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SMU Zeta Tau Alpha sorority turns 100 but chapter remains silent House Corporation president Stacy La Rue Gannon said the house director works with the management company to remedy the continued maintenance that the house requires. Sorority row has come a long way since the Zetas left nearly 25 years ago, but inside the Zeta house, it’s as if time has stood still. The rooms are decorated with the furniture left behind by the departed chapter and the house

JACKIE FRANCIS Contributing Writer jkfrancis@smu.edu So many women from different sorority houses have lived at 3109 Daniel Ave. in recent years that it’s easy to forget this is the old Zeta Tau Alpha house. The SMU Zeta chapter turned 100 in 2015, but the chapter has been silent since 1993. The red brick house with white columns hasn’t had many updates since then, and SMU students often wonder what became of the old sorority. History Zeta Tau Alpha’s Omega chapter was chartered in 1915 and became the third sorority to join SMU’s Panhellenic community. The Zetas played an active role in SMU’s vibrant campus community for decades. But in 1993, the culture of SMU Greek life was reorganization. New advisors were appointed to lead the Panhellenic and Interfraternity Councils, and the Greek judicial system was established. The Zeta Tau Alpha chapter officially closed in December 1993 due to low membership and insufficient funds, according to an article published in the 1994 Rotunda yearbook. Many Zeta sisters felt their low recruitment numbers were a result of a poorly disciplined Greek system at SMU. In the Zeta’s 1994 Rotunda farewell article, Zeta pledge trainer Joy Lockwood blamed the sorority’s decline on an arbitrary and unfair discipline system. “The closing of the Zeta

has only undergone mandated renovations such as updating the security and alarm systems. One SMU sorority member who wishes to remain anonymous is still haunted by the living conditions she and her fellow sororities sisters endured while living in the Zeta house while their chapter house underwent construction. To read the rest online, visit smudailycampus.com/news.

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The Zeta Tau Alpha letters sit proudly above their newly built house in the 1950s.

house shows that SMU needs to fix its Greek system,” Lockwood said. “Zetas keep the rules but other houses don’t. Panhellenic should [punish] those who break the rules.” The House While the Zeta Tau Alpha letters were stripped from sorority row back in 1993, the house remained in the Zeta name. The 99-year land agreement in place stated that Zeta Tau Alpha would continue ownership of the house and SMU would maintain ownership of the property. A group of local Zeta alumnae act as the housing corporation for the residence. To help cover costs of upkeep, the corporation leases out the house to affiliated sorority women or entire sororities seeking temporary lodging. Over the years, active Panhellenic chapters have temporarily moved into the Zeta house while their respective houses underwent rebuilding. While six of the eight active

sorority chapter houses on campus have built new homes in the last decade, the Zeta house appears to be in decline. While peeling paint and dead bushes frame the front door of the 1950s Georgianstyle house, it maintains its imposing façade. This year, the Zeta house is open for lease to Panhellenic students whose own sorority houses reached capacity. So far they haven’t had any takers, putting the house director, an SMU law student who requested anonymity, in charge. The house director, a recent graduate from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, heard about the position at a Zeta Tau Alpha convention last year. As the former president of her Zeta chapter, she was excited to fill the opening as a way to live on campus while attending Dedman Law School. Being the Zeta house director has its challenges. After living in the house for more than a month, she said she still hadn’t figured out how

to use the cable, Wi-Fi or even the stove. As the owners and operators of the house, the local Zeta house corporation used to be responsible for any repairs and troubleshooting things like Wi-Fi, until recently when they decided to contract out to a property management company. The Dallas Zeta

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Medical Brigade presents ‘McHaunted Hospital’ for Halloween KEAGAN SNIVELY Contributing Editor ksnively@smu.edu Global Brigades is an international organization that grew out of college students wanting to make a change. SMU’s chapter is a medical brigade. Once a year SMU students travel to South America to set up a free clinic for the indigenous population. “It is their only chance to get any kind of health care or medications basically all year round,” said Kaitlin Ostling, president of Global Brigades. The McHaunted Hospital

is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the SMU Medical Brigades chapter. Ostling, a senior at SMU, said that last year the event raised $700, but organizing events isn’t easy. “Anyone who has ever tried to get a grounds request knows it’s a lot of signatures, running around, and getting permission from the police and school,” Ostling said This was the event’s third year, but the first year partnered with McElvaney. Many students volunteered their time and put their zombie acting skills to the test. “I love creepy things, so when I saw the opportunity to

scare people I thought ‘yes I’m going to go for it,’” first-year student Kylie Ritter said. The volunteers said they used their own past experiences of haunted houses to do the best job they could. Their screams rattled every eardrum in the McElvaney quad as people filed through the haunted house. “It has been fun scaring people,” freshman volunteer Austin Collins said. “But it is nice to be on this end of things instead of being the one to get scared.” For more information, visit smudailycampus.com/news.

