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Senate passes LGBT seat legislation Katelyn Gough Editor-in-Chief kgough@smu.edu SMU Student Senate voted in favor of adding a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) seat to the chamber Tuesday night, with only three dissenting votes of the 37 total voiced senators. Senate will send the referendum
to the student body vote likely by next week. It will require a twothirds majority. “It’s a proud moment for the University in general, considering two years ago SMU was ranked in the top 12 of the most homophobic schools in America,” SPECTRUM co-president Shelbi Smith said. “Last year was the first year in several decades that
we dropped off the list, and now all of a sudden Student Senate passes this bill.” A significant — and immediately celebrated — win for the LGBT community at SMU, the LGBT seat in the Senate has been on the table for 10 years. The bill passed with the required threefourths majority for the first time in its history Tuesday night.
Co-authored by Student Body President Ramon Trespalacios and Student Body Vice President Jaywin Malhi, the bill was initially introduced to the Senate last week. Members of SMU SPECTRUM have been working with Senate closely throughout the semester in preparation for Tuesday’s vote. “My purpose and the Student Senate’s purpose as a whole is
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to serve the entire community,” Trespalacios said. In representing all members of the community and breaking down barriers between different facets, the students involved hope to see improved tolerance and acceptance of LGBT identifiers. “LGBT students are discriminated against,” Smith said. “Student Senate very much
reflects campus culture overall and having an LGBT senator is a chance for us to start shifting that culture.” While there is currently a SPECTRUM liaison to Student Senate, the hope is that a LGBT Senator will allow the issues and concerns of all LGBT
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Politics
To address budget, SMU hires Bain Jehadu Abshiro News Writer jabshiro@smu.edu SMU has hired Bain & Company as part of Project SMU: Operational Excellence for the 2nd Century (OE2C) according to an email President R. Gerald Turner sent Friday. Bain is a consulting firm that companies and organizations hire to make spending and operations more efficient. The timeline for the project is estimated to run 12 to 18 months. Several factors such as a declining college-age population, decreasing federal research funds and greater competition for grants and declines in interest income generated by universities’ operational reserves are affecting universities across the country. “These undeniable forces require all universities, including SMU, to increase innovation and carefully review their operational functions and costs,” President Turner wrote. According to the letter, Bain will conduct interviews, focus groups, surveys and other interactions in order to “provide process, structure, focus, analytical rigor, and insights and best practices from other universities.” Bain has worked with several universities, such as Cornell University, University of California, Berkeley and
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Bain and Company will conduct interviews, focus groups, and surveys in aid of the university’s finances.
University of North Carolina, according to The New York Times. According to the Times article, Bain’s recommendations for University of North Carolina would have saved them $150 million a year. An anonymous donor footed the bill for North Carolina. According to Berkeley’s chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau, Berkeley’s Bain contract cost $3 million. SMU is providing open access to information, historical context and viewpoints to Bain. The
consulting firm will develop and give recommendations, however SMU will be making all final decisions according to the letter. An Executive Committee, comprised of Provost Paul Ludden, Vice President of Executive Affairs Tom Barry, Chief Business and Financial Officer Chris Regis and Turner will be formed. A Steering Committee, comprised of the Executive Committee except Turner, the incoming president of the faculty senate, a dean or associate dean and a staff member,
will make recommendations to the Executive Committee. A dean or associate dean and staff member will be announced soon. Daily communications with Bain will occur with two program coordinators, Chief Human Resources Officer Bill Detwiler and Associate Dean of Meadows School of the Arts Martin Sweidel. These cocoordinators will work the Bain team and communicate with the Steering Committee.
Democrats backed down Tuesday and removed a hurdle blocking passage of legislation to aid Ukraine and sanction Russia for its bold military incursion into Crimea. With tens of thousands of Russian troops massed on Ukraine’s eastern border, Senate Democrats decided it was more important to denounce Russia, codify sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and aid Ukraine rather than push right now for International Monetary Fund reforms. The Senate set a vote on the altered bill for Thursday. The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday approved its version of the measure and it appeared Congress could send its
first retort to Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian Peninsula before the end of the week. Democrats wanted the Ukraine legislation to include provisions to enhance the IMF’s lending capacity, but Republicans were opposed. And since more than two weeks have passed since Russia’s incursion into Crimea, they decided it was important to move quickly to provide $1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine and codify sanctions against Putin’s inner circle. Eight Senate Republicans introduced an amendment to the Senate measure to remove the IMF provisions. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he strongly supports IMF reform,
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White Rock Lake boasts colorful history central to Dallas Jehadu Abshiro News Writer jabshiro@smu.edu It’s 1945, another hot summer in Dallas. Denne Freeman is an 11 year-old-boy with a group of friends and an adventurous dog. He lives on Tarleton Street, a half mile uphill from the shores of the White Rock Lake. The lake is his playground. He hunts and fishes there, explores the woods and swims. “We had the big old White Rock Lake down there,” said Freeman, now 78 living in Waco. The man-made White Rock Lake was completed in 1911, bordered by Garland Road, Lawther Drive, East Mockingbird Lane and Buckner Boulevard. Except for people like Freeman, it wasn’t much of an attraction. “That was before it was civilized,” Freeman said. The lake became a central gathering palace for Dallasities in 1930, when the Bath House, the first Art Deco-styled building in the South, opened its doors. After, that, the visitors came and along with them vendors, multiple
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Swimming is no longer allowed at White Rock Lake.
