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Two SEC transfers took distinctive paths to SMU PATRICK ENGEL Assoc. Sports Editor pengel@smu.edu Asked to name the biggest difference between his old offense and his current offense, Rafe Peavey needed only two words: “We throw.” SMU is by no means a pass-happy team, but the Mustangs’ offense looks like the Air Raid when compared to Arkansas’ pro-style, ground-based attack. The Razorbacks ran the ball 336 more times than they passed it in Peavey’s two years there. The paces of the two offenses are opposite as well. Arkansas takes its time in the huddle and at the line pre-snap. SMU ideally wants to run at least 80 plays per game. “Here, everything is tempo,” Peavey said. “We’re running a play and then we’re looking for the next play sometimes as the guy is getting tackled. Everything’s fast-paced, we try to play fast and think slow.” Peavey is one of two SMU players who sat out last season after transferring from an SEC school. Both he and former LSU wide receiver Trey Quinn are eligible to play for SMU in the fall and have two seasons left. Each put forth strong performances in the spring game April 8. Peavey completed 16 of 18 passes for 173 yards and a touchdown, while Quinn hauled in four passes for 61 yards and a score. Each came to SMU from a run-heavy SEC team in search of a more active passing game and a better shot at earning snaps. SMU offered them both. Their paths to SMU, though, have little in common. Peavey entered Arkansas’
camp in August 2016 with no plans to transfer. He wanted to finish his career at the college he committed to as a sophomore in high school. He attended football camps at Arkansas every summer since he was in fifth grade. Arkansas was about a three-hour drive from his home in Bolivar, Mo. — a 10,000-person town about two hours south of Kansas City. But as fall camp continued, Peavey fell behind two younger quarterbacks on the depth chart. They were competing for Arkansas’ backup job. Peavey did not play in a team scrimmage on Aug. 20. A day later, he told Arkansas Head Coach Bret Bielema after a Sunday night team meeting that he would transfer. Peavey had one large obstacle: classes were starting at most universities that next day. He had about four hours to figure out his next destination. He estimated he and his father talked with about 15 different schools in that time, gauging their interest. That night, while eating dinner at Chili’s with his girlfriend, Peavey’s phone lit up with an incoming call from a number he didn’t recognize. The caller was SMU offensive coordinator Joe Craddock. He paused his dinner date and chatted with Craddock for about 15 minutes. Craddock’s message was simple and direct. He told Peavey that SMU had three quarterbacks, and wanted to get to five. He had already watched film that Peavey’s father sent him and liked what he saw. Peavey told him he was in. “It really wasn’t in the back of my mind the entire time,” Peavey said. “It was
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a split-second decision. But I felt overwhelming peace about coming to SMU. It was the same feeling when I committed as a sophomore at Arkansas.” Yet uncertainty surrounded the move. Peavey knew no player, coach or student at SMU. He had never been to SMU before. He still had to be accepted into the school. But he needed to get to his new school quickly. Two days after his call with Craddock, he packed up his two-door Chrysler Crossfire and started the fivehour drive to Dallas. While on the drive, Peavey looked up the acceptance rate at SMU. He found it was slightly above 50 percent. “There’s a 50-50 chance I could get down here and not get accepted into school,” Peavey recalled. “So it was a huge gamble, but I had faith
that God wanted me here.” Peavey signed his scholarship papers shortly after arriving in Dallas. By Friday of that week, he was attending classes at SMU and living in an apartment. Since SMU allows students to freely add and drop classes during the first week of the semester, he wasn’t even behind on coursework. In three days, Peavey went from Arkansas student to fully-enrolled SMU student. He said the woman who assisted him with the transfer admission process had never seen the system move so quickly in her 20plus years working at SMU. “She said it was a miracle,” Peavey said. Quinn’s process, however, was anything but hectic and risky. He had an entire spring to find his future home. He had a pre-existing relationship with SMU head coach Chad Morris and several assistants. He didn’t need an application process miracle. The former four-star recruit from Lake Charles, La. came to LSU with plenty of hype. He set a national record for career receiving yards (6,566) at Lake Charles’ Barbe High School. He started seven games at LSU as a true freshman in 2014 and finished with 17 catches, tied for second on the team. In 2015, he started two games but finished with just five catches. His role diminished as his career continued. In February 2016, he met with the LSU coaches to talk about his future. Earlier that month, LSU signed three freshman receivers who were all at least 6’3.” “At the end of the day, they almost agreed with me
