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The hunt for new student regent begins

By Kate McGuire Staff Writer

The position of student regent is up for grabs.

The open application for a new student regent for the 20132014 school year is under way.

The Baylor Board of Regents introduced the position of student regent last year.

The student regent is a nonvoting regent who is allowed to be present during nonexecutive board meetings. Because this position represents the students of Baylor, this regent will have the opportunity to raise thoughts or questions about issues concerning students and the campus, according to the student regent application. The Baylor student body president works with the student government to bring up ideas that will benefit the campus and its students. While the two positions are almost the same, each has a different agenda.

The application states that students must be in good academic standing,

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President for Student Life office on the first floor of the McLane Student Life Center.

Student Body President Kelly Rapp was designated the first student regent for the 2012-13 school year.

“We decided to appoint Kelly once the decision had been made to have a student regent.

He has done a great job of being what a student regent should be,” said Dr. Kevin Jackson, vice president for student

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The board is debating whether the future student regent

also may be able to serve in other positions within student government.

“Right now the board is deciding whether the regent can be student body president as well,” Jackson said.

Regardless of the Boards decision, the student body president and student regent will work closely together to bring up important issues to the board of regents.

“It’s such an exciting time now that we have a student regent,” Rapp said.

Jackson said the student regent can only communicate through the chair of the board.

“Student regents are not communicative through the chair and cannot report to the media,” Jackson said. “There is a part of confidentiality in this student regent position.”

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and must be knowledgeable of Baylor’s mission, goals, aspirations and visions. Applicants must also be Christians who have accepted Christ as their savior. A regent must not only represent the students, but also must have a good reputation with the faculty and staff of Baylor and stand for everything Baylor represents to society.

The applications are due by 5 p. m .

Friday in the Vice

Baylor research is expanding as Baylor departments and faculty begin to move into the new Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative building. Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative is a partnership between Baylor, Texas State Technical College and local businesses.

Baylor electrical engineering, Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics and Engineering Research and Baylor Center for Spatial Research are the departments and institutes beginning to relocate their research labs to the new BRIC building located at U.S. Highway 77 and Orchard Lane.

Dr. Truell Hyde, vice provost for research and director of CASPER, said he is excited for the Baylor Research Innovation Collaborative.

“It’s basically a brand-new paradigm different from anything anyone else has done,” Hyde said. “Inside the building is about 340,000 square feet, which is about the size of the science building if you delete the atrium.”

Hyde said the building will

house engineering research, CASPER, Baylor Center for Spatial Research and an Innovative Business Accelerator as well as local businesses.

The Innovative Business Accelerator is run out of the School of Business. It can provide marketing plans, business plans or digital media plans that companies moving into town might need to get started.

The electrical engineering department was one of the first groups to move into their new

research labs in the BRIC building. Research was originally spread between the Engineering Research Annex and the Rogers Engineering and Computer Science Building.

Dr. Kwang Lee, department of electrical engineering chair, said the new building will allow the department to expand its research labs and attract new faculty members.

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The Beck Group began renovating the BRIC building with lab facilities and other interior areas. By the end of January 2013, Baylor intends to have approximately 100 faculty and staff members working and operating in the building.

Baylor among best schools for African-Americans

By Sierra Baumbach Staff Writer

Baylor was recently named one of the best schools in the nation for African-Americans.

M. Clayton & Associates, a company that has studied colleges and universities across the nation to find institutions committed to helping African-American students graduate, published a new list that named the “88 Best Colleges for African-Americans.”

More than 800 schools were judged off of criteria that included a minimum graduation rate of 40 percent for African-American students, an African-American student population of at least 6.5

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Editorial It is shocking how many mass shootings have occurred in the past year. The shootings listed below caught the attention of the media and the nation, inspiring discussion on regulating the sale of firearms in America: • Newtown, Conn. — Adam Lanza killed his mother, 20 children and six adults at a nearby elementary school in December. He then committed suicide.

• Minneapolis, Minn. — In September, Andrew Engeldinger killed seven people, including himself, after learning he was fired.

• Oak Creek, Wis. — U.S. Army veteran Wade Michael Page killed seven people in a Sikh temple and died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a shootout with police.

