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Airline goes bankrupt AMR Corp., the parent company of American Airlines, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday. Because of this decision, all the major U.S. airlines have now restructured under Chapter 11. American Airlines has known to be was always the most resistant to Chapter 11, but came around to a bankruptcy filing after failing to agree to money-saving labor agreements and struggling against a series of industry mergers that knocked it from the world’s largest airline to just the third largest in the U.S.

Shooter declared insane Anders Breivik was declared insane by state prosecutors, who claimed he is mentally unfit for prison and recommended he be sent to a psychiatric hospital instead. On July 22, Breivik alledgedly shoot and killed 77 people in Norway in the country’s worst peacetime massacre in history. Prosecutors said Breivik was evaluated by a panel of forensic experts, who concluded that Breivik is unfit for trial.

Millions turn out to vote Millions of Egyptian citizens have already turned out to vote in what is hoped to be the first free and fair elections in recent memory. Voting continued into Tuesday, the second day, following a “huge turnout” on Monday. While there were some logistical problems at the polls Monday, fear of violence was not a major issue. The parties believe that this could be a record turnout in votes. The Muslim Brotherhood estimates the turnout to be at around 30 percent.

Correction In the print version of the article, “Social media in Congress growing, yields limited results,” that ran on Monday, Nov. 28, the survey that found that 66 percent of adults use some sort of social media was mistakenly attributed to the Pew Research Center.

However, the study was done by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

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Couric hosts student forum

By LAURA C. MURPHY Contributing Writer lmurphy@smu.edu

By CHASE WADE A&E Editor cdwade@smu.edu

With two fingers in the air and a smile on her face, Katie Couric showed the crowd her best attempt at ponying up.

“I can’t really do the circle around my head because I haven’t been here but two days,” she said with a smile.

Couric, a mainstay on American television, greeted a full house at McFarlin Auditorium to give the Tolleson Lecture in part of the Tate Lecture Series.

In her speech, Couric covered a wide array of topics that spanned the length of her journalism career and the lessons she learned along the way.

Couric stressed one in particular.

“Courage is a real requirement for success,” Couric said. “It is something that I rely on daily for my career.”

Throughout her career, Couric has had the chance to interview some of the world’s most prolific people.

However, after her husband, Jay Monahan, died of Stage 4 colon cancer in 1998, Couric’s career changed its focus as the media personality became a strong proponent for cancer research.

“The best thing anyone can do [for Colon cancer research] is to talk

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Internationally recognized journalist Katie Couric speaks at Tuesday evening’s Tate Lecture in McFarlin Auditorium.

to their doctors about being screened and to encourage their family and friends to do so as well,” she said.

Couric also touched on the ever changing media landscape and the slumping American economy.

“No matter how low the S&P and DOW may be, the American dream still exists,” she said.

Couric described her post at “The Today Show” as a “dream job” and explained that her decision to leave the show in 2006 for “The CBS

Evening News” was that she could try something different.

However, Couric is returning to lighter fair as she debuts her new talk show simply titled “Katie” in September 2012.

“I missed being me,” Couric said of the career change.

John Angle, a junior in attendance, asked Couric a question during the lecture.

“Katie was one of the best Tate lecturers I have heard and I’ve been

to every single one since I was a freshman,” Angle said. “She taught me the importance of a reporter separating themselves from a story no matter what they are covering.”

Couric concluded her speech with the simple phrase, “Pay it forward and pony up.”

At the lecture, SMU announced that Michael Lewis, the author of “Moneyball” and “The Blind Side” is set to replace Meg Whitman as the Omni Hotel lecturer on Jan. 24.

Katie Couric who has interviewed everyone from Bill Gates to Lady Gaga, found herself in the hot seat Tuesday afternoon at the Tate Lecture Student Forum.

SMU and Dallas-area high school students asked the award-winning journalist a variety of questions ranging from her work with cancer advocacy to intimidating interview experiences.

Derek Hubbard, SMU senior and Student Forum moderator, enjoyed Couric’s visit.“I thought she answered everybody’s questions in a great way to where they were able to really get a sense of who she is as well as a sense of the field of journalism,” he said.

The Student Forum serves as a question-andanswer session held in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Ballroom with the featured Tate speaker. The awardwinning journalist and TV personality will launch and host her own talk show, “Katie,” on ABC next fall.

