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Commemorating a half-century of Pulitzer Prizes in Dallas-Fort Worth MEGAN SUNDERLAND SMU-Live Editor msunderland@smu.edu Colleen McCain Nelson had no reason to believe that April 12, 2010 would be different than any other Monday. At the time, McCain Nelson was on the editorial board of the Dallas Morning News, and her husband, Eric Nelson, was serving as the assistant editor of the paper’s Metropolitan section. The two were on their way to work together that morning, and while she was checking her phone, she noticed it was the day of the Pulitzer Prize announcements. “I mentioned to my husband, Eric, I said, ‘Oh, today is Pulitzer day,’” McCain Nelson recounted. “He said, ‘Oh,’ and then we started talking about what we might have for dinner that night.” She had no idea that just hours later, she would win a Pulitzer of her own for her work on the paper’s Dallas North-South Gap project. “The whole thing was just surreal,” McCain Nelson said. “Nothing can really prepare you for that moment.” William McKenzie and Tod Robberson were also part of the editorial team working on the project, and won Pulitzers alongside McCain Nelson in the editorial writing category. Though their win was a huge success for the Dallas Morning News, the prize was only the most recent in a long history of Pulitzers won by papers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes. Photographer Bob Jackson, an SMU alumnus, won Dallas’ first Pulitzer in 1964 for his iconic photo of Jack Ruby shooting alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald while with the Dallas Times Herald. The paper went on to receive two more Pulitzers until its final printing in 1991. Since Jackson’s win, The Dallas Morning News has won nine awards and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram has won two. The Dallas North-South Gap Project McCain Nelson, now a White House correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, began the project with the editorial board of the Dallas

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Morning News in 2007. Under the guidance of Sharon Grigsby, the deputy editorial page editor at the time, the board began its research on the disparities between both ends of the city, speaking to community leaders and combing through the streets of South Dallas. “We spent a couple months before we ever wrote a word just listening, and just trying to understand all the complexities of the challenges in these neighborhoods,” McCain Nelson said. Throughout the project, McKenzie, now the editorial director for the George W. Bush Presidential Center, centered his work in Oak Cliff, focusing on economic development, education, and group homes for mentally disabled individuals. He said the series on group homes resonated with him the most “because there was a real, deep-seated problem there.” During her time working on the project, McCain Nelson wrote a long essay about an

afterschool program in one of the rougher neighborhoods of Dallas. The program not only benefited students, but also helped some of their parents, assisting them with finding jobs and learning to be teachers. She became especially friendly with one of the mothers involved, and was able to use her story in the essay. A year after writing the essay, McCain Nelson read about the woman’s murder in fhe Dallas Morning News. She had been shot in her car. “It broke my heart because she was doing all the right things,” McCain Nelson said. “The story had really meant a lot to me, and she had meant a lot to me.” The Dallas Morning News’ First Pulitzer Though McKenzie, McCain Nelson, and Robberson won the Dallas Morning News’ most recent Pulitzer for their work involving poverty

in Dallas, economic disparity was also the topic that won the paper its first Pulitzer in 1986 for national reporting. That year, Craig Flournoy and George Rodrigue, a two-time Pulitzer winner, were honored for their eight-part series on segregation in public and subsidized housing, initially focusing on East Texas. Throughout the series, Flournoy and Rodrigue spoke to many people involved with the system, from a housing administrator in East Texas who believed that “race mixing” was against the Bible, to developers who had goals of zero percent minority tenants despite the government’s obligation to fund racially diverse housing projects. “There were very few projects that didn’t qualify as being segregated,” Rodrigue, now the editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, said of housing projects across the country at

