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Finals: no reading day

By JORDAN LEE

By STEPHANIE BROWN

At 9:30 a.m. on May 15, former Dallas Mayor and current United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk will address nearly 2,000 SMU students as they prepare to receive their bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees. SMU’s 95th Commencement Ceremony will take place in Moody Coliseum and will honor three nonSMU students for their outstanding work. Three honorary doctorates will be awarded to poet Jorie Graham, physicist Saul Perlmutter and human rights lawyer Karinna Akopovna Moskalenko. Graham, author of “Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts,” has been writing innovative poetry for more than 30 years. Graham has excelled professionally both as a writer and a professor, becoming the first woman to be awarded the position of Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. Multiple awards, including a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Award, have recognized her proven ability. SMU will confer upon this outstanding literary figure

When the weather turns to sunny skies with temperatures in the low 80s and the student headcount in Fondren Library skyrockets, it can only mean one thing: finals. With classes ending Tuesday, students, along with professors, are normally relieved to have the annual reading day to catch up and organize themselves before finals ensue. However, that is not the case this year, and students are feeling the repercussions of the decision. For many, this day is used for preparing study guides, organizing notes, putting together projects and tying together loose ends in classes. Due to the loss of that extra day, students are feeling overwhelmed and pressed for time in studying for exams. Students said they normally use the reading day for purposes ranging from visiting professors with last minute questions to making a personal schedule detailing how much time to allocate each subject while studying. According to many, holing up in Fondren is the favored strategy for the

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Retention rates at SMU are lower among African-American students.

DIVERSITY LACKING Minority students may find it hard to fit in at SMU Black/African American: 275 – 4.6% Hispanic/Latino: 476 – 8% International: 416 – 7% American Indian/ Alaskan: 30 – 0.7% Hawiian/ Other Pacific Island: 34 – 0.4% Other: 130 – 2.2% White: 4,262 – 71.6%

Asian: 3%

TCU Undergraduate Headcount by Ethnic Group

Black/African American: 5% Hispanic/Latino: 8% International: 5%%

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American Indian/ Alaskan: 0% Hawiian/ Other Pacific Island: NA Unknown: 4% White: 74%

Asian: 21%

Duke Undergrad Headcount by Ethnic Group

Black/African American 10% Hispanic/Latino: 6%

Fall in Taos is in its second year, and the program is expecting to extend the vision that was created from solely summer programs and make it available to students for a whole semester. “What we have created in Taos in the past 30 years is an educational experience that you can get in a hands-on way, in Taos, and you can’t get here,” Michael Adler, executive director, said. The campus is set in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains surrounded by the Carson National Forest. “Taos has a laidback atmosphere that is influenced by the Native

6-Year Graduation Rates by Race/Ethnicity for Undergraduates in 2009 (NCES)

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Asian: 327 – 5.5%

SMU Undergraduate Headcount

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University’s Ethnic Headcounts

International: 6% American Indian/ Alaskan: 0% Hawiian/ Other Pacific Island: NA Unknown: 6% White: 51%

Asian: 7%

Vanderbilt Undergrad Headcount by Ethnic Group

Black/African American: 9% Hispanic/Latino: 6% International: 3% American Indian/ Alaskan: 0% Hawiian/ Other Pacific Island: NA Unknown: 15%

“I came to SMU because of the low demographics,” SMU sophomore Courtney Kelly said, “–to prove that it can be done.” Courtney is one of the 275 black and/or African American undergraduate students enrolled at SMU, according to the headcount charts on the registrar’s page of SMU’s website. With 5,950 students enrolled in undergraduate programs, 4,262 of them are white: that’s 71.6 percent. Black and African American students are not, however, the only ethnic group with low numbers on the Hilltop. Minority undergraduates represent 28.4 percent of the SMU undergrad population, 21.4 percent if you exclude international students. According to Anthony Tillman, assistant provost for strategic initiatives and director of student retention, all post-secondary institutions are required to give their retention and enrollment figures, among other things, to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) then publishes these rates in a public, user-friendly format. According to its website, “the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations. NCES is located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences.” Tillman said that schools are only required to publish their figures for six years, not four, so many don’t share their four-year figures. The graduation rates of different ethnic groups at SMU are generally close to each other: except for the black and African American cohort. Tillman says that it’s important qualitatively to remember the drastic difference in the number of minorities versus the majority. However, he said, “Quantitatively, across the board, the retention rates for the majority of the student pop and the minority student population, there’s not much deviance in terms of basic standard deviations, with one exception—the retention rate compared to the

White: 59%

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Graduating students seek alternatives to job search By MICHAEL MURPHY Contributing Writer mfmurphy@smu.edu

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Senior Jesse Murphy, winner of the SMU bodybuilding competition this year, plans to ride his bike across the country this summer without a dollar to his name. He’ll make his way across the states by camping and asking restaurants along the way if he can work for a meal. The adventure will begin in Virginia and end in Oregon, for a total of 3,500 miles. Ryan Hawkins, a senior cinema television major, will be alongside filming for a documentary about a “coming of age journey.” They are currently looking for people to sponsor Murphy by donating

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At the same time David Bertrand’s Beginning Triathalon Wellness class all crossed the finish line of the Caveman Triathlon in Flower Mound this past Sunday around 9 a.m. while SMU’s campus began to wake up. The 16 finishers range in age, classification, and beginning ability, but as they celebrated their victories and the lessons learned after the race, the shared title of tri-athlete unified them. Two other class members joined the celebration on Tuesday when the class met to reflect on their experience. It did not matter that these two raced the prior weekend;

During the early morning of Sept. 1, 2008, five hungry college students piled into a car in search of a snack. Shortly after munching down, they headed back to the SMU campus. But little did they know, the drive would stay in their memories forever. “I remember driving and slowing down. The stoplight turned green, so I drove through,” Steven Kitt, sophomore business major, said. “Next thing I knew, I woke up and the windshield was shattered with a big hole in the passenger’s side, a fire was coming from the engine compartment, and glass was in my eyes. Pieces of

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Triathlon class after Caveman Race in Flower Mound Sunday.

