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Obama to speak on budget White House senior advisor David Plouffe announced Sunday that President Obama will deliver a major budget address this week detailing a more aggressive path for deficit reduction. The president’s 2012 budget has reportedly already laid out plans to reduce the country’s deficit by 10 trillion dollars over the next ten years.

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Gaddafi gains on rebels Gaddafi fighters launched a surprise attack on Ajdabyia, the last city before the rebel capital, Sunday. Rebels claim to have repelled the attack, but are still blaming NATO. NATO says they have been active in the west, destroying 15 of Gaddafi’s tanks near Misrata.

Middle East protests continue Middle Eastern cities were filled with violence Saturday. More than 25 protesters were killed in Daraa, Syria and two protesters were killed in Homs. In Yemen, security forces killed one protester and wounded 15 in the government’s first attack on demonstrators since snipers killed 52 people three months ago. Though the bulk of the unrest in Egypt seemed over, two people were killed and dozens wounded as the military tried to empty Tahrir Square.

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Members of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority perform a soundtrack-themed medley during the dress rehearsal for Sing Song 2011 Thursday evening.

Students reveal talent in Sing Song By MELISSA MAGUIRE Staff Writer mmaguire@smu.edu

Men wore eyeliner and girls were thrown into the air during this year’s Sing Song competition Hosted annually by SMU’s Program Council, Sing Song is an event that demonstrates the dancing, singing and script-writing skills of different groups on campus. This year, each group chose a music genre to incorporate into their play. Genres spanned time periods and cultures, including soundtracks, Motown, Broadway and Latin. The first place award went to Alpha Chi Omega and Beta Theta

Iraqis protest U.S. presence Iraq’s Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his followers staged a massive demonstration on Saturday demanding that both U.S. troops and civilians leave the country by the end of the year. The rally followed a visit by the U.S. Defense Secretary, who suggested Friday that the U.S. may not leave Iraq for several more years. In a message read by his party official, Sadr threatened that continued U.S. intervention would provoke “escalating the work of the military resistance and re-activating the Mahdi Army.”

France fires on Ivory Coast French helicopters fired rockets at the Ivory Coast’s incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo, witnesses say, after Gbagbo’s forces reportedly fired on the French ambassador’s residence. As fighting continues in the capital, the U.N. says it has found more than 100 bodies in the west of the country, apparently victims of further ethnic violence by both sides. A week ago, several hundred bodies were found in the town of Duekoue.

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Pi for their soundtrack-themed show. Second place went to Gamma Phi Beta and Lyle School of Engineering for their jazz-themed murder mystery skit. Delta Gamma and Kappa Alpha Order won third place with a Motown-themed act. First, second and third place awards were decided by judges chosen by Program Council. This year, a text-your-vote system was used to gauge audience response, which counted for 10 percent of the final scoring. During dress rehearsal Thursday night, each group voted for other groups in categories. Best costume went to Beta Upsilon Chi (BYX) and Delta Delta Delta.

Best backdrop, choreography and overall performance went to Gamma Phi Beta and Lyle School of Engineering. Sing Song 2011 opened with a video consisting of interviews with directors from each group. The montage, which was serious in nature, was followed by an interpretive dance by Nick Cains, emcee for the event. The first act of the night was performed by Tri-Delta and BYX. Their genre was funk, The story revolved around one group’s recovery of “The Funk,” which was stolen by the Boogie Monster Man. The good guys were aided in their efforts to recover “The Funk”

by a group of divas, the girls of Tri Delta. The act concluded in a funkoff, during which both sides ended with a truce. This was followed by the Motown-themed play of the Delta Gamma sorority and the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity. The plot was revolved around Laura, a popular schoolgirl being pursued by Jack, the stereotypical jock. Laura received love letters from Jack, who was using Steve, a nerd, to write the letters for him. Steve, whose writings reflected his own true feelings for Laura, spent the duration of the play trying to find

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Student Senate will vote on a piece of legislation at its Tuesday meeting that would add a Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Senator (GISO) to its chamber. The GISO senator would represent the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community at SMU. Luna authored the bill with Student Body Secretary Katie Perkins, Sen. Soniyyah Blue (Perkins) and Sen. Rachel Fox (Dedman II). The legislation defines the GISO senator as a special interest senator, similar to the African-American Senator or International Senator. Under the legislation, LGBT students would have the option to self-identify as LGBT through the Registrar’s office. Only those students who self-identify as LGBT could vote or run for the seat. “One of the main concerns from last semester, and this is something now Student Body Vice President-elect Alex Ehmke suggested, was having an election mechanism for the senator,” Luna said. The bill adds a clause that if the LGBT constituency makes up at least 15

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HUNT INSTITUTE

Libraries promote National Library Week with cookout By SARAH KRAMER News Editor skramer@smu.edu

In recognition of National Library Week, the Central University Libraries (CUL) will hold their fourth annual CUL cookout Tuesday and Wednesday in the courtyard of Fondren Library West. CUL will serve free hot dogs, cookies and drinks to students from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. while promoting library services. While the CUL committee enjoys the smell of the hot dogs on the grill, they like discussing the resources that the library has to offer.

“Our Library Public Services staff will be on hand demonstrating several of our online resources, such as the library catalog and Discovery platform,” said Terre Heydari, a library specialist and vendor liaison for CUL. This year, the Ask-a-Librarian service, which unites students who need assistance in finding information with librarians will be available. “[The event] celebrates the ways in which libraries are important to the communities in which they reside and how they make a difference in the lives and education of the people,” Heydari said.

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Congress debates federal funding cuts for Planned Parenthood By BETHANY SUBA Copy Editor bsuba@smu.edu

Planned Parenthood is in the hot seat as Congress debates whether or not it should cut federal funds to the organization. The controversial group, sometimes described as an abortion clinic, welcomes all women in need of medical care. The government needs to cut funds somewhere and banning funds to Planned Parenthood is a start, say some legislators. On Feb. 18 the U.S. House of Representatives voted to cut the federal funding to Planned Parenthood, but on March 9 the Senate rejected the original proposal, giving the organization a little breathing room for the time being. The bill is still being reviewed in the Senate and there is talk of revising the House’s proposal.

If the bill passes, the Planned Parenthood’s in northeast Texas won’t be hit as hard as other Planned Parenthood locations. Only 25 percent of the Planned Parenthoods in northeast Texas receive funding by either the state or federal government; approximately 10 to 15 percent is federally funded money. However, other Planned Parenthood’s are funded close to 50 percent by the federal government. Supporters of the bill believe that cutting Planned Parenthood’s federal funding may prevent abortions from happening as often. Those against say that there will be more abortions if funding to the organization is cut. If the government cuts funding to Planned Parenthood, that means cutting funds for birth control pills. This will take away access

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SMU engineering student Joe Nelson helps apply mud to the side of an Ubuntu Blox shelter on display during the Lyle School of Engineering Hunt Institute’s Engineering and Humanity week.

