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Hosseini talks Afganistan Meredith Carey Contributing Writer mbcarey@smu.edu
A nearly full house in McFarlin Auditorium was graced with the literary words of wisdom of bestselling author of “The Kite Runner,” Dr. Khaled Hosseini, at Tuesday’s Tate Lecture Series. Speaking about his writing process for his three novels, which include “A Thousand Splendid Suns” and more recently “And the Mountains Echoed,” Hosseini invited students, faculty and Dallas patrons to join him and The Dallas Morning News Assistant Arts and Features Editor, Micheal Merschel on an exploration of creative writing and Afghan history. “I hope that my books have helped segue, have been a kind of window into the country, to make it more human, more relatable than seeing it on the television as a news story,” Hosseini said. The son of an Afghan diplomat, Hosseini fled Afghanistan at the age of 11 and found a home in California after seeking refuge in the United States at 15. Not speaking a word of English, Hosseini enrolled in American high school just two weeks after arriving in the States. “To say that [my success] is unexpected is a massive understatement. I wanted to write from the time that I was a boy but that I managed somehow make that come true in my third language and to connect with the number of people that I have is really miraculous,” Hosseini said.
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Khaled Hosseini, author of “The Kite Runner,” speaks in front of the crowd at Tuesday’s Tate Lecture.
For a trilingual who started his career as a physician, Hosseini’s success still comes as a surprise to the author himself. “About a year after ‘The Kite Runner,’ I started seeing people reading it at the airport and at Starbucks and it was weird. It freaked me out,” Hosseini said. But after resigning from medicine in December of 2004, Hosseini has committed to his writing as a way of life. “I’ve always written because there was something inside of me that I wanted to explore,” the author said. It makes sense then that all three of his books have revolved around
a country and a population that is near to his heart: Afghanistan. “Who was it that said that all writing is autobiography at the end of the day? You’re writing about stuff that you feel, that you think, that feels true to you,” Hosseini said. “There are bits and pieces of me all over my books. I think there is an element of guilt that is a recurring theme in my books. I know it has to do with my life.” First-year Laura Kohner noted that Hosseini’s passion comes out not only in his writing, but in his speech as well. “He was speaking from the perspective of someone who
identifies with both Afghan and American culture. He considers himself truly a mix of the two and he is still weighing the two sides of himself,” she said. As the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ Goodwill envoy and the founder of the Khaled Hosseini Foundation, which provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan, Hosseini continues to connect with his homeland. “The foundation gives me the opportunity to reach those people that are just like the characters in my books,” the author said.
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Meadows elects new senator Jehadu Abshiro News Writer jabshiro@smu.edu
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Meadows Senator Connor Volz
which they decide which classes fulfill what when it comes to degree requirements. “I wish to soon write legislation that will help students and future students become better acquainted with and succeed more efficiently
with this still new U.C. that we are now under,” Volz said. He hopes to become more openminded and understanding of the others with his experience in senate. “I wish to become more openminded and understanding of the various ideas people may have,” Volz said. “Lyle majors aren’t going to think the same way as Cox majors or have the same desires for across campus. My objectives will vary from others around me and that’s how the world works.” Volz plans on continuing his work in the senate after this term. “I just love serving on the forefront of organizations and seeing exactly how they operate,” Volz said. “I have always tried to be involved in whatever association I
am part of.” Meadows senators are currently working on an initiative to help build community by hosting an arts festival on the Quad. “Our goal in this endeavor mainly is to help break down the barriers that exist between Meadows and other communities on campus, but also to make art more accessible to other SMU students, to showcase our art, and to generate interest in what we do here in Meadows,” Rothstein said. The plan is for this to become an annual event, like Brown Bag, and the hope is that it will foster community by opening up communication and creating connections between arts and nonarts students.