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By ASHLEY WITHERS Editor in Chief awithers@smu.edu

Tucked in the back of the Umphrey Lee building sits a small room filled with microphones, speakers and hundreds of CDs from alternative artists.

Once the proud voice of the university, KPNI, SMU’s student radio station, seems to have become a forgotten relic of the past.

KPNI’s website sums up their predicament best. It reads: “We’re a college radio. That is broken.”

KPNI is not alone. College radio stations across the country have been cut or downsized, the victims of budget cuts, administrations and a technological music revolution that has rendered traditional radio inadequate.

SMU’s radio station launched in 1947. After a series of incidents with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the station

was relegated to broadcasting on-campus only. The sounds of KPNI used to be heard across the dorms and, for a short time, in the Umphrey Lee Cafeteria.

In 2007, KPNI became an online-only station.

“I joined KPNI as a freshman, and I thought it was the coolest thing in the world,” Amrita Vir, KPNI’s station manager, said.

“But no one else knew it existed.

It’s hard to be the voice of SMU when SMU doesn’t know who we are.”

When Vir took over the station as a sophomore, the station was already in a state of decline.

The station has a small operating budget, around $200 per semester, leaving no money for equipment replacement or repair.

“We’re kind of in this no man’s land,” Vir said. “And there is no money or manpower to fix it.”

In fact, KPNI has been unable to broadcast since August because

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KPNI station manager Amrita Vir works in the studio located in Umphrey-Lee.

of technological issues and broken equipment.

“In the mainstream, there is

nothing new and exciting going on. It’s pretty tragic,” Vir said.

“I think students miss the music

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Staff Writer kbwilliamson@smu.edu

Regular season play is coming to a close, bowl games are being decided and seniors have been honored.

As one season closes another season is quickly approaching as students come back to the Hilltop in January.

With a new semester sometimes comes new players and this January will bring a former All-USA Offensive Player of the Year to Southern Methodist University.

Garrett Gilbert, a Texas native, is set to transfer to SMU from the University of Texas in January.

Gilbert has spent the last two and a half years in Austin after graduating from Lake Travis High School where he led the Cavaliers to two state titles.

Football player or not, transferring schools at any time, especially in the middle of a school year, is not easy.

“I am sad to leave Texas, it has been my dream school since I was little. So I am sad that things didn’t work out.”

As one chapter closes for Gilbert, he recognizes and reiterated several times his excitement for the future.

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“I am very excited about a new opportunity at SMU.” Early in October, Gilbert was seen at practice observing, standing on the sidelines. It had not been announced yet where he would transfer, but speculations soon spread. As articles were posted to websites and journalist fled to their Twitter accounts and blogs, Gilbert was just a regular student touring the school like every other student did. The only difference — he got a tour of the athletic weight room while most students get a tour of Dedman.

“I got to come up and talk to the coaches, meet a couple of the guys, got to see the area a little bit,” he

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said. “I also got to experience and see how practice goes, got to see the campus, which is awesome by the way.”

Like other students, Gilbert is “just ready for this semester to be over and ready for Christmas break.”

This break will be different for Gilbert. He recently underwent shoulder surgery and is currently in rehab. Instead of preparing for a bowl game and scheduling family holidays around football, Gilbert will continue to rehab his arm and prepare to head north on Interstate 35.

“It is tough, because I have never missed games until now. The surgery went well, my arm feels great.”

This coming January the SMU community will look forward to welcoming Gilbert and his family to the Hilltop with open arms.

Next semester it will be in the hands of the students to show their support for the football team and their hard work even when they are off our television screens for support must happen all year round.

The success of any team does not come from talent alone but also from the support and faith from family.

Restaurateur keeps it in the family with Liberty Burger

By KATE GARDNER Contributing Writer kateg@smu.edu

Mariel Street is tough, smart, and passionate.

Mariel, the daughter of Dallas restaurateur Gene Street, worked as a Peace Corps volunteer for 27 months in the Republic of Vanuatu, living in an abandoned hut without running water or electricity.

Fluent in four or five different languages, she attended the University of Texas on scholarship, graduating in 2008 with a degree in linguistics.

She even once worked as a bail bondsman.

So where did Mariel wind up after such a journey?

