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SMU’s creepiest corridors, crannies come to life this Halloween weekend EMILY WARD Fashion Editor eward@smu.edu We know what you did last semester. And we’ve got the signatures to prove it. From President’s Scholars to class clowns, many SMU students feel a particular sense of accomplishment after successfully sneaking into the abandoned room atop of Dallas Hall and inking their autographs on the walls. Although these students may be willing to wander through the dust-laden dark crevices of SMU’s oldest building, most Mustangs are scared-y cats to admit it on the record. A nervous first-year sped away when asked to give his name for this article. One all-around brave soul, senior psychology and Latin major Marissa Moyer, was willing to describe her journey to the abandoned room in detail. She even admitted to venturing up there in search of the supernatural. “I definitely believe in ghosts,” Moyer said. “Rumor that the room was something straight out of ‘Ghost Hunters’ was my main incentive for going.” The approach of Halloween is another enticement to go on nightly explorations of campus. For students in search of goblins and ghouls, SMU provides several creepy crawly places to explore. In addition to the abandoned room in Dallas Hall, the adventurous can seek out
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Students sign and date walls after visiting the abandoned room in Dallas Hall.
the supposedly haunted west stacks in Fondren Library and the cave-like tunnels underneath campus. SMU officials, however, would prefer if they didn’t. The abandoned room is not open to the public, warns SMU’s Grounds Manager Ann Allen. “It’s not safe. It’s rickety and you must walk on an elevated ramp around the dome to get to the apartment,” she said. The tunnels are even more dangerous, Allen said, and a potential liability. “If someone got lost down there, and it was really hot and they couldn’t get out, they could die,” she said. Dallas Hall
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Students leave hidden messages on the walls in Dallas Hall.
The abandoned room on top of Dallas Hall features graffiti-filled walls that prove students have been venturing to the building’s highest point since at least 1973. Moyer said the date “9/3/1973” is still visible on one corner. “We went up there at night, and my friend was able to jimmy the door handle in order to get in,” Moyer said. Through the door, one meets only darkness. Locate the light switch and visitors can quietly scurry up the stairs. Atop the staircase next to another door, a student has written, “The
chamber of secrets has been opened,” in choppy handwriting, an eerie ode to “Harry Potter.” The second door leads to the passage that outlines Dallas Hall’s rotunda. Walk the complete circle to discover the abandoned room, as well as an even creakier staircase that leads to a small hole through which the sky blue and metallic gold paint of the dome can be seen at eye level. The abandoned room differs from the rest of the hallway in that it was once finished with carpet and paint. Today, the flooring is worn bare and the faded blue paint is scratched and smudged with students’ signatures. Moyer said she saw only a half-empty can of Keystone Light and a rat skeleton. No people. No ghosts, either. Student rumors suggest that the room once held the president’s office, but Joan Gosnell, a university archivist in DeGolyer Library, can put those rumors to rest. “The abandoned room on the top of Dallas Hall was originally housing for a few male students in the very earliest days of SMU,” Gosnell wrote in an email. Another popular rumor is that SMU takes leaders of the student body to the top of Dallas Hall, but Student Body President Carlton Adams confirmed that this is untrue. West Stacks
Maybe SMU’s ghosts reside in the west stacks instead? School legend has it that former SMU President Umphrey Lee died of a heart attack while in Fondren Library and now his spirit haunts the stacks. In a 2008 Daily Campus story, Marshall Terry, a former SMU English professor, confirmed that Umphrey Lee did die in the library while working on a book in his third floor office. Any ghosts, however, have yet to be confirmed. Senior political science and communications major Laura Sullivan is a frequent visitor to Fondren and believes the rumors of spirits are absurd. “People believe in Fondren ghosts since usually when you’re in Fondren late at night you’re so strung out because of lack of sleep and stress that of course your mind is going to play tricks on you under all that duress,” Sullivan said. In any case, with Fondren under reconstruction until next July, students must look elsewhere for their autumn school spooks. And no one can deny the presence of the famed tunnels underneath campus.
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Ant skulls are rumored to be found in the tunnels.
Tunnels One of SMU students’ favorite sources of gossip, the tunnels first appeared in the student newspaper in October 1924. An article entitled
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A student signs the date when visiting the abandoned room in Dallas Hall in 1973.
“Steam Heat By End of Week Promised,” reports on the new concrete tunnels as they are being installed. The tunnels emerged again in 1929 in an article entitled “Tunnel System On Campus Enables ‘Six Foot Man’ To Walk 1600 Feet Underground.” Now, they are things of legend. And although a Daily Campus article from April 2012 entitled “A tour through the university’s tunnels” noted that all entrances of the tunnels are now secured with padlocks and keycards, the truly dedicated can still sneak their way in. In the spring of 2013, a first-year visited the tunnels with friends. The student, now a senior, said she accessed the tunnels through Perkins and went all the way to Meadows before getting spooked and exiting the way she entered. “We didn’t stay in the tunnels for very long because it was dark and damp,” the marketing major from California said. “Plus, the tunnels were very narrow and at some points we even had to crawl.” Although the tunnels reminded this
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particular student of catacombs, Gosnell again confirms the less-scary truth that “the tunnels under school are simply steam heating/venting tunnels in mostly the older part (or north part) of campus.” Central plant manager Cogan Semler can provide students with new nightmares, though. “Foot-long ants have been reported down there,” Semler said. “Not proven by science, but I’ve got some pretty legitimate sources that there are ants in the tunnels. Twelve inches. Ants. That Big. Down in the tunnels.” He further explained that Charles Glenn, a former HVAC technician and plant operator, was conducting a routine utilities inspection years ago in the tunnels when he came across a skeleton. Glenn focused his flashlight on the skeleton only to notice “the walls around him were moving.” As ants covered the wall, he snatched the skull as evidence before making his escape. “His conclusion that the skull is from a giant ant is up to you to decide,” Semler later wrote in an email. Giant ants or not, the marketing major carries no regrets about her trip down to SMU’s most iconic creepy place. “The adrenaline rush was definitely worth the risk of getting killed,” she joked. “Or worse, expelled.” Allen has worked at SMU for the past 10 years and has never heard of a student being expelled for visiting either the abandoned room in Dallas Hall nor the tunnels beneath school. Unfortunately, the newest rumor on the Boulevard is that SMU officials are attaining a list of every signature in the abandoned room in order to dole out current student repercussions as well as installing cameras in the tunnels to catch any future explorers. Okay, not really, but wouldn’t that be SMU’s scariest rumor yet?