Sustainable village comes to life through engineering By ASHLEY WITHERS Associate News Editor awithers@smu.edu

The Hunt Institute’s Engineering and Humanity Week kicks off Monday with the opening of the Living Village and a series of community lectures on topics regarding ethical engineering and innovative action. The event was created to raise awareness of the conditions that half of the world’s population lives in. The Hunt Institute hopes to inspire participants to create solutions for these engineering and humanitarian issues. They

also want students to see that they can make a difference globally. “I hope the kids get more excited about solving these kinds of engineering problems,” Lyle School of Engineering Dean Geoffrey Orsak said. The Living Village will serve as the physical representation of the week’s theme. Engineering students and volunteers spent the weekend constructing nine different structures on campus. “People at a school like SMU have no concept of what it means to live on one dollar or two dollars a day,” Orsak said. “The Living Village will

help provide a window into the lives of 3 billion people in the world.” During the week, 25 students will live in the Living Village. The students will live, cook, and sleep in the temporary shelters designed for refugees. “I’m really excited about living here,” first year Samuel Beyer said. “I’m looking forward to showing people around the village and raising awareness for problems at emergency sites.” Beyer will be one of the students living in the United Nations Refugee Tent (UNHCR) for the week.

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Teach for America could face budget cut

Campus Events MONDAY April 11

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a teaching position with a public middle school in East Dallas. “I have a lot of trust in the organization that if they accepted me then they will make sure that I am placed somewhere, but at the same time I’m nervous that I’ll have to move to a different state that I wasn’t anticipating teaching in,” she said. In an e-blast sent to incoming Corps members in Dallas, Teach for America informed its accepted members that it has closed the Dallas/ Fort Worth region to the fourth and fifth application deadlines for the

2011-2012 school year. They decided to stop accepting applications for the region to ensure that the applicants they have already accepted to the area will be guaranteed job placement within the district even with the budget cuts. With a reduced number of employees, the student to teacher ratio could rise. This could prove to be a struggle in that the student to teacher ratio could hurt the overall success of the students, whose progress is measured by standardized testing at the end of each year.

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thing you are on the district websites. We’re waiting to see what the money situation is,” Principal Jonnice LegumBerns of Anne Frank Elementary School, which also employs Teach for America teachers, said. Dallas ISD recently adopted a new policy that will take into consideration an employee’s performance when reductions become necessary. The new policy looks at a set of five criteria, which are, in order of importance: certification, performance, additional performance criteria, seniority and professional background. The new policy is aimed at keeping the most qualified and highest performing teachers in the classroom. “We encourage districts to keep the most effective teachers in their classrooms, no matter what their pathway into teaching,” Gastrock said. With the risk of teacher and staff reductions, it could be a daunting task for incoming Teach for America Corps members to start working at any public school experiencing the repercussions of the budget cuts. With fewer employees, teachers and Corps members of these schools will worry about job security. Kaitlin Meyer, SMU senior, was accepted into the Teach for America program last November and is scheduled to begin teaching in August of this year. Within the next couple of months, she will face some hard realities as she seeks to secure

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Cuts to education budgets across the nation may deprive Texas public schools of a service that many poor districts have come to rely on: Teach for America teachers. Budget proposals before the Texas legislature have indicated that the program, which placed about 5,500 teachers in schools across the nation last year, could lose some of its federal funding. The program will have to review its logistics and projected growth for 2011, according to Kaitlin Gastrock, Regional Director for Teach for America. “We may have to slow the pace of our planned growth in the state of Texas by recruiting fewer teachers and impacting fewer students,” she said. Teach for America received a record high of 48,000 applications from college seniors and professionals this year. Its reputation for providing well-trained teachers to help eliminate educational inequity in underprivileged regions has captured the attention of many college students around Dallas. “Five percent of the senior class at Southern Methodist University applied this year,” Gastrock said. However, Texas public schools are expecting their budget to fall nearly 23 percent if an estimated $10 billion of funding is cut over the next

two years. The Dallas Independent School District in particular is facing a worst-case scenario with a reduction of about $253 million in state aid. The cuts will force public schools to terminate teachers and staff to compensate for their lack of financial support. The Teach for America teachers, known as Corps members, will not receive any special treatment in a potential layoff process. They are also subject to the same layoff policies as all of the other teachers in the district. The exact number of terminations for Dallas ISD public school employees has not yet been determined as the board of trustees awaits a final number for the budget cuts for the 2011-2012 school year. “We’re not sure what the situation will look like. We’re still waiting to see what is decided,” Orenthal Wright, assistant principal at Nancy Cochran Elementary School, which employs Teach for America teachers, said. Regardless of which proposal is selected, layoffs will be necessary to compensate for the reduction in budget. The options now sit before the Texas Legislature, which has until May to determine the final budget. After its decision, the board of trustees will provide each of its schools with the same specific process to follow for terminations. “Principals are reading the same

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“I think that when you have a large number of students in the classroom, the opportunity for a student to receive one-on-one attention and help is significantly decreased. And the teacher’s concern becomes more about controlling the classroom, rather than teaching the students,” Meyer said. The final results of budget cuts Dallas ISD will incur are to be determined by the Texas Legislature no later than May 2011.

Police Reports APRIL 7

TUESDAY April 12

WEDNESDAY April 13

Student Art Contest in the Hughes-Trigg Commons at 9 a.m.

Student Art Contest continues in the Hughes-Trigg Commons at 9 a.m.

Manuel Jesus Corbacho Artist Certificate Piano Recital in Caruth Auditorium at 5:15 p.m.

Sustainable Farming Demonstration in the Living Village at 10 a.m.

Clean Water Walk at the Living Village at 10 a.m.

Living Village Music & Film Celebration in the Caruth Hall outdoor amphitheatre at 6:30 p.m.

John Mullins Book Signing in the Living Village at 2:15 p.m.

ReadySet Solar System Demonstration on the Living Village Stage at 1:30 p.m.

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1:31 p.m. Consumption of Alcohol by a Minor/Possession of Fictitious License or ID: 3100 Dyer Street. A student was referred to the Student Conduct Office for underage drinking and for possessing a fake ID. Closed.

12:37 a.m. Consumption of Alcohol by a Minor/Possession of Fictitious License or ID/Theft of Service: 6000 Bishop Blvd. A student was referred to the Student Conduct Office for underage drinking, for possession of a fake ID and for theft of service. Closed.

6:54 p.m. Theft/Warrant Arrest: SMU Bookstore/Barnes & Noble/3060 Mockingbird Lane. A non affiliated person was arrested for theft of two textbooks from the bookstore and a pending warrant. Closed.

12:49 a.m. Consumption of Alcohol by a Minor/Possession of Alcohol by a Minor: 6000 Bishop Blvd. A student was referred to the Student Conduct Office for possessing alcohol as a minor and for underage drinking. Closed.

