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News in the age of social media LAUREN HAWKINS Contributing Writer lhawkins@smu.edu Savanna Strickland depends on social media for news. As a high school senior, Strickland is all about time management and Twitter makes it easier. Tap, tap and Strickland is on Twitter’s Explore tab reading today’s top headlines. “I’ll watch the news when I can, but it’s just, if you go to school and have extracurricular activities, it’s hard,” Strickland said. Strickland is not the only one turning to social media for news. According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, social media are increasingly becoming a source of news for U.S. adults. SMU journalism professor Jake Batsell is an expert in digital journalism and trains journalism students to adapt to this ongoing change. He teaches a digital journalism class and wrote a book on the subject titled “Engaged Journalism: Connecting with Digitally Empowered News Audiences.” Batsell has a simple answer to why this shift in news sources is occurring. “Because we use social media so much now to document our lives and to communicate with friends, it’s natural that we would share and comment on the news of the day as part of those social streams,” Batsell said. The Pew survey supports that statement by showing that while two-thirds of U.S. adults reported to get at least some of their news from social media sites, only 18 percent use traditional newspapers and 33 percent use news websites/ apps. SMU student You Wu fits within both the former and latter groups by using traditional news sources for hard news and social media sites for soft news. “I use news apps so [I] sometimes read the news on the apps,” Wu said. “And then, I use the social media platform to know the, like, stars’ films, that kind of news.” SMU student Guanlin Zhou follows a similar pattern by using a combination of Chinese news applications and social media for news. “I use some Chinese application (sic),” Gualin said. “But sometimes I use Facebook to read some news.” Despite the 5 percent increase in adults that get their news from social media sites in the past year, the number of those with at least a college degree has dropped by 5 percent. SMU student Luke Abbattista is part of the latter group and prefers not to use any social media as a news source. “I just try to avoid it all,” Abbattista said. “Because it doesn’t really work because you don’t know what’s real and what’s not.” Abbattista instead turns to network nightly television, while only 26 percent of all adults in the survey said that they do the same. Batsell wears a smart watch and has a New York Times virtual reality viewer on his office desk, but he does not claim social media as his main source of news. Instead, he keeps up with current events through news websites and his two physical newspaper subscriptions. “It’s a ritual,” Batsell said. “I enjoy the serendipity of
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Goff’s Burgers opens at new spot after 2016 fire discovery of reading the newspaper, the print newspapers.” Although Batsell enjoys flipping through the black-andwhite pages of the Sunday paper, he does not think that this experience will last forever. He cannot entirely predict the future of traditional news media, but Batsell does think that traditional newspapers will eventually become a “novelty experience.” As a journalism professor, he still believes that the importance of their principles will remain. “Doing reporting, interviewing people one-on-one, checking the documents, doing the shoe leather work, you know, to confirm the facts is always gonna be so crucial to just the basic functioning of our democracy,” Batsell said. Batsell may be a digital journalism expert, but he keeps his news media and social media balanced. He offers advice to those who want to use social media as a news source and still be well-informed citizens. “The best way to use social media for news purposes is as an alert system,” Batsell said. “As a way to stay plugged in, not as a replacement for fully reported news that provides the context that good journalism provides.” Despite this advice, the upward trend of adults using social media as a new source does not seem likely to shift anytime soon, if ever. Strickland will continue to be a part of this national occurrence as many others continue to join the movement, as long as social media sites remain a punctual source of news. “A lot of times things are posted on Twitter, Instagram and you see, you find out about things way sooner through there, I think,” Strickland said.
LIZ MARTINELLI Contribring Writer lmartinelli@smu.edu Burger Lovers, rejoice! Goff’s is making its triumphant return to Highland Park. In 1950, Goff’s opened, making it practically a University Park landmark. Harvey “Goff” Gough inherited the burger joint from his parents in 1970 before selling the franchise to Jim Francis in 2005. An unexpected tragedy struck in August of 2016, when a build-up of grease in the grill ventilation of the kitchen started a three-alarm fire that engulfed the restaurant. Approximately 80 firefighters arrived from University Park, Highland Park and Dallas Police Departments in an attempt to salvage the building. The following afternoon demolition, began on the once-great Goff’s, seemingly taking it away from SMU students and Highland Park families forever. But all hope is not lost for french fry fanatics. Saturday, April 14, nearly two years after the grease fire, Goff’s opened on Mockingbird Lane. Nestled in next to the Southern Methodist University Bookstore and Pokey-O’s Ice Cream, Goff’s will join the Mockingbird shopping center. This walking distance location from the southeast commons gives SMU students the chance to get their burger and an ice cream sandwich all in one trip. And just in time for bathing suit season! The burger joint announced the construction and grand opening via Facebook, featuring a new look.
