalists should assume that every religion is quite different, so the terms that mean something in Christian theology won’t mean anything in Islam, Hinduism or Buddhism.

The second thing journalists should ask themselves, at least in the headline, is ‘does religion make a difference?’

“I thought about this with the Chapel Hill killings” said Hunt. “Every headline stated ‘three Muslims are killed,’ I don’t ever see a headline that says ‘three Christians are killed’.”

When it comes to news connected with Jews or Muslims and violence, it is easy to assume that religious identity is tied with it. Journalists should ask themselves why this assumption exists.

Third, journalists should find out about the religion itself before rushing to judgement, or even allowing an official to rush to judgement. If a public official says something connecting back to a religion or tradition, ask them if they can justify their statement or reveal what their sources are.

Less than 24 hours after the incident, the discussion has moved from what happened at Chapel Hill to how the media is covering what happened at Chapel Hill.

People should keep in mind that the mainstream media has a job to get all the facts right and confirmed before reporting it. While they are collecting information, it is very easy to collect the wrong information, and sometimes it is not the journalists fault; officials may be release the wrong information because they want to get it out as fast as possible, for example.

“It’s not just sad that they were Muslims who were killed,” said Orfaly. “It’s sad that they were really great human beings that were trying to give back to their community and didn’t get to see their success.”

Amini is majoring in journalism.

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Let’s face it: we all have something we want to say to our friends but are unable to conjure up the courage to say it to their faces.

Don’t you wish there was an app to send your friends painful, yet much-needed advice without them knowing it was you?

Well now you can!

An app that allows you to be gutsy without having the guts to face your friend, Gusty helps you unveil the ugly truth about your friend’s most annoying quirks. By accessing the friend’s list from your Instagram account and matching them with a set of 100 questions, the app allows you to answer personal opinions about your friends. Gutsy then sends the answers to him or her, anonymously of course.

So whether you want to tell you friend that he or she lately has been acting a little whiny or he or she doesn’t exercise enough, they’ll never know it was you. Even if the person you’re trashing didn’t download the app, you can still send criticism to any friend on

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your account. In other words, you get to berate your buddy whether they asked for it or not.

The answers come with four preset replies, but Gutsy also allows you to create your own personal message, so don’t be shy about telling them how you really feel.

Now the app isn’t all about hate. You can also confess to your friend if you ever had a crush on them or dreamed about sleeping with them.

The creators of Gutsy developed the app to enhance communication and understanding between friends in order to develop one’s character into the best possible esteem.

Respectable aspirations sure

enough, but let’s be honest, we’re totally going to abuse this app.

By limiting the accessibility of the questions and answers to you and your friend, you’re able to give an honest and anonymous opinion without the drama, or so we hope.

Perhaps I’m old-fashioned or more confrontational, but if you have something you desperately want to share with your friend, tell them in person. If their breath stinks, let them know face-to-face.

Or on second thought maybe not.

But if you ever wanted to sleep with them, break free from what they might think, confess your lust for them and pray that it’s not awkward afterwards. But it probably will be.

Okay, maybe the answer to improving communications with a friend does lie in sending them random messages through Gutsy.

After all: no guts, no glory.

Chong is majoring in finance and economics.

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‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ actors Jamie Dornan and Dakota Fanning in an interview.

Seven things I’d rather do than watch ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ This past weekend, the box office opened with “Fifty Shades of Grey” resulting in a legion of female fans storming the theaters.

The movie grossed $81.7 million over President’s Day weekend and I’m absolutely grossed out. Why would this many people watch poorly made softcore porn?

Without a doubt, a handful of guys will resentfully sit through the two hour movie for the slim chance that the night will lead to erotic, kinky sex of their own afterwards.

My friend Angie invited me to the midnight premiere of “Fifty Shades of Grey.” So I got stuck debating between enduring the BDSM flick and finishing my homework. I decided that instead of begrudgingly sitting through the movie, I’d rather spend my time doing anything else.

So Angie, here’s my list of things I’d rather do than watch “Fifty Shades of Grey:” 1. Literally look at 50 shades of grey

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But between watching “Fifty Shades of Grey” and spitting out my feelings, I’d swallow my pride and submit to sharing my emotions.

3. Work out on leg day If you work out at Dedman, you’ll rarely witness the same guy frequent the squat machines.

Chicken legs represent a sweeping epidemic here at Southern Methodist University.

But given the option of watching “Fifty Shades of Grey” or actually committing to leg day, there’s no contest.

4. Actually try bondage

Shopping for paint or watching paint dry, both probably more entertaining than watching “Fifty Shades of Grey.”

2. Talk about emotions Granted, some guys more ably express their emotions to their friends or partners. And if you’re one of them, you’re a better person than I’ll ever be.

It becomes awkward confessing how you truly feel about someone even if you’ve known or have been dating that someone for a while.

Most guys skip the monthly Skype call or Facebook conversation to catch up with friends from high school that most girls look forward to. Ladies, good luck trying to coerce a guy to confess how he truly feels about you.

There’s a lot things guys won’t try, but to be free from the chains of watching “Fifty Shades of Grey,” anything remains open.

Painful or embarrassing BDSM would be less tortuous than the cringe worthiness of Mr. Grey’s attempt at softcore porn. Also, trying to play with sex toys or submitting to bondage may lead to actual sex, so that’s always a plus.

5. Attend a SMU football game If I wanted to see someone rammed and abused, I’d watch our football team play a game.

Let’s weigh the options: watching Mr. Grey awkwardly dominate Anastasia or watching other football teams dominate SMU’s. ‘Nuff said.

