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women and babies in-
side, and to pray for an
expedient end to abor-
tion. Sarah Culbreth,
the club’s prayerful
presence officer, advo-
cates the importance of
student involvement in
this event.
“[We are get-
ting outside of our UD
Bubble to actually get
involved in the prolife
movement outside of
campus,” Culbreth said.
Crusaders for Life
hosts many speak-
ers addressing the full
spectrum of life issues,
including recent top-
ics such as the dam-
age of contraception,
the death culture em-
bedded in the medi-
cal system and pro-life
feminism. Last week,
the club hosted Dr.
lohn King who shared
his personal and gut-
wrenching encounter
with human trafficking.
The next Crusaders
for life event is a visit
to the Dallas Holocaust
Museum on March 24.
The club will also spon-
sor a 24-hour adora-
tion during Holy Week
3. Dallas Summer
Musicals is serving up
a sweet slice of the Na-
tional Broadway tour
of the musical Wait-
ress March 2 8-April
8. With music and lyr-
ics by Sara Bareilles,
Waitress is the story
of Jenna and her jour-
ney to rebuild her life.
Tickets $25+.
4. March 24 is Spring
Gallery Night in Fort
Worth. This free pub-
lic event invites you to
stroll through partici-
pating galleries, muse-
ums, retail businesses
and restaurants in Fort
Worth while enjoying
the featured artists.
5. Discover Down-
town Dallas Movie Se-
“Within the
next ten years or so,
I want to build a fine
art and community
center on a farm that
employs veterans and
others in danger of
homelessness. Creat-
ing something beau-
tiful and useful gives
you a lot of self worth,
which is a necessary
part of a construc-
tive life and just being
a happy and healthy
person. Hopefully
grad school is also on
the horizon, but we’ll
have to wait and see.”
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a piece,” Elfelt said.
“The big man upstairs
gives all the inspira-
tion you need.”
Elfelt hopes
utilize her love for ce-
ramics to better the
world around her.
“I want to be an
‘artivist’ — an activist
who uses art to sup-
port a cause,” Elfelt
said. “One of my fa-
vorite artists, Court-
ney Mattison, makes
stunning coral ar-
rangements that raise
awareness for the dy-
ing ocean reefs. It’s
amazing that some-
thing so beautiful and
non-utilitarian can ac-
tually do a lot of good.
My next project after
my time at this stu-
dio will be installation
work that addresses
food waste, which is a
huge American prob-
lem. We need to not
only know where our
food comes from, but
where it’s going as
well.
nes is wrapping up on
March 26 with Fer-
ris Bueller’s Day
Off Head to the Main
Street Garden at 7:30
p.m., find a spot on the
lawn, and enjoy a free
movie under the stars.
6. March 27-31 is the
2018 Dallas Com-
edy Festival. Head-
liners include former
Saturday Night Live
comedian Sasheer
Zamata and improv
comedy group 3Peat.
The festival will also
feature 26 other co-
medians and 45 im-
provisation, sketch
and comedy teams.
Advanced tickets $10
+, general admission
$15+.
a
to pray for the end to
abortion.
One might question
the purpose of such a
club on the university’s
predominantly Catholic
and conservative cam-
pus. Culbreth, how-
ever, believes the club
still holds an important
role in the prolife move-
ment.
“Our main goal is to
educate people, so that
they can then in turn go
out and be an effective
pro-life presence outside
of UD,” Culbreth said.
Crusaders for Life
meetings are open for
anyone to join. They
are held every other
Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in
the Seraphy room when
the club is not hosting a
speaker.
Crusaders for Life
helps students at UD
gain the knowledge and
experience they need to
fight for the right to life
once they leave the UD
Bubble.
“It’s important to
be actively pro-life be-
cause people’s lives are
at stake, and that’s not
okay,” Culbreth said.
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community at the Uni-
versity of Dallas in Cru-
saders for Life, one of
the largest clubs at UD.
Crusaders for Life
is dedicated to promot-
ing the dignity of life
through natural death.
Teresa Roach, the
club’s outreach officer,
emphasizes the gravity
of right-to-life issues, es-
pecially abortion.
“It’s a really big is-
sue ... the most funda-
mental right isn’t being
respected,” Roach said.
For the past two
years, the university has
provided the most stu-
dents forr exas Right to
Life’s annual “Boots on
the Ground” Confer-
ence.
During Lent, Cru-
saders for Life brings
students to an abortion
clinic outside of Irving
every other Saturday to
peacefully pray for the
Club spotlight:
Crusaders for Life
he pro-
life move-
ment has
a thriving
Photo courtesy of CFL
The Crusaders for Life club members held signs protesting
abortion in Austin, Texas at the 2018 March for Life.
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1. March 22-25 head
to the Meyerson and
hear the Dallas
Symphony Orches-
tra perform all six of
Bach’s Brandenburg
Concertos. These Ba-
roque masterpieces
feature harpsichord,
flute, oboe, trumpet
and violin.
2. March 23-24 Dal-
las GreativeSpace is
hosting their 2018
Spring Open Stu-
dios at the Continen-
tal Gin Building. Over
60 local artists will be
showcasing their di-
verse work. Tacos and
complimentary drinks
will be available. The
event is free and open
to all ages.
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after sophomore year
to reevaluate. The
following semester, I
dropped my business
classes and took some
art classes just for fun.
I ended up acciden-
tally spending a lot
of all-nighters after
losing track of time
while working. Work-
ing with your hands to
turn daydreams into
something you can
touch and hold was
pretty humbling.”
Ceramics im-
mediately captured
Elfelt’s interest, and
free time, because of
its unique art form.
“I had a ‘whoa’
moment when I made
my first bottle,” Elfelt
said. “Wfith my own
two hands, I made
something that actu-
ally contained a liq-
uid without spilling a
drop. Gall me a dork,
but that was awesome.
Other than that, I
truly enjoy reading
about and working
through glaze chemis-
try, what’s required for
making a good clay
body, and the different
types of kiln firings. A
lot more goes on here
than most people may
think.”
She attributes
her greatest inspi-
ration to the world
around her.
“There is an in-
sane amount of de-
tail in the plan of our
Earth, and simply
sitting in the grass
is enough for me to
have another idea for
Name: Mary Kate
Elfelt
Class: Senior
Major: Ceramics;
business concentration
Hometown: Milwau-
kee, Wis.
Some people can
make cool vases, fun
planters or pretty
plates. Some people
can even make ceram-
ic coffee mugs — hel-
lo, Starbucks. Senior
Mary Kate Elfelt’s
portfolio, however,
abounds with ceramic
viruses, cups with nos-
es and mustaches and
labor-intensive ceram-
ic leaves.
Though it was
only cultivated a bit
over two years ago, El-
felt’s love of ceramics
has taken her to new
creative heights and
produced extremely
unique work. Elfelt
didn’t always spend all
of her free time in the
Haggerty Art Village,
poking a billion holes
in a mound of clay
that would later be a
ceramic coral reef.
In fact, before her
sophomore year, Elf-
elt hadn’t considered
ceramics as a possible
career path. Prior to
her Rome semester,
she was a business ma-
jor who had scarcely
touched clay.
“During the
Rome semester, I had
an existential crisis,”
Elfelt said. “I hated
being a business ma-
jor — sorry guys -
and considered drop-
ping out of school
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