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SMU students question costly fees TAKIA HOPSON Contributing Writer thopson@smu.edu Halfway through her first year at SMU, biology major Gianna Rizzo learned her dad was diagnosed with a brain tumor. It was a tough time exacerbated by the resulting financial bind. Paying for college was already difficult for her family, and her father’s diagnosis put another strain on their expenses.

“My father was out of work for a very long time after he got sick,” Rizzo, now a junior, said. “He’s gotten back, but he’s about to go into radiation and be out of work again.”

Today, Rizzo is even more concerned with how much money she is spending to attend SMU. After looking at her bill, she thinks she may have found a place to save money: the nearly $3,000 she pays for student fees for many campus services.

Rizzo doesn’t attend many athletic events. Why is she paying for them?

“I barely go to athletic events,” Rizzo said. “I think it might be better if you could buy an athletic package instead of being charged for all events.”

Rizzo also thinks the university may not need to have as many flowers, because watering them is very expensive.

“The sprinklers are always going,” Rizzo said. “We could simply water the grass less.”

Senior Student Accounts advisor Amber Howell said students have come to the Bursar’s Office with similar concerns, but there is a reason why fees are so high.

“Of course students will ask what they’re paying an extra $3,000 for,” Howell said. “It’s just expensive to run a university like SMU.” Every year, students indirectly pay for miscellaneous campus services with the general student fee. While most students know how much they pay in general student fees, not all of them know how the fees are used.

When students request to know the specific services that fall under the fee, the Office of the Bursar provides them with a generalized list of on-campus services, including Mustang Express, campus lighting, tickets to intercollegiate athletic events and grounds maintenance. Students cannot receive a numeric breakdown of how money is dispersed.

“We don’t ever have like a breakdown of it monetarily,” Howell said. “Students don’t know that there’s a certain amount going to specific services.”

This year, the maximum general student fee amount is $2,952. The fee is based on credit hours, so students with more than 12 credit hours pay the same amount. 6,500 full-time students at SMU pay that price, so SMU collects about $19.2 million annually in fees from its students.

Mechanical engineering major Rachele Scaparotti Nagler was affected by the recent Daniel House mold situation and was shocked at the amount of money SMU collects in general student fees.

Daniel House residents were displaced at the beginning of the school year due to mold and poor upkeep.

“When the school gets that much extra money from us, it makes you wonder how things like Daniel House can happen,” Nagler said.

Howell said she doesn’t know how relevant numerical information would be to students anyway, because they would only be given the costs of those services. She brought up landscaping as an example.

If we say we’re putting x amount of money toward landscaping and you’re like, ‘Oh, that’s insane’ — well, it’s expensive to make it the beautiful campus that we have,” Howell said. “It’s all relative.”

SMU sophomore Josselyne Orbegoso feels differently and thinks knowing exactly where student funds are allocated monetarily is important.

General student fees have increased steadily since 2013.

Like the college tuition, the general student fee increases every year and has shown no evidence of slowing down.

The fee will likely be well over $3,000 for the 2018-2019 school year.

Not all students find the expenses necessary for their personal college experience.

SMU junior Sabreena Robinson thinks she could be saving money on fees, especially since she has moved off-campus and doesn’t use on-campus services like Mustang Express and Dedman Center.

“Since moving off-campus, I’ve realized that I don’t have as much use for on-campus services anymore,” Robinson said.

“I definitely think we shouldn’t pay for things we don’t use.”

SMU’s annual cost of attendance for students staying oncampus is around $70,000. Students pay a general student fee regardless of living status.

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Journalist Emily Lawler sheds light on Larry Nassar case CASSIDY NAJARIAN Contributing Writer cnajarian@smu.edu Journalist Emily Lawler visited SMU Thursday evening to discuss her reporting on Olympic doctor Larry Nassar and his sexual abuse of female athletes.