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Blah, blah, Carol being, blah, such a horrible friend, blah. Guys reach a point in their relationship when they naturally tune out the drama and rants of their girlfriends.

I can say that I don’t intend to sound callous, but that won’t stop you from thinking so.

If I was handcuffed and trapped in a room for two hours and had to choose between pretending to watch “Fifty Shades of Grey” or pretending to care about my girlfriend’s problems, I’ll take the latter.

7. Pretend to enjoy any other romantic movie I apply “romantic movie” loosely because “Fifty Shades of Grey” whipped up a debate about whether Mr. Grey acts abusively or is simply kinky.

As far as chick flicks go, lasting through the “The Notebook” or “13 Going on 30” would be much easier than making it to the end of “Fifty Shades of Grey.” Ladies, if you’ve begged and pleaded your man to watch these classic eyewatering romance movies to no avail, exploit this chance to finally get him to commit to one.

I’ve heard people call the movie everything from “Fifty Shades of Dull” to “Fifty Shades of Ayeee.”

Whether you think it’s underrated or overrated, if you drag your man to watch this movie, he will most likely experience a pang of misery.

Save him from the grief, please.

With the movie grossing beyond the expectations of $60 million, maybe I’m missing out and need to give it a chance.

But probably not. Sorry Angie.​ Chong is majoring in finance and economics.

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Today – today was the best. To see our students there early and feel the school spirit- I’m walking on campus and people are wishing us luck.

Having GameDay…I hope this is an annual thing because we have a program that is worthy of it.

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HEALTH

MONDAY n FEBRUARY 16, 2015 ILLNESS

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Measles are exposed to Americans when they travel internationally.

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A rash is a symptom of measles.

Getting vaccinated is the way to avoid measles.

U.S. measles outbreak has many worried, should you be?

CArleeann Allen Health and Fitness Editor carleeannna@smu.edu In 2015 there have been over 114 confirmed cases of measles in the United States.

The state that has been most affected by the disease is California, with close to 100 confirmed cases of measles.

The U.S. is currently going through a large-scale measles outbreak that began at Disneyland this past December.

Since then, the disease has spread to multiple states, Mexico and Canada.

More cases across the U.S. are being confirmed as the weeks go on.

Officials at the Center for Disease Control are worried about a large scale outbreak that could sweep the nation, since there are already over 100 cases in over a dozen different states with more cases being confirmed every week.

The ongoing outbreak has

led to thousands of people being exposed to the disease.

On Feb. 12, 2015, it was reported that a resident of San Francisco, who is infected with measles, traveled to and from work on the BART, the Bay Area Rapid Transit.

The resident was diagnosed with the disease and rode the BART for three days after it was confirmed they had been infected.

BART officials say the unnamed person rode the train for 35 minutes each way during rush hour, potentially infecting everyone around them.

Health officials said that the virus could have stayed in the air for two hours after the rider left, because the virus is airborne.

Since the BART cars circulate throughout the Bay Area, potentially tens of thousands of people in the San Francisco area could have been exposed and those who are not vaccinated could contract the disease.

People around the country are on high alert, especially if they

have infants that are too young to be vaccinated.

There have been outbreaks in the Chicago area, infecting at least seven infants at a KinderCare Learning Center.

There are also infected infants and children in New Jersey, Atlanta and Washington.

Schools in Nevada and Washington have had to quarantine students for up to three weeks to avoid further transmitting the disease.

The Center for Disease Control reports that almost every case of measles in the U.S. can be tracked back to exposure to the disease in other countries.

Globally almost 20 million people contract measles and is an epidemic in some countries.

It was declared that measles was eliminated from the United States in 2000, but outbreaks occur when exposed travelers transmit it to unvaccinated Americans.

Measles is a highly contagious virus.

According to the Center for

Disease Control if a person has the disease 90 percent of the people close to them will also become infected, if they have not been vaccinated.

The virus is in the mucus of the infected persons nose and throat.

When an infected person coughs or sneezes the infected mucus gets into the air and infects the people around them.

The virus can live for two hours on surfaces potentially infecting more people.

The early signs of measles include a mild fever, a cough and runny nose. The person may have a sore throat and their eyes may be red.

After a few days, white spots begin to appear inside the persons mouth followed by a rash starting on the face and moving down the body.

The disease can lead to pneumonia, encephalitis and potentially death.

Southern Methodist University requires all students to provide documentation that

proves they have been vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella.

Students who have not been vaccinated are not able to register for classes.

They will have a hold on their account until they provide documentation that they have been immunized.

Doctors and nurses in Dallas are on high alert for any signs that the disease is in the Lone Star State.

There are currently no cases in Texas but two counties in North Texas have high rates of children who have not been vaccinated for measles.

Both Denton County and Collin County have thousands of unvaccinated residents that could potentially cause an outbreak in the North Texas Area.

The last outbreak of measles in Texas was in 2013,when a traveler brought the disease over from Indonesia. 27 people in the Newark, Texas area were infected.

The disease was spread through the congregation at the

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Eagle Mountain International Church, where many of the people who attend were not vaccinated.

The only way to prevent measles is to get the vaccination.

Some parents are hesitant to get their children vaccinated because they believe there is a connection between vaccinations and autism.

In fact, medical experts say there is not a connection between vaccinations and autism. They believe that the parents fear is hurting their children more than protecting them.

Now politicians are taking sides on whether vaccines should be required if it impacts public health.

To keep up to date on day by day changes in the measles outbreaks in the U.S., visit the Center for Disease Control website at cdc.gov.

Those who have not been vaccinated need to be aware of the areas where infected people will be in order to avoid exposure to those who have contracted the disease.