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Senior wins RECESS with wind-energy pitch LAUREN AGUIRRE AssignmentsEditor laguirre@smu.edu A mechanical engineering major won an all-expenses paid-trip Los Angeles at the conclusion of the Oct 14 RECESS pitch contest. His company, Fiddler, offers affordable wind energy to the average consumer. SMU senior Jonah Kirby was selected as the winner of RECESS’s contest — a distinction that now gives him the opportunity to pitch his idea for the chance to win more prizes at the RECESS Pitch Finals in Los Angeles this January. An SMU team won the contest last year. The Oct. 14 RECESS
Music and Ideas Festival at SMU was sponsored in part by Southwest Airlines, which provides roundtrip flights to the pitch winners. The all-day event began in the morning with a networking event on Dallas Hall Lawn, continued with lectures and discussions with successful entrepreneurs, and finished with a pitch contest for student entrepreneurs. Kirby began the day as an alternate for the pitch contest. He was essentially on a waiting list to participate in the event. Then, one of the teams dropped out that morning. He received an email regarding the open spot at on the morning of
the contest. “This result was just unexpected,” Kirby said. “When they announced that I won, all I could think was ‘Are you kidding? That was so fast’.” Kirby competed against four other teams: CSV Link, Wear Sawyer, Pangea and Crowd Surfers. CSV Link was presented by Dylan Thompson. He offered an app that would connect businesses and consumers to data generated by sensors in modern machines. Wear Sawyer’s presentation featured Tyler Roberts, who pitched a new brand of sunglasses for the more preppy student. Pangea, co-founded by
IT officials recount steps, factors in recent outages JACQUELYN ELIAS Graphics/Layout Editor jelias@smu.edu Two student employees looked up from their work to see who had approached the sliding window at the IT Help Desk. A slideshow played on the screen behind them. Ironically, a slide that read “crashes happen” appeared, just days after SMU’s IT department faced one of the largest IT outages in a while. While the help desk employees are student workers who did not handle the restoration of SMU’s servers over Fall Break, the main IT staff worked overtime throughout the outage in order to quickly restore the servers. Although IT sent email updates to faculty and staff regarding affected services throughout the outage, IT first delivered a detailed explanation of the outage on the evening of Oct. 19 on inside.smu. The outage began at 3:30 a.m. Oct. 10, after maintenance began at midnight Oct. 9 to update one of the older storage arrays, which is a collection of hard drive storage that holds information for 140 different SMU servers. IT was working on this array on the advice of its vendor, who voiced concerns
about a few hard disk drives in the array. These repairs usually occur several times a week without any hardware failures like the one SMU recently experienced, according to Rachel Mulry, director of IT Customer Service. Once IT was aware of the outage, teh storage array vendor was contacted and subsequently ran tests to rebuild the failed drives, which lasted until early morning Oct. 11. IT employees arrived on-site at 7 a.m. that morning to begin restoring the most popular lost services, including PerunaNet, Canvas, Student Email and my.SMU. After long hours of repairs Oct. 11, IT learned Oct. 12 that several of the SMU servers needed to be rebuilt. The IT staff then dedicated its time to rebuild 68 servers. IT restored all major applications and servers Oct. 16, and is still working on restoring other minor and duplicate systems. IT also is currently working on transferring data from the older storage array onto one of the newer storage systems. “The good news is that we do not typically encounter an outage of this scale,” Mulry wrote in an email. “We work diligently to provide a stable infrastructure to avoid these types of interruptions.”
2013 SMU graduate Austin McBride, provides consumers with an aggregated feed that includes posts from social media accounts, text messages and emails. Crowd Surfers, presented by Chris Alfano, is an app that shows users a live feed of various locations in their area. Customers can use the app to determine which bars, restaurants and gyms are more packed than others. SMU professor Simon Mak was one of the six judges for the pitch competition. He teaches an entrepreneurship class in the Cox School of Business. “All of the ideas presented tonight were great,” Mak said. “But the winner had the greatest global impact.” Mak sat next to other notable judges including
Total Frat Move CEO Madison Wickham and CNET reporter Ry Crist. RECESS is itself a college startup. Co-founders Deuce Thevenow and Jack Shannon began brainstorming the idea for RECESS during their time as undergraduate students. The company originally began as a music festival and has since expanded into other areas. “We wanted to be a platform to help other startups,” Thevenow said. Dallas Mavericks’ owner and “Shark Tank” television co-star Mark Cuban is one of RECESS’s most prominent investors. But the co-founders didn’t go on “Shark Tank” to get him as a partner. “We just sent a blind email to Mark Cuban and everything followed from there,” Thevenow said.
Another highlight of the night was the Southwest Airlines roundtrip giveaway. Not only did the pitch contest winner receive a free flight to Los Angeles, a lucky student in the crowd did as well. Tristan Sandor was that lucky student, but he didn’t attend just for the chance of a free roundtrip. “I’m looking to pitch a company myself,” Sandor said. “Seeing the teams pitch today gives me some inspiration and ideas of how to do it.” The key piece of advice Mak had to offer to entrepreneurs was in preparedness. “You should always be prepared to pitch,” he said. “If you’re going to do a pitch, practice it.”
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With more than 200 organizations on the SMU campus, it can be difficult for one organization to stand out against the rest. With the barrage of emails students already receive on a daily basis from SMU, most people just ignore this type of communication. That being said, many SMU organizations have started utilizing social media both to reach out to potential new members and to update current members on upcoming events. While most college students have a decent understanding of how social media works, it’s not enough to simply create the accounts. It’s crucial for these organizations to update all of their social media accounts on a frequent basis. Three SMU organizations that excel in social media are the SMU Alternative Breaks program, Student Foundation, and Program Council. The SMU Alternative Breaks program has accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Their Twitter account is updated every two days, and many of their tweets link to their Facebook page, which is great for attracting more followers to that account. Their Facebook page has 540 likes, a significantly greater number than their
Twitter followers. The Alternative Breaks program also has an Instagram account which they use to post photos during breaks to update their followers on the work their members do on their trips. They also update the account during the school year to post about meetings and fundraisers. “Our social media following has increased a large amount and has been an essential tool in making a difference in our outreach,” said Gloria Yi, co-director of the SMU Alternative Breaks program. SMU Student Foundation is another organization that has used social media to keep students in-the-know about the various events they coordinate. The group’s Facebook page is where they have the most likes/followers. There they post everything from funny pictures of student leaders to special videos of past events. They also use the account to post about upcoming events. Finally, SMU Program Council consistently updates its Facebook and Twitter accounts. With over 1,000 followers on Twitter and 700 likes on Facebook, Program Council often posts photos from events its hosted, as well as links and graphics about upcoming events. Their posts tend to be straight to the point and informative. These social media accounts have ultimately helped many on-campus organizations gain awareness and support among students.
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Sexual assaults on campus remain underreported JESSICA BRYANT Contributing Writer jbryant@smu.edu An SMU sophomore was sitting in a dorm room with friends last semester when one of them drunkenly blurted out that she might have been sexually assaulted. The sophomore’s first thought was, “How can you maybe be sexually assaulted?” The sophomore said her friend told her she woke up to evidence of sexual intercourse a few days earlier, but couldn’t remember all the details. The friend, who did not want to be named, wasn’t sure if she had protested. Her uncertainty made her hesitant to label the event as sexual assault and even more hesitant to share her experience with anyone. The sophomore said her friend decided against reporting the incident. According to Kristen Houser, the CPAO of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center in Pennsylvania, this line of thinking is common. “People want to figure out how they can be safe in the future, and that gets in the way of accepting the severity of what just happened,” Houser said. This way of thinking is so frequent among victims that it is one of the most common reasons that sexual assaults are underreported on college campuses across the nation, as indicated by the results of a nationwide survey from September. According to a 2013 Department of Justice report, only 20 percent of all instances of sexual assaults on college campuses are reported. A survey published on Sept.