More than 60 students and faculty members attended Lawler’s presentation, “A Predator at Michigan State” to discuss the controversy surrounding Michigan State University and its former physician, Dr. Larry Nassar. According to Lawler, a reporter for MLive, it is estimated that Nassar sexually abused more than 150 young women during his time as a team physician at MSU. Nassar was recently sentenced to 40-175 years in prison.

Lawler covered the scandal for more than a year and published her first article about Nassar in February of 2017. She went on to publish three deep-investigative articles as well as co-author smaller episodic articles regarding the case.

“It’s a hard story to read because you put yourself in the victim’s shoes” Lawler said. “This could have happened to anybody… its uncomfortable and it’s about an institution that is immensely popular.”

For Lawler, the story was personal. She is a graduate of MSU and active in her community. She told her audience about the difficulties of covering a story that may affect her former university

and her community negatively.

“You want to protect your institution and at the same time help the institution with its mistakes,” Lawler said. “This is disturbing content and to see it happen

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somewhere you are close to is mind-blowing.”

Complaints about Nassar surfaced as early as 2004; however, despite dozens of victims coming forward, many news articles regarding the story were pushed under the rug.

“The university says it had no idea… but they could have stopped literally hundreds of sexual assaults,” Lawler said.

Many of the students that attended the event very intrigued to hear about the controversy. Sophomore Kate Adams was shocked at the alleged abuse, but was even more stunned that the story went unnoticed for so long.

“I know it takes a lot of courage for victims to come forward, but I couldn’t help but think about the other people who might have noticed that something wasn’t right and didn’t say anything about it,” Adams said. “It [reinforces] the importance of intervening and speaking up.”

Sophomore Rachel Warren agreed with Adam’s statement, and praised Lawler for her perseverance.

“I admired Emily for being strong enough to push through all the barriers protecting [Nassar],” Warren said.

Lawler credits her success to the women on her management team.

“We are an all-female team…we approach news differently,” Lawler said. “When you’re interested and your company supports you it all comes together.”

Lawler is looking forward to continuing her investigation of Nassar and MSU in the months to come.

“I’m trying to pinpoint how this could happen at MSU, how do we understand this incident, and how we can prevent it,” Lawler said.

As she wrapped up her discussion, Lawler left students with some advice for the future.

“It’s okay to question authority, it’s okay to question institutions you respect” she said. “Sometimes your instincts are stronger and smarter than what people are telling you.”

Unsung Heroes: Ed Smith, Meadow’s School accompanist SARA MAGALIO Assignments Editor smagalio@smu.edu

Dancers use their bodies as their instrument to create art, and music is often the muse to their movement. Ed Smith has been providing live music as an accompanist for dance majors for approximately 30 years. He is a constant source of inspiration for students who have the privilege of moving to his music.

Students have been moved to tears on multiple occasions from his playing. Senior dance major Molly Kate Dalton appreciates the emotion Smith elicits in class.

“He has a way of creating music that takes me to another place and allows me to explore different ideas and dynamics in movements,” Dalton said. “I’m so thankful I have the pleasure of dancing to his music every semester at SMU.” Before he became a skilled accompanist, Smith made a name for himself on the vibraphone. He is still a celebrated name in the field, and instrument manufacturer Malletech even produces Smith’s signature vibe mallets.

Smith improvises entire 80-minute dance classes. Instead of playing the same rhythms repeatedly, he mixes it up to keep the dancers on their toes. Smith said he excels in this method of accompaniment thanks to his vast experience in jazz music.

“I feel more at home in modern class versus ballet because of my improvisational skills,” Smith said. “I also feel like I am trying to help you guys out, in colors and rhythms in the music, hitting accents and phrasing.”

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Smith’s efforts to provide new, exciting musical inspiration for the dancers, his hard work, and his dedication to the division do not go unnoticed.

“He is active in his search for new musical material for the dance classes,” said Myra Woodruff, a modern dance technique professor. “He doesn’t just play the same thing for ten years. He goes into the studio on his own time and finds new material and ideas.”