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The iPad’s ‘Gilty pleasure’ application for shoppers By RACHAEL MACKIN Contributing Writer rmackin@smu.edu

Catherine Van Dyke, a junior at SMU, just bought a Marc Jacobs dress with one finger during her sociology class. The dress costs $1,100, but she snagged it for $299 and then, with a tap of a finger, went back to taking lecture notes. Her friend Alex Emery says she gets frustrated because she finds out about similar sales through e-mails at the same time as Van Dyke, but by the time she gets to a computer, the items she wants are sold out. Both girls shop on Gilt Groupe, an exclusive, flash-sale online retailer. But Van Dyke is using Gilt Groupe’s application on her iPad. The iPad was released on April 4. “Gilt for iPad” is one of five applications that were originally highlighted as a ‘must-have’ in Apple’s app store. The day after its debut, 2.4 percent of Gilt’s sales came from its app on the iPad. “We have significantly transformed e-commerce at Gilt by injecting a sense of entertainment and competition into the online shopping experience. Our iPad app takes that experience to a whole new level,” Jag Bath, vice president of product management at Gilt Groupe, said. “It’s like browsing through a magazine or catalog,” Van Dyke said. The iPad’s large Multi-Touch display allows Gilt members to use a pinchand-zoom feature to view the photos of merchandise in high resolution, and the

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split-screen, which is unique to the iPad application, lets users tap their finger to jump from sale to sale. “Users feel like they are physically touching all the products,” Bath said. Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, the founder and chief operating officer of Gilt Groupe, says the iPad application makes shopping a pleasure because it is so user-friendly. “You can really see the details of the merchandise, in my opinion, better than you can online through a regular desktop or laptop,” Wilson said. “The attention to detail is impressive. Nothing is cluttered. Everything is simple,” Van Dyke said of the Gilt app on the iPad. The iPhone offers a similar application for Gilt Groupe called “Gilt on the Go”. A week after the iPad was introduced, the online retailer site reported that both devices account for about 10 percent of sales. Amanda Graber, the manager of marketing and communications for Gilt Groupe, says there is a big difference between the iPhone and the iPad applications. The iPhone app is designed especially for the smaller device and for users who want to browse and skim the site quickly. The iPad app is supposed to give members the best experience possible, she says. “It’s faster and easier to use, while showcasing our beautiful imagery all on one screen…less steps to get your purchase…the cart is visible from

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SMU sophomore M.C. Corey tests out the Gilt Groupe iPad application.

everywhere and you can pinch and drag the item straight into your cart,” Graber said. Lauren Bryan Knight is the sales manager and public relations liaison doe Bell’Invito and works closely with Gilt Groupe. She says the iPad application is a unique way of shopping, while sales are growing and things are selling out faster as more people download the application everyday. “It’s so user friendly once your account is set up. Just click and buy. All billing and shipping info is stored so it literally can take you 20 seconds to buy something and have your device back in your purse,” Knight said. “This is a condensed version of effortless shopping to so many people…it is a perfect model

for discount shoppers.” Anne Trussell, a junior at SMU, says around 40 percent of her shopping is done online while she is in class. She says she will purchase more online when she buys the iPad and downloads the Gilt Groupe app. “Half the reason I don’t buy everything online now is because I keep clicking ‘add to bag’ and all the sudden I have 1,000 things in my shopping bag and I don’t bother to pick and choose what I can realistically afford,” Trussell says. Gilt Groupe is widely recognized as a leader and innovator in online retail. The site launched in 2007, and now has 1.6 million members. Gilt hosts live sales for 36 hours, featuring merchandise by

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many globally recognized and sought after designers. Gilt Groupe is an invitation-only membership, but iPad users who download the free app become instant members. The application also alerts members when live sales start, so iPad users have a leg up on the competition of shopping the limited merchandise on Gilt. Alexis Maybank, the co-founder of Gilt Groupe, says the iPad is perfect for members of Gilt Groupe. “You can take it everywhere you go…because if you’re a student at SMU you can shop in your dorm room or in the middle of class…and our insider prices are up to 70 percent off,” Maybank said. The sales on Gilt Groupe are over just hours after they begin. Wilson says she frequently gets feedback from loyal customers that they schedule time to look through the site during their busy days. “We hear over and over again that our die hard shoppers will take a little break during the day when the sales go live and will even duck out of a meeting or an appointment for five minutes when the sales start,” Wilson said. Now Gilt groupies can bring their iPad with them everywhere to make sure

they don’t miss out on anything. Wilson thinks most people’s busy, scheduled lives make it essential for brands to have an online presence. “From a distribution standpoint, I think that brand is at a huge disadvantage if it is missing out on e-commerce or mobile technology because there are just a lot of people that are so busy that certainly want and need to buy things, but don’t always have time to go into a store,” she said. Gilt Groupe users are mainly women, but because the iPad is marketed as a leisure device that appeals to men, the application has changed Gilt Groupe’s demographic. Gilt Groupe reported that within 10 days of the launch of the application, sales of men’s products generated 63 percent of the iPad-generated revenue. Wilson says iPad users can expect exclusive deals on the Gilt Groupe application in the near future because it has been so successful. “Our members, since the iPad came out, have been using it, shopping from it, and we’re really excited with the results…I can’t give any specifics but I think there are going to be more and more expanses tailored for the iPad and iPhone applications,” Wilson reports.

