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Student reports possible hate crime Staff Reports
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Reverend Jim Lawson speaks to law students following his keynote speech at the Civil Rights Symposium on Friday.
Lawson talks civil rights
At approximately 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, a resident student in the Cockrell-McIntosh residence hall at 5904 Bishop Blvd. reported property damage to his room as a hate crime. An email to students said the “incident is being investigated by the SMU Police Department as criminal mischief and as a possible hate crime based on racial bias.” University President R. Gerald Turner submitted an open letter to the SMU Student Body through The Daily Campus addressing the incident and the larger issues of intolerance that pervade the SMU community. In the letter sent to The Daily Campus and featured today on page 4, Turner calls upon the student body to “urge any who do not embrace our values of respect for all to broaden their opinions if they wish to remain a part of this University community.”
Reverend, professors discuss continuing fight for economic justice Tim Welch Contributing Writer twelch@smu.edu August marked the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington at which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, an iconic event of the Civil Rights Movement in the 20th century. Many scholars and leaders of that movement stress that the struggle for civil rights did not end with King’s speech, with the passage of the Civil Rights Act or even the election of President Barack Obama. Civil rights, they argue, are still being fought for today. On Friday, Dedman Law School and the Perkins School of Theology partnered up to present a symposium entitled “The End of Civil Rights in America?” The purpose of the symposium was to examine economic justice through the lens of both law and religion. Many civil rights leaders, notably
King, often channeled the teachings of religion as a foundation for their push for legal and social equality for minorities. But many forget that King and others also wanted economic justice and fairness for minorities, for whom poverty had become a de facto form of slavery in society. Eliot Shavin, a Dedman law professor, acknowledged that the title of the seminar may be shocking. He then went on to discuss Franklin Roosevelt’s “Second Bill of Rights,” which stated that all workers have the right to earn enough money to support themselves and their families. After President Roosevelt’s death, Shavin said, his wife Eleanor helped draft the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in which Article 23 states that all people have rights to protection against unemployment, equal pay for equal work, and joining and forming unions. Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, these rights have
been criticized and legally abridged. For this reason, the message of King’s work in the 1950s and ‘60s still resonates today, Shavin said. Shavin finished his presentation by saying that elections matter, that to achieve the goals of the Roosevelts’ rhetoric, “it required courageous people to take to the lunch counters, to take to the streets of Washington.” After lunch was served, the event’s keynote speaker, Reverend Jim Lawson, was introduced. Lawson, a Methodist pastor, was a close friend of King, and is a civil rights activist in his own right as an early practitioner of nonviolent resistance, which he learned while doing missionary work in India in the early 1950s. Lawson considers himself “not a civil rights leader, but a retired pastor,” and cites this as the reason for his activism, saying that “a pastor cannot divorce himself from his people’s plight.” He said the notion that the United States is comprised of a
people of law is a myth, that “we must now establish the Constitution as the value system of the nation, politically.” Turning the lectern into a pulpit, Lawson said that “we now need a new legal strategy, because resistance against the struggle for civil rights has organized in a fashion never before seen. Whether they call themselves Republicans, members of the Tea Party or hedge fund investors, […] they are the forces of spiritual wickedness.” Lawson then described the significance of the events of the Civil Rights Movement, such as the boycott of the Montgomery Bus Co., the Freedom Riders and the March on Washington, as examples of the power of nonviolent resistance, which, Lawson said, is a major tactic of the “strategized campaign for change.” “If we can ignite 21st-century struggles with nonviolence, we can show that the status-quo of today will not last,” Lawson said.