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Women take over in Snider plaza businesses Paige Kerley Contributing Writer pkerley@smu.edu Beyonce wasn’t kidding around when she said girls run the world. Women are doing anything, everything and experiencing tremendous success in careers of all fields. Female entrepreneurs are quickly rising to the top of the business world. Some of these women are right in SMU’s backyard in Snider Plaza. Suzanne Roberts, owner of Suzanne Roberts Gifts, opened her store in Snider Plaza 38 years ago. “There were no gift shops, there were no antique shops,” Roberts said. “It was very low key.” Roberts also said she was “lucky” when she got into the retail business. Roberts was a librarian at a Dallas
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Connor Volz, a second year student from Rowlett, Texas, and a finance and music major is joining current Meadows senators Becca Rothstein and Anthony McAuliffe. “Connor’s role will be to help better represent our constituents, as well as to embrace his other senatorial roles,” Rothstein said. Volz’s responsablities includes sitting on one of the Senate Committees, maintaining office hours, voting on bills and passing legislation. One of Volz’s goals is to quicken the process between administrators, directors and professors in
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school and attended a warehouse sale for library supplies. When she arrived, lots of gold and silver gifts were across the aisle from the things she needed for the library. She bought $100 worth, which was half the cost of wholesale, and sold it to her friends at wholesale value. She continued selling gifts and did so well that in 1988 her husband suggested she quit her job as a librarian and sell gifts full time. Years later, Roberts is still tucked away in Snider Plaza. Her business continues to sell small gifts, but the stationary section of the store is being downsized. “Everyone sends evites, emails,” Roberts said. “Paper is slowly diminishing.” Roberts’ store is very tech-savvy, hosting a website, blog, Twitter account and Facebook page, but she pointed out the ways that
paper does what the computer can’t. “Love letters aren’t love letters if they’re emails,” she said. Down the street from Suzanne Roberts Gifts, Jenny Grumbles Koziol didn’t always plan on owning her own business either. “I had originally wanted to be a reporter,” she said. Koziol, SMU class of 2002, graduated with a degree in broadcast journalism. After accepting a reporting job in Eureka, Calif., Koziol realized a career in journalism just wasn’t for her. “I didn’t love it as much as I needed to,” Koziol said. Koziol followed in her mom’s footsteps and opened her first store Uptown Country in California. After a few years, the Dallasborn, California-bred Koziol decided to move back to the Lone Star state. Eight years ago, she moved her home goods store to Snider Plaza.
“I love Snider Plaza, I love SMU,” Koziol said. Moving back to Texas seemed to be a popular theme for the women in Snider Plaza. When Adriane Sack, owner of Gemma Collection, was let go from her job on Wall Street, she decided to “try something completely different.” Sack, a native of Austin, Texas, moved to Dallas and opened Gemma Collection, a contemporary jewelry boutique. Sack wanted her store to have a slightly different concept. Gemma Collection features affordable, high quality fashion jewelry. Sack also does a lot of custom pieces. Many of her pieces feature initials, monograms, or even charms of U.S. states. Sack said it’s great to have SMU close by. “With the Greek
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The Embrey Human Rights Program (EHRP) recently announced the implementation of the Triumph of the Spirit Award to recognize an individual who has and continues to contribute significantly to the greater good and dedicate his or her life to social justice and human rights issues on a local, national or global scale. The winner will be announced by July 1 and awarded $25,000 at a ceremony in the fall of 2014, at which point a related award of $5,000 will be bestowed upon a human rights defender specifically in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. “The Triumph of the Spirit Award is meant to serve as a symbol of hope in the continued struggle for human rights,” said EHRP Director Rick Halperin in a press release for the award. The Triumph of the Spirit Award is the manifestation of an almost eight year-long idea in the making. Since the EHRP’s naissance in 2006, Halperin wanted to design a premier award that would bring to light some of the most relevant and important human rights activism happening globally. While the primary reward can be allocated to an
individual in any location, the separate award for $5,000 will draw attention to human rights work being done on a more local scale. Due to the fact that the award is indisputably substantial, it may be surprising to some that the funding was given to the EHRP in its entirety by an anonymous donor. Bradley Klein, assistant director of the EHRP, personally feels that the donor’s generous donation reflects a genuine commitment to ameliorating the world on a global and local scale. “The work of human rights is bigger than all of us, as the anonymity of this wonderful gift suggests,” Klein said. The monetary component of the award will be presented to the recipients sans obligations — in other words, the money will be theirs for whatever they please, no strings attached. However, because the recipients will have been selected carefully for their commitment to human rights and the greater good, Klein expressed that the EHRP imagines that most of the funds will go towards furthering the recipient’s continued work or be reinvested into the cause. “What excites me most about the award is the opportunity to shed light on a global connection to dignity, truth and justice, as it is focused in the work of one
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Students call attention to domestic violence at symposium Tess Griesedieck Contributing Writer tgriesedieck@smu.edu Wednesday Hughes-Trigg Student Center Theater hosts SMU’s inaugural domestic violence symposium. Virginia Brooks, an SMU graduate student, created the event after being inspired by an exercise in her domestic violence class taught by Professor Sarah Feuerbacher. The Association of Student Counselors, Zeta Phi Beta and Alpha Chi Omega sororities will host the event. “We hope to educate the SMU community about how prevalent and serious domestic violence is,” Alpha Chi President Molly Murer said. Alpha Chi’s involvement was inspired by their goals for their sorority philanthropy involvement with Genesis Women’s Shelter. “This is a cause that receives very little publicity,” Murer said. “There is no national campaign to end domestic violence.” Many of the women working on the symposium presentation hope to change how little domestic violence is talked about. According to statistics, one in every three women is abused by their partner. “Seventy six percent of all Texans have themselves, a family member or a friend
experience some form of domestic violence,” Feurbacher said. At the symposium, guests will hear from a panel of experts on domestic violence. The panel will include SMU’s Feuerbacher and Renee McDonald. Every person on the panel works closely on the study of relationships and with victims of domestic violence. McDonald said she was invited, “because [her] academic area of expertise is in the area of family violence — both intimate partner violence and child abuse — teen dating violence and sexual assault.” The aim is to equip the students who attend with the ability to speak out against domestic violence for themselves. “Abuse only happens if there is a safe target, so SMU students can begin to speak up with it seems like a person is being hurt, or even when it is a friend hurting someone else,” Feuerbacher said. Feuerbacher hopes attendees will leave with more knowledge about the cause and a desire to end the cycle. “[The goal is that] people will become empowered to make healthy choices in their own relationships, and encourage others to do the same in order to ultimately break the silence on domestic violence,” Feuerbacher said.
