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LGBT seat resolution fares worse on second vote Christopher Saul Contributing Writer csaul@smu.edu
The LGBT Student Senate seat referendum failed to pass Thursday, with the ballot initiative receiving only 51.9 percent of the vote — almost 14 percent less than the necessary 2/3 of the student body’s votes to pass the amendment to the
Student Senate’s constitution. The second vote’s 51.9 percent was about 8 percent less than the first vote, which tallied to 59 percent of the votes. Final voter turnout was 2,132. “It was an amazing turnout for a vote like this,” Student Body President Ramon Trespalacios said. The voter turnout was slightly larger than the 2,060 people who
voted on the referendum three weeks ago. “It’s very disheartening to see that, not just looking at the numbers being lower from [the last vote],” said Samuel Partida, an SMU senior and undergraduate assistant in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. A new social media app on campus, Yik Yak, may have
played a big role in garnering opposition turnout against the proposed referendum. Many posts were made on the anonymous social media site that urged students to vote against the referendum that took place Wednesday and Thursday. “I would like to thank Yik Yak for single handedly getting the LGBT seat to fail,” read one anonymous post on the app
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following the announcement of the results. “I don’t think any of us would have known to vote without it.” “It definitely influenced my vote,” sophomore Erik Beresford said. “I didn’t even know there was a re-vote or when to vote without getting info from Yik Yak.” Partida said the social media bullying that has erupted over the
past two days is blatant evidence of the intolerance on campus. He said it should serve as a call to the administration that this is a real problem and no longer just hearsay. “I think [this is] a rare opportunity for the administration to be able to see what’s going on their campus,” Partida said.
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Texas voters increasingly supportive of gay rights LAUREN AGUIRRE Online Editor lcaguirre@smu.edu
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The SMU Young Alumni began the “Shape the Second” campaign to encourage students to donate to SMU’s future.
Students accept challenge to give Myca Williamson Associate A&E Editor mwilliamson@smu.edu A recent challenge by SMU Young Almuni is urging students to give, and receive. “The challenge is based on participation, not a dollar amount,” said Annual and Alumni Giving Officer Benjamin Williams. The challenge: for every student that makes a gift to an organization of his or her choice, a group of SMU alumni will make a $10 gift to that same organization. “If 20 students make a gift to a certain organization, then alumni will give $200 to that same organizations, 50 gifts, $500 and so on,” Williams said. The challenge began April 14, and ends today. Thus far, 18 organizations have participated and that number is expected to increase as the challenge comes to an end. Williams said that one of the main goals of the studentgiving program is to educate students about the importance of
giving and the impact it has on a university. “Tuition only covers about 70 percent of the actual cost to be at SMU, the other 30 percent is covered by the giving of alumni, friends, faculty and staff,” Williams said. The challenge reinforces the idea that students could not attend SMU without donations to the institution. It also gives students the chance to show that they care and be a part of the “culture of philanthropy.” “Most students at SMU have some organization that they care about and our goal of the alumni challenge is to give students the chance to give to an organization that is meaningful while at the same time benefiting those organizations,” Williams said. Many students see the challenge as an opportunity to make a positive change to their university. “The Shape the Second campaign gives undergraduate students an opportunity to partner with alumni to help make change happen,” said Lauren Lyngstad,
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Development and External Affairs student trustee representative. According to Lyngstad, contributions from students and alumni help student organizations campus-wide programming, and contribute to SMU’s national ranking. “The more students and alumni participate, the better off our university will be in the long run,” Lyngstad said. The challenge has been particularly beneficial for smaller student organizations, like the Asian Council. “For small organizations like AC and its member organizations, even $15 can go a very long way,” Asian Council President Michelle Ko said. Despite the money that organizations receive, Williams said the real objective is to get students involved in the spirit of generosity. “We simply want to give students the opportunity to become familiar with the giving process and experience the benefits to giving to a worthwhile cause,” he said.
In 2005, Texans ratified an amendment to the state constitution, which defines marriage as only between a man and a woman. The amendment passed with 76 percent of the vote. This year, a federal judge in San Antonio, Texas, ruled this amendment unconstitutional. “I don’t know if that will come to anything,” SPECTRUM President Shannon Hart said. “But just the fact that that happened shows that Texas has the possibility of legalizing gay marriage.” U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia, who decided the ruling, stayed it from taking effect until a higher court reviews the case on appeal. Cal Jillson, professor of political science at SMU, specializes in Texas politics. Jillson believes Texas will drag its feet on the path to legalizing same-sex marriage. “Texas will be less accepting of gay rights than will other parts of the country,” he said. “This is another civil rights issue where Texas is lagging badly and will continue to lag until it is forced by outside forces to adapt grudgingly to gay marriage.” According to Public Policy Polling in July of 2013, 34
In Meadows, higher SAT not correlated with higher GPA Ally Van Deuren Contributing Writer avandeuren@smu.edu Statistics show that while there has not been a national upward trend in students’ SAT scores over the last nine years, SMU Meadows School of the Arts students’ SAT scores have increased. According to the U.S. Department of Education’s report on SAT Scores, in 2002, the average nationwide SAT score of just the mathematics and reading sections was 1,020. In 2013, the average nationwide SAT score was 1,011 (497 in critical reading and 514 in mathematics), a decrease of 9 points in the past decade. By contrast, first-year Meadows students in the fall of 2002 had an average SAT score of 1,187, while first-year Meadows students in the fall of 2013 had an average SAT score of 1,302. This marks a significant increase of 115 points, or almost 10 percent. “SAT scores for entering
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percent of Texas voters supported gay marriage, with 57 percent opposed. However, when asked if they would approve of civil unions between same-sex couples, 63 percent of voters supported them while 31 percent opposed. Sophomore William
Hammond believes a fair amount of SMU students do support gay marriage. “Based on the LGBT senate seat vote, I would say that those who voted in favor of it
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From Jazz to film to open mic, the Dallas Hall Lawn was filled with students participating in all forms of art Thursday. The BoulevART, a day-long art fair with over 20 groups performing, was a studentplanned and funded Meadows event that took place Thursday, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Meadows senators Anthony McAuliffe, Connor Volz and Rothstein and co-directed the event and began planning the event early 2014. “Considering the first time it happened, it was really well,” McAuliffe said. “At several points during the day, the entire lawn in front of the stage was completely filled.” The event was on a Student Senate funded budget of
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In 2005, Texans ratified an anti-gay marriage amendment to the state constitution with 76 percent of the vote.