Mike Rawlings, mayor of Dallas; Mike Wilson, editor of The Dallas Morning News; and Steve Pickett, a lead journalist for CBS 11 News, served on a panel for the 2016 Sammons Lecture on Oct. 19 to discuss ethical issues behind the Dallas media’s coverage of the Dallas ambush July 7 on Dallas Police. Mark Hughes, a man with an unloaded rifle at the protest who was wrongly identified as a “person of interest” in the shooting, attended the lecture, asking the panelists during a Q&A session at the end why he specifically was identified instead of the others present with weapons.

Rawlings explained that immediacy was key to finding the alleged shooter to protect the public, and at the time, he was the first individual to be identified with a rifle. “A decision was made to put it out as a person of interest,” Rawlings said. “We were thinking ‘We gotta get this bad guy.’” Other issues discussed included public safety, attribution, personal bias and the balance between immediacy and accuracy. Rawlings and Hughes shook hands once the lecture ended. “All of us on the panel understand that July 7 was ultimately about the officers who lost their lives,” moderator Wilson said. “But I think there are some

Panelists discuss ethical issues at the SMU Sammons Lecture.

things to be learned.” This free and public panel began at 8 p.m. in Caruth Auditorium within the Owen Arts Center. Over 200 students from the journalism, fashion media and other departments, as well as professor, attended. The panelists began the night by sharing their individual experiences on July 7. Mayor Rawlings said he was dealing with a death in the family on the day of the shooting. According to Rawlings, he received a call minutes later confirming that two Dallas police officers had died in the attack with the shooter still at large. For more information, visit smudailycampus.com/news.

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How-to make your own creative costumes GABRIELLA BRADLEY Style Editor gjbradley@smu.edu Fall is undoubtedly my favorite season of the year. Nothing beats the blankets of colored leaves on the ground, the perfect sweater-weather climate or the fall-inspired seasonal snacks. Fall also marks the beginning of the holiday season and the first big day to kick everything off is, of course, Halloween. If you love Halloween as much as I do, then you know that simple costumes simply won’t do. You may be stuck thinking you’ve used all of your most creative ideas in years past, but thankfully there is a little

website called Pinterest, or the beholder of endless costume inspiration. A simple search for “Halloween costumes” will bring up infinite options. An easy place to start is with the queen of costumes: Lauren Conrad. Put a simple twist on a classic fairy costume by copying her tooth fairy ensemble. You can also draw inspiration from your favorite old school movies. Grab the plaid in your closet and your junior high brick flip phone and channel Cher from the teen classic “Clueless.” Top it off with some serious sass and your look is complete! Since you’re already rummaging through your closet, you can opt for a

simpler look by digging out your threads from your last tropical vacation and throwing on a fruit hat. If anyone asks, you can say you’re the Tropicana girl, or Carmen Miranda if salsa dancing is more your thing. For the fashion girls out there with a plus one, look no further than Ashley Madekwe and Iddo Goldberg’s phenomenal Karl Lagerfeld and his prized cat Choupette’s recreation. Finally, if you know your way around a hot glue gun, your options are truly endless. Two of my favorites that I found throughout my endless scanning was this super cute popcorn outfit or this fun and funky disco ball.