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American and Hispanic culture. It is an artistic community and a popular place for retirement and summer homes,” junior Rachel Darst said. The program offers a variety of classes for students who attend in the fall. Each of them will participate in a block schedule. The blocks are 23 days, and all students will enroll in a cultural formation called the ‘Taos experience.’ This course focuses on conflict and reconciliation, according to Dr. Adler, who teaches the course. Along with this course, students are expected to participate in service learning opportunities. Last year, students visited a local organic farm to learn organic farming. Other kids went to the high school and got involved with a micro-loan program, which allowed students the opportunity to start their own entrepreneurial businesses. The Taos program intends to continue to expand the course offerings and make it easier for students to go without feeling like they will get

behind. SMU professors and adjunct professors who live on campus with the students teach the courses. Sophomore CJ Camerato said, “You’re going to breakfast, lunch and dinner with them and their families. You really get to know your professors inside and out.” Dr. Adler said they maintain a small class setting. “The educational opportunity was incredible,” Camerato, who went to Taos last fall, said. “It is completely different then Dallas.” The program features an honors format, in small classes, with a field trip experience. Dr. Adler believes it will take few years to get the program exactly where program planners would like but, it will always maintain a small class setting. Camerato advises students to “do everything possible to make it work and bring your friends. We made a small family there.” For more information on SMU in Taos visit www.smu.edu/taos.

to a charity in honor of his trip. “It’s going to be a good experience, and I hope it helps me find myself,” Murphy said. “It’ll be a time to figure things out about myself and what I want to do with my life.” Murphy and Hawkins are part of a growing number of graduates who choose alternatives to entering the job market immediately after college. Although taking some time off isn’t too uncommon, more and more graduates are being forced to find an alternative to their “dream job” due to the economy and job market. The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists the national unemployment rate at 9.7 percent as of last month. Since 2000, the highest unemployment rate was 10.1 percent in October 2009. With an unemployment rate near the decade high, many graduates are still having difficulty securing a job. Competing with Americans of all ages for a job,

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majority for the African American students is one that does concern me.” Texas Christian University and Baylor University are fairly comparable to SMU in numbers, retention and graduation rates, but Vanderbilt University and particularly Duke University have considerably higher numbers. However, at every school, the ethnic group with the lowest graduation rate after 6 years was the African American cohort. When it comes down to it, African American students are not being retained at the same level or percentage as some of the other minority groups at SMU. “For other minorities, the retention rate is either at parody with the majority, or it exceeds the majority,” Tillman said. “The African American retention rate tends to be lower.” What is keeping African Americans from progressing in the same way as the other minority groups? SMU junior Linwood Fields, an African American SMU student who grew up in Oak Cliff, said that many African American students, and often minority students in general at SMU, feel like the only way they can relate to someone is if that person looks like them. “When I came to SMU, I realized that there wasn’t a large population of AA students. In order for me to have a good experience on campus, I had to do things that I may not have been comfortable with,” he said. Tillman has witnessed the same thing, but he noted that the ethnic group ratios in the faculty and staff at SMU are very similar to those of the student body. Putting himself in a student’s shoes, Tillman explained that “if I, as an African American student, feel or believe that the only way I can get help or assistance is by finding someone who looks like me for that help or assistance, I may find myself looking for a very long time.”

Tillman explained that everything works within a system. The trick to being successful is “to know the policies and protocols, and know how to maneuver through it.” While many minority students experience a bit of a culture shock when they come to an institution like SMU, junior Laura Baez, who also grew up in Oak Cliff, feels that her experience at SMU has helped her see race and ethnicity in an entirely different light. “My perspective has changed since I go here. When I was a freshman, I felt like I… not that I didn’t belong, but that I was distinctly different,” Baez said. Now that Baez has been forced to interact with people from different ethnic backgrounds than her own, she has been able to see that race is not what defines a person. It took SMU junior Mai Lyn Ngo about a year to get adjusted to the culture at SMU. “I just don’t see why it had to take a year,” Ngo said. “Every school is going to have its jerks, but there are a lot of really special people at SMU. But it did take awhile to find them,” she said. “I think that’s the same case for most

people.” Fields, Baez and Ngo all said that the best way for minorities to enjoy their experience at SMU is to get involved. “In the past year we’ve taken an earnest look at what’s been going on with our minority cohort students and how they are experiencing SMU,” Tillman said. He finds, however, that it’s hard to get any student to come in for help, whether for academic, financial, emotional or any other kind of help. “I think the one of the steps that we as the administration, and as an institution, need to take is to be more aggressive, more assertive in our orientation programs,” Tillman said. Tillman feels that information is empowering, and those students who can learn that “it doesn’t matter who is sitting behind the desk,” or what they look like, will effectively grow in SMU’s environment. “When you leave SMU and go into the real world, you begin to expose yourself to a global community of characters who may not look like you,” he said. “It takes some courage on behalf of some students, and it takes some trust.”