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SAT scores for Meadows students have increased over the past decade.
Use of abortion waste for biofuel stopped Associated PRess County commissioners gave final approval Thursday to an order to stop an incinerator in Oregon from receiving medical waste until procedures are in place to ensure no fetal tissue is burned to generate power. While taking the action, Marion County commissioners Sam Brentano and Janet Carlson said they were horrified to learn that the Marion County Resource Recovery Facility in rural Brooks might be burning medical waste that includes fetal tissue to generate electricity. Both strongly oppose abortions. “We’re going to get the bottom of it,” Carlson said. “I want to know who knew, when they knew, how long they had known this was going on.” Brentano, however, noted that the county ordinance that sets the parameters for what can be accepted at the
waste-to-energy plant allows for all human tissue. “No rule or law has been broken, but there’s an ethical standard that’s been broken,” he said. The decision came about a month after reporters in the United Kingdom discovered that health authorities there used fetal remains to generate power at medical facilities. The Department of Health quickly banned the practice. The Oregon facility is a partnership between the county and Covanta, a New Jerseybased firm that operates energyfrom-waste power generation plants. The Marion County plant processes 550 tons of municipal solid waste a day, with only a small portion coming from medical sources. It sells the power to Portland General Electric. Jill Stueck, a Covanta spokeswoman, said the company is cooperating with the suspension, and it does not seek out the waste that mortified
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Afghanistan shooting kills Chicago doctor Associated Press From Chicago to Afghanistan, Dr. Jerry Umanos dedicated his service to poor children. The pediatrician was among three Americans killed when an Afghan security guard opened fire Thursday at a Kabul hospital. He was volunteering in Afghanistan to train young doctors, periodically returning to Chicago to work in a Christian clinic on the city’s southwest side. Umanos “was always working to help inner-city kids and trying to help out any needy, poor kids anywhere,” said Jeff Schuitema, Umanos’ brother-in-law. The fatal shootings at Cure International Hospital in western Kabul were the latest in a string of deadly attacks on foreign civilians in the Afghan capital this year.
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about $6,000. The BoulevART committee was made up of Meadows students in three subcommittees: advertising, physical event and planning. “[These] last few months have been hectic to say the least, but seeing those tents finally set up and having a great team has been phenomenal,” said Volz, who was in charge of getting approval from the seven main administrative offices around campus and booking the tents, stage, chairs, and tabling services. There was a one big stage for performances, and four tents with creative advertising,
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Meadows students have been tracking upwards in line with the university at large,” said Corinna Nash-Wnuk, who serves as the director of undergraduate recruitment for Meadows School of the Arts. This may also suggest the high quality of Meadows students in particular, according to Stephen Forrest, assistant registrar at Meadows. “It is not that the scores of all applicants have risen dramatically,” Forrest said. “It is that Meadows has had the luxury of admitting better students from a larger application pool. Undergraduate admissions has
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would support gay marriage,” Hammond said. The Student Senate passed a proposal to add an LGBT special interest seat. When the referendum went to the student body, it received 59 percent of the vote in favor, but failed to receive the required 2/3 majority. “I think that slowly people are starting to understand that everyone is going to be different and people should be allowed to do whatever they want to do,”
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“All the social media is giving us documentation of this homophobia. The perpetrators themselves are giving us all the evidence. It’s not whether or not there is homophobia, it’s right there on the screen. It’s right there for everyone to see.” This second vote came quickly after the first attempt to pass the legislation failed. This caused some to believe that supporters of the bill were trying to get it passed under the radar, purposefully seeking a lower turnout. Lee Downen, a student senator from the Cox School of Business who opposed the bill said there were some questionable practices in handling the vote, which he thought would ensure passage. “[Student Body Vice President] Jaywin Mahli was the
In an interview inside her Chicago home, Jan Schuitema, Umanos’ wife, said he always wanted to work with children, and became fascinated with Afghanistan when visiting through a Christian clinic in 2006. “What he would really want people who care about this to know is that he really did love Afghanistan and the Afghan people,” said Jan Schuitema, a teacher in Chicago who also spent time teaching in Afghanistan. “This should in no way negatively impact people’s feelings about the country or about the people in the country,” she said. “They are no different than us here.” The couple moved individually back and forth between the two countries. They knew other people who had been killed in
Afghanistan — doctors, nurses and community development workers. Yet they did not live in fear. “There’s always a concern. This isn’t the first time we’ve been through this. And there’s always a thought that this could happen,” she said. “It’s a reality, but it doesn’t, we weren’t afraid. When you know you’ve got God’s backing, the fear is not there.” In addition to the pediatrician who was killed, “also two others who were here to meet him, and they were also American nationals,” said Afghanistan’s Minister of Health Soraya Dalil. “The two visitors were father and son, and a woman who was also in the visiting group was wounded.” Colleagues in Chicago are heartbroken about the loss of
Umanos, 57, who had worked for more than 25 years at Lawndale Christian Health Center in the city, said Dr. Bruce Rowell, medical director of clinical quality at the facility. “He was ... for many of us on staff, the pediatrician for our very own children,” Rowell said at a news conference in Chicago. “This loss is a great loss for his family, for those of us he worked with as well as for the people of Afghanistan,” Rowell said. “He was a loving and caring physician who served all of his patients with the utmost of respect.” Dale Brantner, president and CEO of Lemoyne, Pa.-based Cure International, said he did not have solid information about what motivated the attacks, but that “it doesn’t seem to be religiously motivated.”