2:20 a.m. Public Intoxication/Possession of Fictitious License or ID: 6000 Bishop Blvd. A student was issued a University Park citation, arrested and booked into University Park jail and referred to the Student Conduct Office for being intoxicated in a public place. The student will also be referred to the Student Conduct Office for possessing a fake ID. Closed.

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to the pills for women who receive them from Planned Parenthood, and will ultimately lead to more women seeking abortions. “Women may come in to get an abortion but they don’t get pills, so then they go out and get pregnant again and come back for another abortion. It makes no sense,” Dr. Mark Godat, the medical director for Planned Parenthood of northeast Texas, said. “What it is going to do is end up raising the abortion rate in this country instead of lowering it.” Those in favor of the bill say that cutting funds will not prohibit Planned Parenthood from being able to function legally it will just take away the support of the government and taxpayers. “This just sends a message to Planned Parenthood that if it can get by and support its work without taxpayer funds it can legally continue to do what it is doing,” Becky Visosky, the directory of communications at Dallas’ Catholic Pro-Life Committee, said. Taxpayers’ money should be going to other health centers that provide “complete health care, not just testing for STDs, not

just contraception and certainly not abortions.” When Margaret Sanger first founded Planned Parenthood her whole objective was to take care of women in all phases of their life. She wanted them to have a place to go to where they were free to make their own decisions. Planned Parenthood offers multiple services for women of all ages. It provides birth control, blood pressure tests, diabetes screens, family planning, breast cancer screening, hormone replacement therapy, STD screenings and treatment and cervical screenings, Holly Morgan, the director of communications of Planned Parenthood in northeast Dallas, said. Without funding, patients, forced to other clinics, may not be able to afford the examinations, procedures or medicine they need. The federal government does not pay for abortion services now. The money is privately donated, and this new bill will take away money that is used for the other aspects of Planned Parenthood. “I think that the federal government shouldn’t cut funds because it helps

women with lower income stay healthy, it’s a real doctors office,” SMU junior Jaqueline Rivas, said. Planned Parenthood is known for giving women the option to terminate a pregnancy, and that has people questioning the government’s reason to fund them, particularly those who are adamant pro-life advocates. “[Planned Parenthood] is the largest abortion chain in America, it is responsible for 25 percent of abortions in the U.S.,” Visosky said. “Planned Parenthood has never backed down on its mission to take care of a woman and all of her needs. If that need was to have an abortion [Planned Parenthood] was not going to make a decision for her,” Godat said. Godat, who is also has his own OB-GYN practice at the Medical City Dallas Hospital, has been with the Planned Parenthood company more than 20 years and has never performed an abortion procedure. “That’s the ultimate pro-choice decision,” Godat said.

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a way to confess his love for Laura. Next came the Broadway-based production of the Pi Beta Phi sorority and the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. In this act, the son of a legendary New York City mobster put his inherited career as a gangster on hold to pursue a career on Broadway, a decision that ultimately unites the mob and theatre communities. Later in the night, Alpha Chi Omega and Beta Theta Pi preformed the winning soundtracked-themed play. This play, which included a mock-interpretation of SMU President R. Gerald Turner, incorporated a message of the inter-school unity. Men from the Cox School of Business competed against women of the Meadows School of the Arts for extra funding, which was the result of what mock-President Turner called

“over-fundraising.” To put a twist into the story, the Cox and Meadows students set their differences aside and worked together to win the additional funding, ultimately losing to the students of the Perkins School of Theology, who were not portrayed by anybody on stage. The students of Senatus Populusque Romanus (Virginia-Snider honors students) took the stage with a Latin-themed play revolving around a mockup of Wellness I, a class that all SMU students are required to take in order to graduate. Students in Wellness I were given opportunities to introduce themselves and despite personality differences, social connections were formed. The play highlighted the importance of meeting different kinds of people and not initially judging others based on outward appearances.

The series of plays concluded with the ladies of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority and the students of Lyle School of Engineering performing a jazz-style murder mystery in which a TCU student frames a SMU student. Vivian, the TCU student, accuses Stella, the SMU student, of killing her father. Stella is later proven innocent by private detective Jimmy, who rekindles their old relationship and ends the play with a long, dramatic kiss. While the judges deliberated in a secret room, professional magician and SMU student Trigg Burrage delivered a captivating and jaw-dropping magic act. Burrage’s act was followed by a series of dance routines performed by SMU’s country-western dance team, the Mustang Mavericks.

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percent of the student body for at least two consecutive years, the seat will be eliminated. If the bill passes, it will need to be ratified by the student body because it would change the student constitution. If Student Senate cannot determine the percentage of LGBT students after two years, then the clause says that Senate will vote to either deactivate the GISO seat for one year or extend it for two years. If deactivated, the bill calls on Senate to vote on the seat again after a year has passed to reactivate the seat for two years or to eliminate it permanently. The GISO seat would be automatically extended or reactivated if Senate fails to bring the motion to a vote. Luna says the bill authors wanted to be realistic about the GISO seat. They added the vote clause because they “wanted to be realistic in… whether this

senator was going to be able to enact enough change that we needed.” The bill also adds gender, gender identity and gender expression to Student Senate’s non-discrimination policy, which already includes sexual orientation. Luna has explained a variety of issues that LGBT students face during Senate meetings and Town Hall meetings, such as SMU’s lack of gender-neutral bathrooms and housing, as well as student-on-student harassment. Several senators and guest speakers have argued before the chamber that LGBT students may not feel comfortable talking about specific issues with a senator who isn’t LGBT or who may not be familiar with LGBT issues. Senate passed a resolution at its March 1 meeting that stated, “Student Senate, acting on behalf of the student body, officially extends their continued support to current and prospective SMU LGBT students.”

The bill, authored by Luna, denounced homophobic rhetoric and discrimination against LGBT students. It encouraged senators to take Allies training from the Women’s Center. In addition to the March 1 bill, Luna and others have been working to gather petition signatures for the LGBT seat and research about the LGBT population at SMU. Student Senate viewed an excerpt of a documentary about LGBT students at SMU at their April 5 meeting. Tuesday’s vote is the culmination of two years’ effort to install an LGBT seat in Student Senate. SMU alumnus Tom Elliott first began the campaign, but Luna took it up after Elliott graduated. Last year’s Student Senate voted down a piece of legislation at their Dec. 1 meeting that would have allowed the student body to vote on whether or not to add an LGBT seat.

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Harvey Lacey, a Texas inventor, created a low-cost housing model using bales of recycled plastic that he calls Ubuntu Blox. Each bale weighs only a couple pounds and is used in place of bricks in the house’s structure. Lacey created the idea based on his own philosophy of equitable housing and bubble up economics. “The idea is that eventually the people collecting the plastic will be able to afford a plastic house on their own,” Lacey said. Lacey’s grandsons will be living in the Ubuntu Blox House for the week. Other structures include the HabiHut, the ShelterBox Tent, the Lite Yurt, the TekYurt, the HexaYurt, the Monolithic EcoShell and the CalEarth Sandbag Structure.