21 conducted across 27 college campuses by the American Association of Universities shows that this is still true in 2015. Results from the AAU survey show that rates of students reporting sexual assault incidents to campus officials can be as low as five percent. SMU has had two reports of sexual assault on campus so far this semester. According to the annual Clery Report, last year there were four reports of forcible sex offenses on campus and three incidents of forcible sex offenses that were unreported to SMU Police, but reported to other SMU campus officials. Houser said she believes our culture also plays a large role in underreporting sexual assault, particularly when the assault occurs between two acquaintances. “Non-stranger sexual assault that does not involve gratuitous violence happens all the time and yet never makes headlines,” Houser said. “It’s no surprise to me that an 18or 19-year-old student is going to wonder, ‘Was that serious enough?’” Another reason students do not report incidents of sexual assault is because they fear the reactions they will receive if they do report them, Houser said. “What’s most common is that people just want to take care of themselves and they are very worried about how people are going to respond to them,” she said. Three years ago, a female student, who wishes to remain anonymous, was sexually assaulted by another student on the SMU campus. She chose to report her incident to SMU’s Police Department
after being encouraged by faculty members to do so. Despite the support she said she received prior to reporting and during the case, she felt SMU’s motives were not entirely directed at her safety. Rather, maintaining the university image was a higher priority. “When it came down to the results, they didn’t want to support me,” she said. Her offender remained at SMU and harassed her despite the fact that he was not allowed to contact her. The victim eventually transferred to a school on the East Coast. “I didn’t feel safe staying at SMU,” she said. “I didn’t want to stay at a school where I didn’t feel supported.” Sexual assault is defined in Texas as intentionally or knowingly causing the contact or penetration of a sex organ, the anus, or mouth without the other person’s consent. Consent can be taken away from a victim through physical force, threats and coercion, manipulation, and inability to participate due to lack of consciousness or state of mind. Houser states that the issue that arises with consent is establishing it. Our society has adopted the habit of declaring that “no means no.” However, anything other than no doesn’t necessarily mean yes. “If you have mutual, enthusiastic participation, you don’t have anything to worry about,” Houser said. “If not, there’s a thousand different ways that you can check in with somebody. Sexual assault is not the result of miscommunication.”
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SMU announces J. Murray Gibson as fourth provost candidate OLIVIA NGUYEN Managing Editor qonguyen@smu.edu
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SMU hosts Second Annual Residential College Symposium JACQUELYN ELIAS Graphics/Layout Editor jelias@smu.edu In just its second year after launching its Residential Commons model of student housing, SMU hosted the Second Annual Residential Commons Symposium Oct. 16-18 drawing more than 100 attendees from 25 universities around the world including China’s University of Macau, Purdue University, Cornell University and Washington University in St. Louis among others. The event kicked off with opening keynote speaker Shanti Parikh, a faculty fellow at the Thomas Eliot Residential College at Washington University in St. Louis. Chalene Helmuth, faculty head of Sutherland House in the Martha Rivers Ingram Commons at Vanderbilt, then wrapped up the symposium with the closing keynote. The rest of the symposium offered different sessions for attendees — from Experiential Learning in the Residential Colleges of the University of Macau, to sessions that studied current research on residential commons. “This year we had several sessions focusing on the research people are doing, including research here at SMU,” said Jennifer Post, Director of Residential Life at SMU. “Those researchers were able to connect and may be able to collaborate on future projects, so that was an exciting outcome.” During the weekend, SMU also hosted a showcase where different universities provided information about how the Commons system operates on their campus. On the first night of the symposium, SMU Resident Assistants volunteered to lead tours of several commons. Throughout
the tours, the RAs explained the different traditions of each commons as well as how interaction between the Faculty-inResidence and the Residential Community Directors function at SMU. While some of the universities attending the symposium already have residential commons in place, a few representatives came to observe and consider adopting the system at their own universities. For these members, SMU held a Pre-Institute session Oct. 15 that focused on offering direction in initiating a residential college. The RC Symposium advertised this event on social media including Twitter: SMU has brainstormed and planned for this symposium since finishing last year’s symposium. The university formed a campus committee to handle the details at SMU while Michelle Madsen, the residential community director of Virginia-Snider, handled the national programming committee. Next year, the event is scheduled to take place at Vanderbilt University. “I think we need even more time to talk and share ideas,” Post said. “One of the great things about this model is we get a chance to see other campuses first-hand and how they operate.”
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SMU announced J. Murray Gibson as its fourth provost candidate for the position of University Provost Wednesday. The announcement was made to SMU faculty and staff ia an Oct. 21 e-mail. Gibson is currently the founding dean of the College of Science at Northeastern University. He earned his bachelor’s of science in natural philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and his PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge, England. The Scottish native has held multiple senior academic and research positions after emigrating to the U.S. in 1978. He began a fellowship at IBM Research, then another at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey for 11 years. His most recent accomplishment was serving as director of the $1.7 billion Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory. As director, APS emerged as a world-leading scientific user facility where research has already led to two Nobel prizes. “There are undoubtedly great opportunities for SMU and I look forward to learning more,” Gibson said in a letter to Provost Search Committee members. “I have led dynamic positive change in diverse organizations and I am eager to play a role in facilitating the further success of Southern Methodist University as the Provost, and hope to have the chance to explore the opportunity.”
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The provost position has been vacant since May 31 after former Provost Paul Ludden chose to step down Feb. 23 to be closer to his family. The provost search committee has been looking for Ludden’s replacement since this spring. SMU announced its first candidate David Chard, dean of Simmons School of Education and Human Development, Sept. 30, its second candidate Michele G. Wheatly Oct. 4, and its third candidate Steven C. Currall Oct. 16. During his visit, Gibson will meet with university leaders, administrators, officials, faculty and staff. After each potential provost visit, SMU faculty, staff and administrators are asked to evaluate the candidate. Gibson was on campus Oct. 26.
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Brian Fennig ranks No. 11 on 20142015 Top 25 University Professors List OLIVIA NGUYEN Managing Editor qonguyen@smu.edu Personal Responsibility and Wellness I and II professor Brian Fennig ranked No. 11 on the annual mtvU‘s Rate My Professor Top 25 Professors List. According to an mtvU press release, the rankings were calculated based on student ratings from over 8,000 universities and 1.8 million professors. A total of 15 million student-generated reviews were analyzed to create the latest list. Fennig currently teaches PRW I – Concepts of Wellness, PRW II – Individual Fitness, PRW II in-Taos – Mountain Sports and a graduate level course in the Master of Liberal Studies program – Mythic Image in Modern Pop Music and Technology. Prior to teaching, Fennig worked at Presbyterian Hospital’s Finley Ewing Cardiovascular and Fitness Center as a personal trainer, in food service, dishwashing and more. He says the myriad of jobs he’s had in his life and experiences linked with them all contribute to his approach in the classroom. “I would describe my teaching style as relaxed, human, honest, genuine, intense, and humorous,” Fennig said. “I hope
that students leave my course feeling like they have a new perspective with which to approach their lives, and a realization that our philosophies in PRW extend well beyond the classroom.” Fennig also incorporates different types of media in his teaching in order to “help educate, enlighten, inspire and entertain” his audiences. “We might sample from YouTube, discuss an issue, employ music related to our topic, or examine obstacles to personal change by learning how to juggle tennis balls,” he said. Fennig hopes his students can apply his teaching philosophies outside the classroom, as he does so himself. “If I teach it, I must try and live it,” he said. “I constantly remind my students, and myself, that we are not striving toward perfection, but toward being a human who is aware of themselves. We attend a university with choice, will and intention; we have a responsibility toward forging ourselves.” Fennig was the only professor at SMU to be ranked on this year’s Top 25 Professors List. He says its an honor to be ranked near the top, and that it inspires him to keep a high level of expectations in everything he teaches. “I just love teaching and I hope that it shows,” he said.
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Men’s, women’s basketball hold open practice BRIAN O’DONNELL Sports Editor bodonnell@smu.edu The SMU men’s and women’s basketball teams will hold open practices next week in preparation for their 2015-2016 seasons. The men’s open session will be Nov. 2 from 4-6 p.m. The Mustangs are gearing up to defend their American Athletic Conference Championship this season. They will open the season in Moody Coliseum Nov. 14 against Sam Houston State. Senior point guard Nic Moore and Hall of Fame Head Coach Larry Brown spoke at the AAC men’s basketball media day Oct. 27 Moore, the defending AAC Player of the Year award winner, commented on behalf of the student-athletes.