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commissioners. “No one is saying bring us fetal tissue,” Stueck said. Some of the fetal material came from the Canadian province of British Columbia, where regional health authorities have a contract with waste management firm Stericycle and send biomedical waste, such as fetal tissue, cancerous tissue and amputated limbs to the Oregon facility, said Kristy Anderson, a spokeswoman with the British Columbia Health Ministry. Stericycle, based in Lake Forest, Ill., has been criticized by anti-abortion groups for years because it disposes of aborted fetuses collected from family planning clinics. Company officials did not return phone calls seeking comment. Jeff Bickford, environmental services division manager
in Marion County, said the facility there has been taking material from British Columbia for five to seven years. He said clinical waste providers such as Stericycle bring in medical waste ranging from syringes and body parts to laboratory cultures and bodily fluids after hospitals and clinics place it into red bags and sealed containers. “You’ve got biological agent and infectious diseases in there, so they’re never opened once they’re sealed,” Bickford said. Brentano said the county plans to rewrite its ordinance to spell out that no tissue from fetuses can enter the incinerator, and the providers will have to develop a workable system. He stressed that other medical waste would be accepted. “So if someone loses an arm, loses a finger?” Carlson asked at the meeting. “That should go in and be burned,” Brentano replied. “As gross as that is.”
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film, art, music and creative computation displays going on simultaneously. “It’s always exciting to see people coming together for such an event and to see how it all unfolds,” senior Marquelle Power said. Performances such as Uche, featuring DJ Neenyo and SMU Hip-Hop, Prism Co.’s Galatea, Jampact featuring Meadows Dean Jose Bowen, The Happy Alright and JSpear occurred along with pinch-pot making, visual and media art installations and talkbacks with some of the artists. “For me—and I think for all of the groups—it is just a great chance to play in a great location for other students,” said Bowen.
Power was part of the BoulevART Scheduling Committee as well as a solo act performing a mix of the classical music. “It’s been very tough to balance performing and planning, but I treated the whole process as a planning process as a whole,” Power said. “Taking my practice sessions as my performance planning, and in order to juggle event planning I simply built my own schedule for each day and listed what had to be done per day and what times. This gave me a better and more focused way of approaching both sides of the spectrum.” Power, whose musical style is described as “Flamenco Fusion,” got involved with BoulevART
once Rothstein approached him with the idea. “I was sold on the idea from the beginning. From there, I, along with a huge team of other great people came together to bring this event to SMU,” he said. The BoulevART committee decided to put on the event on a Thursday in and around classes in order to reach a larger audience. “We wanted the event to be free for students to come and go as they please, no matter what their schedule so that they could come catch a performance or maybe perform at Open Mic, and then feel free to leave when they needed,” Rothstein said. Last semester, Student Body President Ramon Trespalacios challenged Student Senate to come
up with Common Resolutions and make them happen. The Meadows senators wanted to do something to help break down the barriers between Meadows and the rest of the student body. “BoulevART is a great addition to the campus calendar,” Bowen said. “It is by students and for students. The perfect example of starting a movement and getting something done.” The most challenging part for Rothstein was pitching the to idea to other people. “It proved much more difficult than we originally thought to get people together and on board given school requirements, and rehearsals and prior commitments,” she said. “The last few months have been a
growing experience. None of us have planned an event like this before, so we’ve just had to feel our way through and hope that we’re covering all our bases.” However, once they got the Student Committee together it became much easier. “In that same vein, the most rewarding part has been looking back, seeing what we’ve done and knowing that this has been the work of students,” she said. “I really am just so proud and grateful of everyone who has been involved.” Students have already begun working on planning next year’s event. “Everyone is looking forward to it being bigger and better next year,” McAuliffe said.