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many college graduates feel a disadvantage when applying for jobs, since many of these people have been in the workforce before and have real world experience. If graduates do find a job, they are often settling for less money. The National Association of Colleges and Employers reports that the average salary for a graduate with a bachelor’s degree is $48,351, which is down two percent from last year. Employers seem to realize graduates are often desperate to find a job and offer them lower pay, knowing they will probably be willing to work for less than they should be making. Although it’s mostly undergraduates who seek unpaid internships, more graduating students are now also accepting them. While the experience can be very beneficial, graduates should be careful not to be simply used by companies for free labor.

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week. “I plan on hauling all my books and my computer to Fondy, grabbing a table, making a sweet playlist, putting in my headphones and cranking this out,” freshman Mark Griffin said. On top of being overwhelmed, many students are furious because of the lack of prep time available to get ready for finals. “We keep trying to compete with these elite schools, and they get a week of reading days and we get nothing,” senior Alex Igleheart said. “It’s absurd that we don’t have one.” Contrary to the majority’s feelings behind the elimination of the reading day, some students feel no effect. For example, students with declared majors in the Cox School of Business, don’t normally have class on Fridays and are therefore unscathed by the implementation of the Friday schedule that will take place today. “I don’t have Friday classes, so I basically have a reading day anyway,” junior Maddie Kamp said. “It doesn’t

make a difference to me.” The official reasoning behind the administration’s decision not to implement the reading day this year is unknown to many students. Doug Reinelt, professor of mathematics and member of the Faculty Senate Calendar Committee, can ease that quandary. He explained that there must be 14 weeks of classes in order for the University to satisfy an accreditation organization–the SMU administration will only approve the calendar if there are a specific number of days between the end of final exams and spring graduation. “The last Monday makes up for missing classes on MLK day,” Reinelt said, “And the last Tuesday (that was on the Friday schedule) makes up for missing classes on Good Friday.” Meanwhile, students rush to grab their coffee, textbooks, notes and computer as they head over to Fondren, for they might not find a seat.

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the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Dr. Perlmutter is the head of the Supernova Cosmology Project at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a physics professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Through the study of stars, his international team has disproved the fundamental idea that gravity causes expansion of the universe to slow. Their findings have furthered basic knowledge about the universe and discovered strong indications the universe is

mostly comprised of dark energy, a substance that still puzzles scientists. Perlmutter will receive the degree of Doctor of Science from SMU for his substantial contributions to the field of science. Moskalenko has garnered global admiration for her defense of human rights and advocacy in Russia. As the country’s leading human rights lawyer, Moskalenko created the International Protection Centre, which works to represent clients seeking social justice in front of the European Court of Human Rights. Her staunch support of human rights has resulted in more than 90 successful cases and numerous

awards. SMU will honor Moskalenko’s dedication by awarding her with the degree of Doctor of Laws. “An important part of the Commencement tradition is the conferring of honorary degrees upon distinguished individuals who have made extraordinary contributions in their fields,” SMU President R. Gerald Turner said. “This year’s honorees represent outstanding achievements in three highly diverse fields. They will provide our graduates with a sense of the broad possibilities for their own futures as they apply the education they have received here in the years ahead.”

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New Visions, New Voices Movie remake hits theaters spotlights seniors’ work By CHELSEA RECKELL Contributing Writer creckell@smu.edu

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The Division of Theatre in SMU’s Meadows School of Arts presented the 16th annual New Visions, New Voices festival this past weekend. Two senior playwrights scripts were selected to be showcased. The first play “PRETTY, SMART, POETIC,” written by Brigham Mosley and directed by Brandon Sterrett, portrayed three sisters who were raised by their dad to fit into an identity consumed either with smarts, poetry and emotion, or sexuality. The play follows the struggles of the sisters wrestling with their identity after their dad dies and how they discover he brainwashed them into becoming products of his creation. The second play “Viriol,” written by Regina Bonifasi and directed by Angelina Fiorini, is as producer Dr. Gretchen Smith puts it, “about a 20something woman who tries to commit suicide because she is beautiful and wants to die before that beauty fades. She wakes up instead in an asylum, and finds herself involved with four other patients who need her and make her

want to live... so then she has to choose to live a meaningful life, which again is not the easy choice.” Each play involves unusual plots designed to give the audience an experience. Dr. Smith who produces the plays (and has been producing NVNV for 15 years now) comments that, “The most difficult part is always choosing the plays…the playwrights do phenomenal work. Their stories, their imagination, blow me away every year.” Writing, producing, creating and editing the process involves everyone involved in the play at some point. The playwriting process begins in August and is continually worked on and revamped up until production in April. Brigham Mosley commented, “One of the most challenging aspects is having to wear all the hats. I also designed the show and all of our cast and crew built it. Making projections, getting everything together - once the production started happening the rewriting took a backseat so we could make a good production - it’s difficult to have your fingers in all the pots.” There is no doubt that things can