that they’re not looking for a 5’11” guy,” Quinn told DatBoot.com last summer. “I’m not the prototypical receiver that they’re looking for.” Quinn said he left LSU on good terms. Him picking SMU was not a question of whether he would come to SMU, but rather when he would announce it. The Mustangs were early favorites for one reason: Quinn’s relationship with Chad Morris. Morris recruited Quinn when he was the offensive coordinator at Clemson. Morris formed a strong relationship with Quinn and his family on two visits to Clemson, but it wasn’t quite enough to secure his signature. He picked LSU over
Clemson right before his senior year of high school. Once Quinn became available as a transfer two years later, Morris and staff pounced. Quinn was receptive. He liked SMU’s fastpaced offense that threw the ball more than LSU’s run-heavy attack. More importantly, he visited SMU for a spring scrimmage and found Morris preaching the same message he was did at Clemson. “They do a really good job with the family atmosphere,” Quinn said. “We’re one big extended family, from the defense to the offense to the coaches.”
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A look at SMU in spring 2017 through numbers CAMPUS WEEKLY CONTRIBUTORS The Campus Weekly contributors submit an ‘SMU by the numbers’ piece every semester. Below are the numbers gathered in this semester’s edition. 2,599: The number of points scored by the 2016-2017 SMU men’s basketball team (team statistics) 100: The approximate number of packages the SMU mail center receives every day in April (SMU mail and copy center) 5: The number of vendors at Snider Plaza that take Pony dollars (Pony Facts) 1: The ranking SMU Guildhall received for best graduate game design program in the world by the Princeton Review (SMU News & Information) 120: The number of Jimmy Johns sandwiches delivered to SMU’s campus on an average weekend night (Jimmy Johns) 1: The number of Kardashians that attended SMU (Ranker) 4: The number of semesters that Kourtney Kardashian attended SMU (Wikipedia) 18: The number of inactive, closed or silent Greek chapters at SMU (SMU Greek Conduct Status) 1: The number of U.S. presidents who joined the SMU Mob. Hint: it was George W. Bush (Twitter) 17,200: The number of views the most watched SMU-TV video has ever received on Vimeo 22: The number of laundry rooms in underclassmen dorms (Residence Life & Student Housing) 2,684: The number of underclassmen residents in the dorms (Residence Life & Student Housing)
$10,535: The total housing cost for a year per student living in a double room (Room Rates) $27,896,680: The total cost in housing SMU charged underclassmen living on campus in 2016-17 (Room Rates) 26: The percentage of female tenured professors at SMU (SMU 2016 Trends) 22,200: The number of tweets @SMU has sent out as of April 3, 2017 (SMU Twitter) 1: The number of Gilmore Girls who graduated from SMU (SMU Magazine) 232: The number of acres that SMU maintains on its Graphic by Jacquelyn Elias main campus (SMU FACTS) 4: The number of LEED-certified acres irrigated with reclaimed water. (SMU FACTS) 1: The number of Green Star Awards SMU has received for quality ground maintenance. (SMU FACTS) 6: The number of pop-up Block Party Suites Cox sponsors for each Boulevard 149,193: The total number of people attending the six SMU home football games this year 11: The number of cream cheeses at Einstein Bros. Bagels in Cox 385: The total number of tenured professors at SMU in 2016 (SMU Faculty Tenure) 32: The height in feet of the scoreboard at the Gerald J. Ford Football Stadium (SMU Mustangs) 770,590: The number of ballots cast in Dallas County in the Nov. 8 presidential election (Dallas County Elections Department) $70,008: The estimated cost to attend SMU for the 2017-18 school year (SMU Undergraduate Admissions) $124,958,733: The amount of money available to SMU undergraduates in scholarships and grants (SMU Undergraduate Admissions)
Cox School announces new dean for next academic year JACQUELYN ELIAS Online Editor jelias@smu.edu Matthew B. Myers was announced as the new dean of SMU’s Cox School of Business April 6. The current dean Albert W. Niemi Jr. made public his plans to step down last August at the end of this academic year. Myers will begin his duties on Aug. 1. “The range of [Myers’] previous administrative and professorial experiences also equips him to lead the school toward even greater faculty research excellence, as well Matthew B. Myers as innovative educational programs for Cox undergraduates, graduate students and working executives,” SMU provost and vice president for academic affairs Steven C. Currall stated in a release. “Furthermore, Matt is deeply committed to collaborations with other academic units on the SMU campus to advance interdisciplinary academic programs and initiatives.” Myers currently serves as the Dean & Mitchel P. Rales Chair of Business Leadership of the Farmer School of Business at Miami University of Ohio. In this role, he oversees the $80 million budget and initiated a $200 million fundraising campaign,