Woodruff specializes in the Graham

technique, a specific branch of modern dance that utilizes unconventional musical phrase lengths. She urges students to listen to Smith’s purposeful playing and to let it affect their dancing.

“He becomes one in his musical ideas with what the dancers are dancing,” Woodruff said. “Much of the time, his choice of music helps the dancers to find the inner life of the movement through what they are hearing.”

SMU celebrates seventh annual Black Excellence Ball MERYN KENNEDY Contributing Writer mbkennedy@smu.edu The Black Alumni of SMU and the Association of Black Students at SMU hosted the seventh annual Black Excellence Ball Feb. 24 to close out Black History Month on campus.

Approximately 200 people attended the event, which honors students and alumni for their achievements on and off campus.

Speakers at the event included SMU President Dr. Gerald Turner, and T’Keyah Crystal Keymáh, well known for her role as the mother on the hit Disney Channel Show That’s So Raven.

A handful of students receive the Legacy Award each year for their outstanding achievements on campus and selected alumni receive The History Maker Award, which recognizes their achievements after they left SMU. The Black Alumni of SMU also awarded scholarships to two students, DaNaysia Jones and Cristina Mauldin.

Dr. Gerald Turner, SMU president, began the opening remarks of the evening.

“We want to make sure SMU could be as supportive of a place as possible for all the students that are here,” Turner said. “And minority students…will feel welcome here and that [SMU] is a part of their community as much as it is anybody else’s community,” Ashely Hamilton, Board Leader of the Black Alumni at SMU, helped coordinate the event and believed Dr. Turner’s presence was critical so that he could become familiar with more black students and alumni at SMU and see what they are capable of as a community.

“His being at BEB allows us to make sure we are at the top of his mind when he is making decisions involving minorities on campus because he has something to draw

from when thinking about our community as a whole,” Hamilton said.

The night continued with a keynote speech from T’Keyah Crystal Keymáh on the past and future of black students on campus. She made a point in her speech to encourage students to put their best foot forward on campus to achieve their goals.

“What is the difference between the shammers and the doers…I believe the difference is a matter of love and faith,” Keymáh said.

Commenting on the struggles of black individuals and the impact these setbacks have on black students, Keymáh reassured the students of SMU that they are capable of great things and breaking down barriers.

“Surrounded, we are inundated with a constant and indulgent diet of impossibilities, barricades, impediments, hurdles, injustices and threats,” Keymáh said. “It is imperative that you believe that you are magnificent and that anything is possible. I am counting on you to believe that you are my legacy and that anything is possible.”

The night ended with remarks from Dr. Kenechukwu Mmeje, vice president of student affairs, and a networking session between alumni and students.

SMU sophomore India Simmons, pursuing majors in political science, human rights, international studies and Arabic, thought the event was a big step toward a more diverse and inclusive SMU. “A chance for students of color to come together and simply celebrate what makes them unique and powerful in the community,” Simmons said.

The Black Excellence Ball is an annual event and Hamilton hopes the event will grow in the future.

“Let’s get the word out and make it bigger and better each year,” Hamilton said.

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SMU drops game to UCF to closeout season JAKE EICHSTAEDT Sports Writer jeichstaedt@smu.edu Despite leading for the first 10 minutes of the game, the SMU women’s basketball team lost to East

Carolina 85-74 on Saturday.

The Mustangs trailed by one point at the end of the first quarter and ultimately couldn’t find the points to keep up with the Pirates.

Senior Mustang guard

Mckenzie Adams dropped 25 points on 11 field goal attempts, hitting 12 of 13 free throws.

Freshman guard Ariana Whitfield played a game-high 38 minutes and added 22 points, her first time recording over 20 points.

Whitfield also added four assists and three rebounds.

SMU held East Carolina to only 39 percent shooting from the field, but the Mustangs committed 31

turnovers while the Pirates only gave up 15.

Both Mustang standouts contributed five each.

The SMU women’s basketball team finished the 2017-18 season with a 10-20 record.