At the age of 26, she is back in Dallas and following her father’s path.

Mariel just opened her first restaurant, Liberty Burger, with the help of her two older brothers, Gene Street Jr. and Dace Street. Long-time Street

family friend and associate, George Holwerda, is also helping with the project.

“I could have never dreamed this up,” Mariel said about opening a restaurant with her family. “This is not how I would have ever expected it to turn out, and I couldn’t have planned it better.”

Liberty Burger officially opened its doors Nov. 7 and sits near the intersection of Forest Lane and Inwood Road.

After returning from the Peace Corps in September 2010, Mariel decided that it was time to return to her roots.

“In the Peace Corps, what totally sealed the deal for me, was that the exchange of food became more than just a business,” she said. “It’s really about relationships and the way [food] brings people together every single day.”

Mariel’s father, Gene, built his restaurant empire around the same philosophy.

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Quick-fix fitness fad to be avoided Sketcher’s Shape-Ups, Reebok Simply Tones prove ineffective

By NICK CAINS

Contributing Writer ncains@smu.edu

Allie Jean Thompson, an SMU senior, was feeling a little overweight last year and decided to do something about it.

Walking through NorthPark Center one day, she saw a pair of shoes in a store window advertising a way for her to shed pounds simply by walking. Those shoes were Sketcher’s ShapeUps. The ads claimed to help wearers burn more calories, work their legs 11 percent more and tone their butts 28 percent more than your average athletic shoe.

But Thompson wasn’t sure she was falling for it.

“To lose weight and get results you have to sweat and diet,” Thompson said, who had shed nearly 70 pounds in high school. “I’d seen them before and knew I wouldn’t be caught dead in them.”

She bought the shoes anyway, which range in price from $80 to $120, but quickly realized that her new footwear probably wouldn’t live up to the hype.

After a few months, she wasn’t seeing the results that dazzled her

in the first place, and she knew exactly who to blame.

“That was my fault,” Thompson said. “Those shoes weren’t meant for that.”

Thompson then set out to lose weight like she did her freshman year in high school: By working out and eating right.

“I knew I could do it on my own,” she said.

Advertisements about the latest toning shoes, from Sketcher’s Shape-Ups to Reebok’s Easy Tone line, have recently come under fire for allegedly misleading their consumers.

Holly Ward, a waitress in Ohio, sued Sketchers in February for fracturing her hip bones after five months of wear.

Reebok settled a $25 million lawsuit in September for claims that Easy Tones ads were advertising false results.

So the question for consumers is, “Can these shoes deliver what they promise?”

“It depends on what you want the shoes to do,” Martha Phillips, a personal trainer in Dallas who holds a Masters of Science in Human Movement, said.

Philips said the original “rocker shoe,” made by Masai

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Reebok Simply Tone shoes are one of the many fitness fad shoes marketed to people promising weightloss and muscle tone.

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2:32 a.m. Public Intoxication: 3100 Dyer Street. A non affiliated man was issued a University Park citation, arrested and booked into University Park jail for being intoxicated in a public place. Closed.

NOVEMBER 26 2:30 p.m. Theft: Moody Coliseum/6024 Airline Rd. Two students reported theft of their bags containing I Phones. The theft occurred on Nov. 26 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Open.

7:33 p.m. Theft: Perkins Natatorium/6024 Bishop Blvd. A student reported theft of currency from her purse. The theft occurred on Nov. 26 a.m. to 3 p.m. Open.

Barefoot Technology (MBT), was introduced to her four years ago as a way to help people correct their posture.

The shoe’s rounded soles kept walkers off-balance, which caused them to work harder to stand upright.

“If nobody else will teach you how to stand up straight, the shoes are a perfect fit,” Phillips said.

She believes the problem came when Sketchers and Reebok released their versions of the MBT, with fresh promises to match.

To Phillips, ads claiming to increase weight loss and muscle tone, making you look like Kim Kardashian with no extra work, are appealing, but unrealistic.

The ads for these shoes, which were still running on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon in May of this year, are being criticized for the specific promises they make.

According to one commercial, the wearer can “burn more calories, tone muscles, improve posture and reduce stress,” more than a regular sneaker just by walking.

“People don’t feel good, so they buy into the hype,” Phillips said.

The hype in the ads is also backed up by clinical studies that were discredited last year.