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I hope it teaches them not only about endurance, but what it’s like to be a student when you don’t have access to electricity, running water or modern technology.

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Lyle School of Engineering Dean

The entire village will be “off the grid,” meaning no wired electricity. “I hope it teaches them not only about endurance, but what it’s like to be a student when you don’t have access to electricity, running water or

modern technology,” Orsak said. The Living Village stands as a tribute to Sargent Shriver, the driving force behind the Peace Corps. The village will be dedicated to Shriver during the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Gensler Dallas, the SMU Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering, and Deloitte LLP are the presenting partners of Engineering and Humanity Week. For more information on Engineering and Humanity Week and The Living Village, visit eandhweek. org.

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Engineering & Humanity Week Schedule of events Monday, April 11

9 a.m.- Living Village opens on the SMU Campus Location: East of the flagpole on Bishop Boulevard. Enjoy music and performances at the Living Village throughout the day. Take a test drive around the Boulevard in an all-electric Chevy Volt- Monday only. Visit the international photography exhibit for Bob Freling, Executive Director of the Solar Electric Light Fund at Caruth Hall. 11:30 a.m. – Lunch can be purchased from the Green House Truck on campus. 12 p.m. – Community Lectures: Innovation at the Bottom of the Pyramid Location: Caruth Hall, outdoor Hillcrest Amphitheater Community lecturers explore how entrepreneurs and NGOs are teaming up to meet the needs of the impoverished in the developing world through innovative action. 4:15 p.m. – Living Village Dedication & Ribbon Cutting Location: Living Village The celebration of the official opening of the Living Village, dedicated to the late Sargent Shriver, the founder and first director of the Peace Corps. 6:30 p.m. – Music & Film Celebration Location: Caruth Hall, outdoor Hillcrest Amphitheatre Joe Dowdle, a musician, will perform and at 7 p.m. the PBS documentary, “American Idealist: The Story of Sargent Shriver,” will play.

Tuesday, April 12

10:00 a.m. – World Hunger Relief- Sustainable Farming Demonstration Location: Living Village 12:00 p.m. - Keynote Luncheon Location: Meadows Museum Richard L. Kauffman, Chairman of the Board, Levi Strauss & Company, speaks on renewable energy. 1:00 p.m. – Panel Discussion: Navigating Business Opportunities in Emerging Markets Location: Meadows Museum 2:00 p.m. - World Hunger Relief- Sustainable Farming Demonstration Location: Living Village 2:15 p.m. - Book Signing Location: Living Village Meet John Mullins, the author of Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model. 6:30 p.m. - Music and Film Celebration Location: Angelika Film Center Dallas Camerata will perform and at 7 p.m. the documentary “Bag It” will play.

Wednesday, April 13 10:00 a.m. - Clean Water Walk Location: World Vision/If You Knew tent at the Living Village Volunteers and students will demonstrate the daily struggle of millions of women and children across the world as they search for water and carry heavy containers for miles back to their villages. 12:00 p.m. - Luncheon & Panel Discussion: Clean Water & Energy Consumption: On a Collision Course?

Location: Umphrey Lee Mack Ballroom

1:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. – Clean Water Walk Location: World Vision/If You Knew tent at the Living Village Participants will take an 800 ft walk, fill containers in the SMU fountain and travel back to the Living Village. 1:30 p.m. - ReadySet Solar System Demonstration Location: Living Village Stage 6:30 p.m. - Dinner and music at the Audubon Center Location: The Trinity River Audubon Center The Hunt Institute will present the inaugural Visionary Award to Dean Kamen, Inventor and Founder of DEKA Research and Development.

Thursday, April 14 12:00 p.m.– Luncheon and Panel Discussion: The Real Extreme Home Makeover: Housing for three Billion People 4:00 p.m. - Student Debate Location: Caruth Hall, outdoor Hillcrest Amphitheatre Students will debate about nuclear power’s risk to the development of food, water and shelter globally. 6:30 p.m. – Music & Film Celebration Location: McCord Auditorium The PBS documentary “The New Recruits” will air.

Friday, April 15 9:00 a.m. - What now? Location: Caruth Hall Attendees are invited to participate in the Hunt Institute’s feedback session.

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MEN’S TENNIS

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Mustangs earn fifth straight win over Rice 5-2 By EJ HOLLAND Sports Editor eholland@smu.edu

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SMU senior Darron Walsh returns a volley during doubles play against the UC—Santa Barbara Sunday afternoon at Turpin tennis stadium.

SMU improves to 16-6 after 4-3 victory Sunday By JOHN BONADELLE Contributing Wrtier jbonadelle@smu.edu

The SMU Men’s tennis team sent UC – Santa Barbara back to California with a loss on Sunday after its last home match of the season. The Mustangs opened the match with a loss from their No. 1 doubles duo, sophomore Tobias Flood and junior Joseph Hattrup. No. 2 doubles Adham el-Effendi and Robert Lammberth then responded with a win in convincing fashion. The Mustangs took the doubles point after the No. 3 doubles team of Gaston Cuadranti and Darren Walsh won their match to put SMU up 1-0 for the afternoon and ahead going into singles play.

At the conclusion of doubles play, UC—Santa Barbara knew it needed to take four of the six singles matches to win. Santa Barbara players challenged SMU but came up short when they could only close out three of the six matches. Both Gaston Cuadranti and David Costa dropped their matches, allowing Santa Barbara to take two wins early on. After an injury from SMU junior Robert Sajovich led to a default loss for the Mustangs, Santa Barbara looked as if it could comeback to take the overall victory. However, Tobias Flood came back from his doubles loss to win his singles match. Adham el-Effrendi stayed consistent through the afternoon by

following his doubles win with a crucial singles victory. Freshman Mischa Nowicki sealed the victory for SMU with a win in his No. 4 position. The Mustangs clinched the victory by taking four of the seven possible points to finalize the afternoon 4-3. The win was SMU’s 16th of the year and moved them to an impressive 16-6 record for the year. The season winds down with matches against cross-town rival TCU on Wednesday and then Rice in Houston this weekend. After these matches, the regular season will be over, and will be followed by the C-USA Championships in Tulsa, Okla. at the end of April.