They lost their final five games, including the first-round game of the American Tournament against the Pirates.

SMU finished 4-12 overall in conference play, only ahead of Temple and Tulsa.

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SMU falls seconds short in first spring regatta OLIVIA PITTEN Sports Editor opitten@smu.edu

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Over the weekend, the SMU rowing team traveled to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to compete against the University of Alabama and fell to the Crimson Tide by only a few seconds.

In their first Spring regatta, the Mustangs faced the Crimson Tide in multiple races. SMU’s first varsity 8+ team narrowly missed victory by .7 seconds in the final 1,000-meter session, with a time of 3:51.9. The first varsity team is comprised of junior Brittany Rigg, freshman Juliet Traylor, senior Alyssa Sands, freshman Erin Pierce, freshman Madison van Meel, junior Sam HelmickSchwarzmiller, Brittany Courteau, senior Lauren Vanek and junior coxswain Emily Fogg.

SMU’s second varsity 8+ team is led by freshman coxswain Sarah Fitchett

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The SMU Rowing team opened up the spring season in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

and comprised of junior Adelaide Moore, sophomore Megan Scott, freshman Abigail Bentley, junior Emily MacAdam, freshman Peyton Jewell, senior Eki Olumese, senior Paige Papesch and

sophomore Trevor Rose. The second varsity 8+ team fell 5 seconds short of Alabama in the first 1,000-meter race, recording a time of 4:11.9.

Up next, on Friday, March 9, the Mustangs will host

Creighton at White Rock Lake. The races will begin at 5:40 p.m.

Then, the Mustangs will head west for the San Diego Crew Classic on March 24.

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Mustangs fall to USF in final regular season game OLIVIA PITTEN Sports Editor opitten@smu.edu Without lead scorer Shake Milton, SMU fell to USF, 65-54, in the final game of the regular season on Sunday afternoon in the Sun Dome, in Tampa, Florida.

Although the Mustangs led 27-22 at halftime, the Bulls recorded more than double their first half points in the second half to secure the 11-point victory.

Earlier this season, the Mustangs defeated the Bulls by 40 points in Moody Coliseum, but the short-handed Mustangs couldn’t find the same success shooting this time.

The Mustangs concluded their regular season with only seven eligible scholarships players and multiple players on the bench with injuries.

Milton’s right hand injury removed him from the past eight games, while Jarrey Foster and Everett Ray have both been out for the season.

Ethan Chargois returned to the court after missing the Cincinnati game due to a right ankle injury. Chargois led the Mustangs in scoring against USF with 15 points.

Jimmy Whitt followed closely behind, recording 14 points for the Mustangs. Ben Emelogu led the team in rebounds with 11.

South Florida’s David Collins led the Bulls with 21 points.

Terrence Samuel led with 12 rebounds.

Following the conclusion of the regular season, two SMU players received AAC honors on Monday as voted on by the league’s coaches. Milton was named to the All-AAC Second Team for the second consecutive year, and Chargois was named to the AAC All-Rookie Team.

Milton was also named to the U.S. Basketball Writers Association All-District VII Team on Tuesday.

Up next, both teams will prepare for the American Athletic Conference Championship tournament.

The tournament begins on Thursday, March 8,w in the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida.

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Freshman Ethan Chargois led the Mustangs in scoring with 15 points against USF. Chargois was named to the AAC All-Rookie Team on Monday.

No. 9 SMU will face No. 8 UConn at noon, and No. 12 USF will face No. 5 Memphis at 2 p.m. ET to kick off Round 1.

The Mustangs will look to defend their current AAC Championship title.

The final championship game will be on Sunday, March 11 at 3:30 p.m ET.

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Provocative themes make a 1960s play more appealing to SMU students UMA ASSOMULL Contributing Writer uassomull@smu.edu Profane and provocative elements have made Tom Stoppard’s 1966 play, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” onstage in SMU’s Greer Garson Theater through March 4.