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“Going in to be in the classroom and then going to the court, it becomes a 40-hour week for us,” Moore said. “Little do people know that it’s a full-time job.” “I hate games. I really love practice,” Brown said. “Like Nic said, it’s really a privilege being in this league. I’m embarrassed of what happened to our university and I apologize to everyone here. We have a great league. I don’t think people appreciate it.” The women will hold their open session Nov. 3 from 4:15-6:30 p.m. They will look to recover from a tough 2014-2015 season and get back to their winning ways from the previous two years. They too will start the season at home, taking on Northwestern State Nov. 15. Fans are offered free admission and open seating at the practices.
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Mustangs look to get on track, avoid 1-7 start against Tulsa BRIAN O’DONNELL Sports Editor bodonnell@smu.edu The SMU Mustangs will play the Tulsa Golden Hurricane Halloween at 3 p.m. This Family Weekend match-up features two 0-3 teams in the American Athletic Conference. SMU leads the series 13-8 but lost last season’s road matchup 38-28. The teams have split the last 12 meetings. Like SMU, Tulsa is led by a first year head coach, Philip Montgomery, the former offensive coordinator at Baylor. He has led the Golden Hurricane to a 3-4 record with wins over Florida Atlantic University, New Mexico and University of Louisiana-Monroe. The Mustangs are looking to avoid a 1-7 start to the season following last week’s loss to South Florida. Many expected this to be a close contest in preseason predictions and the game is shaping up to be an offensive showcase. Previews: This season has just gone from bad to worse for the Mustangs. After an encouraging 1-2 start that featured close games against top-five opponents Baylor and TCU, a homecoming loss to James Madison University erased the confidence that the team seemed to be building. Since then, SMU has fallen apart. Prior to the season, the SMU Campus Weekly highlighted North Texas, James Madison, USF, Tulsa and Tulane as serious possibilities for wins. However, the Mustangs have squandered two of those opportunities. Last week’s beat down in South Florida came as a surprise after such a long layoff and it makes fans question whether the team was ever actually improved or if it got lucky at the beginning of the season. SMU’s defense needs to show up if the Mustangs are going to win another game this season. The team has given up 539.4 offensive yards per game, including 270.4 through the air. This week, the Mustangs will face Tulsa offense led by quarterback Dane Evans who is averaging 364 yards passing. Also, if fans thought Courtland Sutton was having a good season, they should look at Keyarris Garrett’s numbers. He is averaging 138 receiving yards per game. The good news for the Mustangs is Tulsa doesn’t have much of a defense. The Golden Hurricane enter this weekend with one of the worst defenses in the AAC. Matt Davis is going to have to use his legs and his arm effectively and make use of Sutton to keep SMU in what will likely be a shootout. The Mustangs desperately need a win. I will take SMU in an offensive battle as they feed off the energy from a larger family weekend crowd, though this may be my last time picking them this season. PREDICTION: SMU 56 - Tulsa 49
— Brian O’Donnell SMU CW Sports Editor
SMU laid an egg in South Florida after a bye week and 16 days of rest. I don’t think calling it the Mustangs’ worst performance of the season is a stretch. SMU had a 12-play, 77-yard touchdown drive in the first quarter, but never clicked offensively the rest of the game. Credit South Florida’s defense for getting consistent push and great play from its defensive backs, but SMU made way
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The SMU offense huddles during a game earlier this year against North Texas.
too many mistakes on offense and allowed 201 rushing yards to Bulls quarterback Quinton Flowers, the most by an FBS quarterback this season. The good news about this week’s home tilt against Tulsa is that the Golden Hurricane don’t feature a mobile quarterback, or much of a running game at all. Even better, Tulsa gives up 550 yards and 27 first downs per game, worst in the American Athletic Conference. The bad news is that it possesses a passing game that averages 364 yards per game, the best in the conference. SMU’s struggles against the pass are no secret. Tulsa Head Coach Philip Montgomery brought a lot of Baylor’s passing concepts with him, and that means SMU needs to be ready for a lot of quick throws and run-pass options and needs to make plays in space. While Tulsa doesn’t have the athletes that Baylor, TCU or even South Florida does, SMU has struggled to take good angles in space and tackle in the open field, or as Head Coach Chad Morris likes to call it, “one-on-one battles.” I think SMU will have a good game plan defensively, but the Mustangs just won’t be able to get enough stops or force enough turnovers to win. PREDICTION: Tulsa 52 - SMU 41
— Patrick Engel SMU CW Sports Columnist
Many SMU fans would like to think SMU is going to beat Tulsa this weekend. The game is at home and it’s Family Weekend, meaning the atmopshere in Ford Stadium is going
to be absolutely electric. However, the Mustangs haven’t proven themselves capable of winning games that look like sure wins on paper, and they don’t have much positive momentum to build on coming off of their loss to USF. Despite USF quarterback Quinton Flowers’ record-breaking performance, the Mustangs failed to execute, especially through the air. Quarterback Matt Davis completed less than 40 percent of his passes, threw an interception, and was sacked three times. On the other hand, Sutton continues to prove his consistency week after week. We can expect him to be the cornerstone of the passing game regardless of who lines up at quarterback. Ultimately, I believe that the game Saturday will boil down to consistency. We know that SMU’s young team has the capability of playing at an extremely high level. But, we have also seen it stumble and appear to be incoherent at times during games. Tulsa comes into the game with a 3-4 record, including some hard-fought losses to Oklahoma, East Carolina, and Memphis. In addition, Tulsa is more than capable of putting points on the board, averaging 34.6 points per game and 548 yards per game. If Tulsa can put up similar numbers against SMU’s defense, they shouldn’t have much trouble winning, making SMU 1-7 on the year. PREDICTION: Tulsa 38 - SMU 24
— Breck Spencer SMU CW Associate Sports Editor
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Men’s, women’s soccer season winds down BRIAN O’DONNELL Sports Editor bodonnell@smu.edu Men’s Soccer:
SMU senior Idi Camara with a header against Tulsa.
SMU junior midfielder Kelsey Gorney.
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SMU men’s soccer continued its solid conference play this week. The Mustangs remained undefeated and maintained their first place position with one game left to play. On Oct. 21, SMU defeated Tulsa in a hardfought 3-2 game. Junior Stanton Garcia scored a goal 23 seconds into the game on a cross from Christian Boorom. Senior Idi Camara added two goals of his own (35th, 47th), including the game winner. Then, the No. 12 Mustangs tied the No. 13 USF Bulls 2-2 Oct. 24 in a double-overtime draw. Sophomore Mauro Cichero scored his 10th goal of the season in the 18th minute. Camara added another goal in the 71st minute on a header from Kevin Meinecke. SMU lost its 2-0 lead on two late goals (77th, 86th) by USF midfielder Lindo Mfeka and was unable to score in overtime. Camara was named American Athletic Conference as the Offensive Player of the Week Oct. 26 for his performance. It will be Senior Night at Westcott Field Oct. 31 at
8 p.m. as the Mustangs take on Temple in the regular season finale. The team leads the AAC in shots (240), points (96), assists (36), and assists per game (2.25) and hopes to be the No. 1 seed in the upcoming AAC Championship tournament. Women’s Soccer: SMU women’s soccer lost its last two matches of the regular season this week. The Mustangs lost to Temple 3-2 Oct. 22. Sophomore Clair Oates and redshirt first-year Vanessa Valadez scored the team’s two goals. The Owls’ senior defender Erin Lafferty scored two penalty kick goals in the second half that were the difference in the close match. SMU fell to the conference leading UConn Huskies (16-2, 8-1 AAC) in the regular season finale Oct. 25. Sophomore defender Lauren Harrington scored her first career goal in the 2-1 loss. Valadez led the Mustangs in shots (42), goals (8), points (20), shots on goal (20), and penalty kicks (3-3) this season. The Mustangs finished ninth in the AAC (2-6-1) with a 5-10-1 overall record. The AAC Championship tournament will be held at Westcott Field at SMU Nov. 3 – Nov. 7.