worked over the years to increase the overall number of applicants, allowing SMU more options in admitting better students, with the result being a higher average SAT score for incoming classes.” This may not suggest the high quality of Meadows students, but rather that the rising tide of all applicants continues to increase Meadows included. While the SAT scores of incoming Meadows students has risen 10 percent since 2002, the GPA cut-off for the top 5 percent of the Meadows class has only slightly increased. While these students had a 10 percent higher SAT score coming in, it only translated into a 6 percent increase in achieved GPA once an SMU student. There were 62 Meadows students
who fit the criteria for Honor Roll with High Distinction (defined as the top 5 percent in one’s class) for 2002 and 60 for 2013. The average SAT score for the Meadows Honor recipients for 2002 was 1,286 and the average GPA for that group was 3.933. The average SAT score for the Meadows Honor Roll recipients for 2013 was 1,351 and the average GPA for that group was 3.961. The minimum GPA cutoff went up by 1.4 percent, GPA average went up by 0.71 percent and the SAT average went up by 5 percent. Therefore, while there was a corresponding rise in both incoming SAT scores and first semester GPA for these first-year students, the GPA increase was lagging behind the higher SAT scores. Has the quality of students
in the overall applicant pool improved? Or have professors given students better tools to study for their tests and exams? Is access to test taking classes become more readily available? “I definitely see that students are very different today than they were in 1986,” said Martin Sweidel, an associate dean at Meadows who has been at SMU since 1986. “I actually find those differences to be less about GPA or SAT and more about the impact that near instant access to almost unlimited information has had on how students think, work, play and most importantly, learn. In my view, SAT and ACT scores really tell only part of the story.” Sophomore communications major Kelsey Williams said that she was able to train to take the SAT
in high school, which she believes is a key reason why SAT scores have increased. “The SAT is a very specific type of test that has not changed much. With the SAT, it isn’t necessarily the level or aptitude of a student that changes; it’s just about cracking the code in order to take that test,” Williams said. “There’s not a ‘Here’s How-to SMU’ guide,” Williams said, in contrast to the SAT scores. “The curriculum and the courses that are offered and everything that is involved in college changes a lot more than the SAT does. There’s always a new class, always a new professor and always a new way to go about achieving a degree.” “Maybe the professors realized that the caliber of their students has
increased with their SAT score,” junior journalism and theatre student Kathleen Gaskins said. “But that doesn’t change the way they are going to grade them once they get here. That doesn’t change the lessons that they teach and it doesn’t change the academic portion of what we do here.” As the National Association for College Admissions Counseling’s Commission on the Use of Standardized Admission Tests in Undergraduate Admissions reported to the Washington Post in a February report, the point is that test scores are not particularly good predictors of performance in college. As Sweidel, Williams and Gaskins allude, this helps explain why rising SAT scores have not translated into rising GPAs.
senior Adrian Montemayor said. After the LGBT senate seat referendum failed to pass, students in the LGBT community launched a petition campaign. As a result, the student body re-voted on the referendum. While the referendum was again voted down, the vote demonstrates the salience of the LGBT community as a constituency on campus. Nationwide, Jillson believes the influence of the LGBT community has more impact than its numbers might suggest. “Its numbers are modest,” he said. “There is an activist
community that is engaged and influential, but the best data on LGBT voting is in the low- to mid-single digits. You’re looking at a voting block from 3 to 5 or 6 percent. It’s a small, but engaged and generally an affluent community.” Members of the LGBT community made cases both against The Federal Defense of Marriage Act and Texas’s constitutional marriage amendment. In United States v. Windsor, the Supreme Court declared DOMA unconstitutional. Now, all states are required to recognize samesex marriages, even if the state
election contact person for this election and was also the author of the bill, so I think that that was concerning,” Downen said. “With all of the mismanagement and shady dealings, I thought it would pass. I really did.” Malhi denied any allegations of backroom dealings. He said he could either take it back to senate, or take it to the student body through a petition and the ultimate referendum. “At the end of the day, we had to go out and get 1,053 signatures and we got upwards of 1,500 signatures,” Malhi said of the petition following the first failed vote. Junior Senator Carole Finley echoed the fact that the failed referendum is a clear reflection of the social views of a large portion of the student body. She thinks the student body harbors elements of bigotry in its ranks. “We’re not accepting of the gay community…we’re just not,” Finley said.
Beresford said his “no” vote was about rejecting special interest seats in general. “I’m glad the student body is ready to turn down a special interest seat, as they inherently divide the student body instead of bringing the campus together,” he said. Mahli said the LGBT community does not have any plans to reintroduce legislation at this time. In light of the referendum results, Trespalacios said that he would undergo ALLIES training, and encouraged other student senators to do so as well. According to the SMU Women’s Center’s website, ALLIES training, “provides educational opportunities and inclusiveness through promoting understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning communities, as well as to highlight contributions of the LGBT members to the university community.”
still considers gay marriage illegal. But according to Hart, gay marriage isn’t the only goal the LGBT community should have in mind. “While I think gay marriage should exist, it annoys me that people see it as the only issue,” she said. “To me, LGBT people being bullied, murdered or committing suicide because of their sexual orientation or gender identities seems more important than gay marriage.” The Texas School Safety Center claims, “LGBT youth are
at an elevated risk of bullying.” A 2005 study states that nine out of 10 LGBT students have reported being bullied in 2004. According to a 2013 study, LGBT youth are more likely to be bullied online at 42 percent to 15 percent of bullying in non-LGBT youth. Although it appears that being against same-sex marriage is the majority position in Texas, those who are opposed to gay marriage are hesitant to speak out about it. Several students who stated that they were against gay marriage were also uncomfortable with
having their comments published. “I guess they don’t want to say it because they don’t want to feel mean,” Montemayor said. “People don’t like to get judged by their opinions.” “The movement is rapid toward an acceptance of gay rights in general and marriage rights in particular,” Jillson said. “You have a lot of reluctance on the part of people to speak about their feelings when those feelings are different than what they know the flow of events to be.”