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Insta New York Fashion Week Virginia Boswell Contribuing Writer vboswell@smu.edu Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is here, and the media coverage is buzzing more than usual. New York City has been infiltrated with vibrant street style from the likes of bloggers, photographers, models and fashionistas hoping to catch a glimpse of the action. According to MBFW online, NYFW is the single largest
media event for the city. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and blogs document every aspect of the eightday event. Spectators are dressed to the nines with iPhones and cameras in-hand, ready to instantly share their experiences with the rest of the fashion-dedicated world that couldn’t make it to this year’s shows. Designers have been gearing up their fall runway collections for the Spring 2014 fashion week by giving fans glimpses of their lines through media outlets such as Snapchat
Noteworthy... kelsey reynolds Style Editor kreynolds@smu.edu Our top picks for the week of Feb. 10, 2014 Stop by… Rent the Runway Valentine’s Day event Friday. The girls of SMU RTR will be handing out sweet treats and an even sweeter discount. Look for them by sorority row. Add to your wishlist…We are smitten for Alex and Ani bracelets, the perfect addition to step up your accessories game. Get all the details from Michelle
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Hammond here: http://www. smufashionmedia.com/alex-andani-my-new-sweethearts/ Tune in…to the 2014 Winter Olympics. We wouldn’t mind rocking the Ralph Lauren knits that team USA wore for the Opening Ceremony. Meredith White has more on that: http:// www.smufashionmedia.com/ made-in-the-usa/ Be sure to read…Innovative ways to beat the never ending cold front, thanks to Courtney Schellin: http://www. smufashionmedia.com/trends-tobeat-the-snow-daze/
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and Instagram. These social media applications have opened a whole new world for not only the average fashionista, but also for designers to build their fan base. Snapchat has allowed designers such as Rebecca Minkoff to snap pictures to her followers of her new line. Instagram has also become the norm for designers and models to give their fans an inside view of NYFW. Even MBFW has its own Instagram account where followers can see inside pictures, flashbacks
to previous shows, and keep up with the live streaming of shows during fashion week. With over 80 designers debuting their 2014 collections, it’s important for a style-savvy follower to be up-todate with which Instagram accounts to follow and designers on Snapchat to befriend. While fans can watch shows live online as of Thursday, being able to view quick glimpses and tidbits during the day can make the NYFW buzz seem that much more personal.
Sneakers vs. stilettos Naomi bowen Contribuing Writer nbowen@smu.edu This spring, fashion has a new darling and luckily it’s something we already have in our closets, sneakers. Granted, the sneakers stomping down the runway and affixed to the fashionable fashionistas outside the shows aren’t your average gym shoes. Two couturiers chose sneakers over the usual high-flying stilettos during the Spring 2014 Couture shows in Paris. Karl Lagerfeld contrasted corseted waists, crystals and tweed with a wide array of Chanel tennis shoes. His finale bridal gown was accompanied with sequined sneakers
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Museum Friday Gallery Talk: “Hermenegildo anglada Camarasa’s Moulin Roughe, Exit to the Box Seats,” Meadows Museum, 12:15 p.m.
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and an adorable ring-bearer, also in matching white kicks. At Dior, Raf Simmons paired black beaded floral slip-ons with his feminine A-line gowns. The sneaker trend has grown ever since Isabel Marant launched the wedge sneaker in early 2012. Celebrities have been spotted making the same trade designers did on the runway. And let’s be honest, who wouldn’t want to run around all day in a comfortable pair of sneakers instead of inching along in gorgeous but oh so painful pumps. Existing sneaker brands are collaborating with fashion designers to update their look. Nike joined forces with British print master Liberty of London and this spring, will partner with Riccardo Tisci from Givenchy for Nike RT. Collaborations have also put old favorites back in the limelight. Superga, a small Italian brand founded in 1911, partnering with The Row and Leandra Medine of Man Repeller to create cashmere, velvet and tweed versions of their 2750 Classic. The best news is people don’t need a new piece this spring to be on trend.