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Fall in love with the Dallas Arboretum pumpkin village ALEXA SLENDERS Contributing Writer adslenders@smu.edu Pumpkins, gourds and squash . . . oh my! The Dallas Arboretum showcases its nationally proclaimed pumpkin village every year from mid-September through late November. If you haven’t visited yet, then you’re way overdue. Grab a camera and a friend, and head over to see thousands of flowers and pumpkins the arboretum has to offer. Once yo walk in, you’ll be immediately surrounded by all things autumn. Piles of pumpkins and a harpist playing beautiful music made quite the first impression. As you walk along the path, beaming orange pumpkins lined the entire

walkway for what seemed to be miles long. A few minutes of walking, and – bam! – there it was: the pumpkin village, which indeed is made entirely out of pumpkins. A replica of Cinderella’s pumpkin carriage being pulled by two huge Clydesdale horses was made fully out of corn husks and hay. A line of 20 kids and their parents was forming, all of them waiting to take a picture. The scene showcased incredible architecture of houses made out of pumpkins and landscaping placed strategically with gourds, more pumpkins and hay bales. The arboretum keeps things fresh every year by changing up its designs and layouts. For its longtime arboretum visitor Brooke Roberts, this year seems to be

the best yet. Roberts lives in Southlake and doesn’t mind driving into the city to see the beautiful fall displays. “It seems so much more colorful than last year’s display. There’s piles of orange everywhere you look and the landscaping is my favorite,” Roberts said. “My favorite part this year was the swirls of mini pumpkins on the house wall. It’s so unique.” Whether or not fall is your favorite season, the arboretum has something for everyone’s taste: views of White Rock Lake, concerts and large green fields in the middle of gardens where you can just sit and reflect on the day. If none of these options appeal to you, then at least go for the photo opportunity and a fun outdoorsy adventure with friends.

Beartooth brings metal to Dallas RILEY COVEN Arts & Life Editor rcoven@smu.edu Heavy metal band Beartooth trucked their way to Dallas to rock the House of Blues on Oct. 19 in support of their new album “Aggressive.” The group is exactly what they sound like, aggressive and heavy. The Columbus, Ohio, natives have made a name for themselves across the country with their strong sound and intense music. One of the better-up and-coming metal bands around, they aren’t to be ignored.

Oshie Bichar, Beartooth’s bassist, answered a few questions about the band. SMU Campus Weekly: What made you want to follow music as a profession? Oshie Bichar: Watching Michael Jackson music videos as a kid was my first inspiration to perform. SMUCW: How did you get your start professionally? OB: Recording demos and booking a DIY tour. There were six of us in a pickup truck with all the gear in the bed. SMUCW: You’re currently touring, is there anywhere you’re looking forward to? OB: Orlando – going to Hollywood horror nights at

Universal Studios and I’m terrified. SMU CW: Would you say your sound in “Aggressive” has evolved or changed since your earlier albums? How so? OB: The same honesty and energy is there but the songs have evolved melodically and dynamically. SMUCW: Are there any artists you would call inspirations? OB: AC/DC and Andrew WK. SMUCW: Do you have a favorite song of yours? OB: “Fair Weather Friend” is probably my favorite. It’s got everything you need – great chorus, heavy and groovy riff, and a dark emotional bridge.

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Zane Williams aims to bring country back JESSYE BULLOCK Assoc. Arts & Life Editor jjbullock@smu.edu Anyone with a story similar to that of the great Willie Nelson is destined to sing authentic country music. Zane Williams is a country musician who has won the heart of the country music scene in Texas. Having played in venues as prestigious as the Grand Ole Opry, Williams is bringing his signature sound back home to Texas. He is a genuine artist who believes in keeping the authenticity in country music through not only the lyrics in the songs he writes, but also in the instruments he uses to carry the tune. Earlier this week Williams was generous enough to answer a few questions. SMU Campus Weekly: Was music something you always planned on pursuing as a career? Zane Williams: I didn’t grow up in a family of musicians. My parents are both college professors. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do growing up. I went into college as a math major and I kind of thought about being a youth minister or math teacher. I always liked reptiles and snakes and amphibians so I thought about being a herpetologist, but I didn’t really start searching for what I wanted until college. Then as I really started performing more often and got the encouragement to pursue music, that’s when I really made the decision to go for it and moved to Nashville. SMUCW: So, who inspired you growing up? I understand your life is said to resemble that of Willie Nelson’s, any comments on that?