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which received the largest single donation of $40 million in Miami University’s history. Before his current position, he served as the Nestle Professor and Associate Dean of Executive Education the College of Business Administration at the University of Tennessee and has taught internationally in Paris, Scotland, Italy and Romania. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University’s Broad Graduate School of Management, a Master of International Business Studies from the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina and his bachelor’s from the University
of Louisville. As dean, Myers is the chief academic and executive officer for the Cox School of Business. He reports to the provost and oversees the school’s undergraduate, graduate and professional academic programs as well as more than 172 Cox faculty and staff. Myers will also oversee the Cox School’s $160 million endowment Niemi served as dean for 20 years, and he will continue to hold his faculty position as the William J. O’Neil Chair in Global Markets and Freedom in the Cox School. Myers was selected by a search committee formed after Niemi’s announcement earlier in the year.
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The Chainsmokers’ ‘Memories... Do Not Open’ gives fair warning to what’s inside
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RILEY COVEN Arts & Life Editor rcoven@smu.edu Since 2014, The Chainsmokers have dominated the airwaves on their way to becoming one of the biggest EDM groups in the world. The duo has put together some of the biggest hits of the last few years, including “Roses,” “Kanye” and “Closer.” Now, with expectations as high as they have ever been, the duo released its first full studio album “Memories … Do Not Open.” Unfortunately, the title is a little too spot on. “Memories…Do Not Open” is a complete disappointment. While The Chainsmokers have always had a propensity for making pretty bland EDM, they usually find a way to inject some life into their music. It can be counted on to be catchy, fun and a perfectly designed party anthem. What has been their bread and butter has now become their Achilles heel. The method of creating a synthy pop ballad with lyrics just relatable enough to convince every teenager that this song is about them has allowed The Chainsmokers to become who they are. The album opens with one of the previously released single “The One,” a decent tune stripped down enough to give an accurate impression of where the album is heading. The message it conveys is that “Memories … Do Not Open” is a personal look into the psyche of a songwriter filled with emotional moments, bared tracks and simpler acoustic sounds.
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That isn’t necessarily wrong, but the problem is that it immediately becomes incredibly dull in the very next song. The run of the next three songs is so cliché and boring that it’s hard to tell that the songs are even changing. The only noticeable difference is in the following track “Something Just Like This” due to its Coldplay feature. Chris Martin is a welcome addition to the track and his vocal style fits very smoothly over The Chainsmokers’ beats. The song is one of the few that deserve another listen and thankfully it was also released as a single so it doesn’t have to be weighed down with the rest of the album. Then the track list reverts to its bland, cookie-cutter style, and the rest of the tracks rumble along without anything standing out. Finally toward the end of the album, a few pieces worth listening to, namely the collaboration with Jhene Aiko in “Wake Up Alone.” It has a more interesting musical accompaniment than the rest of the songs and Aiko does a great job with her vocals. While there are a few songs worth listening to, the album suffers from the same problems throughout. The supposed emotional insight
the album advertises is more of a misguided attempt at appealing to young adults everywhere who are looking for a good song to listen to while they stare out the window into the rain and contemplate life while sitting in the backseat because they can’t drive a car yet. What is supposed to be an in-depth speaking from the heart comes across as another classic, torturedartist syndrome with no real resonance. Every song is interchangeable with the next and there is no musical experimentation or innovation. The closest thing to any attempt at broadening their range is the deeper mixing on “It Won’t Kill Ya,” but even that only lasts for a few seconds. It almost seems like The Chainsmokers are afraid of switching their style in the smallest way and upsetting any part of their fan base, which is annoying because the two have proven they possess the ability to create a unique sound. Instead, they prefer their recycled and processed method because, if it works, what’s the point in trying anything new?