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A photograph from Gray Malin’s collection entitled “La Dolce Vita.”
Shades of Gray Morgan o’hare Contribuing Writer mohare@smu.edu No, no I am not talking about the uber-scandalous novel so many SMU girls are obsessed with. I’m referring to the best solution to a boring wall, Gray Malin Photography. Gray Malin grew up in Dallas and had his big break when his work caught the attention of gallery owners, designers and celebrities at the internationally known Melrose Fairfax Flea Market. Since then, Malin has had exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art and has even done a men’s swim trunk collaboration with designer Orlebar Brown. Malin travels the world, snapping pictures of the most
luxurious and captivating locations. A few of these include the Bolivian Salt Flats, the Iceberg Pools at Bondi Beach in Australia, and Bantry Bay in Cape Town, South Africa. Malin captures the beauty of reality in these luxe locations by using real-life people and scenes as the subjects of his works. He shows his perspective by shooting from all types of angles, including aerial shots from a helicopter. Malin’s work transports one to the ultimate mood of bliss and to the mindset of an endless summer. Prices for these prints start at $200 and can reach upward to thousands of dollars, depending on the size. Gray Malin Photography completes any room and is definitely worth the splurge.
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Women’s symposium upcoming Claire Kelley Contributing Writer cakelley@smu.edu This year on March 5, SMU will host its 49th annual Women’s Symposium. The event was started in 1966 by the late Emmie V. Baine, SMU Dean of Women from 1962 to 1988. The Symposium has a different theme each year, and this year “Women Are Superheroes” was chosen. The event is now planned largely by CORE and the SMU Women’s Center, but that wasn’t always the case. “The Women’s Symposium pre-dates our Women’s Center,” Director Karen Click said. “It was actually at the Women’s Symposium that a lot of ideas came up like we need a Women’s Center; maybe we should have women and gender studies as an academic field.” The Symposium boasts a long list of esteemed past speakers, including Hilary Clinton, Margaret Mead and Maya Angelou. This year’s keynote speaker is Kim Olson, former U.S. Air Force
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As students and patrons asked Hosseini about the future of the country after the United States’ involvement ends, the
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scene, I do a lot of big/little gifts,” she said. “It’s fun to see what people come up with.” All three of the ladies said retail life is tough. Roberts said not to “go into retail in today’s world.” Sack said it’s partially because, as owners, they “wear a lot of different hats.” Koziol added that people need to
Fighter Pilot and founder of the non-profit Grace After Fire. “The overall theme for the whole day is Women are Superheroes, and we’re taking that literally and figuratively,” Click said. In addition to the keynote address, the Symposium includes multiple workshops, interest sessions, a resource fair and an awards ceremony honoring the following Dallas-area women’s rights activists: Monica Urbaniak, Cecilia Boone, De’Edra S. Williams, Mavis B. Knight, Ethene Jones and Linda Hall. One of the workshops, titled “Pow! Women Superheroes,” features David Hopkins, an Arlington-based comic book writer whose goal is to create characters with whom everyone can identify. He strives to be sensitive to women’s roles in comic books and be an exception to the rule of sexualized female superheroes. “The most important people in my life are women, my wife and my daughter and my mother,” Hopkins said. “I want my comics to reflect my own values.”
One of his characters, Emily Edison, who he will be talking about at the Symposium, was created for his daughter’s enjoyment. “I’m going to go through the history of American comics, point out some odd moments, and going forward about what we should be sensitive about in the future,” Hopkins said. As the Symposium approaches its 50th anniversary, those involved in its planning have some big ideas. “Ellen DeGeneres is my dream speaker,” said SMU senior and CORE Co-President Jessica Mitchell. “She really is a superhero to me… She encompasses what it is to be a woman.” Click sees greatness in the future of the Symposium, and wants SMU to be proud of the event, which is the longest running program of its nature in the country. “I just want it to be huge and seen,” Click said. “What I want is for SMU to take a lot of pride in those 50 years because we were early in launching a program like this and need to take time to be proud of that history.”
author articulately described his thoughts on the next step for his country of origin. “Our country is a mixed picture of tangible advances met with disappointment. But, I have hope. Afghanistan is a young country, not in history,
but in youth,” Hosseini said. “The young people are interested in engaging with the outside world, the Western world, the Asian world. They’re importing new ideas and technology and I’m hopeful it will affect change.”
“have a serious business plan” before they get started. However, all three also said that picking out new items to put in their stores can be fun. “It’s fun to find new pieces,” Sack said. These women represent only a few of the many female entrepreneurs located across from SMU. If a shopper is looking for something unique, they are sure to find something spectacular at one of these shops in Snider Plaza.