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Trinity Groves is home to many casual and sophisticated outdoor dining venues.
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The Bishop Arts District offers critically acclaimed dining experiences.
Food lovers explore new restaurant scenes Schuyler Mack Contributing Writer smack@smu.edu The young and restless of Dallas are always hungry for more — literally. With a robust 3.1 percent population growth in 2014, Dallas is fast becoming the hot and trending city for culinary culture. Now more than ever, the food scene is buzzing and encouraging young entrepreneurial chefs to take a leap of faith. New restaurants have started popping up so rapidly that new areas are being developed specifically to accommodate them. Enter the most recent venture: Trinity Groves, Dallas’ newest foodie concept. A 15-acre restaurant and entertainment destination located at the base of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in West Dallas, Trinity Groves is the most recent
dining haven to hit the map. For the restaurants that have been brave enough to take the plunge, business is booming. “I was originally looking at other locations to open our concept, but now I could not be happier with the decision to start in Trinity Groves, every night so far we have a full house,” Linda Mazzei, the owner of Resto Gastro Bistro in Trinity Groves said. Trinity Groves offers a unique outdoor dining experience, enticing the foot traffic that has frequented the area. Currently boasting 10 restaurants, the Groves expect seven new concepts to open within the next two months. Another hot destination with a quite noticeable surge in activity is the Design District in Downtown. Unlike the casual and low-key fare in Trinity Groves, the Design
District holds court for a more refined palate. Home to the awardwinning restaurant current in molecular gastronomy, FT-33 is one of the fine restaurants in the Design District. Drawing a diverse crowd, the Design District appeals to the bohemian as well as to the more formal dinner. It is catering to both the conservative as well as the edgier side of the spectrum that has appealed to both clients and restaurateurs alike. Recently opened in the fall of 2013, Pakpao Thai and its steel barren walls and eclectic menu make the perfect fit for the adventurous foodie coming to experience the appeal of Design District. “People come to the design district looking to be excited and step outside their comfort zone, this
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is a standard at Pakpao we try to live up to,” Pablo Antinori, General manager of Pakpao said. On the other end of town, located in Oak Cliff about six highway exits removed from Uptown, lies the hipster region called Bishop Arts. While Bishop Arts holds much more than a dining scene, it is also well-known for having some down home favorite institutions.
Named by D Magazine as the best brunch spot, Bishop is home to well-loved restaurants such as Oddfellows and Haddies. One can make the journey to Bishop Arts for any meal and spend the rest of the day lost in the unique shops and galleries that line the streets. “My boyfriend and I will usually make it down to Bishop Arts for the Sunday brunch special at Haddies and spend the rest of the afternoon
checking out the exhibits in the art galleries. It’s a great family place,” Fellow SMU blogger Shannon Lindee said. The genius behind the Dallas cityscape is its diversity. There is something for everyone; it is simply a matter of knowing where to look. As the city continues to grow, it will be exciting to see what is next on the agenda for the Dallas restaurant scene.
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Chipotle plans to raise prices Kelly Neupert Contributing Writer kneupert@smu.edu Burrito lovers everywhere need to start saving their pocket change, as Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc recently announced that they would be increasing menu prices for the first time in nearly three years. The change stems from rising food costs, as steak, avocados, and cheese are currently at all-time high prices. While specific price increases have yet to be determined, Jack Hartung, Chief Financial Officer of Chipotle, announced an estimated 3 to 5 percent hike in prices. This means $8 burrito bowls and taco meals will raise by a quarter or two.
Fortunately for hunger-craved students, expected changes will be put into action after finals, sometime around June. Complete changes, such as brand new menu boards in all locations sporting higher prices, will be introduced shortly after. The chain originally considered nixing guacamole from the menu altogether in attempts to cut costs, as Chipotle uses 97,000 pounds of avocados a day. Yet, dedicated customers persuaded them otherwise. Founded in Denver, Co., the company is known for its use of antibiotic-free meats and organic produce. Customers have grown accustomed to a “specific” experience, which executives say the price increase is helping to maintain. Due to the fact that
Chipotle remains one of the fastest-growing restaurant chains, they remain optimistic that price increases won’t negatively affect their business. While the jump in prices won’t dent consumer’s pockets immediately, it is expected to take a toll over time, as a variety of corporations struggle to find ways to cut costs amidst larger corporate profit margins. In order to get as much food for their buck, students should consider switching their regular order to that of a burrito bowl, as it is rumored to have significantly more food in comparison to the quantity of a burrito. Savor the guacamole as much as one can in case the company decides to ditch it in future years.