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SMU makes ‘Pony Promise’ to athletes BRIAN O’DONNELL Sports Editor bodonnell@smu.edu Just weeks after the NCAA handed down sanctions to SMU for academic fraud and recruiting violations, the athletic department announced several new initiatives that are encompassed in the “Pony Promise.” With six categories of initiatives, the university “is reinforcing its long-standing commitment to student-athlete development, well-being and experience,” according to an announcement on the SMU Athletic Department’s website. 1. Student-Athlete Academic Services Through the use of the Altshuler Learning Enhancement Center (A-LEC) and the Center for the Academic Development of Student-Athletes (ADSA), SMU is hoping to better help its student-athletes understand and achieve their academic goals so they have a successful undergraduate experience. 2. Full Cost of Attendance SMU will continue to offer scholarships to student-athletes up to the full cost-ofattendance. For the upcoming year, the Financial Aid Office has determined that $2,676 is the annual gap between last year’s scholarship amount and the full cost. The stipends for upperclassmen who want to live off-campus is currently $15,650 per year. 3. Student-Athlete Development and Welfare The university offers “state-of-the-art training facilities” to its athletes in the Vic and Gladie Jo Salvino Strength and Conditioning Centers. The facilities include aerobic and weight equipment. SMU also remains a partner
of Nike, which provides custom-fitting for all student-athletes. All Mustang athletes have access to the SMU Sports Medicine staff to help them recover from injuries quickly and minimize the lasting effects of those injuries. One of the main focuses is concussion protocol. The staff seeks to educate the student-athletes on concussions, manage and treat potential cases and monitor the athletes’ progress when returning to activity. Another focus is diet. The nutrition and supplemental meal programs work to keep athletes as healthy as possible both now and for the rest of their lives. 4. Life Skills Programming SMU helps student-athletes prepare for life after sports with emotional wellbeing, decision-making skills, community service, career development and financial literacy. The programming “is committed to the holistic development of our student-athletes.” 5. Student-Athlete Advisory Council The committee provides input and insight into the experience of studentathletes at SMU. It represents all 17 sports at the university and offers suggestions on the policies that affect NCAA member campuses. 6. Facility Enhancements After renovating Moody Coliseum and the Miller Event Center and opening the SMU Tennis Complex, the university continues to improve its athletic facilities. The Salvino Strength and Conditioning Center and football offices and now in the process of being updated, as are new golf, track and field, and swimming and diving.
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Nick Marino shines at Poetry Under the Stars INDIA POUGHER Chief Copy Editor ipougher@smu.edu Before he stepped onto the low cement wall, which served as a makeshift stage, Nick Marino, 27, could be seen behind a row of bushes practicing the words he was about to share. Dressed in jeans, a T-shirt and a ball cap that read, “live with purpose,” Marino stood up in front of Dallas, for his second time performing slam poetry, to declare his mother a warrior. His poem, titled “Beautiful,” about his mother who suffered a stroke three years before, echoed through the park. “You may never realize that there’s flowers growing inside of you, on the verge of blooming everyday from the joy that you give this world. And every day that the sun shines, know that you are the reason that your son wants to shine,” his poem read. The Dallas Poetry Slam organization held its first Poetry Under the Stars event Oct. 18 in Klyde Warren Park. The event may have been more suitably named “Poetry at Sunset” because the real stars were on stage. Atop the freeway and surrounded by the Dallas skyline, kids played soccer as families, friends and couples arrived to spread out blankets and chairs on the crowded lawn. Music blasted from a DJ booth next to the stage as event performers and volunteers wandered the park wearing Dallas Poetry Slam T-shirts. At the start of the event, audience members searched to find empty space on
the grass. The Dallas Poetry Slam Organization, established in 1994, is a non-profit that promotes poetry and literary engagement in the DFW area. Members of the organization compete in national poetry slam competitions. The team won the National Poetry Slam in 2001. The group, which also partners with the Deep Ellum Arts Festival, can usually be found hosting open-mics Fridays at Heroes Lounge on Greenville Avenue. Sherrie “Candy” Zantea, the Dallas Poetry Slam’s director and slam master, coordinated and emceed the event in hopes of allowing Dallasites to see into a world that has remained relatively underground. “Dallas is really big on music. They support their music scene a lot,” Zantea said. “So, I think this will open up a big door for any writers, authors, the poets to just kind of be seen, be heard, give us exposure, so our city can support us like the New York poets are being supported, like the California poets get supported. The Southern poets don’t get that support.” Marino opened the show by pointing out his mother, Terri Marino, and explaining that her birthday was next week and the week after will be World Stroke Day. Before going on stage, he handed tissues to his mom. “You guys may need this,” he said. The poem came to him in the days leading up to the slam, although it was not as easy as writing for his first performance in August. “It was tough finding
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those right words,” Marino said After sitting in the park for several hours one evening, the venue became his ultimate inspiration. “It was a beautiful night and all of a sudden the words started coming out,” Marino said. Before he began writing poetry he was interested in the medium and enjoyed watching shows like “Def Jam Poetry” and “Brave New Voices.” “I’ve always loved spoken word poetry and you know I was like I need to start writing,” Marino said. He was first introduced to The Dallas Poetry Slam Organization when he asked them to perform at one of his philanthropy events. Marino is the Director of Social Change at TangoTab, a dining app with a one-for-one model,
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which allows restaurant goers to eat a meal and also provide one for someone in need. Although he is also an avid public speaker, Marino was a little bit nervous for how his
poem would be received. “At the end of the day I’m going to do what ever I do and if they like it they like it, if they don’t they don’t. But I think they liked it,” Marino said. Marino’s poem did indeed stand out to event goers. “I cried a few times,” event attendee Wendy Scheu said. About one thousand people attended the event for which social media played a huge role. What later became over 2,000 RSVPs on Facebook, started out as 200 invitations, Zantea said. Even the number of interested performers was too many for the two-hour time slot, and poets who were not able to perform at the October event will be automatically listed to perform later in the year. When the park first contacted Zantea about doing a poetry event, she was skeptical about how their work would be received in such a family setting. But with only four weeks to plan she agreed to give it a shot.
“I was like you know what, it could work but I’ve got to see the location,” Zantea said. That location changed several times before ending up on the lawn across from the restaurant Savor. Poem topics ranged from a father’s relationship with his son, to illness, and cooking Thanksgiving dinner. Even a poem about Walmart was featured in the show. “I was amazed by the creativity,” Scheu said. “I was out of words.” “All I ever want is for me as a poet to speak to the masses in front of the other poets, to be heard, and this accomplished that,” Zantea said. After a successful first event, The Dallas Poetry Slam Organization will host a second Poetry Under the Stars event Nov. 15 on the main stage in Klyde Warren Park. Marino will perform again in November. “This was epic,” Zantea said, “We made history tonight.”
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The best three-person Halloween costumes to wear this Family Weekend EMILY WARD Fashion Editor eward@smu.edu
are sure to be a hit at any costume contest this Halloween. Bonus: dress up as the three elfin brothers and you get to carry cereal around with you all night, so you’ll be totally prepared no matter where or when the munchies hit.
Halloween and Family Weekend may fall on the same day this year, but have no fear because everyone knows three’s a party. With any of these costumes, you and the ’rents are a shoo-in for best trio no matter where you end up the night of Oct. 31.
6. Spoon, fork and knife Who says cutlery can’t make great
1. Harry, Ron and Hermione from “Harry Potter” Photo by Pinterest Bring the blockbuster to life with dinosaur-inspired looks.
Photo by Pinterest Minion costumes are cute, fun and require only three items.
2. Minions from “Despicable Me”
Photo by Pinterest Bring Hogwarts to the Hilltop by dressing like Harry and friends.