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person,” Klein said. The committee for the Triumph of the Spirit Award has already been selected, and is comprised of 19 representatives chosen for their dedication to human rights work. The committee members
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Sochi’s merchants ride Olympic dream Associated Press Vladimir Putin isn’t the only one with a lot riding on the success of the Sochi Olympics. Local businesses and residents have a lot to gain if these Olympics fulfill Putin’s pledge to turn Sochi and its environs from a summer playground for welloff Russians into a year-round international resort for everyone. But that’s a big “if.” The limited number of foreign spectators at these games is dampening dreams. So is all the negative attention around the not-quite-finished hotels, and the many “For Rent” signs on empty apartments around the Olympic Park. So merchants are trying to keep their spirits up by looking past the Olympics to an upcoming new Formula 1 race in Sochi and the 2018 World Cup. Maybe by then, the tourists will come? “It would be nice to be able to stay open all year, so that no one has to take an extra job,” said Marina Nagabedian, whose family owns a convenience store near the sands of the Black Sea shore, not far from Olympic Park. In the past, her husband took a second job in the winter to help feed their two kids, and they just “waited for summer again.” “In summer, we have lines out the door,” said Nagabedian, in her 40s. This week, in the midst
were drawn from the EHRP community and include SMU faculty, staff, administrators and alumni as well as community leaders and activists. To qualify for the award, nominees must exemplify the missions of striving to better the world and achieve equal inalienable human rights that are outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
of the Winter Olympics, the store sees barely a trickle of customers. Many come in to get change for large bills instead of buying her wares: milk from regional farms, fresh poppyseed buns, “Sochi”emblazoned slippers. A look back at past Olympics suggests the odds are against local businesses reaping huge rewards, despite ambitious promises. The 2004 games left Greece saddled with huge debt and didn’t lead to long-term benefits for businesses. Just a few years after the 1998 Nagano games in Japan, the city had little to show for its role as Olympic host. Accurate data is hard to come by, because governments don’t always want to find out — or publicize — whether the heavy expenditure was worth it. Up the nearby Caucasus Mountains, Vitaly Pishchuk is doing brisk business at a cell phone franchise in Krasnaya Polyana, with about 600,000 rubles a month in turnover. Foreign tourists, construction workers — “people from all social classes need us,” he said. “The Olympics are a great advertisement for our city,” said Pishchuk, 34, who dreams of this region becoming Russia’s Monaco. “Even if everything isn’t perfect ... everything was done so that people will come back. That’s the main thing.”
and the Embrey Human Rights Program. “The award is designed to celebrate the recipient’s established commitment to human rights and help her or him achieve even greater successes in the future,” Klein said. “However, the award is also meant to give us all hope — hope that change can be made by even small steps of awareness and action.”
Then he pauses and reflects on the challenge of attracting visitors here. Americans have little incentive to cross half the planet for the Caucasus slopes. Europeans have the Alps, and more. Even drawing in Russian visitors, as the government hopes to do with a promised 42,000 hotel rooms and 150 kilometers of slopes, may not be so easy. Vacationing here “is pretty expensive for an average Russian tourist,” both up the mountain and down on the Sochi shore, Pishchuk said. “You can travel to Turkey or Spain for 300 bucks.” The partially completed shopping mall across the street has a boutique selling furs next to two high-end jewelry stores — but nowhere to get a cheap T-shirt. Sochi, with its mild climate, once drew the Communist elite to its seaside resorts, but was widely seen as a summer destination. Putin then turned Krasnaya Polyana in the mountains above Sochi into his ski getaway. The region’s $51 billion transformation for the Olympics has been by all accounts striking. But for all the money spent on Olympic infrastructure, 74-yearold Sochi native Dina Kobolenko said, “This was a village, is a village and will remain a village” — not Russia’s answer to Las Vegas or Dubai.