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The shores of White Rock Lake used to be a sand-filled destination for Dallasites to relax.
slides in the lake a pier for boats and imported sand. The lake was “quite an attraction,” Freeman said, a former AP sports editor. “It was before cellphones. Before television.” Freeman’s parents built their
$2,800 home on a $385 lot. There were only a couple of homes that overlooked the lake. Oilman H.L. Hunt’s Mount Vernon, perched on a 10 acre plot on the west side of the lake, faced oilman Everette Degoyler’s Spanish style estate, located on the southeast side.
People from the various Dallas neighborhoods would flock to the shore in front of the Bath House, located on East Lawther Drive. “You would go the Bath House and you would change into your swimsuits,” former SMU professor Darwin Payne
said. “You would put your clothes in a basket and get a number. It’s one of those sort of things that don’t happen anymore.” Before the land surrounding lake was officially sanctioned as a city park on in 1929, there was question as to what would happen to the land. According to the White Rock Lake exhibit at the Bath House, whether the shore would be come the new Coney Island or a recreational ground with croquet and golf fields was a question that plagued city council for two years. The city decided to allocate $30,000 for the park
development including a sand beach and the Bath House. “When it was brutally hot, that was the place to be,” Freeman said. “A lot of towns had Main Streets. That was our Main Street.” Regardless of the fence that went up when the Bath House was built and a nine-cent fee, people still came to the lake in droves. They would carry nickels and dimes in their swimming suits and as they went down the large metal slides into the water,
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WEDNESDAY n MARCH 26, 2014 local talent
Foot wear
Behind the lens: Part two
A perspective on heels
ruthie burst Contributing Writer rburst@smu.edu
elle finney Contributing Writer cfinney@smu.edu
When Samantha Mastropolo started selling cosmetics in her hometown of London, she didn’t know she’d soon be working in another part of the fashion industry: modeling. One day a hairdresser friend asked her to be a hair model in a photo shoot. After the shoot, the photographer showed the photos around. The lithe, blue-eyed Mastropolo caught the attention of an agency, and she was quickly signed. Thus, her career launched in the early ‘90s, when she was 24 years old – a bit late by modeling standards. And perhaps an early clue that she would re-invent herself more than once over the course of her journey.
After putting an immense amount of energy into being a tomboy for the majority of my childhood, everything changed when I found a pink, bedazzled, pointed-toe flat from DSW (yes, they were as ugly as they sound) that made me realize there was more to life than being a mediocre soccer player. Now, I wish I could include “shoe connoisseur” under the “skills” section of my resume, but then I realize that’s not a quality worth hiring for, although it should be. I try not to pick favorites when it comes to shoes, but as a college student practicality and comfort are essential. Give me a wedge and a platform and I’m good to go. The platform dominated the heel market for the past two years, but unfortunately a much less secure shoe is slowly replacing the platform. Sandals and pumps without the extra quarter-inch cushion are gracing runways and streets everywhere. These shoes
Modeling Mastropolo’s career took off relatively fast – but not in London. Her agency relocated her to different markets. She had the most success in Europe and Asia, and worked in Korea, Tokyo, London, Germany and Spain. She said she traveled constantly, calling that one of the “pros” of a model’s life. Mastropolo said she mostly did print work and was featured in an ad for Versace Makeup as well as two campaigns for Max Factor. Mastropolo also walked the runway for top designers such as Versace, Armani, Issey Miyake, Gucci and more. “Print was my strongest point,” said Mastropolo. “Runway wasn’t my favorite because that’s where I lacked the confidence.” Mastropolo said she used to get butterflies before stepping on the catwalk. She thinks confidence is a characteristic that allows models to shine and differentiate themselves from others, but believes it’s a quality
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Mark Cuban in GQ Magazine with hair and styling by Mastropolo and photograph by Terry Richardson .
that develops over time. As a working model, she said, it was also critical to maintain certain body measurements. During the time Mastropolo modeled, the Kate Moss heroin chic look was in high demand. Mastropolo said overall her modeling experiences were wonderful, but the downside was feeling like she had to look good at all times. “I remember I was doing a shoot for Marie Claire and I had a massive spot on my chin and there was nothing I could do about it,” Mastropolo said. “It’s that constant struggle to maintain your weight or to have healthy looking skin and make sure you don’t have bags under your eyes.” Hair & Makeup Styling After approximately six years of modeling, Mastropolo lost interest. She realized she didn’t want to model and travel anymore. “I was kind of over it. I was like, I’m done,” said Mastropolo.
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A photograph taken by Samantha Mastroplo.