The classic trifecta of wiz kids is a no-brainer for three-person costumes this Halloween and Family Weekend. Throw on some robes, grab your wands and say “Expecto patronum!” to any haters.
Needed: Three pairs of goggles, overalls and gloves. Done. Boom.
Make cutlery the new black this All Hollow’s Eve.
3. Owen and his raptors from “Jurassic World
costumes? Plus, this triad of outfits also pairs well with snacks.
Take a hint from the summer’s blockbuster and channel your inner dinosaur this All Hallow’s Eve. Sure, being Owen will be great. But being a raptor? Even better.
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Photo by Pinterest The classic hand game is actually an easy DIY trio of outfits.
7. The lion, the witch and the wardrobe from “The Chronicles of Narnia”
4. Rock, paper, scissors. Want to save money this Halloween? Opt for do-it-yourself costumes rather than pre-made ones. Check out an easy, step-bystep tutorial for the timeless hand game on Lauren Conrad’s blog. 5. Snap, Crackle and Pop These totally underrated little fellows
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9. Three blind mice
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8. Three little pigs
Photo by Pinterest Let the three blind mice solve your costume slump this Oct. 31.
The beloved three blind mice are another great DIY costume option. So go ahead, rock your sunglasses at night. 10. The primary colors
Photo by Pinterest Go back to the basics and dress in only red, blue or yellow clothes.
Photo by Pinterest Dress like the three little pigs and hit the town this holiday.
Y’all ain’t afraid of no ghost big bad wolf.
Literally just wear all red, blue or yellow. It doesn’t get much simpler and effortless than this. (And you thought the minion costumes were easy!)
‘Iris’ is next Netflix must-stream movie EMILY WARD Fashion Editor eward@smu.edu College students might recognize her from Kate Spade’s Spring 2015 ads with supermodel Karlie Kloss, but Iris Apfel has been living a life of fashion for decades. In the biopic “Iris” by the late Albert Maysles, the legendary documentarian captures the essence of the quick-witted and flamboyantly dressed 94-year-old style maven, who has had such an impactful presence on the New York fashion scene. Throughout the film, Apfel teaches style lessons such as accessories are everything, fabulousness begins at home, vocabulary can be chic too, pretty is overrated, and fashion takes effort. Although her wardrobe is a delectable treat, critics don’t call “Iris” a fashion film as much as they do a story about how a free spirit can continue to inspire later in life. “Iris” will soon be every fashionista’s favorite watch on Netflix.
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How to break three bad beauty habits ADESUWA GUOBADIA Contributing Writer aguobadia@smu.edu Every woman has her go-to, tried-andtrue beauty regime. But everyone makes mistakes, and the first step in resolving them is recognizing the problems — because beauty blunders can be outright destructive. If you've picked up some of these bad habits, it's time to stop, and here's how. Photo by Pinterest Sleeping in full makeup can clog pores and cause breakouts.
Photo by Pinterest Daily hair washing strips tresses of their natural, beneficial oils.
1. Washing your hair every day If you have any type of texture to your hair — whether it’s curly, kinky or something in between — you’ve probably already broken out of this habit. Daily hair washing has a tendency to strip our strands of their natural oils, leading to dry, rough-feeling tresses and ultimately, an unhealthy head of hair. The ideal way to break this beauty habit is to stop washing your hair everyday, and switch to washing it every other day or every third day. Some of you may have gotten used to a daily hair-washing schedule, and this idea might make you a bit uncomfortable. But there’s an answer here too. Another solution is to put conditioner on the ends of your hair before you shampoo. This way you are protecting the oldest and most fragile parts of your hair from the harsh detergents and surfactants that are in most cleansers without having to skip washing. 2. Falling asleep in your makeup You get home late from a fun night out with friends, look in the mirror and know what you should do. You should take off your lashes, foundation, liner and mascara, but all you want to do is fall into bed. While skipping your makeup removal routine might seem harmless in the short term, it really is detrimental to your skin’s health. A lot of makeup, especially foundations and primers, contain silicone and heavy oils that make them highly comedogenic and likely to cause breakouts if they are left on for too long.
The perfect makeup removal routine includes washing your face twice: once to remove makeup and the other to actually clean your facial skin. Cleansing twice is the last thing most of us want to do after a long night out, so another option is to keep makeup remover pads by your bedside. These are by no means a substitute for properly cleansing your face, but they will definitely come in handy on one of those lazy, late nights.
Photo by Pinterest Try using up products you already own before purchasing new.
3. Product hoarding Beauty product hoarding is the practice of collecting makeup, hair, skin and other beauty products to the point of excess. If you are always buying new products, then you are probably always trying out new products too. There’s nothing wrong with switching up your routine, but how can you know what works for you if you are always swapping out one product for another? Project 10 Pan is a great way to bust this bad habit. It is essentially a challenge to not buy any new beauty products until you have completely used up 10 full-sized products. If you are a super hoarder, then Project 10 Pan may seem a bit daunting, so try doing it with a group of friends. You will be able to hold each other accountable and give each other reviews on the products you’re finishing up.
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Photo by Pinterest Prada Marfa has been the target of guerrilla artists more than once.
The infamous installation by duo Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset celebrates its 10th anniversary this month.
Photo by Instagram Even the Queen B has visited Prada Marfa for a photo opportunity.
The story behind that random Prada Marfa ‘store’ in the middle of nowhere EMILY WARD Fashion Editor eward@smu.edu In the middle of nowhere West Texas, there sits a paradox: a Prada “store” alone in the desert, with thousands of yearly visitors but never any customers. First opened to an audience of befuddled cowboys in October 2005, the infamous
sculpture that combines art, architecture, fashion and tourism is now celebrating its 10th anniversary. With a permanent display of six bags and 14 shoes (but only the left half!) resting on shelves in that iconic pale Prada green, it is as though the tornado from “The Wizard of Oz” plucked the exhibit up from the streets of a European fashion mecca and plopped it precisely into a sparse, arid wasteland.
Over the last decade, the work of artist duo Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset has been robbed, defaced and completely trashed. In 2014, an artist/vandal by the name 9271977 covered the sculpture with TOMS shoes stickers, painted the walls blue, and glued posters to the windows. Recently, it was threatened with complete demolition for being an illegal advert, but was instead declared a museum with a single exhibit.
Nonetheless, Prada Marfa still stands strong. Since its creation, the installation has become an unintentional Pinterest hit thanks to a painting seen on the hit TV show “Gossip Girl,” and the fashion girl’s Statue of Liberty after a visit from the queen herself – Beyoncé. But through the selfies, Elmgreen and Dragset hope sightseers are still able to see the absurdity (and comedy) of this kind of luxury world.
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How SMU alumna Victoria Snee became the face of NorthPark Center INDIA POUGHER Chief Copy Editor ipougher@smu.edu Victoria Snee received her first makeup palette when she was in the third grade. The purple Maybelline eye shadow was just for Halloween, her mother warned, but that didn’t stop Snee from forming a lifelong passion for beauty and style. After working as an entertainment reporter in TV and radio for more than a decade, Snee left her job at MIX 102.9 for a position she practically created for herself. She started by making lists of the things she loves and the things she’s good at. Fashion and beauty came out on top, and so the three-time AP-award-winning journalist and author of the book, The Beauty Buzz: No More Beauty B.S.! became the face of NorthPark Center. As she walks through the mall, stopping to check in with different store managers, Snee instantly projects an air of glamour. But as her friend and former MIX 102.9 co-host, Josh Hart said, “she has more depth than that.” Originally from Delaware, Snee moved
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to Texas at 10 years old when her father transferred to the DuPont oil refinery. She found that small-town Beaumont was an entirely different world from the East Coast, one that she says brought her and her sister, Jennifer, closer. A 1996 SMU graduate with a degree in broadcast journalism and a minor in political science, Snee was set to attend the University of Texas before she visited the SMU campus.