According to the American Council on Exercise, the first studies on the shoes were internally funded, non-peer reviewed and had questionable analyses.

The A.C.E. study that followed found that walking in toning shoes made participants burn about the same amount of fat and use as much muscle as wearing regular athletic shoes.

Kenneth Clark, a doctoral student in applied physiology and biomechanics at SMU, said there is not enough scientific evidence to support a claim that any athletic shoe performs better than another.

To make any fair comparison, Clark said that many different types of runners in multiple shoes would need to be observed; but he has not seen a test like that yet.

“You should be skeptical of evidence given by the manufacturer,” Clark said. “Don’t be blinded by statistics.”

Despite this information, some people still want to believe their toning shoes work.

Savannah Stephens, a sophomore communications major at SMU, has been wearing her Shape-Ups for two years and said they are not only comfortable, but they also make her feel athletic.

“Since I don’t work out, they make me feel like I’m doing something right,” Stephens said.

Others think that ShapeUps keep people from actually working out.

Amanda Owen, a junior dance major at SMU, said any product that claims to help you lose more weight while you keep the same routine is a rip-off.

“You could do all of those workouts on your own and save your money,” Owen said.

Phillips encourages anyone seeking a healthier lifestyle to avoid fitness fads.

If you want an “itty bitty waist” like you see in the commercials, Phillips suggests dieting, exercising and avoiding “get skinny quick” schemes.

“If it sounds too good to be true,” Phillips said, “It probably is.”

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Liberty Burger, located at the intersection of Forest Lane and Inwood Road, opened on Nov. 7. Mariel Street, the daughter of a Dallas restaurateur, started the restaurant with the help of her two brothers.

BURGER: Owner pursues dreams CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

His restaurants have included local favorites like the Black Eyed Pea and Good Eats chains.

He sold the Black Eyed Pea for $47 million in 1986, but merged Good Eats into his larger corporate company, Consolidated Restaurant Operations, Inc., (CRO) that he started in 1998.

Today, CRO operates more than 91 full-service and 24 franchise restaurants including, Cantina Laredo, Cool River and III Forks.

Mariel says that her father tried to talk her out of pursuing the restaurant business.

“He just didn’t get that I’d rather be working for 365 days a year than bored for one,” she said.

Gene knows first-hand how tough the industry can be, having done 27 concepts and over 300 restaurants himself.

“The restaurant business is very hard on one’s family. Hard on your marriage, hard on your kids, because your work never ends,” Gene said. “Maybe you close down on Christmas, but you have to clean up on Christmas Eve.” While Liberty Burger is his daughter’s own, Gene hasn’t strayed too far from the project.

“He’s been a total coach,” Mariel said of her dad. “I’m really glad that I could talk him into getting into this venture for one last go.”

Gene Jr. says that his father is never short on “out of the box” ideas.

“It’s never boring working with dad,” Gene Jr., who coowns Snookie’s Bar and Grill with his younger brother, Dace, said.

“He’s very passionate and energetic. He can keep you on your toes.”

Getting Gene behind the Liberty Burger venture took some convincing.

With a little help from Gene Jr. and a lot of persistence, Mariel finally got him to rally.

“She is very tough,” Gene Jr. said of his sister’s drive.

“She’s got the passion, she’s been bitten by the bug.”

Just five years ago, Gene decided to officially retire from the industry and sold his interest in CRO, where as founder and chairman, he oversaw 150 restaurants.

Now at the age of 71, he shows no signs of slowing down.

“I was more surprised when he announced that he was going to retire,” George said regarding Gene’s decision to get involved with the venture.

“He’s busier now being retired than you and I will be together at the height of our working lives.”

For Gene, his life will always revolve around his work.

“Dad doesn’t have a hobby.

He doesn’t golf or play tennis,” Gene Jr. said. “He’s always looking for that next deal or next adventure.”

While Gene brings a sense of adventure to whatever he

does, he believes that a good work ethic is of the utmost importance.

“My dad’s greatest success is the fact that he was at the front door meeting everybody that came in and remembering every single name,” Mariel said.

“It’s about making people feel at home and welcome.”

Mariel hopes to replicate that same family environment

“

She’s got the passion, she’s been bitten by the bug.

explained.

“He’d let Marco and I randomly pick a manager and we’d call and ask how many managers were there.”