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Program Council presents 30th annual Sing Song UMA ASSOMULL Contributing Writer uassomull@smu.edu This year’s Sing Song put on by SMU Program Council featured an evening of studentperformed musicals surrounding superhero storylines at the McFarlin Auditorium on April 20. Members of Chi Omega and Beta Theta Pi performed a skit about Captain America, which took home first place. The students have been practicing for this performance since January. Delta Delta Delta’s Sing Song Chair Maggie Barbour really enjoyed the whole experience. “It’s so amazing to
work with the new members and learn their personalities and watch them work together and encourage each other,” Barbour said. Sing Song is an annual event that brings most of the Panhellenic community together through the community created in the rehearsal and performance process. A member of Pi Beta Phi, Brooke Naylor was happy her organization was involved in the performance. “I’m happy that my organization is involved with it,” Naylor said. “It felt so rewarding to see it all come together.” Ryan Hawkins, a member of Phi Delta Theta, gained a new appreciation for musicals through his participation in Sing Song. “One thing I can take away is that you’re never too cool to be in a musical,” Hawkins said. Corinne Gibson, one of the co-directors of the show, was very proud of the final product. “It’s definitely no small task wrangling 250 college freshman, most of whom have never done theatre before, to put on a full production in just four months,” Gibson said. “I could not be more impressed or proud with how these groups embraced the competition and left it all on the stage the night of the show. Sing Song 2018 was definitely a night to remember.”
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Experts urge against protectionism on Bush Institute panel LILI JOHNSTON News Editor lsjohnston@smu.edu
Three economists and political figures convened to discuss nationalism and global markets as part of the Bush Institute’s Forum on Leadership Wednesday, April 18. The panel included Henry Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury under George W. Bush and former chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs; Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the Federal Reserve; and Edward Lazear, professor of economics at Stanford University. “I don’t think our democracy is going to work,” Paulson said. “I don’t think our political system is going to work unless we figure out how to have growth be more inclusive.” This lack of inclusivity is what is driving our current political climate, Paulson said. “We have big groups of people that feel disaffected by the pace of change, they get left behind. This is where populism comes from,” Paulson said. “The challenge really is a political challenge.” “The sorts of things that I worry about… not just rising protectionism, but higher levels of government debt around the world,” Paulson said. The other panelists echoed his concern. “[Attempting to change] integration of the global economy, the expansion of trade, the expansion of human movement, immigration…That can slow growth, it can disrupt the markets. We’ve seen how the markets have responded to discussions of trade wars, for example,” Bernanke said. “There is no doubt that if I were to focus on the big policy issue that’s going to face us over the next 20 years, it definitely has to be the debt,” Lazear said. “In order to close that gap [of the deficit] we would have Story continued on next page.