The Tony Awardwinning play borrows from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” focusing on the two lords, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and their unfortunate fate.

This production of

“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” by Tom Stoppard is completely student run.

All the actors are current MFA and BFA students, and graduate students took charge of the costumes and lights.

The students were able to add comedy to something that is ultimately tragic.

Theater and opera director Kara-Lynn Vaeni has directed productions all over the country, from New York and Florida to Montana and now, here in Dallas.

She is currently a professor at SMU and Yale University. She has been a key component in the

production of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” here at SMU. “‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’ was not my first choice, but we landed somewhere in between Shakespeare and newer writers and I had fun making it more relatable,” Vaeni said.

“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” is “Hamlet” from the perspective of two of the Danish prince’s close childhood friends.

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Each time the coin lands on heads, Rosencrantz wins it while Guildenstern thinks about the improbability of the coin never landing on tails.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern don’t know why they were summoned to the castle and what their purpose of going there was.

Along the way, when they are lost in the forest, they meet the Tragedians, who are a group of actors that are led by the Player, and ask them for help to get to the Elsinore castle.

Mac Welch, BFA ’20, is the assistant director and musical director of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.”

Welch and the rest of the drama department decided to revisit this play from the 1960s because the themes are timeless.

It’s not necessarily a political play, Welch said, but rather just about being a human.

“The original script was very British, and very dry. Very wordy and very heavy,” Welch said. “But the director read it and decided that it was a genius script and there was only one way to make it possible and easy to follow.

The directors decided to make this play more current to today by adding many different songs that are popular in today’s culture performed throughout the production such as “I’m On A Boat” by The Lonely Island and “Float” by Modest Mouse. The design also made the costumes more modern.

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern flip the coin that decides a winner as they walk through Denmark

“In order to make the play more modern, we made the actors say [explicit language] a lot,” Vaeni said.

Once Vaeni discovered her students could also sing and play music she added a live band.

“The set is very dangerous and has lots of moving parts sort of like a big jungle gym,” Vaeni said. “I was very nervous watching the actors go up 10-15 feet in the air with no mats or anything.”

Haley Stephenson, SMU sophomore, was impressed by the overall quality of the performance.

Stephenson’s favorite part of the play was the scene where Rosencrantz (Yusef Seevers) and Guildenstern (Diego Martinez) played their question game.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern asked each other questions, none of which could be rhetorical to help pass the time as well as help them seek truth of their identities.

“I thought the production as a whole was very well done,” Stephenson said.

“Every actor was consumed by their character.”

The costumes were designed and created by graduate students.

Stephenson thought the costumes were very interesting.

“They were pretty simple but at the same time helped convey the time period and status of each character,” Stephenson said.

“I thought the queen and king’s costumes were very entertaining and elegant yet modern.”

Stephenson also thought the actors were very brave.

“I thought it was very bold and daring of some of the actors to climb so high with nothing below them,” Stephenson said.

Vaeni was also impressed with the cast.

“This is going to sound cheesy,” Vaeni said. “My cast is so awesome, they’re really curious, and bring a lot of intelligence and physical bravery.”

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The viola quintet sticks to the Bs: Bruckner, Beethoven, Bhrams ALLAIRE KRUSE Contributing Writer akruse@smu.edu The viola quintet played pieces by Bruckner, Beethoven, and Brahms in Caruth Auditorium Feb. 21.

An audience of 69 people attended to hear the performance, “Never Enough Violas,” performed by seven professionals, SMU professors, students and alumni.

Aaron Boyd, SMU professor and first violinist, explained his love for the viola quintet as having the most beautiful repertoire.

The viola quintet includes two violins, two violas, and one cello.

“On the whole, my favorite works of chamber music are from the viola quintet repertoire,” Boyd said.

The viola is part of the

violin family. It looks and is played very similarly to a violin.

It is known for its more alto sound. The viola is often paired with the cello and violin and helps to compliment and balance the two instruments with its slightly lower and deeper sound.