• Aurora, Colo. — A man opened fire in a crowded movie theater during a showing of “The Dark Night Rises” in July, killing 12 and injuring 58 people.

• Seattle, Wash. — Ian Stawicki gunned down four people at a café, one person while stealing her car and then shot himself as police closed in during May. • Oakland, Calif. — One L. Goh, who was declared incom-

petent to stand trial, shot seven people at Oikos University nursing school in April.

• Norcross, Ga. — Jeong Soo Paek shot two of his sisters and their husbands at a sauna before committing suicide in February.

The body count from these incidents alone, discounting other criminal and domestic violence, is 73. The year 2012 had the most mass shootings since 1982, according to the Mother Jones’ Investigation of Mass Shootings 1982-2012, the investigation that goes the farthest back in history compared to other lists of mass shootings found online.

A new plan for gun control inspired by these events, which was introduced by President Obama, involves three steps: an assault weapons ban, a 10-round cap on magazines and universal background checks on everyone seeking to buy a gun as well as an increased effort in mental health services to detect potentially violent patients. This plan has met fierce opposition by the National Rifle Association, politicians and some citizens who argue that such regulation infringes on Americans’ Second Amendment rights.

The Second Amendment, which argues for the necessity of a “well-regulated militia” to a free state, protects the people from an

infringement on the right to keep and bear arms.

First, it is important to understand that this new regulatory effort doesn’t ban all guns, just assault weapons, which will still be allowed. An “assault weapon” is a semi-automatic firearm that possesses certain features similar to a military weapon, including guns like the AK-47 or a .22 caliber Ruger.

The 10-round cap simply limits the number of rounds that can be fired from magazines, instead of banning guns that require them entirely, and is another measure designed to prevent mass casualties if the weapon in question falls into the hands of an unsavory character.

Furthermore, the third step, which targets guns in the hands of those who are mentally unstable, would further prevent the problem of unstable individuals with access to deadly weapons.

This third step that is the crucial factor in why the measures should be supported. Because many of the examples above involve some mental instability, mandatory universal background checks for gun buyers is a common-sense measure that we wholeheartedly support.

It is obvious that something needs to be done about the increasingly problematic way that

For daily updates, follow us on Twitter: @bulariat Higher-education bubble is preventable As our economy recovers from the bursting of the housing bubble, some warn another is looming on the horizon.

The phrase “higher-education bubble” was first popularized by Glenn Reynolds, a distinguished professor of law at the University of Tennessee. In his book, “The Higher-Education Bubble,” he defines the term: “Bubbles form when too many people expect values to go up forever.”

How do we properly value education against its cost? We all know that tuition prices across the nation are rising and have been for years.

Data from College Board’s Trends in Student Aid, one of the most comprehensive sources of statistics on college pricing, indicate that financial aid per student in constant (inflation-adjusted) dollars has been consistently rising as well.

Because salaries for highly educated professionals have risen rapidly in recent years, an increase in college pricing is somewhat justified. Robert Archibald, chancellor professor of economics at the College of William and Mary, said this: “Everyone has three objectives for higher education: lower tuition, higher quality, and less government spending on subsidies. The unfortunate truth is that we can have any two of these, but we can’t have all three. If we man-

date low tuition, we have to give on one of the other two.”

Tamar Lewin of the New York Times takes a different position, attributing much of the rising education cost to unnecessary increases in administrative staff in colleges across the country.

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Students have a responsibility to make smart decisions in order to sustain the value of education.

College is still worth it; however, if we are not careful, we can make the mistake of overvaluing our education. Maximizing future benefit requires more than sitting through classes.

We are not entitled to a job offer or high salaries once we graduate. In order to deserve these things, we must continue to work hard in classes and focus on enriching ourselves outside the

classroom, building time management and communication skills.

According to multiple studies, students at college spend less time studying today than 60 years ago.

Social development is a crucial aspect of the college experience, but it is not the reason tax dollars are funding federal student loan and grant programs.

Nor is enrolling in college an automatic guarantee to future success. According to the American Enterprise Institute, “Data from the National Center for Education Statistics show that only 58 percent of new college students who began in 2004 had graduated six years later.”

The 42 percent of students who dropped out (roughly 2/3 of which cited reasons not related to tuition prices) are left holding thousands in student loans with no diploma to show for it.