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Timberlake, Taylor Swift, Sarah Jessica Parker and Jennifer Lopez were there. Winfrey walked the arrival line with Oscar de la Renta, wearing a navy couture gown by the designer. She said she looked forward to going into the party and having a few shots of tequila.When asked what goes on inside the Met Gala, Anna Wintour responded with a laugh, “Oh, we’re very, very well behaved.”

get very tied up, especially around the time of production. As an actor in “PRETTY, SMART, POETIC” Nat French mentioned they rehearsed every night from 6 to 10 p.m. for six weeks. Although having very different themes, both plays in the festival leave the audience with a sense of an experience - which was what the playwrights were aiming for. Mosley noted, “I want people to leave with an experience - to have shared something together as a community. I love the idea of theatre as event. I don’t know what I want people to think about the show though, I hope they were just affected in some way.” Dr. Smith adds that these festivals have an especially large affect on the younger crowd because the ideas in the plays “are ideas everyone grapples with-but certainly anyone in there 20s. Noting the much talked about racy plot line, deep conversations about the techniques used, and squeals and giggles while leaving the theater’s opening night performance, it seemed as though the majority of people in some way had indeed been affected.

This remake of “A Nightmare On Elm Street” definitely keeps the audience on the edge of their seats. While it topped box offices all weekend, Freddy fans around the world have reunited to see if this remake matches up to the original. Many years ago, there was a janitor named Freddy Krueger, who was very fond of a group of children. When the children’s parents discovered slashes and wounds on their children, they quickly blamed Freddy. After locking him in an abandoned building, the parents burned the building down, hoping to be rid of Freddy forever. What they didn’t realize was that Freddy would be back to make sure the children never forgot him and to finish what he had started. The children are now in high school, and they all have one thing in common. They keep having dreams with a burned man and sharp claws who tries to kill them. They slowly come to realize that when Freddy kills them in their

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‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ was first filmed in 1984 starring Johnny Depp as Glen Lantz.

dreams, Freddy kills them in real life, too. The battle to stay awake begins, and the children must dig in Freddy’s past to figure out who he was, what he wants and how to stop him. While the original movie portrayed Freddy as a scarier and more in-depth character, the remake succeeds in creating a horror plot that scares its audience. People were constantly

jumping out of their seats due to all the twists and suspense, and many audience members screamed during startling moments. Freddy’s face is vivid enough to stay fresh on the mind for days, and the clinking of his claws together is horrifying enough to cause goose bumps. This movie is definitely worth seeing.

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I’m as big a fan of Justin Bieber as much as the next girl, but what message does his stardom send to America’s youth? CHIEF COPY EDITOR

heard a rumor recently that Justin Bieber’s voice has changed. Apparently, he can no longer sing “Baby” in concert the way that it was written. Although my first reaction was to applaud Usher’s live-in protégé for Lauren Smart finally reaching manhood, I am also sad that I will no longer be able to sing along with him in my feminine mezzo-alto voice. Beyond those thoughts, I have begun to ponder the recent rise of young celebrities. It could be argued that Michael Jackson and Shirley Temple set the precedent for kids as pop culture icons, but I still wonder if it is actually normal that children are showing up on the cover of magazines other than Seventeen or TeenBop.

There’s a part of me that completely embraces this trend. After all, I like “Baby” and “One Less Lonely Girl” just as much as the rest of you closet Bieber fans. Not to mention that my new jam is Disney Channel’s Selena Gomez singing “You are the thunder, I am the lightning” or whatever the heck (I will refrain from profanity in an article about minors) her lyrics are. The other part of me just doesn’t get it. I don’t understand why Bieber has to have a “swagger coach” (no, that is not a joke) – why can’t we just let kids be kids? I don’t understand why Miley Cyrus has to pole dance. I don’t understand why my idol growing up (Lindsay Lohan in “The Parent Trap”) has to rob stores, be a lesbian and snort cocaine. Name for me one kid celebrity that hasn’t gone completely off the deep-end. My solution? Ban all child roles in movies. Okay, not really. I just sort of wonder what it says about our

society that we (myself especially included) admire these children and pathetic versions of adults. When there is so much to pay attention to and talk about in our own lives, why do we turn to screw-ups? (Again, I chose a milder version of the word I would have used). There are too many incredible adults, professors, professionals and people worth looking up to that these children in Hollywood just aren’t worth it. But that doesn’t mean I won’t buy Justin Bieber’s CD about life in a fraternity when it comes out. Lauren Smart is a junior creative writing and journalism double major. She can be reached for comment at lsmart@smu.edu