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Administration: take action against bigotry samuel partida Contributing Writer spartida@smu.edu When I first came to SMU, I learned “Every Mustang Will be Valued”—but you know what? That “will,” that tiny little word, is striking such a harsh nerve at the moment. From what I’ve seen of bigots online (via YouTube, Facebook and especially Yik Yak) LGBTQ Mustangs will not be valued. In fact, they are not to be valued because apparently almost everyone is too busy valuing their own privileged self-interests. The valuing of queer students is not a present reality at this university: I should have been taught (all of us really), “Every Mustang is Valued.” (What a quirky thing that language is, isn’t it?) Or maybe, we should have just done away with that hypocritical motto in the first place—at least, until it had some weight. Over the last few days, some have told me that such a seat would be redundant. Many students voted “no” because they thought it doesn’t matter. But to these very people I say: it doesn’t matter because it really doesn’t affect you, does it? Your lives, in your heterosexual “lifestyles” are not threatened, ridiculed or erased on a daily basis. I don’t expect you to understand the complexities of such non-normative gendered and sexual lives. However, what I would expect (quite erroneously and naively) is for you to at least have the compassion to listen and to actually do something beneficial for not just one person but a vast group of individuals that are speaking out collectively about the discrimination they face on campus and the bigotry they have endured. If you had the opportunity to make the lives of your fellow mustangs even a little bit better, at no cost to you at all, would you want to? Or is that courtesy only reserved for my hetero colleagues? But even, regardless of the failure of the LGBTQ seat referendum, I still find hope. This whole campaign has exposed the deeply entrenched anti-LGBTQ hatred ubiquitous on this campus that has always been there, unconsciously silent and ignored within the student
body psyche. The incendiary events of last few days have made one thing excruciatingly clear: We can’t pretend that homophobia and transphobia doesn’t exist. Not anymore. There is no way to ignore it now. We can’t say that anti-queer violence are isolated incidents or the result of a “few bad apples.” That. Ends. Now. Especially recently, I’ve had slurs and hate — anon and otherwise — thrown at me, ranging from the most typical of insults such as “f****t,” to I don’t even know how describe them. Here’s an example: “What an ugly f****t. Back to the oven you go.” Was that just a Holocaust reference, used as an insult or threat? If we scratch at the surface of this comment, and the innumerable ones that follow it, what does it tell us? What does it say about SMU? And at the present, one question remains: what will SMU’s administration do about it? President R. Gerald Turner, Provost Ludden and all of the administration: How will you address this? The students have voted— but I implore you to not remain silent, to ignore us and pretend that none of this has happened. You have a moral authority to address and denounce the anti-LGBTQ hate that has wormed out of the institution’s woodwork. As Desmond Tutu has put it, “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” Do not stand on the sidelines— what this demonstrates is passive acceptance; silence will do nothing but imply a tacit condoning of this heterosexist ideology. So, will you stand for justice and equality for all your Mustangs, or only that majority that would rather trample the life from us “deviants”? President Turner, I, along with several students of the LGBTQ minority on campus, would be more than willing to meet and discuss such measures. Please, whenever you find yourself available, contact me at spartida@smu.edu. It’s time we start tackling these issues.
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A student browses through Tinder on his cell phone. The dating app has recently become popular among college students and young adults.
What Tinder really says about dating avery stefan Contributing Writer astefan@smu.edu Online dating has been around for years, but a recent development has extended the joys of virtual dating with more casual intent to younger generations. I’m talking about Tinder, an app based purely off of physical attraction and cliche ice breakers. There is no question that humanity continues to become increasingly forwardthinking, particularly in regards to love. Sure, there are plenty of cultures and realms that are not so progressive, but for the sake of simplicity we’ll direct our attention to the Western world. We consider ourselves lucky that we no longer have to live in a time when divorce is not possible, and girls are forced to be wed at the age of 13 or otherwise sent off to the nunnery. We reside in a culture of ultra-feminism, with men and women—whether
hetero or homosexual— arguably having the potential for equal power and say in a relationship. Society has come a long way in its dealings with cupid’s domain from the times of harems, arranged marriages and prolonged courtship. My friends and I have contests sometimes to find the most disturbing Tinder prospects, and oftentimes “swipe right”— meaning you willingly open your messaging doors to them should they swipe right as well—purely for entertainment purposes. Most times, these disturbing individuals consist of Tinders looking for one thing, and I’m sure you know what that is. It’s rare that you come across a Tinder who is strictly looking for a potential future spouse. And some of what they have to say is baffling. One of the most disturbing discoveries I have made is the number of Tinders actively swiping who have girlfriends.
Um, what? I recently confronted one of such Tinders, who happens to be a friend of mine. His response: “It’s just for fun, Tinder is so funny.” Yeah, I’m sure your girlfriend would think it’s totally funny that you have a dating app literally created to make it easy for people to have casual, no strings attached flings. This shocking realization got me thinking. Pondering the number of celebrities that get married and then divorced these days like they’re exchanging a pair of pants began to shape my rather negative outlook on what seems to be the new standard for relationships, love and commitment. In reality, is it truly all that positive that it is so easy to get divorced nowadays? What ever happened to “‘til death do us part?” Not to mention the poor offspring thrown in to the mix, forever tied to the burden of having to grow up with the ensuing psychological
issues stemming from a broken family. Don’t get me wrong, Tinder can be a great resource. Especially at SMU, it’s a great way to realize that there are many other people outside our bubble. And I know I get ahead of myself bringing up marriage and divorce, but the sorts of interactions on Tinder set the stage for what’s to be expected further down the road. Social media apps have made it all too easy for the unfaithfulprone to keep secrets and maintain casual relationships on the side. This has seriously tarnished my faith in the existence of true and long lasting relationships; there must be some out there, but odds are you’re not going to find it on Tinder. For all of you out there who have indeed found true love on Tinder, kudos and let’s hope you did your background check. Stefan is a senior majoring in journalism.