“There’s a season for everything and that season for modeling was over and I knew it so it was time to start something new.” She said it’s a good idea for models to have alternative plans for the future because typically modeling careers don’t continue past the age of 35. “Modeling is a great job to have when you’re young but not one to rely on for life,” said Tori Taylor who used to model for the Kim Dawson Agency. At 28, Mastropolo moved to the United States and decided to become a hair and makeup stylist for both photo shoots and runway shows. She attended Jenni Tarver Academy to master her skills. She picked up the techniques of makeup fairly quickly but struggled with hair styling. But since she wanted to start her career in Dallas, she knew she had to learn both. The New York fashion industry separates makeup stylists from hair stylists, but in Dallas, stylists are expected to do it all. When Mastropolo attended hair and makeup castings, she would tell
photographers about her experience as a model. As a result, the teams casting the jobs trusted her styling talents more because of her background, she said. Mastropolo has done hair and makeup styling for Neiman Marcus, Dillard’s, JCPenny, People Magazine, Glamour, GQ, Don Henley, Mark Cuban, Tiger Woods, Nike and more. This work consisted of campaigns, magazine spreads and advertisements. Mastropolo also applied her hair and makeup skills to ministry work for Queen Esther’s Court, mother and daughter inner-beauty conferences. She focused on teaching girls how to apply makeup modestly to showcase their “inner beauty.” “Sam has a heart for missions, helping reach those less fortunate in practical and spiritual ways,” said model April Barr, who met Mastropolo on the set of a photo shoot. “The women enjoyed learning practical tips from Sam, yet most importantly they learned that developing true character was what makes a person’s beauty shine brighter.” Full version continued online at smufashionmedia. com.
are much more ornate than they have been in the past. Without the chunkiness of the platform, the elaborate shoes still manage to be demure and elegant. Some are strappy, some have laser cutouts, but overall they’re immaculate forms of artwork. As excited as I am to incorporate these shoes into my wardrobe, I’m not sure if my feet and ankles are as thrilled. There was something about that extra oomph that made me feel more supported. There’s a buffer between you and the ground, and you don’t feel every nook and cranny that you wobble on. The platform will not go extinct but lately, the prettier the shoe the more uncomfortable it is. As someone who can’t go anywhere without a heel, I feel like there will be much more “heel training” coming my way as this trend carries on. Hopefully you will glide into this trend much more gracefully than I have. Remember: “Life is short. Heels shouldn’t be.” – Brian Atwood
Don’t say it, style it kelsey reynolds Style Editor kreynolds@smu.edu In a world where Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are on the cover of Vogue and Ellen DeGeneres is leading the selfie trend, it comes as no surprise that emoticons have replaced text. Emoticons, better known as emojis, are the perfect answer to any text message and the best solution for a clever Instagram caption. When there are simply no words, there are emojis and thanks to a recent collaboration with Del Toro and Edie Parker, emojis are now the number one accessory. Shoe maven Del Toro teamed up with bag genius Eddie Parker for an emoji and hashtag collaboration exclusive to Moda Operandi. Del Toro created velvet smoking slippers with various emojis embroidered on the front to be accompanied by an Edie Parker acrylic clutch with the appropriate hashtag. Purple velvet slippers with a bomb embroidered on the right foot and a fire explosion embroidered on the left foot pairs with the Edie Parker purple
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A pair of the Del Toro “Hot Chick” loafers from the collaboration.
clutch that reads #DaBomb in gold specks. The collection contains 14 different sassy and cool sayings with a price tag of $340 for the loafers and $1,595 for the clutches. The exclusive collection launched Tuesday on Moda Operandi and will be available for purchase online until April 8. The next time you are at a loss for words, let your accessories do the talking.
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Breakfast Series — The Download, Identifying and Solving Problems in Developing World Water Supplies, Palmer Conference Center, 7:30-9 a.m.
Equal Pay Day, Women’s Center, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Spring Dance Concert, Bob Hope Theatre, 8 p.m.
New Visions, New Voices, Greer Garson Theatre, 8 p.m. Spring Dance Concert, Bob Hope Theatre, 8 p.m. Am I Blue, OFAC B150, 10:30 p.m.
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New Visions, New Voices, Greer Garson Theatre, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. Spring Dance Concert, Bob Hope Theatre, 8 p.m.
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New Visions, New Voices, Greer Garson Theatre, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. Spring Dance Concert, Bob Hope Theatre, 2 p.m.
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students to be addressed, whether they are organization members or not. “I think the majority of LGBT students miss out when they don’t have an actual Senator that represents them,” said Colton Donica, Treasurer of SMU SPECTRUM. “[Having a Senator] will give the LGBT community a voice in something that has been lacking.” Malhi explained the LGBT seat was last closest to materializing in 2011, but “by a very, very slim margin in the roll call vote it did not pass.” “It was just a few votes, but it resulted in a lot of emotions,” Malhi said. Trespalacios himself voted against the LGBT seat in 2011 — but he explained it was due to privacy issues that have now been resolved in conjunction with the University Registrar. “[In 2011], I wanted to make sure [the Senate] would represent the community within the SMU community [as a whole], and there was no way to identify who those members were,” Trespalacios said.