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COMMENTARY

The problem with gendered language COLUMNIST

decided to take French this semester. It was an interesting endeavor, but I feel like I only gained more appreciation for my own language in the process. I never before considered being thankful that English doesn’t attribute gender to things that are objectively gender-neutral, but French made me change my mind. Before this class I never thought of my garbage disposal as being masculine or my mascara as being feminine, but if it works for the Logan Masters French, so be it. Personally, though, I find gendered language very interesting. Why are some things considered female and others male despite the fact that they don’t fall into a biological class? As ridiculous and foreign as it all seems, Americans practice similar techniques. For instance, in my first year at SMU, I received a “B” on a paper for using gendered language. Coming from a conservative Christian high school where the patriarchy occasionally permeated the classroom, I never considered the grading implications of writing “mankind” rather than its apparently superior “humankind.” Instead of using the politically correct “his or her” inclusive pronoun, I employed a passive “he” when the sex of the person was unknown. It was then made very clear to me that my choice of words threatened exclusion. Gendered language attempts to force an object or individual to perform gender in a specified manner while conforming to the stereotypes surrounding it. For example, if I were discussing basketball, an audience would automatically assume I was referring to a group of men. However, if I wish to talk about women’s basketball, I have to attribute a gender prior to the noun for clarification. Why? Because in our culture, the term “basketball” is reserved for describing a man’s game. In order to avoid linguistic invisibility, women are forced to feminize the terminology. That’s why we watch the WNBA, the Women’s World Cup and women’s tennis instead of basketball, soccer and tennis. But let me be quite frank: I do not care. I understand that, as a woman, I should be concerned with the way in which words are shaping societal perceptions. But I can’t help but be apathetic. Why? Because contrary to popular belief, men are just as guilty as women for wanting to alter gendered language. Think about this for a second: male nurses are requesting to be called “murses.” Indiana Jones doesn’t carry a purse but a “man bag.” Male grooming is known as “manscaping.” Britney Spears has a male childcare provider she titled “many.” Adam Lambert wears “guy-liner.” In our culture, although we don’t formally use gendered language like the French, we use our own variations that imply stereotypes. If a man engages in an activity that is traditionally reserved for women, there appears to be a hegemonic desire to slap “man” on the front of the act, removing all traces of female characteristics. Just as women don’t want to be businessmen, men don’t want to carry purses. Adding gender to include untraditional participants doesn’t strike me as a problem, but when men and women are credited with different terms that have major discrepancies of moral standards, I get a little frustrated. For example, a promiscuous man is culturally known as a “player” while a promiscuous woman is categorized as a “whore.” Hopefully you caught the double standard in these typologies. The word “player” connotes a playful demeanor in sexual encounters while women are subjected to a word derived from the socially stigmatizing act of prostitution. Clearly, this language serves as a vehicle for expressing sexist stereotypes. For the sake of cultural morality, perhaps men should be held to the same standard. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always judge me. Logan Masters is a junior sociology major. She can be reached for comment at lmasters@smu.edu.

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A final look at a year to remember A OPINION EDITOR

s the semester draws its last few, stressful breaths, I thought we could all use a look back on the year that’s just passed. So here it is, the (almost true) year in review:

Nathaniel French

August: Hordes of freshmen descend on campus. They say teary goodbyes to their parents. FREEDOM! Students go to buy their books. Intro to astrophysics looks like a bit too much reading. Everyone switches to Leisure Studies 101. Classes begin. Leisure Studies 101 turns out to be really hard. General despair sweeps campus. People get angry about health care. They call each other mean names. SMU drops two places in the prestigious U.S. News & World Report rankings. The quality of our education suffers significantly. The great Senator Edward Kennedy dies. America mourns a statesman. September: The-Virus-Formerly-Known-asSwine-Flu hits campus. Students look suspiciously at one another. Anyone with a cough is sequestered in a sterilized room and dropped in a vat of hand sanitizer. Obama tries to talk to schoolchildren. Many parents object to his message of staying in school and studying hard. Several local school districts ban his socialist message. People remain angry about health care. Some march on Washington. Obama gives a speech to Congress. I appear topless on the front page of The Daily Campus. Women everywhere swoon. Kanye West disrespects Taylor Swift. What a jerk. The Texas State Fair allows everyone to indulge in an orgy of overindulgence. Deep-fried butter is somehow allowed to be served. October: The International Olympic Committee disrespects Chicago. Obama broods. SMU loses to TCU. Everyone is shocked. Obama is given the Nobel Peace Prize. He’s no longer bummed about that whole Olympics thing. Two mustangs threaten Peruna’s dominance. Jake Torres calls the student body to arms. Cue the band: The recession is officially over.

Can’t you tell? H1N1 gets worse. Obama declares a national emergency. People use this as an excuse to get even angrier about health care.

November: “Precious” hits theaters. The fact that someone named Sapphire wrote a novel called “Push” is forever branded in our memories. Major Nidal Malik Hasan goes on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood. America loses 12 heroes. The newest “Twilight” movie comes out. I don’t go at midnight. I definitely don’t do that. You guessed it: People are still upset about health care. Oprah announces she’ll retire from her talk show. Americans wonder who will tell them what to read from now on. Tiger Woods gets in a car accident. Stories about his marital infidelities begin to surface. They’re really, really ridiculous. And a little sad. December: Student Senate votes against the LGBT seat. It’s not like gay people have special interests they need represented. “Avatar” comes out. Americans realize that blue people have feelings, too. Someone steals the famous sign from Auschwitz. That someone is a terrible human being. Health care reform bills pass both houses of Congress. People are still really angry. SMU beats Nevada at the Hawaii Bowl. I take back all the mean jokes I ever made about June Jones and the Mustangs. January: It turns out that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made some racist remarks during the 2008 campaign. They turn out to be only the 17th most offensive thing Harry Reid has ever said. Sarah Palin announces she’s got a job on Fox News. She turns out to be only the 17th stupidest person on Fox. An earthquake strikes Haiti. All over America, including on the SMU campus, relief organizations rally to support the victims. Scott Brown wins a special election for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. People get really, really, REALLY mad about health care. The Daily Campus runs a picture of Torlan Pittman, a student arrested on sexual assault charges, next to a teaser for a story on Obama. We apologize for our ridiculously embarrassing mistake. The Supreme Court rules that corporations have a right to free speech. Obama disrespects the

justices in his State of the Union.