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to increase taxes across the board, not just taxes on the rich, by about 50 percent. If we were to increase taxes by 50 percent, that would have absolutely devastating effects on economic growth and on activity,” Lazear said. Bernanke also expressed concerns about the debt. “I think there is a bit of concern there because the debt and deficit are high. The flexibility of fiscal policy to respond to a downturn is less than it would otherwise be. That puts a lot of burden on the Fed to respond,” Bernanke said. “It’s not clear that, if we had a deep recession, that monetary and fiscal policy would be as effective in responding as might have been the case to the past,” Bernanke said. Another important topic discussed was trade relationships, specifically with China. “When we look at this century, I believe more than anything else, how the U.S. figures out how to deal with a rising China… more than anything else, that shapes the geopolitical landscape that we have in the 21st century,” Paulson said. “The most important thing that we need to do is to not be afraid of competition, to recognize that, despite the competition, China and the U.S. have many shared interests,” Paulson said. “We’re not going to solve the major global problems we have… unless we find common ground with China.” Paulson also advocated for rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership to create a positive agenda in Asia. “The onus is on us… to fix our economic problems at home, to be strong economically, militarily, and diplomatically, because I think the Chinese, like any other people, respect strength,” Paulson said. “We certainly don’t need to view them as
an enemy because we can’t afford another Cold War,” Paulson said. Lazear mentioned a more positive point. “The United States has outgrown our G7 neighbors from some period of time, and we’ve done so primarily for three reasons,” Lazear said. “The first is that we work hard. Secondly, we actually have low taxes, despite the fact that we all think our taxes are too high. They are really quite low relative to the rest of developed economies. Third... is that we do a really good job of integrating our immigrants.” “While that sounds kind of backwards given the current rhetoric, one of the ways to see that is if you look at the unemployment rates of immigrants versus the unemployment rates of the native-born population in every G7 country, except for the United States, the unemployment rates are higher for immigrants than it is for the native-born population,” Lazear said. “Obviously, that’s not the only measure of immigration, but it does give you an indication that our immigrants are here to work, and they’re actually successful at getting jobs,” Lazear said. The panelists were optimistic about one part of the future: youth and the next generation. “If we’re optimistic, it’s really got to come from the young people,” Bernanke said. “But if I had a caution… I think I see so much political correctness, so much talking about safe-spaces, worried about hurting someone’s feelings, and I also see a lack of patriotism,” Bernanke said. “Really, if we’re going to meet the challenges we need to make, it’s going to take a greater sense of patriotism from young people.”
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Lead singer of Jukebox the Ghost talks new record, influences, Queen KELLY KOLFF A&L Assoc. Editor kkolff@smu.edu Alternative band Jukebox the Ghost played the House of Blues on Friday, April 20. The SMU Campus Weekly talked with lead singer and pianist Ben Thornewill about the band’s history, the newest record and the group’s love for Freddie Mercury. Campus Weekly: You released your album a couple of days ago, so that must feel pretty good. Ben Thornewill: It’s awesome. It’s a really great feeling. CW: What was your process going through your newest record? BT: It took a long time to make this record — it was
almost three years between studio releases, which is longer than we usually like to take. But, one of the big things we brought to this record was, I guess, more adventurous songwriting and incorporating a lot of Queen influence — that was a big part of it. We’ve done this show for the last few years called ‘HallowQueen,’ and we do a set of our music and get into costume and character and do a set as Queen, and it’s so much fun and we learned a lot from it. When we were making this record, we were like, “Let’s just sorta go for it. Let’s put in the guitar solo, let’s do a bunch of vocal stacked harmonies, let’s write pop songs that can also be a little strange and subversive.” CW: How does the
songwriting process go for you guys? BT: It’s always different. There’s two songwriters, so I write and Tom may write, and sometimes we bring the song to the table and it’s half constructed. Sometimes we bring it the table and it’s finished. So, a lot of the band’s process when we get going is getting into the studio and trying to make the song sound like us. Try to make it sound unique, try to find a cool way to use harmonies or use our instruments, or you know, mess with the way the drums sound. You sort of never know how it’s gonna play out. But, from a songwriting perspective, I think every song has its own path. Sometimes you can write an entire song in an hour and it’s
perfect, and sometimes it takes weeks. CW: What kind of different things did you do for this album? BT: Some of the cool stuff that we did — a couple of times on the record, I recorded piano with somebody inside the piano putting their hand on the piano strings, which creates this weird plunking, plucky sound. It’s on the tune “Boring,” it’s also on “Time and I.” “Jumpstart,” the first track on the record, has over 120 vocals on it of me, just all of my vocals stacked on top of each other time and time and time again. Those are two notable, messing with the conventional uses of an instrument. CW: I’ve always been impressed on how musicians figure out that kind of sound. It must have taken a lot of thinking about it and creating new sounds. BT: Yeah, you know, when you spend a lot of time with an instrument, you sort of learn the different things you can do with it. With pianos, there’s not a lot, because pianos don’t get re-amped very often. So, the only thing you can do is mess with the strings. You can put tacks on it and then it’s a tack piano and it has an oldtimey sound. Sometimes I’ll lay paper towels on the strings and that gives it this weird papery sound. And it’s fun! You get into the studio and you’re trying to make things that don’t sound like anything else. A lot of pianos have been recorded, but not a lot of pianos have been recorded with