According to Smith, Trespalacios and Malhi, the University Registrar will now have a question on Access where students can self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The question can be opted out of and is protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, protecting confidentiality — and a student’s parents will have no way of knowing if or how their student answered the question. “The school has a responsibility to keep that private,” Trespalacios said. If the student body passes the referendum and the Administration agrees positively to the bill on all of its fronts, the LGBT Senator will be required to be an identified member of the LGBT community, which will be verified by that self-identification question on Access. While apparent growth has been made in SMU’s tolerance over the past couple of years, the students agree that the work is not nearly done, but only beginning. “I think the purpose of this bill is recognition that the bus does not stop there,” Malhi said in reference to SMU no longer touting the title of one of the most homophobic U.S. schools.
“Just because we’re not one of the most anti-LGBT campuses does not mean we’ve made it and we don’t have an obligation to continue to be progressive.” According to Harvey Luna, the SPECTRUM liaison to Senate, the prospect of the LGBT seat had “a slower start after 2011,” but picked back up speed last year and had its hopefully final push this semester. “It’s something that is very timely,” Luna said. “We are expanding as a University.” In reference to SMU’s growing student body and the new Residential Commons system, the possible LGBT Senator seat would allow SMU to keep up with the most progressive universities in the nation. Issues of transgender housing, genderneutral bathrooms, increased LGBT curriculum and more openly LGBT administrators, faculty and staff could be advocated for and produced as successful legislation. “We need more,” Malhi said. “We need someone advocating for more classes on [LGBT issues]…and someone to consider the impact of rooming situations on the transgender community.” The involved students called for vocal representation
to provide the voice to the community when speaking with SMU Administration and decision makers on growing issues affecting LGBT current and prospective students. The seat would be an opportunity for the prevalent and significant issues facing SMU’s LGBT community — which includes hate crimes — to be heard. “They thought that this seat would provide a window for the LGBT students to voice their concerns that they personally are facing, and that they then could express to the rest of the Senate,” said Kathrina Macalanda, who also worked with students to advocate for the bill. According to Malhi, the referendum will likely be on the ballot for Senate elections beginning next Tuesday, barring any technical difficulties with a last-minute question being added. Malhi said that the referendum would go to vote immediately after that if there were any difficulties. “SMU does a lot of things right and it’s progressive in a lot of ways…but I think it’s time that the student body follows suit,” Smith said. “We’re very hopeful that the student body will vote the same way their senators did.”
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their coins would fall out of their pockets. “Sometimes, you could find enough money to pay your way back in the next day,” Freeman said. “Sometimes you snuck around.” Families would picnic on the shore, kids would buy soda from the Bath House, rebellious preteens would swim past the rope and teens would drive up there with in their cars for dates. “There used to be an old saying that when you had a date you would take her to watch the submarines races,” Doris Heine wrote in a commemorative booklet Memories: 1930-1984. “It was another way of putting it that you would go out there and neck.” By the time Freeman was a sophomore in high school, he had found new interests. He discovered girls, sports and cars. “The lake wasn’t a thing to do any more,” he said. Swimming was banned in 1953 because the city needed to repurpose the swimming hole into a water supply. According to former SMU professor Payne, the city of Dallas was having trouble with a water shortage, Payne said. The total rainfall for 1952 was 1 percent of the normal rainfall and Lake Dallas, current Lake Lewisville, was at 11 percent of its capacity. “There was a terrible drought in this area,” Payne said. “They started using it as a water supply and then they shut it down.” Payne used to take his boys down to the lake. He fashioned his bicycle so that he could put one of his sons in the front of the bike in a basket and his other son ion the back. “It was sort of fun to be there,” Payne said. “It was a family atmosphere.” He still visits the lake once a day, but on the north side. He brings his 7-month-old Mini
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but the main thing is to get the aid to Ukraine. “We have to get IMF reform. But we can’t hold up the other,” Reid told reporters, adding that the White House was disappointed about removing the IMF language. “As much as I think a majority of the Senate would like to have gotten that done with IMF in it, it was headed to nowhere in the House.” Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he too understood that political reality. In a speech on the Senate floor, Menendez said Democrats and Republicans need to join together to send a message of support to Ukraine and a message of disapproval to Putin. “We cannot and should
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Tours by boat were among the activities once available in White Rock Lake.
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Swimming used to be a popular sport in White Rock Lake.
Australian Sheppard to the dog park. Payne’s bike hangs in his garage and his children still have roots in White Rock Lake. “I still feel a tiny bit of excitement when I go to the lake,” Payne said. There isn’t a gate anymore and joggers pass over where Dallasites used to sun bath. The
Bath House is now a cultural center. Where showers used be, local art is now hung. One of the last times Freeman visited the shores of the lake, it was with his mother Maxine right before she died. When she was little, Maxine and her father would go duck hunting, pick pecans and play baseball at
the lake. “It was pretty out here,” Maxine Freeman wrote in Memories: 1930-1984. “It was just country then.” “Everything has changed so much,” Deene Freeman said. “I kinda wish it was the way it used to be. It’s still a beautiful place. Dallas is blessed.”
