Articles by: Jehadu Abshiro

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It’s exam week and you’ve been at Fondren Library all day. Here are ways to procrastinate offline and off the Hilltop. It’s warming up outside and cooler temperatures are a long way from now, especially if you’re staying in Texas this summer. It’s not going to be below 70 degrees […]

Editors note: To protect the identity of students quoted in this article, names have been changed. Any resemblence these names may have to actual students is purely coincidental. It’s a sunny Monday morning. A girl and a guy are talking about their weekend on Dallas Hall lawn. “What did you […]

  Educating students and members of the global community to understand, promote and defend human rights as responsible citizens of the world stands as the mission of the Embrey Human Rights Program at Southern Methodist University. SMU is one of five universities in the U.S. to offer both a major […]

There are exactly 20 days to graduation and summer. Twenty days left between the last week of school, projects, exams and cramming at least one of these seven things in to your busy schedule. Regardless, here are seven places to visit before you leave the Hilltop (and possibly Dallas) for […]

From Jazz to film to open mic, the Dallas Hall Lawn was filled with students participating in all forms of art Thursday. The BoulevART, a day-long art fair with over 20 groups performing, was a student-planned and funded Meadows event that took place Thursday, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. […]

Tucked away on the southeast side of campus, there is a small-gated playground. In it, there is an array of children’s toys and two human sized concrete teddy bears. Across the parking lot from the playground sits the graduate apartment Hawk Hall. Enter the apartment take the short flight of […]

There are 27 days left until school, exams and graduation are done and everyone leaves for home or travel. But with a little less than a month left on the Hilltop, there is a lot of learning and cramming left to do. Here are seven places to visit either on […]

The 18th annual Mr. and Ms. SMU competition took place in the lower level of the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Tuesday. Senior finance and economics major Daniel Trombley won Mr. SMU and junior mechanical engineering major Michelle Kim won Ms. SMU. “The purpose of Mr. and Ms. SMU is to give […]

Whether music or art there are at least four things for you to do outside the bubble.