So set in the fact, that she’d already placed a UT sticker on her car. But when she visited SMU on a whim, she instantly fell in love. “I walked on the campus and I looked around and I said ‘I’m going to SMU,’” Snee said. A writer for The Daily Campus and a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Snee spent several summers interning in Washington D.C. with thoughts of potentially becoming a political reporter. Her first job out of college, however, led her to producing for the syndicated network USA Radio. Six months later she took a job at Fox 4, where she met her husband, Jeff Crilley, whom she jokingly said tried to pick her up by asking her to go out on stories with him. It was Crilley who gave Snee the idea of applying to work at The CW (at the time, the WB) by slipping her resume into pizza boxes that she had delivered to their newsroom. After a hungry team of producers, anchors and crew members viewed her laminated resume, she landed the job. One of Snee’s interns during her time at The CW was Andrea Grymes, a current reporter CBS New York. “She was one of the best mentors that I’ve ever had,” Grymes said, citing the large amount of responsibility given to her during her internship from 2004 to 2005. Snee even let her take over an interview with one of Grymes’ favorite celebrities, Leonardo DiCaprio. “Somebody else would be like ‘Why would I give an intern the opportunity to interview one of the biggest movie stars?” Grymes said. Grymes said that it’s Snee’s confidence that allows her to share such opportunities and to be more than just a boss. In 2011, Snee left TV and radio to pursue her career at NorthPark, citing how the radio industry had changed since she first joined. She believed NorthPark was brimming with untapped potential. “I always had thought that NorthPark didn’t have, at the time, a designated spokesperson to represent them on the air,” she said. “So I thought, I wonder if they would consider me for that job.” Her position as the director of fashion and beauty includes working with retailers to learn the latest trends, filming almost a segment a week for different Dallas news stations and working on her latest concept, the “NorthPark Now” trend guide, which launched Oct. 1. The printed guide allows shoppers to
stay up to date on current styles, new stores and Snee’s favorite, the latest beauty looks. “I have a lip-gloss collection like you would not believe,” Snee said. Hart can attest to this fact, citing the lip-gloss pouch Snee is known for always keeping in her bag. While shooting a fall beauty segment for The CW’s “Eye Opener,” Snee wore what she called her “power red lip,” and at the “NorthPark Now” launch party Oct. 3, Snee admitted she had eight to nine glosses packed with her that day. “She’ll always laugh and say ‘you never know,’” Hart said. At MIX 102.9, Snee and Hart began work at 4:30 a.m. each day. At such an early hour, Snee was what Hart called the “sporty version of Victoria,” dressed in Lululemon sweats. But there’s another sporty version of Snee, who said she’s a gigantic Dallas Cowboys football fan. “I love the sportsmanship, but I also just love the drama that surrounds that team,” Snee said. In 2009, D Magazine named Snee one of the 10 most beautiful women in Dallas, an honor for which she said she was “beyond flattered.” It’s clear that beyond the glitz and glamour of her job, Snee is humble and down-to-earth. “It’s kind of like as the onion peels back you see like different layers of someone,” Hart said. Away from the fast-paced world of fashion and NorthPark, Snee loves to relax at home and spend time with her husband. “We’re TV junkies,” Snee said. “My husband and I love nothing more than to just get dinner and veg out on the couch.” The two have been married 14 years, and Snee is the stepmother to Crilley’s 22-yearold son and 25-year-old daughter. Grymes admires Snee’s devotion to both her family and her career. “As a young woman coming up in the business or trying to break into the business, and wondering how are you going to balance everything, because it seems always like your career can completely consume you,” Grymes said. “It was also nice not only to see how she was successful professionally, but personally how she was also successful.” When it comes to professional success, Snee’s advice for young people is to ask, “What do I really like? And what am I potentially good at? What are my skills? If you can find something that marries the two, you’ll have a very successful career in my opinion.”
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New restaurant opens on SMU Blvd. CARLEEANN ALLEN carleeanna@smu.edu Assoc. A&L : Food & Fitness Remember Across the Street Bar? Seniors will remember the building next to the veterinarian clinic across from Barley House. Across the Street Bar completed SMU Boulevard. Since it closed back in 2013, there has been something missing from our favorite street. Students have waited a long time to see what would move in to that vacant spot. Well friends, the wait is over: Spin Pizza is here. Spin Pizza is a restaurant chain that started in Kansas City and expanded to California. The company has finally made its way to Texas. The newest off-campus
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location just opened Oct. 26 and students and local residents dropped in to give it try. The thought on some peoples’ minds was the quality of the pizza. After all, it was a pizza chain from Kansas City, not from a town known for pizza
like New York. Could it be that amazing? The answer is yes. Spin Pizza more than exceeded expectations. The menu was expansive, and everything was fresh and packed with flavor. The spinach and goat cheese salad was
crisp and topped with a homemade dressing. The roasted tomato basil soup had a rustic flair, and the formaggi semplice pizza was crispy and had the perfect balance of cheese and sauce. Shane Callicoat is the general manager of the SMU Boulevard Spin Pizza location and is excited to see how it will compete with other locations on SMU Boulevard, like Torchy’s Tacos and Twisted Root Burger Co. With an expansive patio, TVs and speakers, Callicoat foresees Spin Pizza becoming the new game day hot spot. Sports fans will be happy about the four big screen televisions and the large selection of beers on tap. Everyone can get on board with happy
hour options Monday through Thursday. The gelato is the best way to top off a meal or entertain the kids who have joined the dining party.
Spin Pizza’s SMU location is the fourth one in the DallasFort Worth area. The grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony took place October 29.
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Alternative rock band Sleepwalker speaks with CW editor RILEY COVEN rcoven@smu.edu Arts and Life Editor The SMU Campus Weekly sat down with the Sleepwalker’s lead singer, Brian Blevins, to discuss the band’s latest music and tour. SMU Campus Weekly: What inspired you to become musicians? Brian Blevins: “All of us come from families who loved music and had bands like Queen and the Beatles played around the house from a young age. As we got older and started having friends show us different artists for the first time, it really led us on this quest for knowledge that morphed into a strong desire to create our own songs. We all see music as a meaningful outlet for a variety of thoughts and emotions, and couldn’t help but be drawn to it.” SMU CW: What are some
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tips to aspiring artists? Blevins: “Don’t rush anything! Show your songs to your friends/family when you’re ready to do so, play shows when you’re confident in your performance, and hit the studio when your music is at a point where you can’t wait for complete strangers to hear it for the first time.” SMU CW: What’s life been like since choosing to be professional musicians? Blevins:“Have you seen any of those videos full of
girls twerking, Lamborghinis, $100 bills, and champagne showers? Not like that. Being a professional musician has a stigma that comes along with it, and rightfully so. We’ve parked our van in Walmart parking lots across the country to get a decent night’s sleep, we’ve turned down jobs, promotions, relationships, and other opportunities that most people would jump at–all because we know it takes a level of flexibility and mobility to be a musician. It certainly has its rewards, though.”