not stand for the violations of international norms that were perpetrated on Crimea by Russia. The world is watching and the world’s superpower cannot be seen as incapable of rising to Russia’s challenge,” Menendez said. The move signaled a retreat for the Democrats and the Obama administration, which had promoted the IMF provisions. Holly Shulman, a spokeswoman for the Treasury Department, said, “We are deeply disappointed by the news that Republican opposition has forced the Senate to remove the IMF quota and governance reforms from the Ukraine assistance package. “These reforms, which require no new U.S. financial commitment to the IMF, are critical to preserving the United States’ leadership and influence at the IMF, and to strengthening the
IMF’s financial and governance structures in which the United States has the largest share and veto power.” Republicans were happy to see the IMF reforms removed. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said, “By adding the IMF issue to this debate, the administration is choosing to divide Congress, weakening our unified front and delaying this urgent help.” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, agreed. “In choosing to pick this fight with Congress, the administration is signaling to President Putin a real lack of seriousness in actually addressing the Russian government’s conduct.” On the House side, the Foreign Affairs Committee passed its own Ukraine aid bill on Tuesday, without any reference to the international lending body. The IMF provisions would have increased the power of
emerging countries in the IMF and shifted some $63 billion from a crisis fund to a general account the lending body could use for economic stabilization operations around the world. Republicans have long spurned the administration’s attempt to ratify the IMF revisions, saying they would increase the exposure of U.S. taxpayers in foreign bailouts. Making the shift now, opponents argue, also would marginally increase Russia’s voting power over the fund’s finances. The Obama administration and Democrats counter that unless the U.S. approves the new rules, Washington will lose its influence at the IMF and hamper the body’s ability to avert economic meltdowns in places precisely like Ukraine. The U.S. is the only major country that has yet to sign off on the IMF changes.
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Supreme court hears birth control lawsuits Associated PRess Seemingly divided, the Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with the question of whether companies have religious rights, a case challenging President Barack Obama’s health overhaul and its guarantee of birth control in employees’ preventive care plans. Peppering attorneys with questions in a 90-minute argument, the justices weighed the rights of for-profit companies against the rights of female employees. The discussion ranged to abortion, too, and even whether a female worker could be forced to wear an allcovering burka. The outcome could turn on the views of Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the decisive vote, as his colleagues appeared otherwise to divide along liberal and conservative lines. The justices upheld the overall health care law two years ago in a 5-4 ruling in which Chief Justice John Roberts cast the deciding vote in favor of Obama’s signature domestic legislation. The latest case focuses on a sliver of the law dealing with preventive services, including contraception, that must be offered in a company’s plan at no extra charge. The family-owned companies that are challenging the provision provide health insurance to their employees but object to covering certain methods of birth control that they say can work after conception, in violation of their religious beliefs. The justices have never declared that for-profit corporations, as opposed to individuals, can hold religious beliefs. The companies in this
case, and their backers, argue that a 1993 federal law on religious freedom extends to businesses. Among the groups opposing the administration is the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. As it happens, Obama is to meet this week with Pope Francis. The Obama administration says it’s not just about birth control, that a Supreme Court ruling in favor of the businesses also could undermine laws governing immunizations, Social Security taxes and minimum wages. Some of the nearly 50 businesses that have sued over covering contraceptives object to paying for all forms of birth control. But the companies involved in this case are willing to cover most methods of contraception, as long as they can exclude drugs or devices that the government says may work after an egg has been fertilized. The largest company among them is Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., an Oklahoma City-based chain of more than 600 crafts stores in 41 states with more than 15,000 fulltime employees. The company is owned by the Green family, evangelical Christians who say they run their business on biblical principles. The Greens also own the Mardel chain of Christian bookstores. The other company is Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. of East Earl, Pa. The business is owned by the Hahns, a family of Mennonite Christians, and employs 950 people in making wood cabinets. Members of both families were at the court Tuesday. A decision is expected by late June.
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GOP takes Senate 2014 patrick norwood Contributing Writer pnorwood@smu.edu To start things off, I’d like to come out swinging by making a prediction that the Senate and House will be taken by the Republican Party after all is said and done in the 2014 midterms. Let’s look at the two extremes of the fight. On one side, you have the yellow-dog Democrats (Democrats who would rather vote for a yellow dog than a Republican), and the other side you have the rabid Republicans who can smell a RINO (Republican in Name Only) from three counties over. But in between those outer limits, is where a lot of a senator’s constituency lies. And keeping them happy is the name of the game; either A) Appease your constituents so much that they’ll do just about anything to keep you in office or B) Appease your constituents just enough to make them vote for you again while expanding your appeal. Back to the point at hand, if I say the GOP will take the Senate, how are Republicans doing either of those things? Look at the healthcare debate. A huge group of the GOP party members hate the Affordable Care Act with a burning passion. Republican representatives have done what they can to make an effort (or at least the appearance of one) to reflect their constituency’s desires and repeal the ACA. They’ve failed many a time, but every time the ACA gives them something to fight with, they dig
in their heels and take another bite to show their commitment to what the GOP voters desire. Not to mention they’ve been attempting to redefine themselves for a couple years. It hasn’t been exactly successful, but people take notice of that particular kind of effort. Flip back to the Democrats. The Democrats promised many things during the ‘08 and ’12 election season. For example, does “If you like your doctor, you can keep it,” sound familiar? It should, because it’s one of Obama’s famous lines describing the ACA. Now, the Democrats had a very simple job, make healthcare affordable, wholesome, and diverse. They may have hit two out of the three (at best), and the jury’s still out on the rest. Now, we can debate this affordability all day long, but the fact of the matter is: many voters both inside and outside the Democratic Party have felt jaded and disillusioned by this multiple turns of events, despite their original fervor. And as a result, they won’t be out to the polls to support the ones they once did. In fact, due to public opinion of Obama falling and his close association with the Democratic Party, it is likely to see some Democrats “walk across the aisle.” It’s not that Democrats don’t care about their voters, it’s simply that many of their grand promises (which is a fantastic tool for expanding your appeal) have fallen flat. In conclusion, the Republicans have been playing the right cards for the past two years. They’ve drawn good press and bad, and either way, scandals pass in a heartbeat… Except Benghazi (ha). But the end result is, people are thinking about them, and a lot of voters will be thinking of them all the way to the ballot box. Norwood is a sophomore majoring in political science and philosophy.