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the time. After their series was published, the federal government took steps to eliminate discrimination in the housing system. Though Flournoy, a former SMU journalism professor who now teaches at the University of Cincinnati, isn’t sure how much impact their project had on prompting the changes, said he realized that he had found his calling in reporting on low-income housing and race. “If you really want to make an impact, the more specific the area covered, the more you’re likely to make an impact,” said Flournoy. Rodrigue went on to join a team of Dallas Morning News reporters and photojournalists who shared the 1994 Pulitzer for international reporting for their series examining the epidemic of violence against women across the world. The paper won a Pulitzer again in 1989 for explanatory journalism for a report on an airplane crash and its implications for air safety. It also won the 1992 Pulitzer for investigative reporting after publishing a series charging Texas police with misconduct and abuses of power. Four Pulitzers for Photojournalism Though five of the Dallas Morning News’ nine Pulitzers have been won for reporting, four have involved the work of the paper’s photojournalists. William Snyder, now a professor and chair of the photojournalism program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, won four Pulitzers during his time at the paper. He was first awarded the prize in 1989 for his work on a 1986 plane crash, and won again in 1993 for shooting the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. But he considers the photos he took of Romanian orphans, which he won for in 1991, his most important work. “I tried to make the pictures as awful as I could,” Snyder said. “There was no way I could get across what it smelled like, or what it sounded like, or what it felt like, but I tried to really bother people.” After years of shooting his own work, Snyder, while serving as the paper’s director of photography, guided the Dallas Morning News’ photojournalists in coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Irwin Thompson, the deputy director of photography at the Dallas Morning News, was one of the photojournalists on the scene in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck. He won the Pulitzer alongside Snyder in 2006. It took Thompson 13 hours to reach the

outskirts of the city, a few days to actually enter New Orleans, and some strategizing to make his way onto a boat in the city’s Ninth Ward to photograph the aftermath. It was then that he said he became a “part-time journalist and rescuer” as he helped others in need get on board the boat. Though the scene in New Orleans was tragic, Thompson explained that being behind the camera allowed him to desensitize himself to the situation, snapping photos and keeping his emotions at bay until it was time to edit. “You use the camera as a mask,” Thompson said. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram The Fort-Worth Star-Telegram has been another important player in the coverage of Dallas-Fort Worth news since its inception in 1909, after the merger of the Fort Worth Star and the Fort Worth Telegram. The paper won its first Pulitzer in 1981 for Larry Price’s photographs of the 1980 coup d’état in Liberia and its second in 1985 for Mark Thompson’s work on revealing a flaw in Bell Helicopter’s crafts that led to the deaths of hundreds of U.S. servicemen. Thompson, who is now a correspondent at Time Magazine, worked remotely in Washington throughout his time at the Star-Telegram. After a few years of covering helicopters, he began to notice a trend in accidents in which Bell’s helicopters would fall out of the sky, like “a brick,” after dying midair. Despite the mechanical issues and no survivors, the solution was to teach pilots to fly safer. After the deaths of more than 200 servicemen, one man, Larry Higgins, finally survived. Though it took some time to find the initially unnamed survivor,Thompson got the first interview with Higgins. “I wanted him to say, as a survivor, that ‘Neither me nor my copilot was doing anything wrong. The motor blade came through the cockpit,’” Thompson said. “And that’s what he said.” After Thompson’s five-part series was published, John Wickham, the U.S. Army chief-of-staff at the time, launched an investigation that led to the grounding of more than 600 helicopters for maintenance. “To me that was better than winning a Pulitzer,” Thompson said. Though all of the Pulitzer winners expressed their gratitude for winning their awards, many echoed similar sentiments. “It was an honor to participate in the project, an honor to win,” McKenzie said. “But it really is about the people you’re writing about. Because it’s their lives.” For read the full coverage of North Texas’ Pulitzer Prize history visit http://j.mp/ dallaspulitzers.

The ‘People, Presidency and the Press Symposium’ comes to Bush Center in June KATIE BUTLER Assignments Desk Editor kdbutler@smu.edu The Dallas Morning News, LBJ Presidential Library and the George W. Bush Presidential Center will come together to examine important journalism, scholarship and art. The “People, Presidency and the Press” symposium, running June 2-3 at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, aims to “enrich the conversation around the values embodied by the Pulitzer Prize, especially as they relate to the U.S. presidency.” Many topics will be discussed by Pulitzer Prize winners, administration officials and speakers at the symposium to increase discourse about the impact that journalism has on democracy. As the Pulitzer Prize looks onto its next 100

years, the “People, Presidency and the Press” event hopes to inspire its audience as well as commemorate its past achievements. Topics that will be discussed at the symposium include: “Presidential Biographies: The Challenges Then and Now,” “The Presidency: Coverage in the Digital Age,” “The Right to Know versus the Responsibility to Protect,” “Presidents and Poverty: The Fight that Never Ends” and “The Politics of Polarization: Can Democracy Survive?” There will be a wide and diverse array of speakers at the event, including Pulitzer Prizewinning presidential biographers Jon Meacham, Annette Gordon-Reed and Ron Chernow, as well as numerous journalists, administration officials and scholars from Columbia University, Harvard and Princeton. The event is free and open to the public; however, as of now the event is full.