After an impressive 5-2 win over cross town rival No. 61 TCU in its final regular season home match last week, the No. 34 SMU Women’s tennis team claimed its fifth straight win Saturday in Houston over No. 62 Rice, 5-2. The Mustangs have now won eight of their last nine matches to improve their record to 17-4 overall this spring season. SMU displayed its early dominance in doubles competition, earning the doubles point by winning two of the three matches. Heather Steinbauer and Edyta Cieplucha were first off the courts and gave SMU the early 1-0 advantage

after they defeated Alex Rasch and Dominique Harmath, 8-3. SMU juniors Marta Lesniak and Aleksandra Malyarchikova made quick work of Rice pair Rebekka Hanle and Ana Guzman, 8-2, at the No. 1 line to clinch the doubles point for the Mustangs. However, the Owls avoided the doubles sweep after Jessica Jackson and Daniella Trigo took down the SMU pair of Ashley Turpin and Shahzoda Hatamova, 8-6, at the No. 3 line. The Mustangs took four out of six matches in singles play to secure the victory over their Conference USA foe. No. 9 Lesniak earned her 14th consecutive singles victory after making quick work of Hanle 6-0, 7-5.

Lesniak’s 36th win this season moves her up to third place on SMU’s alltime single season wins list. The Poland native is also fifth place on the program’s all-time career wins list with 79. Kimberly Anicete got Rice right back in the thick of things as she defeated Kris Roberts 6-3, 6-0. Harmath evened the score a two a piece after dismantling Cieplucha 6-2, 6-2; however, SMU reeled off three straight victories to fend off a furious Owl flurry. Steinbauer and No. 117 Malyarchikova earned wins over Guzman and Jackson, respectively, putting the Mustangs up for good. Hatamova added the finishing touches with her dramatic 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 victory over Trigo.

WOMEN’S TRACK

Three Mustangs compete in Texas Relays By JENNIFER BUNTZ Associate Sports Editor jbuntz@smu.edu

Three members of SMU’s track and field team traveled to Austin this past weekend to compete in the 2011 84th Clyde Littlfield Texas Relays at the University of Texas. It was a fourday event that concluded Saturday. The meet consisted of nearly 3,000 athletes and 70,000 fans, and is the University of Texas’ biggest event of the year. The participants were sophomore Lisa Egarter, freshman Helena Perez, and nationally known sophomore Simone Du Toit. Egarter placed eighth overall in the

heptathlon which consisted of nine events and contributed 5,116 total points. Chelsea Carrier from West Virginia was the winner of the event with 5,927 points. The first of the heptathlon events was the 100-meter hurdles where Egarter earned 832 points. Next up was the high jump where she jumped 1.76 meters and earned 928 points to receive second place in the event. Egarter also placed fifth in the javelin throw with a throw of 36.74 meters. Also included in the heptathlon was the 200-meter dash where Egarter received 744 points.

Other events included in the heptathlon where Egarter competed were the 800-meter run, the long jump, and the shot put. Perez competed in the shot put and placed seventh with a throw of 14.26 meters. In the discus category, Simone du Toit threw to the 51.60 meter mark. The Mustangs are now ranked 17th for the season and only have four meets left before the conference championships. SMU’s next stop will be in Walnut, Calif. for the Mt. Sac relays that take place this coming weekend for three days.

Sports

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Matt Kenseth wins after 76 losses By ASSOCIATED PRESS

FORT WORTH — Matt Kenseth can quit wondering. He is still good enough to win. After going 76 races without a win, Kenseth finally got back into Victory Lane with a dominating run at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday night when the entire Roush Fenway team was outstanding. “As you start to get a little older and start looking up at the results, it’s been over two years since we won,” Kenseth said. “You can’t help but think, is the way it’s going to go? Are we going to keep trickling backwards?” Kenseth led 169 of 334 laps at the 1½-mile, high-banked track for his 19th career victory, his first since California in February 2009 when he won the first two races of that season. Since his other win at Texas

in 2002, Kenseth had four runner-up finishes, including last fall behind Denny Hamlin, and six other top-10 finishes at the track. “It has been a long time,” Kenseth said. “I have lost a lot of close ones at this track. It feels good to be able to close it out.” This time, the No. 17 Roush Fenway Ford was only trailing late behind Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch when both of those drivers were out of sequence on stops and trying to stretch fuel in hopes of catching a caution. Lucky for Kenseth, there were no yellow flags at the wrong time. Kenseth went back ahead to stay with 13 laps to go when Busch had to make his final stop and give up a 8.2-second lead. Kenseth finished 8.315 seconds ahead of Clint Bowyer on warm and windy night for the first Texas race under the lights.

“One of the hottest times I’ve ever had in a car,” Bowyer said. “More than anything, my feet were burning up.” Edwards, Kenseth’s teammate, joked that he was “hopped up on Pepto Bismol” because of an upset stomach from something he ate earlier in the day. He also dealt with a loose car all night, but still finished third to take over the series points lead by nine over Kyle Busch. “I was a little sick this morning. I thought I was alright. But my stomach was messed up about 50 laps in. My mom made a dish and I think one of the ingredients was bad,” Edwards said. “We were trying really hard to get the car right and we never did. That’s why I was happy with third.” Kenseth became the career laps leader at Texas, pushing his total to 669 laps in 18 starts.

Charles Schwartzel wins Masters By JENNIFER BUNTZ Associate Sports Editor jbuntz@smu.edu

Masters rookie Charles Schwartzel’s lack of experience at the Masters Golf Tournament proved no disadvantage as he put on his green jacket post tournament win.

Schwartzel sealed his win on the back nine Sunday afternoon. On the 18th hole he sank a birdie putt to confirm his victory. He was 14-under for the tournament. Jason Day and Adam Scott tied for second at 12-under and Tiger Woods, Luke Donald, and Geoff Ogilvy tied for fourth, four shots behind

Schwartzel. This was the 26-year-old South African’s first major championship title in his career. Fans thought they were going to see some Tiger magic near the end, but Schwartzel’s performance on the last two holes was too difficult for opponents to compete with.

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Rangers beat Orioles 3-0 By ASSOCIATED PRESS There’s no mystery why the Texas Rangers have the best record in the major leagues. The Rangers have combined solid starting pitching with a bash-happy offense, qualities that were on full display Sunday in a 3-0 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Derek Holland allowed five hits over six innings, Adrian Beltre and Ian Kinsler homered, and the Rangers improved to 8-1 by capturing their third straight series. Whether it be a pitching duel or a slugfest, the defending AL champions have what it takes to win. “We can play whatever the game asks us to play. That’s what we play,” manager Ron Washington said. “We do have guys up and down the lineup that can punch the ball out of the ballpark. It happened today and it worked for us. Kinsler and Beltre got them, and that’s all the runs we needed.” Holland (2-0) struck out six, walked two and hit a batter with a pitch. The left-hander had only one perfect inning, but he never failed to get the outs he needed. Texas starters are 7-1 with a 2.54 ERA this season. “They’ve done a great job,” Washington said. “They have been able to get in there and be in some situations that’s tough and be able to pitch out of them. That’s what