SMU CW: What was the first song you learned? Blevins: “I remember teaching myself some AFI and Norma Jean riffs on bass, but I would say the first song I really taught myself as far as vocals go was “London Dungeon” by The Misfits. I had a karaoke machine and recorded myself singing along to that song on a cassette tape to get a feel for how good (or bad) I sounded before I agreed to try out for my first band. I wasn’t very good at all but I did it anyways, and 12 years later it seems as though it worked out.” SMU CW: What are your best memories of the road? Blevins: “Some of our best memories on the road occurred in the midst of the most trying times. We’ve had to leave our trailer and a few band members on the side of the highway in Oregon while the others went to get a new tire, we had our first
van’s transmission go out while on the road to meet up for our stretch of Warped Tour, and we had a van breakdown and show cancellation on the same night in Nashville, leaving us stranded with no income for the night. All of those moments resulted in us putting our heads together to work through the challenges, and once we got to a point where it was out of our control, we came to terms with that and found a way to have fun.” SMU CW: How do you balance music with other obligations in your life? Blevins: “Carefully! We understand that having an income gives us money to take on tour with us for food and emergency van/trailer expenses, but we also don’t want our jobs to get in the way of music, which is why we sometimes have to turn down promotions or take time off during a busy season. Social lives and
relationships work in a similar way; we aim to find inspiration in the people around us and the places we frequent when we’re home to help evolve and expand the scope of the music we write, but those people in our lives have to have a sort of flexibility about the amount of time invested when we could be leaving for weeks at a time every few months. There is a lot of give and take with our lifestyle, but it provides us a great deal of satisfaction and we wouldn’t trade it for anything.” SMU CW: Do you ever get nervous before a performance? Blevins: “All the time, every time. The adrenaline rush is part of what makes it addicting. Every performance is a chance to showcase what we work so hard on behind closed doors, and we don’t take those opportunities lightly.”
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Screenwriter Sorkin speaks on ‘Steve Jobs’ RILEY COVEN rcoven@smu.edu Arts & Life Editor Adapted from a biography by Walter Isaacson, “Steve Jobs” tells the story of one of the most pivotal figures in recent history, Steve Jobs. The movie follows Jobs, played brilliantly by Michael Fassbender, through three different scenes, each taking place in the minutes before one of his product launches. Aaron Sorkin is known for his work on television and film, as his unique style of writing has brought him commercial and critical success. Having written films such as “The Social Network,” “Moneyball,” and “A Few Good Men,” Sorkin has proven himself again as one of the top screenwriters in the business. Having worked previously on adapting screenplays, writing “Steve Jobs” wasn’t a new experience for Sorkin. He found his source material hugely important. “It was not only authorized, it was requested. Steve and his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, felt that it was time for a biography to be done,” Sorkin said to Campus Weekly editors at a press conference. The Jobs’ family specifically chose Isaacson to write the biography based off of his previous accolades, Sorkin said. Unfortunately, Isaacson originally said no, as he felt it was too soon. “Walter didn’t understand the extent of Steve’s illness at this point, so once they made that clear, Walter said ‘yes,’ and Steve gave him complete access to everything,” Sorkin said. “Steve himself gave Walter dozens, if not hundreds, of hours, including when Steve was on his deathbed. So, the biography is comprehensive and written by a journalist.” Sorkin clearly expressed
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his appreciation and support of Isaacson’s work and how it ultimately influenced and helped establish his own. However, adapting the screenplay was much more difficult of a task than Sorkin made it out to seem. As the previous book was written by a journalist, it wasn’t in the correct format or tone for a film to be directly translated. “I didn’t want to just dramatize Walter’s biography, because I didn’t want it to be a biopic, a cradle to grave story where we land on the character’s greatest hits along the way,” Sorkin said. Sorkin’s vision is clearly expressed as the film has a very unique format for its subject material. The entire movie takes place in real time and consists of only three scenes. Each scene shows Jobs before one of his major products launch. The film blends the interactions with colleagues and fabric of Jobs’ humanity, and lack thereof, between the three scenes. In this way, viewers are able to follow him throughout the years and still maintain a relationship with his character.
A deftly woven screenplay, Sorkin puts a very unique twist on the three-act structure, but it still turns out to be extremely effective. “I was going to write a biopic, I was going to narrow the lens a lot. What I ended up doing was writing a movie where that was just in its entirety, three scenes,” Sorkin said. One of Sorkin’s most quoted lines from the film is one that is spoken to Jobs by Steve Wozniak, played by Seth Rogen. In the film, Wozniak tells Jobs, “It’s not binary. You can be gifted and decent at the same time.” “I hope it’s a question people are asking themselves after they see the movie,” Sorkin said. “I think that sometimes, especially in my field, in the arts, that what you’ve just described is an excuse for bad behavior.” The film itself went through a long series of production issues in its creation, and Sorkin was candid about what it felt like to be the writer in that situation. “I don’t write things that are meant to be read, I write things that are meant to be performed…so when I’m done writing the script, I’m not done,” Sorkin said.
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Preparations to make for Family Weekend Family Weekend is nearly upon us! Here are some lastminute preparations that should be made in order to ensure that your weekend goes as smoothly as possible. Clean your room. By this I mean hide everything. Clean up that laundry, throw away those old Solo cups, trash the old Mac’s Place and hide any evidence of bad grades in your desk. Is this being dishonest? Maybe. But your parents came here to spend time with you, not to yell at you about
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your bad grades and partying habits, right? Or maybe they did come to check up on you. Either way, tidy up your life a little bit and get presentable before your folks come into town. Make fancy restaurant reservations. Have a favorite, expensive
place? Want to try out that swanky restaurant but you don’t have the cash? Well, having your parents in town also means that their credit cards are coming. So reserve a table at that fancy restaurant and enjoy an all expenses-paid break from your daily fare. Rework your schedule. Here’s the dilemma: your parents want to spend time with you, but you still need to get homework done. This Halloween, you will most likely need to figure out how to squeeze in your partying time without Mom
or Dad seeing your “Sexy (insert outlandish costume here)” outfit. It certainly will not be easy, but the daily shuffling of responsibilities throughout the semester has prepared you for this. Just make sure that you schedule enough time to get everything done. Don’t forget the Boulevard either! Whatever your choice of events or preparation for when you parents get into town, remember to enjoy the short time you have with your family and have a great weekend!
Hoverboards on campus: Has technology gone too far? The first time I saw a hoverboard (one of those little plank-like contraptions with two wheels that people stand on to get to class these days), I, like everyone else on the SMU campus, stared. I bet some people were thinking, “Wait how cool!” or, “How is he not falling off of that thing?” However, my initial reaction consisted of me saying something along the lines of, “Well, it seems we don’t even need our legs anymore.” As I continue to see these boards around campus, I can’t help but think of a few things: our health, the impact technology is having on our human relationships, and what we choose, as college students, to spend our money on. I may be biased because I like being active and “enjoy” running and walking outside, but I honestly don’t understand why we need to replace walking with a machine. I keep track of how many steps I take a day, and on a normal day walking around campus, I walk over 10,000 steps, which is roughly four miles and a 350 calorie burn. You
don’t even realize it, but just walking from class to class is a workout in itself. While most of us sit behind a desk all day, it makes me feel better to know that I am using my legs. Let’s not turn into the obese humans from the Disney movie Wall-E that rely on technology to move. Don’t get me wrong, I love getting from place to place as quickly and efficiently as possible. So going from class to class on a hoverboard makes sense, right? Quicker, more efficient, not as tiring? Wrong. SMU students, we are forgetting the value that walking with our peers to class has on our daily lives. A couple of weeks ago, I watched an SMU student try to have a conversation while on a hoverboard with two or three other students who were walking beside him. The students walking were able to engage with one another, make hand gestures, and communicate with body language, while the student
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on the hoverboard was focused on dodging bodies and trying not to drive the board into the grass — all while trying to enter his friends’ conversation. (He ended up picking up the board and walking by the way). Lastly, these boards cost
anywhere from $300-$900. Do I really need to explain why I prefer walking to class? You’re better off buying an old-fashioned, non-chargeable bike (if they even make those anymore). I’m not hating on technology improvements; most are great, and I think new technologies are able to help people around the world in ways that we have never been able to before. But there is a fine line between helping and hurting, and at what point are we willing to ask ourselves if we have let technology go too far?
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