ZW: Yeah, well I can relate to the general parts of Willie’s story because he moved to Nashville and never quite fit in. Then, he moved back to Texas and found an artistic community that was welcoming and I guess found his sound. He really had success in his late 30s and 40s and then on, and that is when he became the iconic Willie Nelson we know now. You know me, I moved to Nashville not knowing anything really about anything and I lived there for nine years. It was good and it was a learning experience and I made a lot of friends, but I never made the kind of music that the major labels were looking for and there were lots of parts of the town that didn’t agree with me, like the commercialism of it and things like cowriting. Cowriting is the main way you get to know people in Nashville and I tend to write all my stuff by myself. You know Nashville just really didn’t know what to do with me. When I lived in Texas before I really didn’t know anything about the Texas country music scene, so when I came back to Texas it was to be close to family and to start a family. I discovered the Texas music scene about eight years ago when we moved back to Texas and I realized “Man, this is a great fit for me, I should’ve been here all along.” So after nine years in Nashville, I’m really kinda starting over fresh in the Texas music scene. That’s why I am so thankful for the Texas music scene because I feel like there is a lot of freedom here for an artist like me to be myself and build a fan base and make a living and that’s something that I hadn’t found

in Nashville. SMUCW: In an industry set on making certain artists conform to a specific image and/or sound, how do you think you were able to stay genuine to your brand? ZW: I’ve always had that personality where authenticity is really important to me. It has to be honest and I can’t fake it, especially when it comes to music. So I think it’s just kind of my personality and who I am. I can’t stand some of the music machinery where they ask you to do something you’re not comfortable with. To put an album out and you not like how the album sounds, with your name on it? I just can’t do that. I guess I’ve just always kind of walked my own path a little bit. In Texas, that’s accepted and encouraged and to be fair, there are some people in Nashville who do that and find a way to make it work for them, but for me it just wasn’t the right fit. I still think of myself as a country artist and not just a Texas artist, but Texas is the perfect place for me to be based out of and I definitely don’t ever plan to leave Texas. SMUCW: What does bringing country back really mean to you? What was the inspiration behind that title? ZW: Well, mainly the qualities are what made me fall in love with country music because I didn’t grow up listening to county music. I listened to all types of music growing up. I basically discovered country music in high school in California and no one I knew listened to country music. What drew me to it were the lyrics. The words of the songs were so relatable and well-written. I like the cleverness of it, the story-telling songs, and the fact that it seemed to just be

plain talk about real life. I find that a lot of art is a little too obscure for me; it doesn’t make me feel something because I don’t know what it’s about. Country music tends to be a little more literal, but says it in a very poignant way that really drives the message home. Then beyond the lyrics, I found that I really love the sound of country instruments. I love the fiddle, the acoustic guitar, steel guitar, mandolin, I just like those instruments. I like them in general better than electronically produced sounds on a keyboard. I like the realness of it. It’s a real piece of wood or steel and somebody had to work a long time to learn how to play it. It’s not just programmed on a computer somewhere. I feel like the realness of the instruments goes along with the realness of

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the lyrics. For me it’s all about realness and authenticity and I just felt that from country music. Back to “Bringin’ Country Back,” I was just trying to make the kind of country music that I fell in love with. SMUCW: What can we expect from your upcoming

show at Billy Bob’s? ZW: We are going to play a lot of new songs. We are going to play some hits too. Mainly just a fun show with lots of harmonies and fiddles and guitar. Mainly just a good ole’ country music show with hopefully good songs that people enjoy and an exciting performance.

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Is media biasing the election? With Donald Trump’s statement that he might not accept the election’s results at the last debate, there has been some discussion about whether this election could be “rigged,” either by swaying public opinion or through other means. How much validity is there to this claim and where do the sources of bias come from in America’s election and election coverage? For one, there are the biases that the news media displays, both in print and on television. At one point or another both sides have complained about the news media being biased against them, from Trump with “Saturday Night Live” to Clinton supporters claiming that her scandals are an overcovered right-wing conspiracy. Some sources are certainly more biased than others. For example, in television everyone knows which way Fox News leans and other networks like CNN have their own biases – albeit often more veiled than Fox News. And certain online news outlets are fairly blatantly biased, although they are being taken more and more seriously as places of news in today’s internet age. Additionally, claims of collaboration between major news outlets and the Democratic party have been made against some news networks – with the DNC