Growing up around the industry, Mariel says that although she’s learned a lot from watching her father, she’s still learning.

“It’s not easy,” she said of starting a new business.

“I have learned so much in such a short amount of time.”

For the Liberty Burger team, burgers seemed like a natural choice to build a concept around.

“Burgers are the [segment] that just continue to grow,” George, who has worked with Gene since 1976, said. “Everyone loves a burger. A burger is AllAmerican.”

The menu will feature 11 specialty burgers, in addition to its more traditional option, “The Liberty Burger.”

Other items include salads, grilled cheese, a chicken sandwich and about nine original milkshake flavors.

“She had it together,” Gene said of his daughter’s vision for the restaurant.

“I’ve just kind of sat back there and watched it.”

While only her first venture, Gene trusts that his daughter will make Liberty Burger a success.

“Mariel just has the gene,” he said.

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—Gene Street, Jr.

in her own restaurant that Gene created in his.

As a child, she recalls doing family meals at her father’s restaurants versus traditional sit-down dinners at home. “[My siblings and I] were friends with the servers, we were friends with the managers, [Gene] knew every customer that came in there, so it was like a second family in a very public environment,” Mariel said.

Gene also didn’t mind letting his kids, including Mariel and Marco Street, help out with business every now and then.

Mariel said that her dad, “used to have two cell phones in his car with a laminated piece of like 300 managers cell phone numbers on there,” she

is exciting, but having no one to share it with is disheartening.”

KTRU, the student-run radio station at Rice University, also recently faced being silenced.

In April 2011, the FCC approved the controversial sale of the station’s FM license, knocking KTRU off the airwaves. The university’s administration sold the station for $9.5 million.

“I remember visiting the school and being taken to the radio station,” Joey Yang, the DJ director at KTRU, said. “The guy I was staying with told me, ‘You can play whatever you want, and all of Houston will hear.’ I just thought that was so cool.

It [KTRU] was a big part of why I came to Rice.”

But instead of being broadcast to all of Houston through the FM dial, the radio station now lives online and on mobile apps only, much to Yang’s disappointment.

“In my opinion, it’s a little shortsighted to just say, ‘Well, online radio is the future,’” Yang said. “To me there is a loss of accountability without the FM dial. Anybody can

podcast.”

Gregory Weston, the incoming president of College Broadcasters, Inc., has definitely noticed a decline in support for all of the college radio stations he represents nationwide.

Weston believes the economic downturn has played a major role.

He says that grant money, which funds many university stations, took a huge hit in the recession.

“State support, government support are much lower than they used to be,” Weston said. “There is also just general declining support from the administration.”

But not all stations are struggling to survive. The University of Texas at Austin’s student-run station, KVRX, is alive and well — at least for now.

“Up to this point, we are not in any immediate danger, but every few years they [UT] reassess how much they give to us,” Travis Bubenik, the station manager at KVRX, said.

“We are continually having to justify ourselves and our existence to the university.”

Unlike the stations at SMU and

at Rice, KVRX still plays on the FM dial. While they share the channel with another public broadcasting station, they provide an alternative voice on the airwaves for 12 hours a day.

However, Bubenik attributes the staying power of KVRX to its adaptability to new technology. The station has created an iPhone app and offers a lot of listener interaction on their website.

“It’s not something we take for granted,” Bubenik said. “It’s constantly in the forefront of our mind to try and stay relevant.”

Staying on the cutting edge of technology may be the only way to salvage the voices of universities across the country. Bubenik and the others involved with college radio recognize that the struggle to be heard will continue.

“In general, college radio is really a voice in the wilderness,” Weston said. “College radio is the best bastion for having alternative content that can’t always get a voice on commercial stations … I think it is more important now than ever.”

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B-School students should get a double major THE ALUMNI GUY

If accounting and finance are the guts of any business, being the numbers, then communication and persuasion are the heart and soul of it. A double major in business and journalism should get you there. I manage millions by day in the stock market for some very shrewd business owners. These people want to know, simply and succinctly, why I Rick Larson expect to make money for them from a given investment. “I don’t want to hear about Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Sigmas,” more than a few clients have said.

“Just tell me what this company does and how we will make money from investing in it.”