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Dedman School of Law receives $7 million to fund research, education programs for criminal justice OLIVIA NGUYEN Managing Editor qonguyen@smu.edu SMU will launch the new Deason Family Criminal Justice Reform Center in its Dedman School of Law after receiving $7 million in gifts from the Deason Foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation, according to an SMU press release. The Deason Foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation will support the center with its donation, each providing $3.5 million over the course of five years. The Deason Foundation, currently run by CEO Darwin Deason, supports Christian agencies and churches, education and medical research. Deason previously has donated to SMU, providing a $7.75 million gift to the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering in 2014, creating the Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security and supporting the Deason Innovation Gym. The addition to SMU’s law school will allow

scholars to conduct independent research and create educational opportunities on topics like the “causes of wrongful convictions and overincarceration, and ensuring the fair and ethical treatment of individuals at all stages of the criminal justice process.” The center will be supported by combined gifts totaling $7 million from the Deason Foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation. The gifts will provide $3.5 million each over a period of five years. “The support from the Deason Foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation for this center goes right to the heart of what a great university like SMU is positioned to do in finding solutions to societal problems,” SMU President R. Gerald Turner said. “The United States has 5 percent of the world’s population, but 25 percent of the world’s prison population, so there’s work to be done. Dedman Law is eager to engage in the important national debate surrounding issues of fairness, accuracy and compassion in the criminal justice system.”

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Women’s Interest Network places counter-display to ‘Memorial of Innocents’ EMILY FAERBER Contributing Writer efaerber@smu.edu Mustangs for Life set up an “art display” of more than 2,000 crosses on the Dallas Hall lawn as a “Memorial of Innocents” April 17. Each cross symbolized a “life lost to abortion.” According to its website, Mustangs for Life is a non-religious affiliated student organization that “honors the dignity of every human life by being a positive source of education, love and service to inspire a culture of life on SMU’s campus.” Mustangs for Life President Camille McCarty said the purpose of the display was to raise awareness. “We want to make people realize the gravity of their actions,” McCarty said. “These are individual people we are killing and they cannot be ignored.” And they certaintly were not ignored. The “Memorial of Innocents” display sparked a strong response by various students on campus, though it wasn’t the kind of response Mustangs for Life members were hoping for. Individual students soon turned to social media to share their feelings of opposition toward the display. SMU student Carson Wright posted a video on Facebook in which he stated, “the antichoice display on SMU’s Dallas Hall lawn is severely misguided.” The video has since been shared 879 times and viewed more than 119,000 times. It also prompted the SMU Women’s Interest Network (WIN) to plan a counter display. WIN is a collection of SMU students, faculty and supportive community members who work to “further gender equality through programming and activism,” according to its website. April 18, WIN president, Adé Guobadia, also turned to social media, posting a status on Facebook that read, “the ‘Memorial of Innocents’ display is insensitive, triggering and directly contributing to a misogynistic culture that shames women for making their own reproductive choices.” The post went on to encourage anyone who was interested in planning a counterdemonstration to attend that nights WIN meeting. 20 students covered Dallas Hall lawn with three heart displays on three sections of grass

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WIN posted a counter-display representing women and reproductive rights April 25.

April 25. Each heart was comprised of a paper heart glued to a stake and carried a different message. Some linked QR codes donating to charities like the National Network of Abortion Funds, while others listed facts about abortion and women’s rights. “We wanted to do something that was as visually striking as it was informative,” Guobadia said. “We chose hearts to go along with the name of the counter protest and bring an inviting feeling instead of a morbid one to Dallas Hall Lawn.” One heart read “the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists agree that restricting women’s access to abortion is unjustified and jeopardizing women’s health.” Guobadia said the reaction was positive overall. “There were lots of people who told us they supported our cause and we even had some prolife people tell us the hearts were a welcomes change,” she said. “I loved that we got so much support from female students. That was definitely the most rewarding part for me.” The counter display represents women and their reproductive rights. There has been no response from any student or Mustangs for Life member at this time; however, Guobadia said most of the members are open to a dialogue about the subject. “Throughout all of this I’ve found that their leadership is very open to dialogue despite our difference in views and values which I respect,” she said.

