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Editor’s note: Rosian Bargiansky Zerner is a Holocaust survivor. Holocaust survivor Rosian Bargiansky Zerner was born in 1935. When she was a young child in Kaunas, Lithuania, her life turned upside down. Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime spread across Europe as they rounded up Jewish people and other minorities, which included herself and her family. Now, li
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Editor’s note: Charles Porter IV is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer. On the morning of April 19, 1995, ex-Army soldier Timothy McVeigh set off a bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. The bomb killed 168 people, including 19 children, resulting in the deadliest homegrown terror attack of the...
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — Before 9 a.m., Rabbi Heidi Coretz’s phone was already ringing. Overnight on Feb. 28, the U.S. and Israel had launched airstrikes against several targets in Iran. Already, concerns of antisemitic violence had reached the Hilltop. The call came from SMU Police Department, reaching out to say what support was available. “The chief...
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DALLAS – The call came in at 8:48 a.m. Her client was being detained. Immigration attorney Amanda Doom had seven-and-a-half hours to petition for her client to stay in the United States before she was sent to a Department of Homeland Security detention center. Doom says that normally she can call the immigration officer and explain her...
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COLLEYVILLE, Texas — It was a cold morning in January 2022. The president of Congregation Beth Israel, Jeff Cohen, was running late to the Shabbat service. Upon arrival, Cohen greeted a man who Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker had helped a man inside. He thought the man was homeless and worked with his other colleagues at Congregation Beth...
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Editor’s note: Steven E. Langas is a rabbi of a Nuremberg synagogue. Rabbi Steven E. Langas leads the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Nürnberg, the largest synagogue in Nuremberg, Germany. This interview has been edited for length and clarity by Juan Diego Llamas. NUREMBERG, Germany — Antisemitism today comes from all sides. It comes from right-wing parti
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NUREMBERG, Germany — All across Nuremberg, there are signs and memorials for victims of hate and war crimes. The “Stolpersteine” stumbling stones are scattered across the pavement, with each stone carrying the names of victims and their families who were murdered in the Holocaust. The third floor of the Palace of Justice has been converted into...
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Blue and orange graffiti decorate the faded brick and the concrete. Ants crawl across the nail-covered floor. There’s no roof, leaving the second floor of the auditorium open to the scattered rain drops that fall on a drizzly Saturday morning in April. A group of visitors who signed up for a...
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When I arrived at SMU in August 2022, I was a nervous freshman from Pennsylvania entering a new city and new campus to call home. I worried about where I would find belonging, especially as a student of color, and now, I am happy to say I found a home within The Daily Campus after...
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As the semester ends, SMU graduates commemorate their final four years by posting Instagram carousels with their friend groups, wearing white dresses and soft smiles. Eight semesters of memories are defined through snapshots—some posed portraits, others of running down the boulevard or popping champagne bottles in the Dallas Hall fountain. Some students even
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By Mythili Reddibathini   Walk into any Sephora or open TikTok, and you’ll be met with a wall of serums, each with louder messaging than the last: “fully natural,” “clean beauty,” “free from synthetics.” The language of skin care has shifted from “What does this do for my face?” to “What do the products I...
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By Cameryn Smith Editor’s note: Products featured in this review were provided by Coco & Eve for editorial consideration.   Dallas is heating up — and as an unusually pale person who relies on spray tans in the winter, I couldn’t be more excited to start my natural tanning process. The issue no one tells...
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by Ripples Turquand   Longer days, hotter sunshine, and flip-flops are becoming the go-to shoe. Be barefoot. By making direct electrical contact with the earth through the body’s skin, you’re engaging in a practice known as grounding or earthing. Growing up at the beach, I’ve developed a habit of wanting to be as close to...
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By Ella Parastaran   As someone who has subscribed to print magazines since elementary school, I’ve always appreciated the experience of reading a physical issue rather than scrolling through online content. Ahead of the SMU Look Magazine launch party today, I wanted to share a few of my favorite reasons to buy print magazines. There...
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By Ripples Turquand   We’ve been sold six-packs and clear skin. We’ve even been sold BBLs and Botox. While celebrity culture once promoted a Kate Moss lifestyle and a Kourtney Kardashian skincare budget, platforms like goop are reframing health as an inside-out journey, prioritizing emotional resilience and spiritual alignment over pure perfection. Trad
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As we continue to transition from spring to summer style, putting together the perfect outfit can feel complicated. To make this transition easier, you should consider matching sets. They are effortless, versatile, and consistently polished. Sets take the guesswork out of getting dressed. Similar to a dress, but more adaptable, sets offer a cohesive look...
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By Bella Stryker   Standing in the middle of the Robert J. O’Donnell Lecture Recital Hall, Fleastyle Founder Brittany Cobb pointed up to the third row. “I sat there my first day, my first class at SMU,” she said. “I took Drama 101, and I met my best friend sitting next to me that day,...
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Dallas’ newest bakery, The Bread Club, opened Monday, March 9, in Uptown. The concept was created by Southern California brothers Brandon and Henry Cohanim, founders of the Feels Like Home restaurant group, which also brought Dallas dining hotspots Namo, Mamani and Bar Colette. Hannah Lockyer, a social media intern for The Bread Club and a...
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