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DART warns of immediate service cuts if five cities vote to leave transit system

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth 1/14 7:21A Alanna Quillen

Dallas Area Rapid Transit officials are sounding the alarm about what could happen if five North Texas cities decide to leave the regional transit system this spring. City leaders in Plano, Irving,...

Search for missing SMU law professor continues through the holidays

The Daily Campus News 1/6 12:39A Neely Davis, General Assignment

Search efforts continue for a missing SMU law professor, Charles Hosch, who disappeared while hiking on Georgia’s Blood Mountain more than a month ago. Family members, professional search teams and volunteers remain committed to bringing him...

My first semester, unromanticized

The Daily Campus Arts & Culture 12/21 5:00A Tolu Oyesanya, Contributor

I came to college ready for independence. I wasn’t worried about missing home, and I didn’t. I was tired of high school and eager for a new environment. Setting up my room, walking around campus for the first time and taking in SMU’s beauty felt...

Home on The Hilltop The DC Fall 2025

The Daily Campus News 12/18 7:23A

Mustang Band traditions

The Daily Campus News 12/12 8:42A Chloe Casdorph, Photo Editor

Editor s Note: This story is an expanded digital version and was originally published in the fall 2025 print edition of The Daily Campus. It may be cold and gloomy with the potential for rain, but...

Jake Willeford takes first steps in making a feature film

The Daily Campus News 12/12 4:00A Edgar Palacios, Contributor

The semi-rural area between Waco and Crawford, Texas might not leave a lasting impression beyond flat horizons of fields and open skies. But that’s just where Jake Willeford grew up, an up-and-coming...

Dr. Ben Voth advocates for more free speech opportunities on campus

The Daily Campus Arts & Culture 12/8 6:19P Neely Davis, General Assignment

Coming from Miami University of Ohio, Dr. Ben Voth brought his expertise in debate, rhetoric and free speech to SMU in 2008 to establish a similar program on SMU’s private campus. “What I m trying to work with the university on, as director of...

Former SMU football player reshapes life through Dallas dining scene

The Daily Campus Arts & Culture 12/4 3:00A McKenna Foteh, Contributor

Plates clatter and conversation hums throughout Sister, a stylish restaurant tucked along Greenville Avenue in Dallas. Nicolas Natour sits at a table near the open kitchen, watching chefs toss creamy pastas. The golden glow from the flames in the...

Who is Krish Patel?

The Daily Campus News 12/3 7:30A Neely Davis, General Assignment

While most students were cramming for midterms, one SMU sophomore was busy cramming fifteen years’ worth of “Jeopardy!” clues to prepare for the fastest quiz show in the country. Krish Patel, a...

New Menil collection co-curated by SMU associate professor of Art History

The Daily Campus News 12/3 5:07A Olivia Henshaw, Copy Editor

The Menil Drawing Institute’s newest exhibition, “Lines of Resolution: Drawing at the Advent of Television and Video,” explores how artists from the 1950s through the 1980s incorporated early television and video technology into their drawings....