Warren Buffett is a financial genius, but his ability to cut through the heart of a company, make a decision, then explain it to his Berkshire Hathaway stockholders has made him the most beloved stock market investor in history. Buffett didn’t major in journalism but he could teach it. He uses those journalistic skills every day, coupled with his finance acumen. If it’s good enough for Warren Buffett, then maybe…

Google, Microsoft, McDonald’s and Apple all have financial whizzes inside them. How they sell their products is through simple communication and creativity. Nothing, no matter how good it is, gets bought without someone selling it. Marketing people are just journalists in disguise. You can actually sell something bad, too, with great journalistic skills, see Paris Hilton.

The skills you learn in journalism will teach you who, what, where, when and why. If you know how to get to those and the numbers make sense, you should be able to operate and market a successful business, no matter the business. I learned long ago that yelling “Kool-Aid” and having a nice, easy to read sign sold more Kool-Aid than the kid down the street who sat there with no sign but could tell you all about the ingredients in it. In fact, the B-School should require students to major in journalism and vice-versa. After all, the two rarely disconnect in today’s business world.

I didn’t show up at SMU with a double major in mind. I couldn’t make the cut at the Cox — Greenville Avenue and the Fiji House having a major role in that—so I strolled on over to the journalism department. It was the best career move I ever made and the most fun.

When I graduated and began to interview for jobs, people were impressed that I had researched my topics well, could converse in an easy-to-understand manner and could walk them through a conversation in a most organized and persuasive manner. I have the journalism department to thank for that. Not one of the interviewers ever said, “Huh?” Today, it is more important than ever before to be able to communicate well. We do it on our cell phones, our computers and successful businesses do it in order to sell products. All things being equal, the person who can communicate the best will get the job or get the sale.

Rick Larson, the Alumni Guy, is a 1981 graduate of SMU as well as a member Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He has been a stockbroker/investment banker for 26 years. He can be reached for comment at richardelarson@gmail.com

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OPINION EDITOR

As a student of American politics, sometimes I become slightly upset when studying the Cold War era. It’s not Brandon Bub because I’m frightened at the prospect of the Soviet Union, but rather it’s because I was born in 1992 after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the demise of the Soviets.

For my whole life I’ve felt like I just missed out on one of the most significant periods of this country’s history, and I feel that in some ways it’s difficult for me fully comprehend the impact that the Cold War had on this country without having experienced that time period myself. However, in spite of not having lived through the Bay of Pigs, Détente and Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall” speech, I feel as though I can still develop an appreciation for the Cold War’s importance by analyzing the ways in which it still continues to affect us.

Foreign policy played a huge part of the election process in the 1950s and 1960s and still continues to be relevant today.

With the growth of the War on Terror in the mid-2000s, I think it’s especially interesting to compare the ways in which politicians approach these two nuanced and complex issues in their rhetoric and campaign strategies.

Consider political campaign commercials as an example.

One infamous commercial comes from Lyndon Johnson’s 1962 reelection campaign.

Commonly referred to as the “Daisy Ad,” the commercial illustrates a young girl sitting a field as she plucks petals from a flower while counting them all one by one. The girl behaves especially adorably when she skips a few of the numbers since it’s obvious she’s probably too young to even be able to count past ten. Suddenly, her

image freezes on the screen at a certain point and her voice gives way to another, disembodied male voice counting down from 10, likely somewhere in a military facility.

When the countdown reaches zero, we witness a nuclear explosion on the screen. While the mushroom cloud expands, we hear President Johnson reading the final lines of W.H. Auden’s poem “Sept. 1 1939” (“We must love one another or we must die”) and an announcer urges citizens to go out and vote on election day because “the stakes are too high for you to stay at home.”

What exactly was Johnson’s strategy in using this commercial?

Even by today’s standards such an ad would appear shocking, so the response in the 1960s likely would have been complete outrage. When he was running against Barry Goldwater, Johnson likely knew that he was more heavily favored to win.

During Goldwater’s campaign he advocated making Social Security voluntary, selling off the Tennessee Valley Authority and favored allowing NATO commanders to use nuclear weapons against the Soviets if they thought it necessary. “In your heart you know he’s right” eventually became “In your gut you know he’s nuts.”