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quote worthy
“It’s our rights that are being infringed upon to require us to do something against our conscience.” —Hobby Lobby CEO and founder David Green, who refuses to provide employees with insurance that covers certain contraception methods “Europe and America are united in our support of the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people.” —President Barack Obama in the Netherlands
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Amy Lawson, a fifth-grade teacher at Silver Lake Elementary School in Middletown, Del., teaches an English language arts lesson.
Choose smarter spending over increased funding
brandon bub Contributing Writer bbub@smu.edu There is no lack of opinions on what is wrong with the American education system. Every time national policies like No Child Left Behind and the Common Core (the latter of which was not written directly by the Obama administration but rather the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers) find their ways to the headlines, commentators feel like the problems with our schools can be boiled down to a single issue. Teachers’ unions have a stranglehold on the system, states aren’t spending enough money on schools, parents need actual school choice with vouchers, etc. And while these polemics are important to discuss, I feel it’s easy to alienate ourselves from one of the most important questions in this debate: what exactly makes a good school? I can’t offer an authoritative answer to that question, but I think there are some principles we can agree upon. In 1988, Peggy McIntosh wrote a seminal essay on race studies in which she sought to unpack the “invisible knapsack” of privilege she incurred by being born a white woman in America. As a college student who attended a wealthy private Catholic school in Dallas, I too have benefited from privilege– what I want to unpack, however, is not my own racial privilege but rather the educational privilege that no doubt prepared me for college and helped me earn the scholarships that have allowed me to stay in school. Here are a few of my ideas: I could be certain that I would never be in a classroom with more than 20 students. I had to pass through no security checkpoints when entering the
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building and could rest assured that I would not be subject to violence on any given day. If I went back to visit my high school tomorrow, I could be sure that 1. Most of the teachers who instructed me four years ago are still there and 2. Nearly all of them would still remember my name. Though I lived in a different city from my school, I never had to worry about finding a ride home after class and music rehearsals, even when I was too young to have a driver’s license. My English teachers taught PSAT and SAT prep as a matter of course starting in ninth grade, and though I only took the SAT once, I could afford to take it as many times as I pleased. My school foot the cost of AP exams, meaning I could begin college with over 30 credit hours under my belt at effectively no cost to me. My college counselors began working with me (and all other students) one-on-one during my sophomore year to tell me about which colleges were most aligned with my career interests. This list is hardly exhaustive, but not surprisingly, much of it is a function of wealth (after all, my parents were the ones who could afford to send me to private school in the first place). But I don’t think this little experiment of mine necessarily proves that more funding for schools is the answer. According to the World Bank, public expenditure per pupil as a percentage of GDP per capita is about 22 percent, which is just a tad under par in comparison with other developed countries. Moreover, we cannot simply make all of the country’s students wealthy (though any economic policy that tended toward that result would certainly be helpful). Instead, we need to make sure that our money is spent effectively: quality and quantity of educational personnel matters. The more that students can feel their school is like a second home rather than a place to be babysat for eight hours a day, the more they will get out of their school days.
Common Core provides necessary standards
michael dearman Contributing Writer mdearman@smu.edu If you want to start a fight amongst Republicans, there are many topics one could bring up, but more recently new standards for American schools have raised the ire of numerous Republicans. The Common Core, put forward by the Obama administration in order to improve student success and long-term competitiveness amongst international students, is supposed cause for much outcry. A recent article in the Galveston Daily News points out that the National Governors Association and state education superintendents developed the program, which simply set uniform standards for where students should be—like solving math problems by plotting points on (x, y) axes in the fifth grade. In this way, calling this a “federal” government initiative distorts the truth of the matter. Most of the key points by experts on education policy, like Williamson Evers from The Heritage Institution, Neal McCluskey from The Cato Institute and Sandra Stotsky, have various politicaltheoretical critiques to make of the system. For example, non-uniform education standards will increase competition amongst states, which will increase education standards. This line of argument says nothing about the content of what is taught in the classroom.