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Number 6: Steve Lundquist Billy Embody Sports Writer wembody@smu.edu
Editors Note: For the past several issues we have been counting down the 25 greatest SMU athletes of alltime. This is number six of that list.
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McIlhenny was a three-time All-SWC honoree, and his 34 wins are still the most in SMU and SWC history.
Number 7: Lance Mcilhenny Samuel Snow Associae Sports Editor ssnow@smu.edu Editors Note: For the past several issues we have been counting down the 25 greatest SMU athletes of all-time. This is number seven of that list. Lance McIlhenny may surprise some people being this high up on the list, but as the winningest quarterback in SMU history, he certainly deserves it. Against the No. 2 ranked Texas Longhorns, Head Coach Ron Meyer made a surprising decision regarding his starting quarterback. All-American Mike Ford was benched in favor of McIlhenny. That turned out to be one of the greatest decisions in SMU football history.
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The SMU Mustangs went on to pull a massive upset of the Texas Longhorns, thus starting one of the greatest careers for an SMU quarterback. McIlhenny went on to post a 34-5-1 from 1980 to 1983. He was a three-time AllSWC honoree, and his 34 wins are still the most in SMU and SWC history.
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He was recognized for his accomplishments on the football field as quarterback at SMU for the 1980-1983 seasons and was inducted into the SMU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013. Also in 2013, McIlhenny joined CBRE from Cresa Partners, where he was responsible for local and national business development. Before that, he was a senior managing director at CASE Commercial Real Estate. He has also worked for Jones Lang LaSalle and The Staubach Company for 19 years. For all that he did for SMU during the ‘80s, he has earned his spot inside the top 10 of our list.
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Steve Lundquist, an Olympic gold medalist, comes in at No. 6 in our Top 25 of SMU athletes. The 100-meter breaststroke and the 400-meter medley relay gold medal winner in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles attended SMU until 1984 when Lundquist graduated from the Cox School of Business. Lundquist was the first swimmer to break two minutes in the 200-yard breaststroke as well and won every breaststroke event he entered from 1980-83. At 17, he broke his first world record and broke multiple world and American records on 15 different occasions. Lunquist held the 100-meter breaststroke world record from 1982 to 1989, except for one month. Lundquist began his career as a butterfly swimmer and was coached by Arthur Winters to be the breaststroke swimmer that dominated competition for his career. When People Magazine interviewed him at 23, he said he felt old for his sport, so he took up high speed thrills to feel young again like motorcycles and waterskiing. It worked out for him as he eventually won the two gold medals in the Olympics. Coincidentally, People Magazine also awarded Lundquist with the Best Chest of male celebrities, earning him a lot
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Lunquist held the 100-meter breaststroke world record from 1982 to 1989.
of exposure when the award was featured in the magazine. At SMU, Lundquist was an All-American while he began his Olympic career and started his path to becoming the 1982 U.S. Swimmer of the Year and eventually a member of the
International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1990. Lundquist was selected as a U.S. Honorary Olympic Team medalist in 1980 as well. Not only was Lundquist an accomplished swimmer, he was a philanthropist, volunteering his time for charitable organizations and making appearances on television and in movies. In the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Lundquist was an Olympic Torch Bearer and was an Olympic Flag Bearer as well. Lundquist returned to his native Georgia, where he runs Digipik, a digital media company.
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Complete the grid so that every row, column, and 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There is no guessing or math involved, just use logic to solve.
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Across 1 Spice organizer 5 48-Across brand 9 Right-angled supports 14 K-12, to textbook publishers 15 Neck and neck 16 Slightly moisten 17 "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" collaborator 19 Green hue 20 Camcorder button 21 Google executive chairman Schmidt 22 Had too much, briefly 23 Antlered animal 24 "The helpful place" sloganeer 28 Mu followers 29 Pt. of a sentence 30 Vote against 31 Certain commuter's destination: Abbr. 32 The Belmonts frontman 34 1930s migrants 36 Many a circus employee 42 Scheherazade's milieu 43 Designer St. Laurent 45 Tech sch. overlooking the Hudson 48 Iced drink 49 "Just an update" letters 52 Pipe bend 53 Wayne Manor resident 56 Actress Peeples 57 Sasquatch cousin 58 "The Dukes of Hazzard" deputy 59 Mt. Sunflower is its highest point 60 Antacid, briefly 62 Light bulbover-the-head instance, and a hint to 17-, 24-, 36- and 53-Across
64 When many take morning breaks 65 Proofreading mark 66 Winans of gospel 67 Calf-roping loop 68 Sign 69 You might steer one with your feet Down 1 Behind, or hit from behind 2 Christian chant 3 Inspects 4 "Kid-tested" cereal 5 Pasta or potato, e.g. 6 More slippery 7 Nut-bearing tree 8 Big name in ice cream 9 Wall St. deal 10 Subordinate to 11 Athletic brand founded by Adolf Dassler 12 Backslide 13 Birthplace of Bergman and Garbo 18 Accumulation 25 "Eso Beso" singer 26 Picnic worry
27 Turned green, say 33 Bethesda-based medical org. 34 Resistance unit 35 Devious 37 Field with roots and logs 38 __ rug 39 King with three daughters 40 Symbol of balance 41 Faith 44 Italicized 45 Sunglass Hut brand
46 Mexico's __ Vallarta 47 Altogether 49 Fireworks highlight 50 Naval petty officers 51 "Make __": Picard catchphrase 54 Movie listing listings 55 Bring up again? 61 What two heads are better than 62 Disturbance 63 Intro givers