pitching is all about.” Neftali Feliz, the third Texas reliever, got four outs for his third save. The Rangers took two of three from Baltimore and have matched the best start in franchise history (1989). The only other seasons in which Texas opened with more than two successive series wins were 1989 (five straight) and 1993 (four). This series was marked by solid pitching performances on both sides. “They pitched well, we pitched well,” Holland said. “We made the plays when we needed to and made pitches when we really needed to. We got a few hits here and there, and they got us some runs. That’s the main thing.” Beltre hit a solo homer off Jeremy Guthrie (1-1) in the fourth and Kinsler connected with a man on in the seventh off Jim Johnson. Before his two-out hit, Kinsler was 0 for 8 this season with runners in scoring position. There will be games in which the Rangers need more than three runs. In this one, the hitting was good enough to complement solid pitching. “We like to believe we’re a wellrounded team and can do whatever it takes to win,” Kinsler said. Guthrie was pitching for the first time since opening day. After missing a start because of a high fever, the

right-hander was exceptionally sharp in his return — except for the pitch that Beltre deposited in the left-field seats. “He gave us everything he had,” manager Buck Showalter said. “He just ran out of gas at the end.” Guthrie allowed one run, four hits and a walk in six innings, but it wasn’t enough to prevent the Orioles (6-3) from absorbing their first series loss of the year. “It was a battle the whole the entire time, just fighting and trying to make better pitches,” Guthrie said. “I didn’t always do that.” Both pitchers worked their way out of early jams. In the first inning, Baltimore had two on with two outs before Holland struck out Mark Reynolds, who came in with a .714 batting average with runners in scoring position. Two innings later, Reynolds stranded runners at second and third. Texas had two on in the third when Josh Hamilton hit a liner to right that Nick Markakis caught on the run near the wall. “The biggest play of the game was Nick’s play on the Hamilton ball, caught at the wall,” Guthrie said. “That was the biggest out for me in my outing.” Beltre hit his second homer in two games in the fourth. The drive came one pitch after he ripped a liner into the seats outside of left-field pole.

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Nouveau 47 theatre returns to rabbit hole in antic filled‘Alice’ By CHASE WADE Assoc. A&E Editor cdwade@smu.edu

Whoever thought Lewis Carroll’s famous “Alice in Wonderland” couldn’t be set in a street alley starring hobos is soon to be proven wrong with Nouveau 47’s production of “Alice in Wonderland and Other Hallucinations.” The collection of Carroll’s work, which opened April 7 at the Magnolia Lounge in Fair Park, features a cast of ultra-talented actors in a series of wacky, off the beaten path, roles. Starting the show with the shrill of a call whistle, the cast quickly begins Carroll’s famous rhymes and reasons with his short poem, “Rules and Regulations.” When dealing with work as tedious as Carroll’s, annunciation is key. “Rules and Regulations” was the perfect fit to start the show, as it allowed the viewers to settle into the unorthodox dialogue and get a feel for how the rest of “Alice in Wonderland and Other Hallucinations” would go. At first, the twisting and sometimes tongue-tying verbiage of Carroll’s work can seem unsettling, but just like a good scotch, the play gets better over time. A short transition piece, Carroll’s “Dreamland,” is used to introduce the remaining, more fantasy-like, part of the show. The play promptly progresses into Carroll’s “Phantasmagoria.” The story, which follows a noble British man and his encounter with a visiting ghost, is just as whimsical as it is haunting. Credit has to be given to Tom Parr IV’s art direction, as his creative decision to depict the ghost on stage allows for the story to flow seamlessly while giving the ghost a visible role. Cast member Clay Wheeler’s delivery was spot on and his ability to talk to an empty stage should not go un-noted.

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SMU Retail Club showcases local Dallas clothing designers at annual spring show By GRACE DAVIS Contributing Writer gdavis@smu.edu

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Clay Wheeler, Brian Witkowicz and Ben Bryant star in N47’s take on “Alice in Wonderland” now onstage at the Magnolia Lounge in Fair Park.

The first act continues with the short, one-man at sea story, “A Sea Dirge.” Brian Witkowicz plays a sailor who has had an encounter with the testy sea. Perhaps the lightest of the fair of Carroll’s work, “A Sea Dirge” is perhaps the most forgettable piece of the night. The next piece, “The Hunting of the Snark,” tells the tale of a shipwrecked crew that includes a butcher, beaver, judge and pirate. The motley crew becomes obsessed with finding a mysterious creature on the presumed island. A lot of physical comedy comes from Clay Wheeler and Danielle Pickard as their dueling characters provide plenty of humor. “The Hunting of the Snark” concludes the first act with a haunting, but ironic, ending that works well with the rest of Carroll’s pieces.

“Alice in Wonderland and Other Hallucinations” second act begins in a dreary and drab alleyway peppered with trash and dirty cardboard. With a dingy dress and a confused look upon her face, Danielle Pickard plays Alice…sort of. After a wandering child leaves Carroll’s book by her feet, Pickard’s character gets lost within its world and eventually finds herself playing the role of Alice. Again, Tom Parr’s creative art direction is put to good use throughout Alice’s journey, as the stage becomes littered with common items that serve as something much more in Wonderland. Pickard’s journey is highlighted by memorable performances from her supporting cast. Randy Pearlman’s part as the Cheshire cat allows for the seasoned actor to flex his comedic muscle and also gives him

a slight opportunity to interact with the audience. Other notable performances come from Whitney Holotik as both queens and Wheeler’s mad hatter. Pearlman shines again as he plays the eloquent humpty-dumpty and needless to say, a broken egg ensues. “Alice in Wonderland and Other Hallucinations” concludes in a somewhat cryptic manner with Brian Witkowicz playing a singing man whose song is just as haunting as it is sincere. With a somber tone and low, blue, lighting, act two ends in a manner much less festive than the rest of the night’s performances, however, it still meshed flawlessly. “Alice in Wonderland and Other Hallucinations,” runs at the Magnolia Lounge in Fair Park until April 23.

At 6 p.m. this past Saturday, students and local fashionistas gathered at the SMU Meadows Museum of Art to view Dallas designers’ apparel and jewelry modeled down the runway. Retail Club’s annual spring fashion show is usually held at the NorthPark Barneys. However, this year the organization wanted to incorporate and support local Dallas talent into the show. SMU senior Sarah Bray moderated an informational panel that was held prior to the event. Students were able to ask SMU alumni in the fashion industry about their careers and advice for getting started in the retail world. Panel member and PaperCity Magazine associate editor Christina Geyer encouraged students to become heavily involved and active in their internships because they are the gateway to a future job. Neiman Marcus publicist Apryl Churchill urged students to be open minded about what facet of the industry they wanted to work in as they begin their careers. “I was happy to see that sort of interaction in a conference-style setting. It is a step in the right direction for SMU and Dallas. I think the new minor will give the Dallas fashion world something to rally around,” panelist and showcased designer Amber Venz said. During the show, students modeled clothing by Brianna

Kavon, Julie Michel and Status, with accessories by Elizabeth Carlock, Amber Venz and current SMU student Ali Grace. “It was great to see the Dallas based designers and retail clubs’ hard effort collaborated together to make such a wonderful show. I thoroughly enjoyed watching all the models walk down the runway in the unique setting of the Meadows Museum of Art,” sophomore Retail Club member Vee Vee Litchey said of this year’s show. The designer’s looks garnered applause at the conclusion of the show and attendees continued to mingle and network after the show. “I enjoyed the Julie Michel pieces, modern, but still casual and chic. And of course, I’ve always loved the work of Ali Grace,” SMU junior and fashion blogger Carson Eisenhart said. To much success, Retail Club incorporated the Dallas community into the show and students were able to learn more about a career in the industry. Retail Club Fashion Show cochair Rebecca Marin agreed, “The show was a major success that gave great opportunities to a number of local Dallas designers. My team and I had gone through a lot of last minute stress, but I’m so proud of everyone for pulling through and doing such an amazing job with such little time. The Retail Club is looking forward to putting together another show like this one.”