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If we take the measures of international testing seriously, and American “exceptionalism” is on the decline, then as a nation we need standards to determine where we need to go. Many hold theoretical reluctance toward the Common Core for a number of reasons, but often times the thought is that by having none or very few national education standards, then market forces will allow certain states to develop education reforms in such a way that the best prevail. The problem is whether this principle actually works. Should education be treated like a market? It clearly operates on numerous principles that are not market-oriented, so I am hesitant to endorse something like this view of diffuse and diverse experimentation on education standards. Evers, McCluskey and Stotsky say in the New York Daily News that “there is little deeper research on this, but what there is suggests that once you control for variables such as income and culture, national standards have no effect.” In other words, so long as you control for some of these things that mess with market forces, you can use competition amongst states to find the best standards of education. Paying attention to the unique circumstances of localities is important, but broader standards like the Common Core give direction to a directionless system of education. With luck, states and school districts will be able to devise plans to deal with local education concerns that the Common Core does not address in implementation. Dearman is a senior majoring in political science and philosophy.
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WEDNESDAY n MARCH 26, 2014 Men’s Basketball
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SMU rallies with big second half, swamps LSU 80-67 Billy Embody Sports Staff Writer wembody@smu.edu Call them the comeback kids. SMU’s men’s basketball team was down by five at the half, but a strong start to the second half and a raucous crowd at Moody Coliseum allowed the Mustaangs to win 80-67 over LSU Monday night. The team was down by one at the half to UC-Irvine just a week ago and came back to win. The team has also comeback from their three straight losses to end the regular season, which crushed their tournament dreams, to now advancing in the NIT. SMU Head Coach Larry Brown knew his team struggled with adversity down the stretch this season, but he’s seeing something different out of his team. “I didn’t see anyone putting their heads down or pointing fingers. All good teams have to deal with adversity,” Brown said. “In this game against a quality team with shot blockers, we shoot 60-something percent in the second half. You can’t bottle a game like that.” The goal is to send seniors Nick Russell and Shawn Williams out the right way. Monday night though, the pair was putting in their own share of the work, helping the team get the win with a combined 27 points, 11 rebounds and five assists.
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Cannen Cunningham No. dunks on 7’6” Center Mamadou N’diaye at Wednesday’s NIT tournament game in Moody Coliseum.
“This is the last time I’m in college. I’m not worried about Madison Square Garden,” Russell said. “Every game could be my last. That’s my mentality as I approach every game.” Keith Frazier and Nic Moore
both got hot from beyond the arc, making three and two threepointers respectively. Overall, SMU shot close to 58 percent from the field, nearly 10 percent higher than the team’s average. The key was SMU’s ability to
share the ball and that was what ultimately made the difference. “In the second half, and the last four minutes of the first half, we defended against a quality team pretty well,” Brown said. “We got 22 assists, 11 turnovers;
that was pretty significant for me.” Now the team had a quick 48hour turnaround before facing Cal. in Moody Coliseum tonight for the final home game of the season.
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Mays named finalist for WBCA All-America Award Demetrio Teniente Sports Editor dteniente@smu.edu For the second straight season SMU’s Keena Mays was named as one of 52 All-Region finalists for the Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Association All-America Team. This season, Mays was a
unanimous All-American Athletic Conference First Team selection as she recorded an SMU-record 691 points, and averaged a league-high 21.6 points per game (22nd in the NCAA). Mays also hit 88 threepointers this season (another school record) and shot a leaguehigh 39.6 percent from behind
the three-point line (42nd in the nation). The senior became the first Mustang to score at least 30 points in a game six times in a seasonshe scored a career-high 34 points three times. Mays played 55 games for SMU scoring 1,115 points (18th all-time in program history).
Her three-point shooting range at SMU ranks third alltime at 39.8. She also registered 199 assists and 131 steals while a Mustang. The last Mustang to recieve WBCA All-America status was Janielle Dodds in 2007-08, when she received honorable mention recognition.
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Kalu earns third weekly honor of season award Demetrio Teniente Sports Editor dteniente@smu.edu After a record-setting performance at the TCU Horned Frog Invitational, SMU’s Stephanie Kalu was named the indoor Track & Field Female Athlete of the Week, by the American Athletic Conference Tuesday. It is the third time Kalu has won such an award in her career. “I am real proud of her,” Director of Track & Field Dave Wollman said. “Any time that you can win an award like this, it’s a good thing. “I’m glad we got to go back to work just one week after the
NCAA’s, our main goal right now is to continue training and getting stronger for the conference outdoor that is just over a month away.” Kalu turned in a time of 11.15 seconds in the 100-meter dash to take first place- breaking her own SMU record and the AAC record. One record wasn’t enough for Kalu, as her time of 23.21 seconds in the 200-meter dash set a personal-best time, broke the SMU record and ranks first in the AAC. Kalu and the Mustangs are back in action this week on Wednesday as they travel to Austin, Texas to compete at the Texas Relays. The relays will conclude on Saturday.