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people’s hands on them. CW: You’re starting your tour in a couple of days. What are you most excited about for it? BT: This is our fifth record, and you know we’ve toured our faces off on all of them. It’s a challenge for us, figuring out how to take those tracks with 30, 40, 100 vocals and translate that and make that happen on stage with an energy and excitement that makes it fun. CW: Has music always been a part of your life? BT: Virtually for as long as I can remember. I started playing piano when I was six and studied classical all the way, you know, and I’m still playing somehow. CW: Were there any musical influences that your parents brought to the table? BT: It’s funny because the two things in my house were strange. My mom never really did like music, so we weren’t the sort of family that had music on in the house; there was never background music in the house. If you wanted to hear music, you played it. So, it’d be my dad playing the guitar
or me playing the piano. My dad introduced me to classic rock when I was in middle school, and that was it. Even still, I don’t listen to a lot of music, and I didn’t really then either. It was the music in front of me; it was the Chopin, it was the Beethoven and that sort of stuff. CW: You talked about this at the beginning of how Queen is one of your biggest influences. Can you tell me a little bit about that? Why is that band so important to you guys? BT: It’s sort of grown in importance. Early on we got compared to them a lot just by the nature of piano and big vocals and pop songs, etc. But to me, it’s the use of his voice, the adventurousness of the arrangements, the rock and the guitar solos, the harmonies and that they were weird. And they got away with being weird. And it’s f***ing awesome. You can have these crazy-a** songs that do a thousand different things and they’re iconic, classic, forever songs. And it’s something to aspire to.
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SMU cross country team ‘runne’ in support of teammate HANNAH MILLER Contributing Writer hjmiller@smu.edu SMU Cross Country athletes demonstrated true spirit and support last weekend at the annual “Bishop Dunne Funne Runne,” an annual 5k race that occurs every April at Bishop Dunne Catholic High School. For this race, SMU athletes traded their usual competitiveness for commitment to a greater cause, remembrance and respect of their teammate’s late sister. “It was a special moment to be out there supporting a teammate and her family because we are all family,” distance runner Anneke Grogan said. “Being foreign, you come to rely on your teammates for support and I think it was important to show reciprocal support for Rakel and her family.” For current SMU Track and Cross Country athlete Rakel Barrientos, running and the kinship sports bring about in people have helped heal the gap in her family, following the untimely loss of her sister, Gladys Barrientos. “She was a part of the cross country and wrestling team at high school,” Barrientos said. “Within wrestling, she was a two-time All-American and a national champion, her talent earned her a full athletic scholarship to compete at Oklahoma City University, but in order to stay close to home, she turned the offer down and opted for UT Arlington.” At age 21, Gladys Barrientos was a passionate young woman just a few months shy of graduation, planning to attend Texas A&M for graduate school. But on one day in 2010, one
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reckless driver speeding over 100 mph altered all of that. One motor accident changed the lives of Barrientos family members forever. At the 5k “Bishop Dunne Funne Runne,” it was evident that the community of attendees was able to find strength in their shared loss and passion to uphold a young woman’s legacy. “Gladys’ passion for athletics began at her high school,” Barrientos said. “So because she was so involved our family decided to tie the 5k race into a fundraiser honoring her.” Barrientos linked the triumphs and losses of life to the race when asked about the course. “I think it’s a great way to honor Gladys, it’s full of ups and downs with hills, as any life is,” Barrientos said. “Sometimes it’s tough but once you get passed it you become a stronger person. It’s always nice to see the community of all ages come together to celebrate the joyous life Gladys lived and her positive spirit.” Teammate and graduate student Marlene Gomez reiterated Barrientos’ feelings. “It was nice to just come to a race without the pressure we usually have and actually just experience it as a community event,” Gomez
said. “It became clear that the intention of the event wasn’t high performance but rather community support, I just loved the genuine friendliness and humble atmosphere, it was grounding.” Barrientos’ teammates surprised her with their participation on Saturday. “Knowing that I have such sweet teammates who I am exceptionally grateful to have met,” Barrientos said. “Being a teammate is all about creating and sustaining positive relationships while exploring limits with a great attitude, which is what I value most about them.” The team had a rare day-off from compulsory training to come together and show solidarity. Sophomore steeplechaser Alison Esparza summed up the selfless mentality that helps drive these dedicated athletes to operate as a team and a family. “When we’re there for each other when it counts outside of the sport, we can truly start to fight for each other during that time between the gun and the finish line, I just think it’s really important to support your teammates whenever you can because at the end of the day we are all in it together,” Esparza said.