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US rebuilds its founding industry: apparel manufacturing MADELEINE KALB Contributing Writer mkalb@smu.edu A plain white cotton T-shirt retails at American Apparel for $24. A similar white V-neck constructed from modal and cotton retails at Forever 21 for a sixth of the price at $3.90. The cost of this price disparity is made possible by outsourcing labor to factories that hire workers for pennies. The Forever 21 T-shirt was manufactured in Nicaragua and the American Apparel shirt was made in Los Angeles. “The North American Free Trade Agreement set in motion a lot of the migration of apparel and textile jobs out of the U.S.,” Rosanne Hart, founder of the Hart Agency, said. “I witnessed this in the drastic reduction of apparel manufacturers in Dallas who were clients of ours in the 1990s.” Hart also added that there is apparel manufacturing present in the U.S. today, but at a very limited level. She said the vast majority of consumers in the U.S. don’t want to pay the added costs of purchasing clothing made domestically and that the designers who do manufacture here only do so on a limited level. “I would buy the $3.90 white tee. As an avid shopper, I’m always looking for staple pieces. It’s a white T-shirt, which will probably be paired with jeans or covered by a jacket. Why spend the extra $20.10 on the same item?” consumer Elizabeth Sfondrini said. In the 1990s, American Apparel entered the fashion market and ignited the made-in-America

movement. According to a report published in the LA Times, more than eight in 10 Americans have become increasingly wary of massproduced items and want goods that are unique and made sustainably in the U.S. Americans associate the made-inAmerica movement with higher quality goods. The report even suggests that Americans are willing to pay more for domestically manufactured goods. SMU graduate Matt Alexander became a local Dallas fixture of the madein-America movement with the founding of Need (now rebranded as Foremost) in November 2013. Foremost is an American-made clothing line available for both men and women at an affordable cost. A Pima cotton and MicroModal tee from Foremost costs the same as a plain cotton tee from American Apparel. SMU student Miranda Zsigmond said she would be more likely to purchase the Foremost white tee over the Forever 21 tee if it was better quality and manufactured ethically. “It’s really just a question of scale and infrastructure on the technical side of things for apparel,” Alexander said. Alexander recently moved the manufacturing of Foremost out of the suburbs of Dallas to Los Angeles in order to increase efficiency. Alexander said Dallas was just not a hub of manufacturing. The obstacle most Americans believe Alexander and other American-made designers face is finding a factory that has the infrastructure,

resources and ability to produce garments at an affordable price. “Many people are shocked that we’d be able to produce affordable tees in the U.S.,” Alexander said. “Really though, there’s a huge amount of infrastructure and talent here. It may not be as cheap as it would be abroad, but it has not been prohibitive for making something great.” According to a report published by ChinaBriefing, the minimum hourly wage for workers in India, a country that is heavily reliant on apparel manufacturing, is $0.28. Compared to the U.S. minimum wage of $7.25. The Foremost brand targets men and women ages 18–25 and 35–44. Most of their customers are located across the globe in Dallas, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Sydney, Paris and Berlin. According to Alexander, he is able to manufacture apparel domestically at a profit because of scale. When Alexander puts in his order at the factory, the larger the order the smaller the price. If he were to try to produce a small amount of product, it would no longer be a profitable business. As for the future of the made-in-America movement, Alexander believes a lot of brands are trying. “For us, as Foremost lives alongside another brand, we don’t have as much of a focus on reaching enormous scale,” Alexander said. “I can grow my brand at its own pace and ultimately amount to something larger. Time will tell.”

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Items to splurge on versus items to save on CAROLINE KUSHNER Contributing Writer ckushner@smu.edu

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Can't decide when to stick to a wardrobe budget and when to be extravagant? Here are some tips on when to treat yourself versus when to conserve the cash. Splurge Worthy Items 1. A leather jacket - Question: When are leather jackets not in style? They are a basic wardrobe necessity you will have and wear "until death do you part," so why not splurge a little? Scoop NYC has a great selection of leather jackets, plus you can shop them in-store at its Highland Park Village location. 2. A hair dryer - There's not much that makes you feel more flawless than a good blowout. And with the right tools, your favorite hair dry bar can be in your very own bathroom. Check out Drybar's 'Buttercup' Blow Dryer for one of the many great hair dryer options out there. 3. A basic heel - A good and comfortable pair of heels is hard to find, so once you find "the ones," you never want to give them up. Treat your feet with a pair of pumps that will go the extra mile, because they'll last the extra mile. Stuart Weitzman's heels are worth the cost because their styles are both classic and comfy.