For these people, it may have been better if they had considered an alternative to college.

For those of us that are already here, we need to continually strive to merit the generosity we have been given and work to achieve the success we dream of.

Danny Huizinga is a sophomore Baylor Business Fellow from Chicago. He manages the political blog Consider Again. Read other works by Danny at www.consideragain.com.

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directives only target violent offenders, the damage has already been done. We need preventative care in order to stop these things before they happen.

While the new restrictions will not meet the approval of all, they are sensible measures aimed at compromise. It is clear from the number and scope of shootings in 2012 alone that some change in the way we buy and sell guns

Guns have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.

My family uses them for hunting, recreation, sport and protection.

From a very young age, I believed that guns were a natural part of everyone’s life.

One of the earliest memories I have of a gun is sitting on the back porch with my cousins at night and waiting for the coyotes to come out so we could shoot them.

I can remember very vividly my grandfather sitting at the table in the game room and cleaning all of his guns once every month or so. Most of the men in my family have a holster on their hip, and there is a gun in every closet in my house.

Needless to say, guns have always been a huge part of my life and remain so.

When it came time for me to get my first gun, I was so wrapped up in choosing the perfect gun, how it shot, what color grip I would add, and so on, that I essentially became numb to the fact that I was going to possess an instrument that could potentially take the life of another human being.

When this became apparent to me, I set out to learn everything I could about being both wellarmed and well-educated.

In my family, gun safety was always promoted. Every kid knew how to properly handle a firearm, whether it was a handgun, shotgun or rifle.

While gun safety is important, I was already confident that I would not have a problem with this aspect of owning a gun. I was more concerned about the mental aspects of being a gun owner.

My uncle, who is a Jefferson County sheriff ’s deputy, asked

me some questions that made me think about this. He asked questions that, as I attempted to answer, struck me to my core. I was asked, “Why do you need a gun?” “Do you believe that there are situations that make it OK to kill another person?” and “Do you feel that you possess the ability to aim at a person and take a lethal shot?”

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The easy answer was “Of course,” but the more I thought about the reality of these questions, which involved shooting real people instead of animals, the more I began struggling..

For me, the journey to finding answers was a very personal one that forced me to examine my faith and morality.

Ultimately, I chose that I would be prepared to defend my own life or that of my family or any other innocent person, even if it resulted in the death of another person.

In order to put the situation in context for myself, I adopted a set of guidelines to follow if I were ever put in a life or death situation.

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If I am held against my will, I will not go anywhere at gunpoint.

If an attacker wants to take me somewhere, his or her motivation is to do something bad that he can’t do where I am at the time.

I will always shoot to kill. I will not give someone a second chance to get to me by not shooting to kill.

Lastly, I will fight back in defense of others or myself against attack, even if it means the loss of my own life or the person I’m defending.

However harsh, these decisions force me to confront what could happen if I were to protect myself with a gun. I was once told that if you do not carefully evaluate your capabilities and set limitations, then you put yourself and others at great risk. Choosing to carry a gun for self-defense was a very thought-provoking journey for me, which ultimately I am very happy to have made.

Now, not only am I confident in my ability to protect myself and not shy away from any potential situation, I am able to enjoy using guns as a hobby much more.

For those that are interested in taking control of your own selfdefense, I encourage you to do a little research and set your own guidelines and limitations as well as getting familiar with gun laws.

That way, when you are confronted with the barrel of an attacker’s gun, you can respond without having to make weighty moral decisions in a split second that could cost you your life.

Alexa Brackin is a junior journalism major from Nederland. She is the news editor for the Baylor Lariat.

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must occur to avoid these horrible tragedies.

For any changes to be possible, compromises must be made, starting with a united effort to balance the integrity of the second amendment with the rights of innocent people who must be protected. The Lariat supports the gun control measures mentioned above as a fair balance between the two interests.

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mentally ill or unstable people are able to obtain guns.

A push for stricter health care policies and more attentive rehab systems is the most plausible solution to the dozens of tragedies that seem to have become more frequent. In Obama’s plan for executive gun control actions, this includes funding to expand mental health programs for young people and clarifying the Affordable Care Act to allow doctors to ask patients about guns or weapons in their homes.