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• Monday, April 11, 2011

Crisis averted, or is it?

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New technology, social media sites numb face-toface communication

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Well, crisis has been averted. Just a little more than an hour before the federal government would have been forced Nathaniel French to shut down, leaders of the Republican and Democratic Parties managed to find enough common ground to pass a stopgap spending bill and keep the federal machinery running. What a relief. There’s an awful lot of parsing to be done over the coming weeks as to whom to blame and who came out looking best (we’ll use that term very, very loosely) from this long national cluster-you-know-what. Lest either party try to claim the high moral ground or cast this as anything other than a national embarrassment, let’s consider a few things: One of the big sticking points of negotiations was whether to defund Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides vital preventive services and family planning advice to medically underserved communities. While I’m not sure I’d go as far as

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in calling this a Republican “war on women,” I fail to understand the logic of a party that is so opposed to abortions that it would restrict many couples’ access to contraceptives and responsible counseling about sexual and reproductive health. I’m not an expert or anything, but my guess is there’s a correlation between reducing unwanted pregnancies and lowering the rate of abortions. Michele Bachmann, whom many conservatives have embraced as a slightly-less-nutty version of Sarah Palin, actually turned out to be one of the more responsible members of the House of Representatives. While many Tea Partiers and other conservatives seemed giddy with the idea of a shutdown, Bachmann stood firmly on the side of sanity and resisted such grandstanding nonsense. As the threat of shutdown became more real, Bachmann promised to donate her salary to military families whose pay was threatened. To my knowledge, this was the single glimmer of human feeling to emerge from the Capitol this past week. Democrats have been all huffy about Republicans holding up the budget

process and inflicting draconian cuts on important government services. I’d be more inclined to sympathize with them if they hadn’t neglected to pass their own budget last year when they controlled both houses of Congress by absurdly large majorities. Similarly, the liberal intelligentsia has been quick to jump on Representative Paul Ryan’s proposals for next year’s budget and his longterm vision for a painful, but necessary, return to responsible government. Say what you will about Ryan’s plan, but it’s the only one realistically confronting our very pressing debt crisis. This would be an excellent opportunity for President Obama, the most serious thinker and articulate champion of expanded government, to hold the White House in decades, to offer a contrasting vision of America’s future. But if Obama’s recent behavior is any indication, my guess is he’ll choose the easy road of demagoguery over the much harder one of dealing with fiscal reality. It looks like we’ll have to look elsewhere for a worthy liberal champion in the debate to come. And of course, aside from this Planned Parenthood nonsense,

the main sticking point of budget negotiations was how many billions Congress should cut from the budget. The two parties eventually agreed on $39 billion, which sounds like a lot of money until it’s compared to the trillions upon trillions of dollars the government currently owes. The deal eventually reached did nothing, nothing to address our fiscal woes: the whole shutdown game of chicken was in other words much ado about jack. I leave it to you to decide what it says about the size of the federal behemoth that $39 billion is such a trivial sum. So a deal was reached, the government chugs along, and everyone gets to congratulate themselves on having formed a bipartisan consensus to avoid the tough questions that must be answered now. I can’t help but think that maybe a shutdown wouldn’t have been so bad if only it had also meant shutting down the infantile temper tantrums coming from the monkey house that is the U.S. Congress. Nathaniel French is a senior theater major. He can be reached for comment at nfrench@smu.edu.

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COMMENTARY

Tumblr, blogs, Twitter: These are only a few of the sites that are quickly becoming our society’s way of communicating with one another. The idea that we can communicate with others without having to interact with them in person is more frightening than fascinating. With the countless ways to communicate right at our fingertips, it makes me wonder if the art of face-to-face communication will ever be the Taylor Johnson same. Technology is advancing faster and in ways that people never thought imaginable; and it has no intention of slowing down. Today we are able to share every aspect of our lives over the Internet. Blogs and tumblrs have become the online journals and diaries of the world, allowing bloggers and posters to share whatever they please. Why are we able to share intimate details of our lives with millions via the Internet, but can’t seem to share them with the people we interact with daily? It’s this fantasized idea of one “finding his or her voice” or wanting to impact someone that is the ultimate driving factor. As humans, we desire to be vulnerable and guarded at the same time. Ironically, as people strive to find their voices by joining these sites, they become numb to their reality of remaining silent. The fact is we are a generation fueled by technology. Twitter updates, iPhone apps and blog posts are our main sources of information. We want to be “in the know” and “up to date” with the latest and greatest. Communicating with each other face-to-face is fading fast and the sad thing is, people are OK with that. Reality is slowly becoming something that we can bend or skew with our unlimited access to these sites. Our generation seems to be at the crossroads of what we view as reality and how we review reality via technology. So why should we care about this? The art of conversation and communicating with people face-to-face is crucial. At the end of the day, we take more away from our actual conversations than we do from reading one another’s Twitter updates and Facebook statuses. I agree they are immediate forms of communication, allowing our lives to continue at a fast pace; however, they are stripping us of meaningful interactions with people. Whether we like it or not, the art of communication is fading due to Facebook, Twitter and blogs that portray a false sense of reality. The security of “hiding” behind our pages and posts is the main attraction to these sites. Our generation has the power to take technology to the next level; however, we also have to power to preserve the impact of a conversation with another person. I fear for the generations after us that will not understand the concept of communicating with another human being without technology as their guide. I hope that even with the ever-powerful technology we can still appreciate and understand what it means to be real with people face-to-face. The false sense of reality conveyed behind technology is far too dangerous not to be aware of. I hope we are able to preserve and appreciate the art of communicating without technology for what it is. Taylor Johnson is a communication studies and sports management double major. She can be reached for comments or questions at tajohnson@smu.edu.