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succeeding in influencing what some news networks cover and certain news networks giving the campaign advance notice before publishing damaging articles. While some bias is blatant, most of the bias present in news media is somewhat inherent; there are real people who must make the decisions on what these news networks cover and what they pay attention to. However, sometimes it seems as if good judgment is thrown out the window when choosing what to cover. Of all of the above, the charge of collaboration between news outlets and political parties is the one that is the most suspicious when considering whether the election has been “rigged.” People traditionally have taken the news sources to feature unbiased facts, which is not true at all if they are collaborating with one of the major parties to coordinate coverage. However, I still do not think that this totally constitutes election “rigging” by biasing people one way or the other. People are starting to realize

in this modern age that the news is no longer unbiased. Even though the coverage of this election cycle has been particularly crazy considering the circumstances, journalists and their respective biases have always been there – they did not just now decide to fix this election. So, I do not think the news outlets are the place to look if one is trying to find a “rigged” election. Another potential means of biasing the populace, which is not often properly addressed, is in polling results and their coverage. There are numerous ways that biases can be introduced into a poll. From a statistical standpoint, polls attempt to determine how an entire population feels or thinks about something by taking a sampling of them and averaging the numbers. Biases can occur in selecting these people, depending on whether the method to select those questions truly is random and reflective of the entire population. There are other biases in the execution of the polls, from those who do not respond to the questioning (called non-response bias if one group doesn’t respond in disproportionate numbers) or from slight biases in the way that the questions are asked or posed to respondents. However, in most major

polls, these biases are accounted for and reported as a margin of error. While this uncertainty is published, often when the news media covers these polls they do not fully account for the biases or explain to people what the polls might mean. Headlines like “new poll proves” some given point or others of the like use something that people perceive to be scientific and factual to advance a particular agenda, even when the polls have a huge margin of accuracy and one can seemingly find a poll to prove whatever statistic you want. This form of bias in coverage of the elections might be slightly more dangerous than the typical news story, as it utilizes something that most people would regard as factual to advance a lopsided agenda with something that might not actually be factual. While there has certainly been bias in the coverage of this election, I would not consider it to be to the point where the election is “fixed” or rigged in some way. While the coverage may not be fair, people’s own biases likely outweigh any bias of the news – people will typically find whatever coverage fits their bias, eliminating the issues above in most cases. Claiming that there has been election tampering is somewhat of a far-fetched idea,and that certainly is not widespread.

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SMU win proves big step forward for football program PATRICK ENGEL Associate Sports Editor pengel@smu.edu The visor left Chad Morris’ hand and went up into the air for some fans to fight over, a chance to have the ultimate souvenir from SMU’s first home win against a ranked team in 11 years. Morris, surrounded by students in the middle of the field at Ford Stadium, let out a victorious shout. The fans around him chanted “S-M-U,” a chorus only reserved for Moody Coliseum the past few years. Once he finished taking pictures with fans and recruits, he went to SMU’s locker room to continue the celebration. Fifteen days earlier, the scene was the opposite. After an overtime loss at Tulsa, players were crying. Morris called it, as hurt a locker room as he’s seen during his coaching career. A week before that, he called out players in a team film session after a 45-20 loss to Temple,

possibly SMU’s worst game of the season. SMU had reached a pivotal point in its season. “If we could all respond the right way, great things will happen,” Morris said. Respond, they did. SMU took a 21-0 lead with the help of two early Houston fumbles and beat the 11thranked Cougars 38-16. A team picked to finish fifth in its division dominated the overwhelming preseason favorite to win the American Athletic Conference. “This might have shocked the country, but it didn’t shock those guys,” Morris said. “This is something that we’ve been working toward. This has been a building process.” It’s not a total surprise to SMU QB Ben Hicks either. “Even though we got beat at Tulsa, we took strides,” Hicks said. “Taking team to overtime and feeling like we were so close, we took a stride.” It’s easy to find progress on an individual level as well. In March, Jarvis Pruitt was one of a few seniors

Morris called out on the first day of spring practice. He told him it was his time and his last chance to make an impact at SMU. Saturday, he notched three of SMU’s seven sacks. “He said, ‘We don’t have to do anything fancy, we just have to go play,’” Morris said. “That’s what he did tonight.” Morris challenged Pruitt’s classmate, defensive tackle Zelt Minor, as much as anyone else in the spring. He asked Minor a simple question: What will you do to live up to your status as a highly recruited player out of high school? Now, Morris calls him as consistent a player as anyone else on the team. SMU’s offensive line, which played its worst game of the season vs. Temple, hasn’t allowed a sack since. Hicks, who threw nine interceptions in his first four starts, has thrown none in his last two. “You’re seeing a group of guys come together,” Morris said. “You’re seeing a program take it’s next step.”

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