Boyd explained the viola quintet is significant because of the quintet itself. He said that that composers are intimidated by the string quartet form.

Many composers believed it required extreme perfection and it was difficult being compared to such supreme music makers like Mozart.

However, the viola quintet added a sort of freedom for many.

It released them from having to strive for utter perfection since there was no precedent.

“They were free to explore it,” Boyd said.

That evening, the quintet played three pieces In the first half, “Intermezzo in D minor (WAB 113)” by Anton Bruckner and “String Quintet in C major, OP. 29” by Ludwig van Beethoven were performed.

After the intermission “String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111” by Johannes Brahms was played.

Among the artists, two SMU students were represented in the evening’s performance.

Eleanor Dunbar, 19, is earning a Bachelor’s degree in violin performance. The other SMU student is Hau Haung, who played the cello for the first half of the show.

Jiah Kyun, an SMU graduate student, in her second year as a Viola Performer Diploma in the

Meadows School of the Arts, said the event went very well.

“This was an unforgettable experience which I was very grateful to have this opportunity hopefully there will be more opportunities like these events in the future,” Kyun said.

The other professional performers included Pierre Lapointe, who played the first viola in the first half and Ann Marie Brink, who played the first viola in the second half.

Theodore Harvey played the cello in the second half of the show as well.

Boyd explained that for his students it is important that they treat these concerts the way a professional would especially since they would be playing with professionals.

“They have to come in and be prepared to play at the highest level,” Boyd said.

Boyd’s advice to the SMU

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Students perform the show “Never Enough Violas” in Caruth Auditorium.

student population was to show up and be there and get out of their rooms.

“Go out and go hear music live. It really is the only way to experience music. Anything else is a postcard,” Boyd said.

The next concert in this series, “Meadows Distinguished Performer Concert Series Aaron Boyd and Friends,” will be Monday, April 23 in Caruth Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.

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CALLIE ROSENWASSER Opinion Editor crosenwasser@smu.edu The 90th Annual Academy Awards took place this past Sunday, and were full of political statements. This was not a surprise by any means, as every award show in Hollywood for the last several years has featured speeches with some bigpicture message. “Thanks Mom!” just doesn’t cut it anymore.

Politics are inescapable in this day and age, and celebrities are becoming more and more bold.

Who could forget former San Francisco 49’s player Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the singing of the Star Spangled Banner at the team’s games? His choice sparked discussion across the nation about police brutality against African Americans, contributed to the Black Lives Matter movement, and royally pissed off President Trump along with viewers who just wanted to watch their

football game.

Chris Evans, who plays Marvel’s Captain America, consistently uses his Twitter to make his own political statements.

Fans were split when he got into a Twitter fight with AltRight leader David Duke in February 2017.

Some were furious with the political statement from an actor, while others were thrilled that their dream Nazihating real-life Captain America was showing his true red-white-and-blue colors.

American public figures are voicing their opinions and taking stances in public forums, and some citizens hate it. Something about this whole First Amendment rights situation is really getting under their skin.

Tweets like that of Fox Sports Radio’s Clay Travis complain “people are sick and tired of celebrities lecturing them

on politics.” Naturally, there is a seven minute video attached of this midlevel celebrity lecturing other celebrities on political lectures.

It is important to remember that these people, however much fame and fortune they may possess, are still people.

They aren’t dancing monkeys that will entertain the crowd then disappear until the next gig, they aren’t meant to be seen but not heard.

They are just as entitled to their free speech as anyone else you know.

When, where, and how they exercise their right is not up to you.

Further, I would argue they have a responsibility to use their voice to spread awareness. The platforms on which they speak are astronomically larger than most citizens.

Take, for example, the #MeToo movement that has garnered so much attention this awards season. It was started in 2006 by a woman named Tarana Burke,

but wasn’t nationally recognized until actress Alyssa Milano tweeted the message out. Within a day, more than 40,000 people had replied. It takes more than one person to move a mountain, but it helps to have a giant moving things along.