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WEDNESDAY n MARCH 26, 2014 design
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Stationary company offers Meadows Spring Dance Concert premieres today unique and artistic prints jordan moore A&E Editor mooreja@smu.edu
zain haidar Staff Writer zhaidar@mail.smu.edu
Tired of looking for special occasion cards and only finding the same cookie-cutter cardboard on the shelves? So was Smudge Ink Stationary and Gifts, a company started by two women looking for more personal and unique cards. Kate Saliba and Deb Bastien are the two creative minds behind Smudge Ink. The letterpressprinted cards are each as artistic as their creators. Both Saliba and Bastien were involved in all sorts of crafty pastimes throughout high school and college. “We consistently spent much of our free time (pre-Smudge Ink) getting our hands dirty making furniture, creating cards, painting rugs, the list goes on!” Saliba said. Saliba and Bastien kept their hands working for years before finally opening their letterpress studio in 2002. The company is based out of Charlestown, Mass. and has offered its products to over 900 stores across the U.S., in addition to stores around the globe. Surprisingly, the Smudge Ink team truly only boils down to a team of about 10. Smudge Ink’s products have increased in variety as well. “Our product line has expanded to include gift wrap, stationary sets, notepads, notebooks and an extensive collection of flat printed boxed notes,” Saliba said. Smudge Ink takes gift-giving one step further to make more than just the card artfully and sentimentally created. Smudge Ink is eco-friendly as well. “I would say 95 percent of
The Meadows Dance ensemble opens “Hope Show,” its annual spring dance concert, today. The show runs through Sunday in the Bob Hope Theatre of the Owen Fine Arts Center. All three works in “Hope Show” were created in the last 25 years and include pieces by current Meadows Artist-in-Residence Adam Hougland, winner of the 2014 Meadows Prize Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and Tony-
award winning choreographer Bill T. Jones. Saturday evening’s performance will include a tribute to Ann Williams, founder and artistic director of Dallas Black Dance Theatre, and Lily Cabatu Weiss, chair of the dance department at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, with performances from both groups. “Chalabati,” the first piece of the program, was choreographed by Zollar and was inspired by the Gnawa people of Morocco. Zollar spent two weeks in February rehearsing the work
with Meadows students. “Cold Virtues,” choreographed by Hougland, is set to the Violin Concerto by Philip Glass and takes inspiration from the 18th century novel “Dangerous Liaisons.” The work was created for 14 dancers to perform. Lastly, Jones’s “D-Man in the Waters” is an award-winning piece created in 1989 in remembrance of Demian Acquavella – a member of Jones’s company who died of AIDS. Performance times are 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $13 for adults, $10 for seniors and $7 for students.
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our products are printed on postconsumer recycled paper,” Saliba said. The remaining 5 percent is simply due to logistics: “Obviously, there are factors like price and availability that can make this challenging, but most of the time we are able to make it work,” Saliba said. Smudge Ink is thoughtful in more ways than one, and helps its customers be thoughtful too. As the old saying goes, “it’s the thought that counts.” Smudge Ink really takes this to heart. Smudge Ink wanted their cards to avoid what many bigbox stores had been doing with cards. “None of them felt special and the sentiment was always overly
emotional,” Saliba said. While Smudge Ink’s greetings may be simple, the artwork is rather intricate. “From the beginning, we differentiated ourselves by using bright colors and larger imagery –– both of which can be challenging to achieve on press,” Saliba said. The artistic craftsmanship of Smudge Ink cards is the answer to the constant question Saliba and Bastien keep in mind for Smudge Ink: “What would make them hold onto the card?” Smudge Ink prints pieces to collect and keep. What might begin with an occasion is made a lasting memory framed in the art of its products.
It was extremely hard for Dwayne Johnson to keep his “Hercules” look under wraps while filming the Brett Ratnerdirected movie in Hungary last year. But he did it for the greater good of the big reveal. “As an actor, not showing my chiseled, extraordinary, handsome face was a tremendous sacrifice for me,” he joked on Monday before the premiere of the film’s trailer at Las Vegas movie-theater convention CinemaCon. “Paramount, MGM and I made a pact,” he added. “We wanted to make a massive global and entertaining movie while doing all we could to never reveal the actual look of Hercules.” Slowly rolling out photos from the set of the film for the past few months via his Twitter page, Johnson aimed to bring fans along on his journey — from his training to his diet and prep.
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is the new Hercules.
On Sunday, the 41-year-old actor finally unveiled his “Hercules” look in its entirety. Via Twitter, he posted a photo revealing his full beard, shoulderlength brown locks and armor. In the caption accompanying the photo he wrote: “The world’s first superhero. #TilDeathOrVictory.” We’re offered hints of the Greek hero’s abilities in the film’s trailer, which debuts wide on Tuesday. In it, Hercules battles the multiheaded Lernaean hydra water monster, the behemoth Erymanthian boar and the massive Nemean lion. In the
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following clip he classically dons the skinned lion as a headpiece. But, of course, Hercules is a multifaceted figure, so we’re also treated to a brief snapshot of the hero absorbed in a tender lip-lock. The teaser’s conclusion takes us right back to the barbarousness, with the Greek hero fiercely yelling, “I am Hercules!” At 6 feet 5 inches, the extremely muscular Johnson said he trained harder for “Hercules,” which hits theaters July 25, than any other role. “But in the end,” he added. “It was all well worth it.”