The problem that Johnson faced was that Goldwater, in the eyes of many citizens, was so unfavorable that the President feared that people might assume that Goldwater was going to lose anyway and thus they wouldn’t need to go out and vote against him. By creating an ad like this, Johnson effectively hoped to scare his Democratic constituents into voting against a man many feared could bring about a third World War. Did the ad work?

Johnson won the 1964 election in one of the biggest landslides in a presidential election up to that point (only to be outdone

by Reagan in 1984). While we can’t say for certain whether or not this ad was a direct cause, it’s become largely synonymous

with Johnson’s campaign and was certainly influential in corralling voters to his side.

The Daisy Ad might be considered anomalous by some, but in my studies I’ve come across an interesting parallel to today’s politics. Congressional Republicans seemed to take a page out of LBJ’s book in 2006.

During the midterm elections that year the Republicans created a now infamous ad entitled “These are the Stakes.”

It features images of people like Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri with quotes like “Kill the Americans” superimposed across their faces, and the only sound playing in the background is a ticking clock. As the commercial ends, the text shifts to a black screen that says nothing more than “These are the stakes. Vote Nov. 7.”

There are certainly parallels between this ad and Johnson’s 1964 ad: both play on the incumbent party’s power to maintain the security of the country and both suggest that by putting someone else in power we might essentially be turning the nation over to destruction. Was the ad as effective for the Republicans as it was for Johnson? Not exactly.

In 2006 the Republicans lost control of both the House and the Senate; the House would remain in Democratic hands for four years while the Senate still has a majority of Democrats to this day.

This might mean that foreign wars simply don’t have the same staying power in terms of issue significance that they used to in the 1950s and 1960s, but I feel like the answer is more nuanced than that. When Johnson was running in 1964, he had the advantage of being able to run with the Cold War in the background without having to deal with the issue of land-based combat. While the United States was certainly increasing the number of troops and advisors in Vietnam, the issue was hardly on the radar at the time of the 1964 election.

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In 2006, on the other hand, we had been fighting a physical war with Afghanistan for nearly five years and Iraq for over three years. Saddam Hussein had been captured, Osama Bin Laden was still nowhere to be found and Americans were beginning to wonder what exactly our objective was.

It’s a classic example of the War Trap: since visible progress in counterinsurgency campaigns like the Iraq War is so difficult to demonstrate, voters were becoming increasingly disillusioned with the issue.

Increasing pressure and troop numbers might have drawn ire from voters and the international community alike, but staying the course could just as easily make people think we were losing.

The Republicans succumbed to the War Trap in much the same manner that Johnson did in 1968 when he refused to seek reelection. For that reason I would be hesitant to say that the foreign policy issue has changed a dramatic amount between the Cold War era and the War on Terror era.

Indeed, the outcome of these advertisements more than anything seems to say that when a war is viewed as more nebulous it can make for a more effective campaign issue, whereas when the war becomes more “real” (such as the escalation of the Vietnam War or the prolonged nature of the Iraq War) voters are less likely to support military actions. In sum, between these two advertisements the rhetoric seems especially similar, and while they both had hugely different outcomes it seems that these outcomes can be explained less by a change in voter preferences and more by the nature of war itself as a campaign issue.

Brandon Bub is a sophomore majoring in English and edits The Daily Campus opinion column.

He can be reached for comment at bbub@smu.edu.

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FACULTY

SMU Associate Dean P. Gregory Warden to be Franklin College president ADAPTED FROM SMU NEWS & COMMUNICATIONS SMU Professor and Assiociate Dean P. Gregory Warden will be moving to Lugano, Switzerland this summer as the new president of Franklin College.

After spending 30 years at SMU as a distinguished art history professor and associate dean for research and academic affairs at the Meadows School of the Arts, Dr. Warden will leave SMU at the end of the 2011 to 2012 school year and will begin his presidency at Franklin College July 1, 2012.

Although Franklin College is about 5,000 miles away, SMU maintains a close relationship by sending students over to the Lugano, Switzerland school each year as part of the SMU study abroad program.

Though many students, professors and faculty will be sad to see Dr. Warden go, they are also very excited for his accomplishment.

“We are very sorry to see Greg leave SMU, but at the same time we are thrilled for him—it’s an incredible honor to be chosen for

such an important and prestigious position, and we know he will make an exceptional leader for Franklin College,” Dean of the Meadows School Jose Bowen said.