The deadline to submit Triumph of the Spirit nominations is March 3. Details are available online at blog.smu. edu/humanrights/triumph-ofthe-spirit-nominations/. For more details about the Triumph of the Spirit Award, contact Bradley Klein, assistant director of the Embrey Human Rights Program, at 214-768-3241 or kleinb@smu.edu.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR While I was visiting my family in the New Orleans area Friday night, I was in a three-car interstate accident. The car, which got bashed up pretty bad, will be in a Louisiana repair shop, so I got a rental that I’ll probably be driving for the next month. The wrecked car had two parking stickers: one from my apartment complex and one from Southern Methodist University. On Monday, I got a temporary sticker for my rental car from both. I was surprised and frustrated to find out that, though the sticker from my complex was free, SMU gave me the choice of paying $26 for a temporary tag or $30 in “lost/ damaged” fees for a new sticker. Parking at SMU costs stu-
dents $280 per year, and tuition, of course, costs a lot more. I was disappointed that a private company could be more accommodating toward an SMU student who had gotten in a car wreck than the university itself. Shame on the university’s Parking and ID Card Services Office for nickeling and diming its students for circumstances beyond their control. A free temporary pass under those circumstances and a little sympathy would have been much more impressive and representative of this university’s values and beliefs. Ryan Jones, First-Year Law Student
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What I wish I did in Dallas
michael graves Contributing Writer mwgraves@smu.edu This past weekend I took a friend who was visiting the city around to explore and discover what Dallas had to offer in terms of an entertainment city. I’ll be the first to admit to you—I don’t get out of Park Cities much. My grocery store, coffee shop and almost all of my close friends live within a three-mile radius of me. The farthest south I go is downtown, and I only cross north of I-635 to meet with my boss once a week. And what a shame that is. Throughout the weekend, my friend and I did things I’ve never done in Dallas before, and they’re worth sharing. First, we decided to take a staycation and booked a room at the Belmont Hotel in Oak Cliff. Our junior suite was reasonably priced, had two floors (one for living and one for sleeping) and was right by the pool overlooking downtown. Our bedroom also had spectacular views, and the suite boasted two full bathrooms so we each had our own space. If you get the chance to go, the reception desk will take requests for specific things (I made sure to have earplugs in the room because I’m a light sleeper), and even honored my request for a room away from the main building so we could stay in a quieter space. The hotel sits upon a hill with unobstructed views of the
city. I could not ask for a better place to call home for the night. For dinner that night, my friend and I took a quick jaunt to Hattie’s, an upscale, bistro-like eating joint that served me a mean drink and some of the best shrimp and grits I’ve ever had. However, the restaurant is known for their fried chicken. The only downside is that most eat it with a fork and knife, which I am overwhelmingly opposed to as a Louisiana boy. The next day we met a few friends for brunch and drinks at Katy Trail Ice House, a staple for the 21+ crowd. Indeed, Katy Trail is a popular place for SMU students, but the atmosphere is very laid back for those of you who haven’t visited yet, and you always run into a friend or twenty when you walk in the doors. That night we headed over to the design district to sample eats and drinks at the Meddlesome Moth. We split a few shared plates and then another order of shrimp and grits that closely rivaled the plate from Hattie’s. Known for its beer, Meddlesome Moth’s food is worth the trek for those of you not yet legal drinking age. Finally, for Sunday brunch we headed back across the Trinity River to Jonathan’s, and sampled the chicken and waffles plate that’s served with syrup and Cholula hot sauce (you pour the syrup and hot sauce on top of the chicken and waffles and gravy to give it a great punch, mixed with the sweet. ) It was, by far, the best meal I had all weekend. I should have taken this great adventure years ago when I first came to Dallas. So I encourage you to burst out of “the bubble” for a bit, and see what our city has to offer.
More to consider than ‘following your dreams’
brandon bub Contributing Writer bbub@smu.edu If you ask a group of children what they want to do when they grow up, the last response you’d expect to hear would be, “Mergers and Acquisitions.” Now, children are hardly the best judges of career options because, if given a choice, half of them would decide to drive ice cream trucks and the dairy industry might become a cartel. But still, when it comes to figuring out what we want to do with our lives, a funny thing happens between childhood and graduation from college: we become a lot more willing to stomach menial labor for the sake of a paycheck. Make no mistake: I do not intend to write a column full of trite maxims exhorting people to find their passion, follow their dreams and never be afraid to make mistakes along the way to success. That’s exactly the kind of advice I hope this year’s commencement speaker at SMU does not give. When it comes to finding a vocation, I think there’s more to consider than some pithy notion of “following your dreams.” Indeed, I think the doubts that many of us face when it comes to choosing a career are a newer phenomenon. As millennials graduate from college and enter an anemic job market, they want to find work that is lucrative, rewarding, flexible and fun. If you can find a job these days that satisfies three of those criteria, I would be impressed. However, what amazes me about people today is just how many of them really do not
enjoy their work. From my friends with middling incomes struggling to get by to those with six-figure salaries who spend more time at the office than they do with their own families, I see no lack of people who do work because starving is a marginally worse alternative. Now, does this mean we should unbound ourselves from our capitalist shackles, quit our jobs and move to Walden Pond a la Thoreau? My younger self might have been tempted, but perhaps that’s not the best way of looking at the situation. The fact of the matter is that conflating one’s job with one’s purpose in life can have dangerous consequences. Sure, if you’re a medical professional working for Doctors Without Borders, your work might very well be your telos, but if you’re a tax accountant, you do not necessarily have to live and breathe by capital gains regulation to live a fulfilled life. Wallace Stevens is widely remembered as one of the greatest American poets to have ever lived, yet the man was not a poet by trade. After attending law school, he became an insurance salesman at The Hartford, composing verse in his head on the way to and from work. Admittedly, composition might have been easier for Stevens since he was a man of wealthy means and never had to worry about keeping a roof over his head. But my point is that neither poetry nor insurance defined Stevens’ existence unto themselves. And I believe the same is true of the rest of us. We are more than our last paycheck. Work can play a key role in determining our happiness, but just as important are our relationships with others. The sooner we realize our interdependent human condition, the better chance we can make our abstract concepts of fulfillment a reality. Bub is a senior majoring in English, history and political science.