February: SMU passes its own health care bill and makes student health insurance mandatory. The Saints win the Super Bowl. People feel fuzzy for the city of New Orleans. It snows in Dallas. In freakin’ Dallas for God’s sake. Tiger Woods says he’s really sorry about the whole hooking-up-with-a-porn-star thing. Obama invites members of both parties to a “health care summit.” He says some snippy things to Republicans. Anger continues its cataclysmic rise.

March: The U.S. Senate passes a jobs bill. Clap your hands if you believe in bipartisanship. ChatRoulette becomes a thing. 40-year-old men everywhere get the chance to flaunt their junk to the rest of the world. St. Patrick’s Day happens. Greenville reeks of beer and sweaty, green-clad college students. Our long national cluster-(you know what) is over: Health care reform becomes law. Comrade Biden says a bad word in Comrade Obama’s ear. April: Jake Torres becomes student body president. All that campaigning for Peruna was worth it. Donald Trump fires Rod Blagojevich on “The Celebrity Apprentice.” SMU relays for life. It’s lots of fun and for a good cause. The Daily Campus investigates the Board of Trustees. Some people complain that we were too mean to the poor Board. Louis Brandeis just laughs. Program Council’s “Code Red Concert” is shut down for being too loud. Residents of University Park shove that stick even further into their tuchasses (tuchi?). May: Finals week starts. Red Bulls for everyone. The school year ends. We forget all the information we’ve crammed into our heads and return to a state of ignorant bliss. Here’s wishing everyone a safe and enjoyable summer. I’ll see you next year. Nathaniel French is a junior theater major. He can be reached for comment at nfrench@smu.edu.

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SAFETY: Study shows drunken driving on the decline

CAREER: Graduate students look for alternatives in bad economy

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the dashboard were in my lap, and I couldn’t move the steering wheel. Despite all of that, everyone said I was pretty lucid minutes later.” That morning, Kitt and the four other passengers in his car, a newlywed couple in another car and drunk driver Uriel Perez Palacios with his passenger, all collided on Mockingbird Lane. According to the Dallas Morning News, “The wreck occurred about 2 a.m. Monday after a Dallas County sheriff ’s deputy pulled over Mr. Palacios for allegedly weaving through traffic…on North Central Expressway. As the deputy approached the vehicle, Mr. Palacios drove away with his lights off…and exited at Mockingbird Lane.” There, he “sped through a red light” and crashed into the two other cars. Palacios had four previous Driving While Intoxicated arrests. Tragically, the newlywed couple died on the scene, and Kitt suffered from a broken humerus and a broken ulna in addition to losing a significant amount of skin on his left arm. Two other passengers in Kitt’s car were also taken to the hospital. Stories such as this might sound familiar to Texans. Although studies show that drunk driving is on the decline, Texas has the most alcoholrelated traffic fatalities. In 2008, Harris County had the highest number of fatalities (354) due to drunk drivers, and Dallas County came in second with 202. Kelley Sourbeer, North Texas’s Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) youth program specialist, suspects that Texas has the most drunk driving deaths each year because “Texas is a large state, and the fact is that a drunk driver can statistically

drive drunk many times before they get pulled over.” According to Texas state law, the legal limit for intoxication is .08 BAC (blood alcohol content) for people 21 and above, and .00 BAC for those under 21 (which means it’s illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to drive after consuming any amount of alcohol.) Although there are increased consequences for every DWI offense, many citizens, including the Flower Mound state senator, don’t believe they are harsh enough. Although other officials with her drive might be scarce, there are a variety of activist groups, such as MADD, that try to raise awareness about the severity of drinking and driving. According to the Texas MADD website, MADD helped implement a variety of changes within Texas law including changing the legal drinking age to 21 (1986) and applying a “zero tolerance” for underage drinking (1997). Although the “zero tolerance” law is intended to steer under 21-year-olds away from drinking and driving, it still doesn’t stop them. According to a 2004 DSHS (Department of State Health Services) Texas School Survey on Substance Abuse, 24 percent of high school seniors said they operated a vehicle after having several drinks at least once in the last year. That accounts for 80,000 drunk drivers on the road in a specific year. Shannon Graves, a program director for Community Coalition, a group that strives to stop underage drinking in North Texas, recently told the Dallas Morning News, “Every time alcohol gets into the hands of a kid, it’s because an adult allows that to take place. It’s always discouraging

and disheartening to hear.” Sourbeer said she has done a lot to help prevent underage drunk driving in the area. “I have spoken to thousands of students about alcohol and what it does to the brain and body if consumed under 21,” Sourbeer said. “I have also conducted victim impact panels [when a group of victims/survivors get together and tell their stories to a large crowd] for teens that have gotten an alcohol related ticket.” SMU has also tried to raise awareness about the severity of drinking and driving. John Sanger, director of the Center for Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention at SMU, said they have held a variety of “programs on campus, including a drunk driving simulator, demonstrations of the Guardian Interlock system for those convicted of DWI’s and MADD’s wrecked car display” so students can see the consequences that their actions could have. So, what’s the best thing to do if you know someone has been drinking or if you’re planning on going out? “If students suspect their driver has been drinking, we strongly suggest that they not ride with that person and find a sober driver or take a taxi,” Sanger said. Unfortunately, in Kitt’s situation the accident couldn’t have been prevented. The aftermath is that Kitt will have a metal plate and eight screws in his left arm for the rest of his life, let alone the memory of the accident. “If I go out with friends, I’ll always be the designated driver, or not drive or call a cab,” Kitt said. He would rather “pay $15 than see someone get in an accident or die.”