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SMU Cheer and Pom travel to compete at the national level OLIVIA PITTEN Sports Editor opitten@smu.edu
Not only do the SMU Cheer and Pom teams show endless support in Ford Stadium at football games, in Moody Coliseum at basketball games and at the NCAA volleyball tournament in Austin, but they also compete at the national level too. This year, SMU’s Cheer and Pom teams traveled to Daytona Beach, Florida to compete in the NCA and NDA Collegiate Cheer and Dance championship on April 5-9, 2017. The Pom team competed in Division 1A, the largest and hardest division in the National Dance Association.
SMU Pom placed within the top five teams, finishing fourth overall with a score of 9.2 out of 10. The top five teams finished within .3 of each other. The Cheer team returned to Daytona Beach itsyear to defend their 2016 National Championship Intermediate Small Coed Division I title. “Full of hard work and dedication, our road to nationals is both intensely physically grueling and incredibly satisfying. Competing in Daytona has forced me to grow as both an athlete and as a teammate in numerous ways which will benefit me far beyond my years on this team, and for that I am very thankful,” said SMU cheer captain Margaret Bres. All of the rigorous
practices paid off when the SMU Cheer team won their second National Championship Intermediate Small Coed Division I title in a row. The SMU Cheer and Pom teams’ success at nationals is due to the hard work and dedication of the student athletes and the experience and guidance of head coach Tiffany Fettinger. Fettinger is the head coach of both the SMU Cheer and SMU Pom teams as well as a coach at Spirit of Texas, a competitive cheer gym in Arlington. The former SMU Cheer captain graduated after cheering on the Mustangs for four years. She now works with the SMU spirit squads to win more national titles and further Mustang athletic success.
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Wichita State addition moves SMU, AAC closer to “Power 6” status REECE KELLEY GRAHAM Sports Writer rkgraham@smu.edu When the Big 12 Conference passed on adding new members in October 2016, American Athletic Conference commissioner Mike Aresco breathed a huge sigh of relief. In fact, so did every athletic director in the conference. Ten of the 20 schools considered by the Big 12 for expansion resided in the American. After much courting, none of them were asked on a second date. That may have worked out for the best. The loss of a competitive program in either major profit sport could have been the American’s death sentence, at least in terms of relevancy. For members of the AAC, the only thing worse than not being invited to the Big 12 would have been seeing another member receive an invitation. “We’re trying to convince you, the media and the public,
that we’re genuinely the P6. That’s the goal,” Aresco told the Orlando Sentinel shortly after the Big 12’s decision. The goal of becoming the next power conference is ambitious – maybe too ambitious. A lackluster 20162017 that saw the American fail to qualify for a New Years’ Six bowl and all but two men’s basketball programs (SMU and Cincinnati) finish with an RPI below 50 did little to bolster confidence. The American needed to become more competitive if Aresco’s goal was ever to seem like more than a pipe dream. The AAC needed new energy. The conference received a jolt on Friday – a literal shock. Few were surprised when the AAC’s board of directors unanimously voted to invite Wichita State University to the conference. The marriage of the American and the Shockers makes perfect sense for everyone involved. The move was almost obvious. Wichita State brings membership in the AAC to
Last Friday, the AAC’s Board of Directors unanimously voted to invite Wichita State into the conference.
