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SEPTEMBER 17, 2014
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NEWS Briefs World MEXICO— The Mexican government began airlifting the first of tens of thousands of stranded tourists out of the hurricane-ravaged resort area of Los Cabos on Tuesday, as residents picked up the pieces of shattered, flooded homes. UKRAINE— Ukraine moved to resolve months of crisis Tuesday by strengthening ties to Europe and loosening some controls over the country’s rebellious eastern regions where it has been fighting Russianbacked separatists.
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New opportunity at Meadows allows students to create their own careers Trevor Cadigan Contributing Writer tcadigan@smu.edu James Hart got his master’s degree in fine arts from the Yale School of Drama in 1999. He learned about acting and directing in his program, and how to compete artistically with others, but not how to make a living. Hart said he saw his talented colleagues surviving on unemployment checks between gigs and said to himself: “There has to be another way.” In 2004, Hart decided to go to work for himself and founded The International Theatre Academy Norway – a conservatory for theater entrepreneurship in Oslo, Norway. His goal was to build the school he wished he had gone to, with classes that focused on entrepreneurship. Today, he’s director of arts entrepreneurship and assistant professor of practice in the Division of Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts. He wants to make sure that other arts graduates do not encounter the same difficulties that he did.
Arts graduates know how to create art. “But they don’t know how to survive or thrive. It’s just not addressed,” he said. The 4-year-old program – offered as a minor – provides students an array of businessoriented courses that emphasize arts budgeting and financial management, attracting capital, and developing an arts venture plan, with the vision of providing students the necessary tools to ensure a successful career after graduation. “Arts entrepreneurship not only teaches me that creating opportunities is possible and fulfilling, it also equips me with skills to realize those opportunities,” said senior Ryan-Patrick McLaughlin, a major in theatre with minors in arts entrepreneurship and arts management. McLaughlin hopes to someday start his own theatre company. A 2010-2011 Georgetown report cited a 10 percent unemployment rate for people graduating with a major in fine arts. But junior Allison Beck, a music major with a minor
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Students in the Attracting Capital class brainstorm ideas.
in arts management and arts entrepreneurship, is confident she will find a job and feels the arts entrepreneurship program has prepared her to open her own business. “Being able to create a new market for your business or even lay out your elevator pitch to a
DEDICATION
Texas HOUSTON — An attorney for an exWest Point cadet told jurors Tuesday that veteran R&B singer Patti LaBelle ordered her bodyguard to beat up the cadet as he waited for a ride home outside a Houston airport terminal, resulting in a brain injury that forced him to drop out of the military academy.
entrepreneurship program. “We are perceived as thought leaders in the area,” he said. “We have one of the most well thoughtout, fully realized undergraduate arts entrepreneurship programs here at SMU.”
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DENVER— Faith leaders are asking Gov. John Hickenlooper to pardon a Colorado convict who was sent back to prison after being mistakenly released 90 years early and creating a new life. WEED, Calif.— The city prepared for wildfires and knew of the drought-parched forests, but the inferno that swirled through the California lumber town of Weed moved so quickly all people could do was flee. In just a few hours, wind-driven flames destroyed or damaged over 150 structures. At times, the fire moved so fast that residents had only a few minutes to get out of the way.
venture capitalist can be what separates you from the rest,” she said. Meadows Dean ad interim Sam Holland said that the school is expecting a visit from the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in October to take a look at the arts
UP police release sketch of sexual assault suspect
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The Pratt Collection contains first-edition books, magazine collections and architecture journals.
Pratt Collection joins the Hunt Institute CHRISTINA COX Managing Editor clcox@smu.edu Dallas is a city built for its people. Architect James Pratt laid the foundation of this pedestrian-friendly city six decades ago when he began to design and restore Dallas to a modern yet human place. Pratt drew inspiration from his books, travels and surroundings. He used his studies and experiences to design structures that were collaborative and inventive. Pratt chose to donate The James Pratt Collection on Urbanism, Architecture, Art and Humanity to the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity because of his connection to Dallas and SMU. His personal collection of first-edition books, architecture-related magazines, monographs and other research materials was dedicated to
SMU’s campus Monday. It will open to students and the public Oct. 1. “With this collection we can […] catch a glimpse into James, his career and what was in the background when James was creating,” keynote speaker Peter Brown, AIA, said. “It speaks into the humanity of architecture.” Brown stated that Pratt was more than just a visionary architect. He was also a humanitarian, addressing the designs of his buildings on a civic, business, religious, retail and educational scale in order to tie where people live to who they are as individuals. The collection provides an insight into the inspirations in Pratt’s practice and his influences on the city of Dallas. The Hunt Institute works to shift poverty through innovation, action and empowerment instead of through charity. The
Institute combines minds from various fields of interest to improve living conditions and solve humanitarian issues. It is this common goal between Pratt’s work and the Hunt Institute that connects the lifework of Pratt to the Lyle School of Engineering. Pratt said that his library will improve the already strong academic departments at SMU and might become a catalyst for creating a master of architecture degree within the university. Hunter Hunt hopes the collection will encourage SMU students to create something new and different. It will also act as a resource for engineering students wishing to work in the humanitarian field. “This [collection] is the essence of what we’ve been trying to push,” Hunt said.
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University Park Police released new information on last week’s off-campus sexual assault. There is now a sketch of the suspect. He has a tattoo of a crown on the left side of his neck with writing below. The sexual assault, which happened Sept. 7 around 11 p.m. in the 6700 block of Willard Drive, was the first of the school year. To report information regarding the case call University Park Police at 214363-3000 or Detective Marshall at 214-987-5359. To report information anonymously call SMU Police Department’s Silent Witness Program
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The sketch of the suspect.
at 214-SMU-2TIP or visit them online.
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Students make a splash Jeremiah Jensen Contributing Writer jdjensen@smu.edu Music pumped, water flew and enthused cheers filled the Dedman Center’s aquatics area on a chilly Saturday afternoon during Delta Gamma’s 8th annual Anchor Splash. The event is the sorority’s largest philanthropy event of the year, featuring a competition composed of humorous water games and food from businesses near campus. All proceeds went to Service for Sight, the national Delta Gamma nonprofit founded to benefit the visually impaired. Delta Gamma brought in a
variety of edibles for Anchor Splash, the most notable of which were smoothies via “blender bike” from SimplyFit. Entertainment took the form of dancing, socializing and watching an aquatic competition composed of four events: a relay race, cannonball contest, synchronized swimming competition and a game called “Save a DG” where participants had to race to pull a DG on an inflatable in the middle of the pool to the edge, where the rest of their teams stood. The atmosphere was social and those in attendance were
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