Nezare Chafni, SMU senior, said an unpaid internship after college would only be worthwhile if it were with a very respectable company. Experience, along with a strong recommendation from a big company, would be the only payoffs. Another route students are taking to avoid the current job market is graduate school. According to the Council of Graduate Students, enrollment in graduate programs has increased by 32 percent from 1998 to 2008. By pursuing further education, students are able to increase their qualification for jobs, as well as delay the job search in hope of an economic turnaround. Programs like Teach for America are gaining popularity as well. Applications have increased by 30 percent, or more, annually for the past three years. Some graduates are attracted to the idea

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Many students apply for Teach for America’s two-year program.

of giving back to the community, rather than paying for graduate school, while they wait for an upturn in the economy. The fact that it looks great on a resume for future employers is just an added bonus. Ranging from biking across the country to pursuing a higher degree, more graduates are choosing

alternative options rather than immediately entering the workforce. Although it may not be the job they hoped for after earning a degree, graduates will still gain experience and knowledge about themselves and the world.

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the accomplishment held the same magnitude. As the class munched on cookies, it became clear their that experience started long before they awoke at 4 a.m. on race day. For freshman Haillie Stock, the lesson began when her older brother, Andy, joined the Triathlon team at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Andy opened Stock’s eyes to a new sport. “I would never have thought to do a tri, but he’s really dedicated to it,”

she admitted. “I want to show Andy that I can do it too. He kinda just inspired me.” Stock’s brother supported her goal, lending her an old bike and biking shoes, and taught her to clip in and out of the pedals. All the same, “I don’t think he really, like, thought I would do it,” she said. Stock and her family went to encourage Andy at the College Nationals Triathlon Race in Lubbock, Texas. But Stock would like her support to be solely long distance. ”I

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don’t want anyone to come [to my race]! Its for me…you know?” she said. Stock found that inspiration is all she needed from her older brother and family. Her experience with the triathlon class showed her she didn’t have to impress anyone. “It is the first time a sport is actually, like, mine,” Stock said. “I just wanna finish feeling good about it. I’m not looking to beat anyone; I just wanna keep moving.” Scott Faulkner, a sophomore who raced the King Tut Triathlon on April 18, hoped for the same result but chased it differently. Like Stock, he learned the importance of just doing it. Although he focused on catching the guy just up the road to keep him going, it was never about beating him. “It was so much easier just having a good time with it, just trying to like do

it. Not trying to compete, or focusing on how much your legs hurt…just finishing it,” Faulkner told the rest of his classmates before their race. Faulkner raced with a freshman fraternity brother, Mitch Miller. The two faced rough weather and race conditions they had not trained for. Together, they learned that bad things happen, but they pass. Miller holds the bike portion of his race in infamy. “The bike was terrible,” he said. “Wet, windy…way more hills than we trained on.” His average pace was consistent with his training, but he soon recognized some tri-athletes “go a lot faster than that.” But Miller prevailed in the end. He learned to just keep pedaling. Sharing his wisdom, he said, “On the hills you’re gonna get slower, but it just happens…it’s a hill. But keep pedaling.”

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Triathlon class on their first bike ride at White Rock Lake.

Chase Bechtol, a graduating senior joining the U.S. Army, took Miller’s lesson to another level. He began the semester’s training with two conflicting thoughts. “I was anxious and nervous but probably a little too confident in myself,” he said. An athlete in high school and at University of Texas San Antonio, he ran at the head of the class. But Bechtol struggled with swimming. “I swam 200 m and I was dead,” he recalled from the first practice in the pool. He set his mind to improving and did a fine job. Bechtol began attending Bertrand’s swimming class once a week and when the tri-team was confronted with a challenging workout later in the season, he blew it out of the water. He remembered with a smile, “1600 m without stopping–that was actually a bigger deal for me than the race.” He said the conquest of a new element is “just gonna push [his] confidence even more. I know that I can continue to push myself harder than I thought I could before.” Helen Huber chose race day to push herself farther and faster than she had trained for. Huber’s race included a legendary blooper—she biked an extra lap on the two-lap course. Although her primary lesson may be counting, her classmates helped her to realize the strength it took to finish the race plus

some. Afterwards she could laugh. “I felt very accomplished, especially after I did seven extra miles on the bike,” she joked. The newest tri-athletes are not the only ones learning lessons. Bertrand is continueing to learn. “What people don’t understand is that I go through ups and downs, too. When I see them step out and do an extra workout, it motivates me,” he said. Huber’s added effort spread some laughs, but Bertrand recognized the extra effort. He even hopped in the pool to push his time trial swims after a student surprised him with her time. Students’ fresh energy invigorates Bertrand as an accomplished triathlete. “I like it better when I can take the energy from the students who like the workouts and are just having fun,” he said. Bertrand commented that the students remind him to “make the present [training] more enjoyable.” He smiles when the semester begins, because he knows the most enjoyable reward is coming. And now that the students know what that reward, and those lessons, feel like, many of them are ready to start training for their next race. All 18 students reflect kindly on the experience. “I can say I am I triathlete,” Huber said.