13, but balances the number of teams competing in football and basketball. Navy, the American’s 12th member, plays basketball in the Patriot League. The Shockers, who discontinued their football program in 1986, fill that basketball void. Wichita State also brings a baseball program that has made the College World Series seven times and other successful Olympic sports programs. “We are pleased and proud to welcome Wichita State to the American,” Aresco said in a written release. “The addition of Wichita State in basketball and olympic sports extends our conference’s national footprint, enhances our national profile, and strengthens our position as a leader in intercollegiate athletics.” But let’s not kid ourselves – this was about basketball. Period. Having been a member of the Missouri Valley Conference since 1945, Wichita State would only be lured away by a sweet
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deal. The American presented the school just that – a rare opportunity for mutual benefit. The Shockers have made six straight NCAA Tournaments, reaching the Final Four in the 2012-2013 season. They finished last season with a 31-5 record, 17-1 in conference play, while ranked 19th in the Associated Press Top 25 poll and 8th in the KenPom ratings. Their NCAA Tournament seed? 10. That’s the problem with playing in a conference like the MVC – no respect. The Shockers could have breezed through the field with a higher seed, but got stuck with Kentucky in the second round and lost. One month later, Wichita State forwent all of its cash winnings from the NCAA Tournament to join the AAC.
Basketball in the American is not well respected either, but the conference looks to change all of that by adding the best team in the country not playing for a Power 5. SMU and Cincinnati were the only AAC teams to make the tournament last season. Both earned 6 seeds despite playing at a level above that line – both finished the season ranked top 25 in RPI and by the AP and KenPom. RPI is a metric heavily factored when seeding the postseason. With the Shockers joining SMU, Cincinnati, Connecticut and Houston next season, the RPI of the entire conference projects to be much higher. Hence, mutual benefit. Every existing AAC member will now have at least one more game against a top 50 RPI team on their
schedule. Some will have two. For Wichita State, that number could be as high as four. There’s more good news for SMU and other teams in the American: the Shockers will return all five of their top scorers from last season. They will be as good as advertised. A victory over the Shockers would be a major resume booster. Inviting Wichita State to the AAC makes winning the conference more difficult, but that’s really beside the point. The Shockers make the conference better, and that’s what we should care about. The American with Wichita State is a better product. Conference realignments can be messy. This one wasn’t. The adage, “you complete me,” applies nicely here, and it works both ways.
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U.S. airstrikes raise world tension On Thursday, April 6, 2017, two U.S. missile cruisers fired 59 Tomahawk Cruise missiles at a Syrian air base, retaliating against chemical strikes which were reportedly carried out from the base. This was a swift and overwhelming response from the U.S. at the discretion of President Donald Trump, but the speed and force of this response has caused tensions to rise worldwide. In addition to being a Syrian air base, the air field also had numerous Russian soldiers stationed there, and the U.S. had to take extra care in order not to strike any Russian installments. Firing missiles anywhere near Russian troops seems risky, and Trump would have a much bigger mess on
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NOAH BARTOS Opinion Editor nbartos@smu.edu
his hands right now had any Russian lives been lost. In the aftermath of these attacks, officials from Russia commented that “from now on we will respond with force to any aggressor” conducting airstrikes in the manner that the U.S. did against Syria. If this is true, then Trump and U.S. National Security advisors must be incredibly careful if they choose to conduct any more airstrikes against Russian allies in the future, as the possibility of engaging in an armed
conflict with Russia would skyrocket if they back up their claim. Somewhat unrelated to this issue – but relevant to the global climate – is the movement of Chinese and American troops in the North Korean vicinity. China has deployed 150,000 troops to locations near North Korea, and the U.S. has recently moved a nuclear-powered carrier into the region. These movements are likely due to North Korea’s claims of increased nuclear power and mobility. But this also seems to increase the chance of armed conflict and rising tensions in another area. Trump’s forceful response to the Syrian chemical strikes was a power move – as
stopping the proliferation of chemical warfare is most certainly in the interest of all nations. However, the strike and Syria’s ties to Russia have heightened global tensions and have made any future strikes or offensive actions much more risky. While I do not think Trump is sending us toward World War III, it seems as if the world took one step closer over the past week. Hopefully all parties can come to some agreement and the chances of conflict do not escalate any further in the coming weeks and months. Concerned citizens should keep an extra close eye on events overseas for the next few weeks.