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SMU alum to debut glitch art show tonight myca williamson Associate A&E Editor mwilliamson@smu.edu Emerging artists, live music and all-you-can-eat pancakes are just some of the things to enjoy at the Pancakes and Booze Underground Art Show this weekend. The show will take place today and SMU alumnus Kenneth Morris’ innovative artwork will be on display. Morris’ artwork has been shown in in many cities, including New York, Seattle and Miami. However, he will make his glitch art debut in Dallas at the Pancakes and Booze Art Show, an event established in 2009 to promote local and emerging artists. The event offers network opportunities for the artists to not only sell their work, but support one another. Glitch art, a modern form of art that conveys a digital aesthetic through manipulation of perspective and cognitive distortion, is a unique form of expression. According to Morris, it means different things to different people. “To me, it’s all about perspective,” Morris said. “We
live life moving forward; yet it only makes sense looking backward.” Morris enjoys experimenting with the movement of his camera. To him, art defies all natural conventions and it unveils invaluable truths about life. “The point isn’t just a cool shot I can sell,” Morris said. “It’s to challenge the viewer’s perspective and convey that while we all have a different viewpoint on life; we’re all living it at the exact same time now.” In addition to panorama glitch art, Morris experiments with photography and filmmaking. Morris uses his work as a chance to change the world. His film “Obselidia” was presented at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. It tells the story of a young man and woman who learn to relish in the present and give meaning to existence. The show is $5 and will be held from 8 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Quixotic World on Main Street in Dallas.
‘Middletown’: mediocre zain haidar A&E Writer zhaidar@smu.edu There are two major events in existence: birth and death. Everything in between is life, and according to Will Eno’s “Middletown,” it’s all a bit of a mess. “Middletown” – directed by senior theatre student Carson McCain – focuses on the mushy boredom of being an average person in an average town and puts the audience through its paces with a fair share of under-thetable philosophizing. I went to the play Wednesday night and was surprised by the production.
For one, this was my first time seeing several of my peers act, and I was happy to watch them in their element before I graduate. Particularly good in their roles were sophomores George Colligan and Dylan Guerra. Colligan plays a patrol cop in “Middletown” who balances his time between choking up ne’er-do-wells in the local park and waxing poetic about nothing. Guerra takes on three separate roles throughout the performance – a flamboyantly pseudointellectual tourist, an audience member in a playwithin-a-play scene and finally the town gardener. Both Colligan and Guerra (as well as the other performers)
hit their comedic marks nearly without flaw, managing to infuse their performances with equal parts depressing irony and deadpan fatality. The narrative arc of Eno’s play focuses on the birth of a child in the fictional inbetween-town and the death of a longtime resident. With the juxtaposition of the two events and the constant, almost annoying faux-philosophy espoused by each character, “Middletown” takes you on an instinctual act that mirrors the exhausting mental slog of taking breaths and plodding through your own personal meaningless existence on Earth. If that’s not a good enough reason to go see a play, I’d like to hear a better one.
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“Eye of the Glitch”
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“Glitch Fusion” will be displayed at Morris’ art show tonight, along with “Eye of the Glitch” (above).
Four centuries after his death, William Shakespeare is probably Britain’s bestknown export, his words and characters famous around the world. It’s fitting they were first staged at a playhouse called the Globe. Now the modern-day Shakespeare’s Globe theater in London is setting out to test the Bard’s maxim that “all the world’s a stage” by taking “Hamlet” to every country on Earth, more than 200 in all. The company describes the plan as “insanely ambitious.” Some suspect it’s impossible, and Amnesty International has weighed in to point out the “dark irony” of taking a
play about power and regicide to authoritarian North Korea. “Hamlet” opens Wednesday — on Shakespeare’s 450th birthday — with the first of three performances at the Globe, a reconstructed Elizabethan playhouse beside the River Thames. Then the cast of 12 and its fourperson crew will board a schooner for Amsterdam, beginning a journey that will take them to seven continents by plane, boat, train, bus and jeep. The tour is scheduled to last two years, finishing back at the Globe on April 23, 2016 — the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. The tour’s initial goal of visiting 205 nations and territories may vary, and exactly what constitutes a country is in some cases contested. The United Nations has 193
member states, while there were 204 teams in the London Olympics. Dromgoole remains undaunted, though unspecific, when asked about war-devastated Syria or insular North Korea — both now listed on the tour’s website as “details to be confirmed.” Dromgoole said the tour’s aim was “to take culture to every country, to all the peoples of the world.” “Shakespeare wrote these plays to tour,” Dromgoole said, noting that the play traveled through northern Europe in the 17th century and was even performed aboard a ship off the coast of in Yemen in 1608, only five years after it was written. “So these plays weren’t written to sit smug and proud in London. They were written to charge around the world,” he declared.
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