I’m not saying you have to religiously follow every celebrity’s political thoughts if you want to be a true fan. I’m not even saying you have to care what they say. I am saying no one has a right to silence them, their activism, or require that they make their politics known only in certain spaces.

These people are full of talent, and you are welcome to enjoy the entertainment they provide. But if you don’t want to see politics, if you’d rather live in that blissfully ignorant bubble, then tune out.

They have their rights to free expression, you have your rights not to listen.

Use yours, don’t take away theirs.

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Rihanna debuts new Fenty/PUMA line TARAN STAHLE Staff Writer tstahle@smu.edu

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Slick Woods is the featured model in Rihanna’s Fenty/PUMA Spring/Summer collection.

Fenty/PUMA’s Spring/ Summer collection.

She began her modeling journey when Fenty Beauty featured her as the face of its foundation line. Her most outstanding features include her flawless dark skin, her larger-than-life lips and her unique gap between her front teeth.

Woods broke the mold of what people think models typically look like and made history with her style.

Rihanna is known for not following stereotypes,

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Rihanna also rocked the motorcycle theme on her Spring 2018 Fenty x Puma runway show.

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The drop will include apparel and accessories for the badass inside us all.

Bodysuits inspired by wetsuits, track pants screaming with cool graphics and leggings with hints of neon are soon to hit the streets around the world.

Rihanna would never leave her audience lacking cool accessories to wear with this clothing line.

Fenty/ PUMA will sell fanny packs and rucksacks stitched together with neoprene fabric, mesh lining and bungee cords to fasten it together.

A fan favorite, the Creeper Sneaker, is back and more colorful than ever. The sneaker screaming with bright green and electric blue tied up by a bungee cord are soon to be walking on streets in every country.

Word of sneakerboots and perhaps even slides dropping keeps us all on our toes.

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After Rihanna teased the whole world with a quick glimpse of Fenty PUMA Spring/Summer 2018 collection on her Instagram, new pictures have finally emerged of even more pieces in the campaign.

Her previous 2017 Fall/ Winter collegiate-themed line left us all wanting more, and all our desires will be met on March 15.

This collection is oozing with a mixture of rebellious vibes and eye-catching summery colors. With a combination of neon colors and mesh netting, this line could not be any more fitting for Rihanna’s style, merging motorcyclists and lifeguards into a single category and spicing it up with neon colors and creative graphic designs.

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Red carpet jewelry dazzles at the 2018 Oscars ELIZABETH BRADLEY Contributing Writer ebradley@smu.edu The red carpet at the Oscars is the perfect time to see trending dress styles and fashionable accessories.

It is a night where the entire world turns their eyes to the red carpet to see a display of true Hollywood glitz and glam.

A great dress at the Oscars is one thing; however, the dazzling jewelry is what really helps an actress make or break her entire ensemble.

The 2018 Oscars Red Carpet was a display of several stars who wore breathtaking pieces including cuffs, collars, earrings and rings with their dresses.

Ashley Judd wore an incredible diamond necklace with matching earrings.

The diamonds were a perfect choice that complemented her purple gown.

Emily Blunt was in a stunning, baby blue dress with a lace, high-neck collar.

The star paired her gorgeous style with beautiful, long, blue earrings that brought out the different shades of blue in her trendy style.

Greta Gerwig also accessorized with blue jewelry. The star wore a yellow dress with floral motifs.

The blue necklace she wore was the perfect length that highlighted the intricacy of the embellishment on her dress.

Superwoman star Gal Gadot was truly extraordinary in Tiffany & Co. The dramatic multi-stone rectangular necklace paired perfectly with her embellished and sequined silver dress.

These women ruled the red carpet and are all winners when it comes to their red carpet styles.

As the 2018 award season comes to a close, these women brought their A-game and used exquisite jewelry to enhance their respective looks.

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Emily Blunt wore Chopard jewelry and Schiaparelli Haute Couture.

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