Religion
SMU, U ARISE host 40 days of prayer Leah Johnson Contributing Writer leahj@smu.edu Beginning Sept. 6, SMU via U ARISE will host Arise and Pray, a 40-day prayer movement, to pray for college students at SMU and across the nation. It will be located at the U ARISE building off McFarlin Boulevard. U ARISE and the Arise and Pray Movement carry a mission to help students who are struggling and help them find their identities. “Prayer is the one thing we can all do that we know will make a difference in the atmosphere of the college campus,” said Vicki Garza, U ARISE president and co-founder, in a press release. “By coming together in one accord with one voice, we believe we can touch the heart of God to intervene in the lives of these students. Just as importantly, by praying with a focus to help others, we are the ones who
ultimately see a transformational change in our own hearts and lives.” Each day covers a different prayer topic including addiction, sexual brokenness, worry and perfectionism. Prayer Captain for Arise and Pray Audrey Addo said, “I believe in the power of prayer and I know prayer can change things. I’m a living example of the power of prayer and the love of Jesus.” Addo said prior to college she didn’t know her identity because of rejection and a dysfunctional family and was seeking love in the wrong places. After searching, she felt the only way to fill the void was to embrace who she was created to be in Christ. She has felt true joy ever since, Addo said. Each evening, a Christian leader will lead prayer at 6 p.m. at the U ARISE space. Speakers include leaders such as: Paul Dhinakaran of Jesus Calls, Stephen Rankin, current chaplain and interim
Calling the event “disturbing and disappointing,” Turner said these “serious violations of basic human values should...result in our collective recommitment to our goal” of a community built on “a strong sense of mutual respect.” Police are asking for anyone with information to contact the SMU Police Department at 214-768-3388. Information can also be reported anonymously, either by phone or online, through the SMU Police Department’s Silent Witness Program, at 214-SMU-2TIP or www.smu.edu/2TIP. Students who witness hate crimes on campus can report the incident to the SMU Police Department, the Dean of Student Life Office or their Resident Assistant. SMU also offers professional help through the Counseling and Psychiatric Services and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs. For more information please visit smu.edu/LiveResponsibly.
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Many arcade games were available at Program Council’s Park ‘n Party event.
PC hits high score with Park ‘n Party Rebecca Keay Photo Editor rkeay@smu.edu The roof of Binkley Garage was packed — throngs of students dancing to the Cupid Shuffle, Gangnam style and the Wop. Arcade games lined the outside of Binkley, with students waiting to play all of the games they used to play as kids: Dance Dance Revolution, Pac-Man and Frogger. Charlie Weber, who helped out with organizing Park ‘n Party, was surprised with the amount of people who had
already come to the event, which was just an hour into its threehour duration. “Way more people than last year, way more than we even expected,” Weber said. There was food lining the event. “Canes, the Sprinkles is already gone, that lasted like thirty minutes, JD’s came, we have Yogurtland, Fratelli Pizza, and Jimmy Johns and Cappuccino Express,” Weber said. The event was so popular that a group of high school students
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Capstone course tackles South Dallas food desert BEN OHENE / The Daily Campus
Attendees of the 40 days of prayer event pray over actor Stephen Baldwin.
dean of student life at SMU, and Stephen Baldwin, famous Hollywood actor. As an alumnus of SMU and campus pastor at the House of Zerubbabel (HOZ), Matthew Esquivel said in a press release, “We are committed to partnering with and training other ministries to encounter God through day and night prayer. We are excited to be partnering with Arise and
Pray to bring unity to college campuses this fall.” U ARISE is a health and wellness student resource. Its goal is to create a network of student leaders on campus who are resources to other students in crisis. To see a complete list of the prayer topics or to find more information on Arise and Pray, visit www.ariseandpray.org.
Emily Sims News Writer esims@smu.edu When Stacy Cherones and Robert Foster came to SMU’s Associate Professor of Communication Studies Owen Lynch for help designing a study on food deserts, none of them knew the extent of the project they were about to tackle. “We identified a problem from a community perspective so then we had to form a solution,” Lynch said. “Because no one
else was doing it and no one else was going to do it we felt like, ‘OK somebody’s got to do it,’ so we did.” Cherones was advising an SMU ethics design team that conducted a social-scientific study of a South Dallas food desert, an area whose residents have limited access to fresh, healthy food. Cherones and her team partnered with Foster, a South Dallas community advocate, and together they connected with a
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