Seek meaningful life beyond your career
michael dearman Contributing Writer mdearman@smu.edu What are you doing after you graduate? What do you plan to do? We know what people mean by these questions. They want to know what our career prospects are like. For better or worse, SMU is an environment driven by the idea of success in the workplace. In part, I am thankful that SMU places an emphasis on creating successful leaders in their respective fields, and while success brings rewards of its own, the pragmatism of one’s career choice often relegates finding meaning in work to a secondary position. How many people do you know who have chosen a major because their parents made them or because they simply want to get a job and make money? Should we not hope that our future job is something we enjoy, dare I say something we love? The facthat we put so much emphasis on jobs tells me that they are supposed to be meaningful (assuming that what is meaningful is where we choose to focus our time and efforts), and I think there is nothing wrong with finding meaning (in part) in labor. However, here is the kicker, because we place so much emphasis on the practical aspects of getting a job while simultaneously giving so much meaning to one’s work and career, are we not opening ourselves up to the possibility of supreme disappointment? If I don’t find the perfect job after I graduate—and if I’m
honest, I probably won’t—then meaningful work is no longer an option. Labor becomes drudgery for a paycheck and I believe most people have higher expectations for their careers than that. I see so many of my friends receiving great job offers from consulting firms, financial firms, all kinds of firms. Their hours will be long and their paychecks will be plump, so the pragmatic requirements for a job are secured, but ideals may remain unmet. To be truly fulfilled, people need to work at something they genuinely find to be good. I am seriously happy for those who graduate and immediately enter the workforce in jobs that challenge, inspire and give meaning and pleasure. However, many of us will not find that to be the case— finding a meaningful job seems more like a process. So as seniors dwell on their coming graduation, I hope that expectations are not too high such that disappointment with work breeds apathy. Finding meaning in other things unrelated to work is key and is part of experience the fullness of life that cannot be experienced in a cubicle. I recently saw a commercial for the new Cadillac ELR, glorifying the American workaholic, which summed up the problem to me. You work, you buy stuff, you work, you have a family, you work, you retire, you become aimless and then you die. At the very least ,there is the pleasure of a nice car to get you by. I’m not sure about you, but I have higher hopes for my life than the drudgery and the nice car. I was lucky to have begun searching for meaning while here at SMU in order to be prepared for the inevitable hard times and disappointments that lie ahead because work isn’t everything. Dearman is a senior majoring in political science and philosophy.
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No. 23 SMU has sights set on Rutgers Samuel Snow Associate Sports Editor ssnow@smu.edu Following the biggest win in recent memory, the SMU Mustangs (19-5, 8-3), now ranked No. 23, are going to have come back down to earth. After sending a beating to No. 7 Cincinnati, the AAC leaders, SMU will travel to the Louis Brown Athletic Center to face Rutgers (10-14, 4-7) Thursday. The last time these two teams matched up, it was in Moody Coliseum. In that game, SMU easily beat the Rutgers, 70-56. Forwards Markus Kennedy and Ben Moore led the Mustangs. Kennedy had an impressive stat-line of 18 points, 10 boards and four blocks. Moore collected 12 points, on only five shots and five rebounds. This time around, SMU will be looking to defeat the same team twice in one season. They had an opportunity at USF, but let that one slip away. Rutgers will have to receive solid play from Myles Mack and Kadeem Jack, their two most productive players. Not only do they lead the team in points, 15.8 and 14.3
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SMU’s Crandall Head (13) and Markus Kennedy (5) celebrate during the Mustangs stomping of then No. 7 Cincinnati Saturday.
respectively, but Mack leads the team in assists with 4.4 and Jack leads in rebounds with 6.9.
SMU on the other hand, will try to receive good play from both Nic Moore and Ben Moore.