He searched all over the globe for 11 months and then was unanimously chosen by Franklin’s board of trustees from a pool of more than 100 candidates including current and former college presidents, deans and many other experienced intellectuals.

Chairman of the Board at Franklin College Pascal F. Tone said Dr. Warden’s accomplishments and credentials made him a convincing candidate from the get go.

“Few individuals possess the unique blend of successful experiences in scholarship, higher education leadership, dedication to students, capacity to attract resources and managerial acumen that he now brings to Franklin,” Tone said.

Not only has Dr. Warden served at SMU since 1982, but he’s earned several accolades during his tenure with the university. He currently serves as the associate

dean for research and academic affairs for the Meadows School and he was also the chair of the art history department for six years, interim director of the Meadows Museum and interim chair of the Division of Arts Administration for tow years.

He also co-founded and directed the SMU-in-Italy program for over 20 years.

And if this isn’t enough to display his capabilities, he also wrote and co-wrote five books and over 70 articles and reviews regarding topics ranging from Greek archaeology to Etruscan art, archaeology and Roman architecture. He has lectured internationally and has organized exhibits at the Meadows Museum.

“While I am looking forward to this leadership opportunity at Franklin College, I will miss SMU and the community that has been so supportive of Diane and me over the past 30 years,” Dr. Warden said.

“SMU is an exceptional institution, the Meadows School under José Bowen’s leadership is an exciting and inspiring place,

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Dr. P. Gregory Warden examines an artifact at the previous Etruscan art exhibit at the Meadows Museum.

and Dallas is one of the most welcoming and supportive cities in the world. I look forward to maintaining close ties with our many friends and colleagues in Texas.”

STAGE

Myths debunked in time for winter opera season

By ALEX HOSKINS Contributing Writer ahoskins@smu.edu

With the Dallas Opera wrapping up Lucia di Lammermoor, the opera season has begun. Below are the top five myths surrounding the opera, and why you should get to the box office ASAP. Opera is boring.

I’ll be honest, going into my first opera I thought the same thing. “It’s going to be nothing but a bunch of people singing in Italian until I fall asleep.” Wrong. Dead wrong. Opera is one of the most passionate, exciting and thrillingly violent art forms out there. Take Lucia for example, the story of a woman who falls madly in love with her brother’s mortal enemy. Lucia’s brother forges letters to make Lucia believe he doesn’t love her, and she is understandably heartbroken.

Only Lucia doesn’t take to ice cream and self-pity like most of us would, she takes to stabbing. In one of the most chilling moments

I’ve experienced in a theater stage or film, Lucia, in a blood-soaked wedding dress, twitches and glides around her own wedding party with a knife, completely out of her mind, inches away from reenacting “The Shining.”

It’s too long, I’ll fall asleep.

Operas fly by a lot quicker than one would expect. While most operas are upwards of three hours long, those three hours are broken up into 40-minute acts with 15-minute intermissions. I’ve never been to an opera with someone who didn’t turn to me at the end of the first act and say, “Wait, that’s it? The first act is already over?”

You don’t have time to fall asleep with the brevity of the acts and the madness onstage.

It’s too expensive.

With tickets as low as $23, there is no reason not to experience the thrill that is an opera. Opera houses are mathematically designed to maximize sound and visual quality for the entire opera house, so bad

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It’s in a foreign language, I’ll have no idea what’s going on.

Operas are performed with supertitles, large projected translations of the dialogue, so everyone can understand the performance. The supertitles only provide you with what’s necessary, so you’re not forced to read a novel just to understand what’s going on.

Summaries of each scene are also provided in your program.

It’s for old rich people, I wouldn’t be able to relate to it.

Opera tends to be catered to an older audience because that is who attends the opera, and younger people usually have pre-conceived notions like the ones above. But not only are the stories relatable, but the music was written by some of the most brilliant composers in history.

The music utilizes instruments and patterns to create sound universally pleasing to any human who hears it. It’s not just beautiful music, but

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there’s science proving it’s beautiful music. Maybe it’s time you see what all the fuss is about.

The Dallas Opera continues it’s season, subtitles “Tragic Obsessions,” with Tristan & Isolde on Feb. 16, “The Lighthouse” on March 16, “La traviata” on April 13 and “The Magic Flute” on April 20.

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