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Not So Splurge Worthy Items 1. Trends - Some outfits you just want for the now, and not for the long haul. If you can't see this item in your life in five years, then don't spend the big bucks. Sites like ASOS, Hello Molly and Tobi are perfect for reasonable, trendy clothes. Zara and Topshop are also great stores if you're more of a "try it before you buy it" type of person. 2. A daily face moisturizer with SPF - Most fashionistas are firm believers in drugstore brands. Cetaphil, Neutrogena, Aquaphor and CeraVe are all household brands to love and trust. Try CeraVe Facial Lotion with SPF 30 every morning for a smooth, protective finish. Protecting your skin should be a top priority, and luckily it doesn't have to cost top dollar. 3. Nail polish - Sure, wearing top name-brand nail polish is "cool" and

all, but $20 for a bottle of polish? Or even $50? That's a little steep. Stick to the basics like Essie, OPI and CND for on-trend, inexpensive nail colors. 4. Makeup brushes - Most students like to mix up makeup brands, using an eyeliner from here and a bronzer from there. There's no need to buy expensive makeup brushes when there are plenty of high-quality, low-budget brushes on the market. Stop by any Sephora for a wide selection of reasonably priced makeup brushes. When living on a college budget, it can be hard to decide where to spend your money. Essentially, try to splurge on long-term items and save on less promising or more frequent purchases. And don't forget to always keep your student ID on hand, because you never know when a student discount will be an option.

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Congrats grad! The days of pulling all-nighters, cramming for finals, binge drinking coffee and those terrible shower shoes are finally coming to an end. But your college stress isn’t over quite yet — you still have to find the perfect dress to accept your well-deserved diploma in. If any occasion calls for treating yourself to a new outfit, it’s graduation. You will feel like a superstar the entire weekend, so you might as well look the part too. Not to mention, your family and friends will most likely be there fawning over you and snapping pictures left and right. (Paparazzi, please!) May 14 is right around the corner and you don’t want to end up power

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Opt for something classic that won’t go out of style over something super trendy, but don’t settle for boring. Let your personality shine through under that big blue robe, whether it be by choosing a fun floral pattern or a bright springy color.

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Australian Power Forward Harry Froling signs with SMU PATRICK ENGEL Sports Columnist pengel@smu.edu

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Arkansas transfer Jimmy Whitt commits to SMU PATRICK ENGEL Sports Columnist pengel@smu.edu SMU couldn’t land Jimmy Whitt when it recruited him in his high school days. But in Whitt’s second round of recruiting, after his March decision to transfer from Arkansas, SMU won out. Whitt, a 6-foot-2 combo guard, announced he is transferring to SMU May 2.

Whitt averaged 6.1 points and 1.7 rebounds in 32 games as a freshman for Arkansas in 2015-16. A product of Columbia (Mo.) Hickman High School, Whitt was ranked as a four-star recruit and the No. 68 player nationally, according to the 247Sports. com composite rankings. He was the top player in Missouri in his class. Whitt originally committed to Arkansas in August 2014, choosing

the Razorbacks from an offer list that included SMU, Missouri, Illinois, Marquette, California, Colorado, Iowa, Oklahoma, Xavier, Wisconsin and Nebraska, among others. While Whitt has to sit out the 2016-17 season, according to NCAA transfer rules, he will have three years of eligibility left starting in 2017-18. He’s the 10th scholarship player on SMU’s roster for 2016-17.

SMU added a third member to its 2016 signing class May 2. Australian power forward Harry Froling signed his letter of intent, officially making him a member of SMU’s men’s basketball team. Froling committed to SMU January 25, picking the Mustangs over Arizona, Illinois and Colorado. He is a Scout.com and Rivals.com four-star prospect, but a three-star in the 247Sports.com composite ranks, which pools rankings from several sites.