The rise of Ben Moore’s play has been a large reason that the Mustangs have improved as the
season has gone on. Overall, he is averaging seven points on a ridiculous field goal
percentage of .717. The solid play of Nic Moore every game has been a huge reason that SMU is now ranked for the first time in three decades. He leads the team in points and assists with 13.8 and 4.4 respectively. Following the game against Rutgers, SMU will travel to Philadelphia to take on the Temple Owls, another team struggling at 6-16 overall and 1-9 in the conference. That match-up will take place at 1 p.m. Sunday at Liacouras Center. For more SMU news folllow Snow on Twitter at @SMUSamuelSnow
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Students brave frigid weather for basketball tickets cARLEEaNN aLLEN Contributing Writer carleeanna@smu.edu The students of Southern Methodist University braved the winter weather Sunday night in an attempt to be first in line for the basketball tickets that have become so coveted around campus. “The first tent was pitched at 7 p.m.,” junior Monica Finnegan said. Finnegan was one of the most dedicated fans, and spent the night Sunday in a tent with her friends to get tickets to the next three home games. After the last pick-up date on Jan. 27, when the tickets were gone by 9 a.m., students and faculty alike were prepared for Monday morning. “The majority of the people started arriving at 5 a.m.,” Finnegan said. Despite the 34 F, wind and
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Flamenco draws sold-out crowd at Meadows Museum daniela huebner Contributing Writer dhuebner@mail.smu.edu The Orchestra of New Spain presented a preview of its annual staged flamenco production to a sold-out crowd Saturday at the Meadows Museum. Those in attendance clapped, sang and danced along to the rhythms of this traditional Spanish folk music and dance. The hour-long program featured guitarist Ricardo Diaz, who strummed his acoustic to the soulful notes of singer Cristo Cortes. All eyes, however, were on dancers Delilah Buitron, Elsa Champion and Antonio Arrebola, whose quick and fluid dance moves captivated nearly every member of the audience. “I loved it. I actually saw them perform once before and as a result I signed up for flamenco lessons,” said Barbara Benac, attendee and museum docent. “I felt like I was going to have a seizure, it’s just so exciting.” It was hard not to be inspired by the plethora of sounds, movements and artistry evoked in the small and intimate space. Buitron and Champion, dressed in traditional flamenco costumes, moved gracefully across the wooden dance floor. The sound of their dance steps echoed throughout the room and combined powerfully with the sounds of hands clapping, strumming guitar chords, soulful singing and an abundance of audience members shouting “Ole!” and “Bravo!” throughout the program. Inspiration was plentiful in the small gallery space, which also featured traditional paintings by Joaquin Sorolla. “We try to put more than one
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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida’s “Velencia Beach: Morning Light” is one of the paintings featured in the Spanish exhibit in the Meadows Museum.
art in front of the program. So here we’ve got this incredible dance forum, the musicians that go with it, the poetry that is a part of it, and these paintings – we’re surrounded by this art,” event director Grover Wilkins said. The art presented in the show highlighted the rise and surroundings of flamenco in early 20th-century Andalusia and spoke of its eclectic past. While flamenco is at the heart of Spanish culture, it developed and has roots in many different cultures, which attests to its wide-ranging popularity. It was originally the music of the outcasts. It came from gypsies in India and Islams in North Africa who brought it with them to Spain,” Benac said. Today, flamenco is no longer a music and dance of the outcasts, but an increasingly popular art form across the globe. “It’s an element that represents Spain and it is something we can all feel a part
of. It transcends geography, borders and continents,” Diaz said. “It’s an expression of all kinds of emotions.” These emotions could be seen, heard and felt throughout the entire performance; in Cortes’ deep lullabies, in Buitron and Champion’s slow and elaborate hand movements, and especially among faces in the audience. Those who attended the free preview Saturday evening were encouraged to purchase tickets to the full production this weekend, Feb. 14 and 15 at the Dallas City Performance Hall in the Dallas Arts District. The performance will elaborate on Saturday evening’s preview and bring together the Meadows Museum Symposium: Sorolla and America along with two of Dallas’s renowned flamenco companies. Tickets for the show are priced at $25, $40 and $60, and it promises to be a vibrant evening full of dancing, music, color and magic.
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Shirley Temple Black dies at 85 associated press Curls and dimples: Shirley Temple, child star who made ‘em smile during Depression, dies at 85 Any kid who ever tap-danced at a talent show or put on a curly wig and auditioned for “Annie” can only dream of being as beloved—or as important—as Shirley Temple. Temple, who died Monday night at 85, sang, danced, sobbed and grinned her way into the hearts of downcast Depressionera moviegoers and remains the ultimate child star decades later. Other pre-teens, from Macaulay Culkin to Miley Cyrus, have been as famous in their time. But none of them helped shape their time the way she did.
Dimpled, precocious and ohso-adorable, she was America’s top box office draw during Hollywood’s golden age, and her image was free of the scandals that have plagued Cyrus, Lindsay Lohan and so many other child stars—parental feuds, drugs, alcohol. Temple remains such a symbol of innocence that kids still know the drink named for her: a sweet, nonalcoholic cocktail of ginger ale and grenadine, topped with a maraschino cherry. Her hit movies—which included “Bright Eyes” (1934), “Curly Top” (1935), “Dimples” (1936), “Poor Little Rich Girl” (1936) and “Heidi” (1937)— featured sentimental themes and musical subplots, with stories of
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Shirley Temple at age 8, 1936.
resilience and optimism that a struggling American public found appealing. She kept children singing “On the Good Ship Lollipop” for generations.