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Did I really look that lost last year? It’s official: I was different from them. This thought crossed my mind Savannah Stephens the other day while walking by a group of prospective students. No longer was I the one clutching a red SMU backpack and map… now I was the one walking past the tour guides on my way to some undisclosed class. This made me reflect on the difference a year has made in my life, as well as the other 1,000-plus people who can say they are freshmen at SMU. To think that we will soon have our first year of college under our belt is very odd. But, one thing about life, for better or worse, is that you can’t stop it. This time last year I was a senior in one of Texas’ smallest and most impoverished schools. One of my favorite stories to tell is that we had to ration ketchup and actually even had a

“ketchup Czar.” The lunch lady at the checkout table made sure we only had two packets of ketchup. This was, of course, necessary because otherwise, the school would have obviously run amok and bankruptcy would have been sure to ensue. But in reality, if we were caught with more than two packets we would go down in the “ketchup offender’s book,” and yes, repeat offenders were denied ketchup for the rest of the year. Compared to that, college seemed like a scary, far away place, not something that would actually become my reality. I was always raised knowing that I would go to college. Once there, the plan sort of stopped; I never actually thought that I would grow up. To put it mildly, my high school experience did not prepare me for college. There was so much that I didn’t simply understand. AP style and archaeology were considered things that other kids learned, not me. So, on the fateful day that college began, I was in for a bumpy ride. After about a week, I wasn’t sure if college was right for me. Everything was

so new and different. This seems cliché, but I was truly experiencing life on my own for the first time—something for which, until college, you can never really prepare. This sink or swim environment was so different than my previous comfort zone. I had graduated with 70 people from high school, had only four hallways to get from class to class, and there was an agricultural barn located in the parking lot. The differences between SMU and high school were night and day. To put it simply, SMU cared about making its campus look nice and favored plush green grass, while my high school was a big ole Texas weed. After beginning to adjust to my new life here and settling in, life seemed to pick up. First semester ended and what was supposed to be a long winter break seemed to fly by. This semester has gone by quickly as well, but classes are getting harder and there never seems to be enough time in the day. I now consider myself lucky if I get to have two meals a day—a clear sign that I’m a college kid. In short, I look at the potential class

of 2015 now with anticipation. The freshman experience will soon start over, and I will no longer be a part of it. To reminisce on such a tumultuous year seems silly, but my freshman year has been everything I hoped it would be. I am a college kid through and through. I understand the difference between the harshness of getting up for an 8 a.m. and the luxury of having a 9:30 a.m. class. Studying is now my favorite pastime. All food is measured in comparison to the Umphrey Lee Center’s, therefore making it undoubtedly better. (This is the danger of the freshman 15, after cafeteria food… anything is good) But, most importantly, I understand how to not look so lost on a college campus. You have to live the experience and become a local. And that’s the difference a year makes. Savannah Stephens is a first year communications studies and history double major. She can be reached for comments or questions at slstephens@ smu.edu.

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THEATER

ART

‘A Trip to Bountiful’ heartfelt, tender

Artists shine at Dallas Art Fair By ERIN GILMORE Contributing Writer egilmore@smu.edu

The third annual Dallas Art Fair was held April 8-10 at the Fashion Industry Gallery (f.i.g.), in downtown Dallas. Over 70 galleries were showcased from around the United States featuring impactful contemporary artists. Pieces from paper, printmaking, photography, sculpture, video and installation covered every space of the 70,000 square feet that the f.i.g. occupies at the corner of Ross Avenue and St. Paul Street. Upon entering, waves of cool, fresh contemporary art splash the face and mind. Eager for more, two levels of the f.i.g. were filled with prominent galleries featuring contemporary artists, such as Lillian Garcia-Roig. Roig’s sloshes of abstract genius bled layer-by-layer

from the canvas. Another artist, Peter Zimmerman, was displayed and the impressions of each work proved to be captivating. Like psychedelic jelly, blobs of glassy color moved together to create a flow of beautiful unanimous hues in the center. The Weinstein Gallery from Minneapolis featured photographs Robert Polidori’s haunting Versailles series and Annie Leibovitz. The wave of Willie Nelson’s long, silver hair set off the deep wrinkles in his face. Wrinkles that could tell a story fold by fold were only made more romantic by the black-andwhite toning, defining a musician whose heart could have been spilled out of the photograph. 1960s chihuly glass by Toni Zuccheri seemed as if it was not just glass, but a ribbon-like creature from the sea, with free movement, only to be sitting so still in time.

Marko Velk and Mark Licari were featured with the Cueto Project out of New York. Cueto showed pieces from Velk and Licari that weren’t just contemporary, but what 2011’s contemporary would be. These pieces foretell the future of contemporary urban art that is surfacing in cities from New York all the way to Israel. The Dallas Art Fair seemed like a breath of fresh air, compared to the classic “contemporary” art seen in Dadaism and other style movements of the 20th century. These artists show that contemporary art is shifting once more, emphasizing the simplicity of each gesture. While contemporary art turns the corner of 2011, a new ideal is being cultivated as simple emotional pieces overrule all.

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Elly Lindsay and Tom Lenaghen star in “A Trip to Bountiful,” Contemporary Theatre of Dallas’ entry in the Horton Foote Festival, on stage through May 1.

By LAUREN SMART A&E Editor lsmart@smu.edu

Most of Horton Foote’s plays explore themes of family, both the good and the bad, and Contemporary Theatre of Dallas’ entry into the city wide Horton Foote festival is no different. Rene Moreno directs a talented cast in a heartfelt performance of Foote’s classic, “A Trip to Bountiful.” “A Trip to Bountiful” is one of Foote’s most well-known works, thanks to a compelling story and a 1985 film adaptation starring Academy-award winner Geraldine Page. The play originally opened on Broadway in November of 1953 and starred Lillian Gish. The play tells the story of Carrie Watts, an aging widow trapped in a house with her cuckolded son and irritable daughter-in-law in Houston.

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Sing Song showcases colorful renditions

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Members of the Beta Upsilon Chi fraternity and Delta Delta Delta sorority perform a funk number during the Sing Song dress rehearsal.

Members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Pi Beta Phi sorority perform a broadway number during the Sing Song dress reherarsal.

Independently organized team, SPQR performs a latin-themed number during the Sing Song dress rehearsal.

Members of the Delta Gamma sorority perform a motown number during the Sing Song dress rehearsal.

Members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Pi Beta Phi sorority perform a broadway number during the Sing Song dress rehearsal.

Lyle Engineering members Kate Smith and Riley Moore perform a jazz-themed act during the Sing Song dress rehearsal.

Delta Gamma member Rose Hurwitz and Kappa Alpha member Sean Gatz perform during a motown-themed act at the Sing Song dress rehearsal. Members of Beta Theta Pi & Alpha Chi Omega perform a soundtrack-themed number during dress rehearsal.

Gamma Phi Beta member Jen Nguyen and Lyle engineering student Daniel Windham perform during the Sing Song dress rehearsal.

Beta Theta Pi member Zane Cavender performs as President R. Gerald Turner during the Sing Song dress rehearsal.