Trump’s budget will increase education cost JACKQUELYN BROWN Guest Column jackieb@smu.edu College tuition is too high. With Trump proposing a budget for 2018 that would cut $3.9 billion from Pell grants, we are going to see another rendition of the pre-1940s when only the rich could afford a higher education, except now it will be the rich and the military. Pell grants are federally aided funds that are given to college students in need, and 90 percent of recipients are from families that do not make $40,000 a year. So, consider that $200 or even $500 a month that you are thinking about stashing away monthly for your future child gone after their first year, thanks to ever-rising tuition costs. In Texas from 2002 to
2015, tuition at public colleges has increased an average of 147 percent, according to calculations by The Texas Tribune. Despite heightened costs, universities have not responded with upgraded facilities, nor has federal minimum wage reflected the need for more funds. There is a simple answer to why this is so, but also a messy, complex and hard to comprehend explanation with the details, but we will take the shortcut to the point. With the federal government shaming colleges for high tuition costs, the colleges respond by jacking up the price exponentially to supposedly suffice for the lack of funding from the state, whom they blame when the Feds call them out. Everyone blames everyone else, now spearheaded first and foremost by Trump,
and no one wants to take responsibility and bite the bullet to keep higher education available to lower-income individuals and families. Regarding Pell grants, USA Today reported “The program has been around since 1972, and the Trump administration says slashing its funding ‘safeguards’ its survival for the next decade.” When I graduate this May, after the three years I have been here at SMU, I will be $23,000 in debt. That is on top of the Pell grant, which does not have to be paid back, as well as numerous other grants for being a poor, emancipated minor that never had my parents’ financial backing like more than half of this school’s population has. So I am a special case and still have the same amount of debt due as the cost of a
down payment on a small house. I will start paying $140 per month starting January in 2018, and at that rate, I will have 13 years of student loans to pay off. You read that correctly, and that is only for less than three years of loans during college at SMU. If I have children in the next five or six years, I will still be paying off student loans by the time they start school, which is when I should be stashing away money for their future. These problems begin to overlap and become messier and messier until someone puts a stop to it. This is nothing in comparison to what our future generations will have to face if we lose Pell grants while tuition keeps getting higher. It will only get worse if Trump’s proposal to slash the 2018 budget passes.
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As the school year comes to a close, there is one more thing to look forward to before the weight of finals sets in: fashion week. SMU’s sixth annual Fashion Week, an event put on by both arts and business students to celebrate the best fashion SMU and Dallas has to offer, has an impressive lineup of events. So mark your calendars, these are events you will not want to miss!
Wednesday, April 19 Fashion Industry Panel Discussion This year’s panel highlights many different segments of fashion, including public relations, blogging, buying, retail and fashion design.
The three founders of SMU Fashion Week, Meg Jones ‘12, Shelby Foster ‘13, and Grace Davis Damrill ‘12, will return to the Hilltop to talk about the many ways fashion has evolved since the first event they worked tirelessly to put on back in 2012. They will be joined by Nicole Musselman ‘92, fashion designer and founder of the KOCH clothing brand, and Courtney Kerr; fashion blogger and influencer known for her big Dallas style. Details: Panel 5:30 p.m.; reception 6:30-7 p.m. in the Taubman Atrium of the Owen Arts Center.
Thursday, April 20 SMU Look Magazine Launch Party The fashion media program is proud to present
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the second issue of the student-produced fashion magazine, SMU Look: Hilltop Fashion & Style. Join the team for a night of small bites and shopping at the Impeccable Pig boutique. Details: 6:30 p.m. at The Impeccable Pig boutique, 6607 Hillcrest Ave.
Friday, April 21 Spring Fashion Show The Retail Club at Cox School of Business is happy to present its annual spring fashion show, which will feature a variety of Dallas’ best brands on the runway. The event will also include a raffle, so don’t miss the glamorous finale of what is sure to be another fabulous Fashion Week here at SMU. Details: 2 p.m. at the fountain outside Dallas Hall.
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