He’s the 137th-ranked overall player in the composite ranks. The 6-foot-11 Froling is SMU’s third 2016 signee, joining Oklahoma City (Southeast HS) combo guard Dashawn McDowell and Australian point guard Tom Wilson, both of whom signed in November. SMU has two more commitments — four-star forwards Bruno Fernando and Ted Kapita — who have not yet signed their letters of intent. Wilson and Froling were teammates at the Australian Institute of Sport. The two also played together on the Australian

Junior National Team, which won a silver medal at the 2014 U17 World Championship. Froling also played at the 2016 Nike Hoops Summit in Portland, Ore. April 9 as a member of the World team. Froling’s older sister, Alicia, just finished her sophomore season on SMU’s women’s basketball team. Alicia’s twin sister, Keely, played two years for SMU before leaving the program to return to Australia in April. Froling is a versatile player capable of playing power forward and center. He’s best as a face-up big man and possesses a good three-point shot, but can score in the post as well.

NCAA reverses ban on satellite camps, reinstates June camps PATRICK ENGEL Sports Columnist pengel@smu.edu The NCAA Division I Board of Directors reversed a rule Thursday afternoon that prohibited FBS football coaching staffs from holding or working camps away from their campuses. The NCAA originally banned the camps, often known as satellite camps, April 8. SMU had scheduled June camps in Austin, Houston and East Texas before the ban earlier this month. SMU can hold the camps again

without restriction. Proponents of the camps advocated that satellite camps save recruits and their families the travel costs to get to on-campus camps, as well as give previously unrecruited or underrecruited players more exposure. The exposure could potentially result in a scholarship offer, especially if multiple coaching staffs at multiple levels are working the camps. Opponents of the camps contended that the ban on them would keep coaches on campus and drive recruiting toward the local area.

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Late-night snack: a look into an overnight shift at Whataburger FRANKLIN ORTEGA Contributing Writer fortega@smu.edu Nicole Dye starts by checking the lobby, throwing trash away, cleaning the tables and moving back to the counter. Dye, Whataburger’s overnight manager, is ready for her Friday night shift. She asks Kendrick Washington, who is behind the counter and doesn’t have a customer yet, “Are we going to have a good night?” Most people know Whataburger stays open late, but not all Whataburgers keep the lobby open overnight. However this restaurant, located at the corner of Buckner and I-30 in southeast Dallas, does. The overnight shift is generally from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., but Dye works longer hours. She normally arrives 30 minutes to an hour earlier and leaves at 9 a.m. Friday night is busy compared to the weeknights when there are only three to four employees, but this Friday there are five overnight employees. An assistant manager, crew lead and three regular employees cover the front register, drive-through and grill. As customers start to walk in, the grill starts sizzling and the smell of burger patties fills the air. Washington gets flustered when he is taking customer orders; he’s only been working for five months. A young, tall, 18-year-old still in high school is trying his best to get it right, but Washington

gets overwhelmed when he has six customers standing in front of him. The six customers came out of a truck with a trailer hitched to it. They look like they are in a band; some have tattoos, mostly have gauged earrings. They stand in line waiting their turn. After they order, one stands at the doorway, holding the door open as he lights his cigarette outside the restaurant, and continues to yell at his friends who have already taken a seat in the back. He stands there for a few minutes puffing with his lower body outside and his upper body hanging inside. The rest of his friends just laugh at the customer, so he goes outside. Moments later, a stocky man, wearing a navy blue uniform walks in. Washington is in the back helping run the food to the customers. The man in uniform stops by the counter, grabs a cup, walks over to the soda machine and makes his selection. On his right he has a gun, the nametag on his shirt reads, “Lt. R. Hawkins” and he is the paid security officer for this Whataburger during the weekends. Hawkins comes in only on the weekends to work overnight and has being doing so for the last three months. He notes the biggest problem is “slow orders,” but has seen the crew become more efficient since he has been there. On most nights it’s pretty calm and this night was no different. Behind the counter everyone is working hard to get orders out; breakfast has started to be served. Dye moves from one grill to the next, grilling burgers and scrambling eggs.