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CALLIE ROSENWASSER
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The cliché of death bringing people together will never be cheerful, but it holds true time and time again. Former First Lady Barbara Bush passed away on Tuesday, April 17, at age 92. She married and gave birth to presidents who aligned themselves with the Republican party. But, when she passed, political affiliation could not have meant less as people remembered the person she was. Conservatives and liberals alike have shown a tremendous outpouring of love for the late first lady. From Texas Governor Greg Abbott to Democratic Texas governor candidate Lupe Valdez, the Obama family to the Pence family, many have shared absolute respect for her and fond memories of her warm personality. Maybe I’m reading too much into it. Maybe I’m looking for something. and that’s why I’m finding it. Regardless, I think there is a lesson here we can
all appreciate. As people send their condolences to the Bush family for their loss, they are fondly remembering a human being instead of politics. Students at SMU have shown their admiration
kindness toward others. There is a difference between a person and their politics. It is true that some of the politics may be linked to morals that define their personality. If you don’t feel strongly about a
own, but I care about who they are. Their kindness, their loyalty, their giving and loving natures — those are the attributes that allow me to call them friends. As Barbara Bush once said, “Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people — your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.” Consider what kind of person you want to be, no matter the person with whom you’re speaking, and speak with those intentions before it’s too late to do so.
photo by Callie Rosenwawser
Mourners set up a memorial to Barbara Bush in front of The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum
for her by leaving flowers outside the President George W. Bush library here on campus. The flowers aren’t to thank her for being a member of a conservative family, but rather to show their appreciation for the woman that stood for literacy and
change, your fight to enact a policy is far less likely to be a strong one. But it’s important to see and respect the person beneath those politics and to do so before they’ve died. Some of my dearest friends could not have more fundamentally opposite views from my
photo by David Valdez
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SMU Look launches its newest issue HAYDEN HICKINGBOTHAM Contributing Writer hhickingbotham@smu.edu
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SMU Look featured senior Malanna Wheat on the cover.
Have you picked up the latest copy of SMU Look? The SMU Look team just released their fourth biannual magazine and it might just be the best yet. This magazine that incorporates fashion, beauty and all things trending has a never before added attribute: it is 100 percent student created. Creative Director Jade Taylor made it her mission to make sure every beauty stylist, photographer and writer was a student at SMU. In the past they have hired outside photographers and models to capture their content, but that’s not the case this time around. “Our goal this issue was to have diversity and we wanted everything to be student based,” Taylor said. “Whether it be the photographers, the models, or makeup artists, they were a student at SMU.” This issue features the hottest trends – which are bold patterns – the best skin care regimen for your lifestyle, and interviews with fashion icons. Photo Editor Ali Mikles spoke with Nicole Miller about her life in the fashion industry. Everyone was invited to celebrate
the release at Cos Bar in Preston Center Thursday, April 19. The team and guests enjoyed light refreshments and a raff le for SoulCycle classes and beauty products. Senior advertising major and creator of lifestyle blog Dash of Serendipity, Emma Clayton, looks forward to the launch every semester. “I love fashion and learning all about what is currently hot,” Clayton said. “I particularly loved this issue’s photoshoot spread at the race track - it is very edgy and cool.” This issue specifically focused on diversity in race, ethnicity and gender. “We wanted to make sure we were capturing everything, not just trends,” Taylor said. “And for the next issue we hope to feature plus-size models and continue to make an impact in the fashion industry.” If the magazine wasn’t cool enough, previous issues won first place Overall Excellence General Magazine and third place Cover Design General Magazine in the 2018 Texas Intercollegiate Press Association awards. Pick up an issue at various spots on campus, including Fondren Library.
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The magazine also included an interview with Texas-born designer Nicole Miller.
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