Washington is in charge of the biscuits, but he gets so flustered trying to take customer orders that he forgets about the biscuits. One order is ready. “Number 78, honey barbecue,” Dye yells. The lobby has customers waiting for orders, but the drive-through has about 10 cars waiting. The kitchen is still hectic trying to put the orders together and hand them to the right customer. The lobby of the restaurant has pretty much cleared out. Drive-through is empty. Only two older women who seem to be homeless are left in the lobby. Both sit by themselves, but one is laying her head on the table. The other observes people coming in and out. At the register Washington has another customer. He’s taken his order, and has given the customer his change. “Kendrick count it back,” Dye said. It is past 2 a.m. and more customers are walking in. Washington puts biscuits in the oven. The drive through is seeing more and more cars come through. The staff is preoccupied grilling, Dye is in the back, and Washington is still taking orders. The oven begins to beep loudly. Dye yells, “Where are those biscuits!” Everyone in the lobby looks up. Washington stops from taking a customer order. “Shoot,” he mumbles. Hawkins yells, “Get him off biscuits,” from the lobby. Everyone breaks out in laughter. “That’s the 10th batch he’s burned,” Dye said laughing. He burned 11 batches that night.

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A pre-production look at student-run summer feature film Elsewhere, TX EMMA HUTCHINSON Contributing Writer ehutchinson@smu.edu To an average college student, $30,000 represents almost a year’s worth of tuition. But for the SMU summer film production program, it is a small but workable budget that goes toward production expenses for the student-run feature film, “Elsewhere, TX.” This budget is more than McHenry Taylor, director and writer of the film, has ever had to work with when it comes to making films. His last film was five minutes long and he used $500 out of his own pocket to make it. “It was harder than I expected, which sounds naive,” Taylor said about the fundraising process. The crew used Kickstarter, a funding platform for miscellaneous projects, and their goal was to raise $20,000. Through the site, the film’s supporters could pledge any amount of money toward the project, and the project would receive the funding if the goal was reached — all or nothing. The fundraiser was live Feb. 10 through March 31. Each backer on Kickstarter is given a reward or a gift depending on how much they pledge to a project. The gifts for “Elsewhere’s” backers ranged from a mix of songs and a personalized film postcard for pledging $25 or more, to a blue-ray disc copy of the film after its completion. Pledging just $10 supplied each backer with the personalized postcard, and Taylor believed students and peers would be on board with making this small donation. But the number

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of small donations was, in fact, small. “I guess I was a little surprised and disappointed at first at how few small donations we got,” Taylor said. Yet Taylor and the crew’s disappointment was relieved by the support they received from families associated with the film. According to the Kickstarter page, 11 people pledged more than $150 to the film’s goal, and despite initial surprise from the lack of small contributions, they reached $20,000. Taylor saw this as a double-sided success because they ended up saving money and paper too. “It is better that [the pledged donations] came in big chunks because we don’t have to print as many postcards,” Taylor said jokingly. Along with the money raised from the fundraiser, Taylor and co-producer Natalie Khraish received $2,000 each from SMU’s Engaged Learning program, and $5,000 from SMU, which gave $1 for every $2 raised up to $5,000. It all adds up to about $30,000, which by Hollywood’s standards, is still categorized as an ultra-low budget film. But it is enough to get the

job done. Families assisted in more ways than just providing the funds necessary to get the film rolling. Trevor Thrall, coproducer for “Elsewhere,” found her father and her hometown to be a big help to the location scouting cause. Thrall’s father helped and continues to help the crew find multiple locations to film scenes for the postapocalyptic western out in Nacogdoches, Texas, which is about a three-hour drive southeast of Dallas. From old abandoned movie driveins to vast green fields, the crew has found plenty to work with. In this small town with a population of 33,000, everyone knows everyone and many are willing to give their time to a good cause. “People are really nice, and they want to help you,” Thrall said. Many times her father will call up people he knows in the neighborhood and the next minute Taylor and Thrall and a few other members of the crew are sitting in her father’s truck, on the way to a potential filming location. “Elsewhere, TX” is roughly set to begin filming over a two-week period in late May.

Healthy habits for finishing finals KARLIE MORRIS Contributing Writer knmorris@smu.edu Finals are quickly approaching and the realization that students have to start studying is starting to set in. Finals week usually brings out the worst in students; they’re sleep-deprived, stressed out and binge on junk food. Here are four healthy habits to make this finals week the most successful one yet. Be Nutritious Yes, it’s tempting to grab that candy bar or order that sugary drink at Starbucks, but trust me. Don’t do it. Go for foods that are going to nourish the body and give it the energy it needs to keep you going. Instead of choosing ice

cream, go get a juice or acai bowl and have fruits and veggies on hand instead of chips. Get Active Exercise is proven to reduce stress, so put down the books for at least half an hour and get to Dedman. Just a simple walk around the track will do the trick. If it’s nice, go outside! The Katy Trail is a great option. The vitamin D and fresh air will help you stay in the right mindset. Put it Away We are all victims of sitting in Fondren Library with our books out, only to be checking social media on our phones. This obviously isn’t helping us get anywhere. Turn off your phone, leave it in your room or whatever you need to do to keep yourself on track.

Your Facebook feed will still be there when you’re done. Sleep This may sound counterproductive because you want as much study time as possible, but you actually need more sleep to help your brain process all the information you are putting in. The best thing would be to start studying early so you won’t have to stay up as late. If you are a procrastinator this may not happen, so if you’re going to stay awake take breaks and find some time to take a nap during your late-night study sessions. There are only a few more weeks so give it your all and ace those tests. Hopefully, this set of tips helps you finish the year strong.

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Editor-in-chief gives final farewell It is surreal for me to say goodbye to something that defined my career as a college student. When I first joined The Daily Campus staff my sophomore year, I had no idea the profound impact the paper would have on my time at SMU. Then I was a copy editor, completely unaware of where I wanted my career as journalist to go or where my passion for uncovering stories came from. As I moved from copy editor to chief copy editor to managing editor to assignments desk editor to editor-inchief, I slowly learned why I love journalism. I have a passion for this work because it demands the truth; it requires endless research and human interaction; it questions everything; it uncovers wrongdoings and celebrates successes; and most importantly, it teaches me to open my eyes to the world and to be a better human being. I never would have learned any of this without my time spent working for the paper,

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surrounded by talented writers who share this passion. When I took on the role of editor-in-chief the paper was in a large time of transition as it moved from tri-weekly to weekly, changed its name and worked on increasing its online presence. We redefined staff roles, created weekly work shifts, pressed for online content and focused on campus news to keep the paper relevant. During my time on staff I have celebrated accomplishments with my peers, spoke with influential individuals, lost sleep over controversial pieces, put the needs of the paper above my schoolwork, experienced ridicule online and learned to find my voice. And I would not change a single part of my time here.

One of the most difficult parts of this farewell is saying goodbye to those who defined the late nights, editorial decisions, heated debates, open conversations and endless laughter of the DC. Olivia, I am so excited to see where you take the paper next semester as editor-in-chief; you are the most qualified person for this position and I am so proud to call you my successor. Emily and CarleeAnn, thank you for being the most supportive friends, for keeping the office positive and for bringing laughter to the DC. Katie, Bridget, Campbell and Jacquelyn, thank you all for being the backbone that helps keep this paper working behindthe-scenes. To the rest of the staff: thank you for allowing me to lead you during my two terms, for being honest with me, for voicing your opinions, for staying dedicated and for believing in the power of journalism. The independent voice of SMU would not exist without each of you. To Jay, Batsell and Suhler:

thank you all for supporting me and teaching me more about journalism than I thought was possible. You three are my greatest advisors and I cannot thank you enough for being my mentors, taking me under your wings and showing me what it means to be a true journalist. To my non-journalism friends: thank you for being understanding of my everchanging schedule, for putting up with my stress over AP Style and my rants on the news. You all are the only ones who will continue to think it’s normal for me to run across the room with a computer above my head screaming, “There’s breaking news!” To my mother: I owe everything I am today to you. Theodore Roosevelt once said, “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” I still wholeheartedly believe in the freedom of the press and the power of its work. Thank you for letting me be a part of something so worth doing.

CW’s goodbye to graduating staff Bridget Graf Online Editor Bridget has worked for Student Media Company for one year and will go to work for a digital agency in Atlanta upon graduation.

Emily Ward Fashion Editor Emily has worked for Student Media Company for one year. She plans to return to Arizona and look for a job writing for a magazine upon graduation.

Ryan Miller Photo Editor Ryan has worked for Student Media Company for three years. He plans to find a marketing and promotion job for a sports franchise upon graduation.

CarleeAnn Allen Associate Arts & Life Editor CarleeAnn has worked for Student Media Company for one and a half years and is looking for a job in journalism upon graduation.

Christina Cox, Editor-inChief. Christina has worked for Student Media for three years

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