The government would also emphasize no federal law prohibits health care providers from reporting threats of violence to authorities. Obama’s plan also includes directives to clarify what health benefits and services can be covered by Medicaid.

Some of the perpetrators of the mass shootings listed above were affected by depression or schizophrenia. Five of the seven listed above committed suicide, also indicating mental disturbance.

We must not wait for someone’s deteriorated mental health to reveal itself in another mass shooting.

It is essential that these directives be applied to all citizens under government-run health care programs or else they are not preemptive at all. If mental health

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SLC under construction; rock wall set to get face-lift

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Houston freshman Lindsey Fahrenthold climbs Baylor’s rock wall in the Mclean Student Life Center on Aug. 24.

Renovations have begun on the rock wall to improve the safety of the 13-year-old structure.

When visiting the McLane Student Life Center within the next few months, students may notice a slight change in scenery.

Renovation on the rock wall began over the winter break and is currently in the demolition stage, with construction crews from QuadTex working to strip away the layers of plywood, concrete and mesh that hold the wall together.

After administrators recognized that over 50 percent of the plywood and concrete frame was stripped from the constant rearrangement of rock holds plans to rebuild the the 13-year-old structure were put into action along with a new design that will fit updated safety requirements.

“There are so many people that don’t know about the safety

standards,” said Kim Scott, director of campus recreation. “One of the things I am proudest of is that in 13 years, we have had only one injury where a student had to get stitches, and by maintaining safety standards, we hope to maintain that number.”

With the two-year inspection date looming over their heads, administrators had to act quickly on the plan to rebuild.

“We have an estimation of about three to four weeks for the demolition and then after they will clean up, the construction crew can come in and begin rebuilding from the slab up,” Scott said.

The new wall will have two parts. The free-standing rock wall will be a solid rock that features both a real rock side, made to imitate real mountain climbing, and a side that will feature man made rocks that will be similar to the previous wall. Apart from the

freestanding wall, the new design will also incorporate bouldering space along the café wall.The freestanding rock wall will stand at 52 feet, earning the title of “tallest free-standing collegiate rock wall.”

“The renovation is bittersweet,” said Hewitt senior Sarah Groman, president of the Rock Climbing Club. “The new design will be beneficial to those who are advanced as well as beginners. There are a couple of different styles, where the old one only had one style. It will be good to be able to practice on such a versatile space.”

Pictures of the upcoming changes are currently being showcased in the SLC, where students may go to get a sneak peek of the future rock wall. Complete renovation details are not yet available, but the construction is set to be finished in late April, just in time for Diadeloso.

Personalized bricks to line path at new Baylor Stadium

By Sierra Baumbach Staff Writer

With construction of the Baylor Stadium under way, fans now have a chance to help piece the stadium together.

Baylor Bricks is a new marketing campaign set up by University Development that allows fans to purchase bricks to be inlaid in the stadium’s walkway.

The brick campaign is one that is evident in other Baylor staples such as the Bill and Eva Williams Bear Habitat and the Dutch Schroeder Athletic Plaza.

“The bricks are something we have done in the past as we have opened venues and facilities,” said Nick Joos, executive associate athletic director for external affairs.

“It’s something we try to incorpo-

rate throughout the campus, including the stadium site.”

Engraved bricks will pave the walkway to the new stadium. The South Plaza Premier Paver, with a price tag of $1,250, will form the interlocking BU symbol in a prominent spot in the stadium.

“These campaigns have been successful in the past,” Joos said. “It’s a great way for

fans of all ages, and people with any affinity to Baylor to support

remembered for years.”

Bricks are sold on a first-come,

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the school and gives them a chance to be part of something that will be

first-served basis with the only limited supply being the South

Plaza Premier Paver, selling until all bricks are sold or until opening day of the stadium.

Bricks bought sooner will be located closer to the field.

“There were over 200 bricks sold within the first 48 hours of sales,” said Greg Davis, senior director of development.

“Those numbers have only risen and will rise until the very last minute.”

The money raised by the bricks will help financially support the stadium and is expected to cover any remaining costs.

“It’s just a unique way for the

Baylor Nation to tie back-in and remain a part of Baylor even after they’ve left,” Joos said.

Four varieties of brick are being sold. The least expensive, starting at $175, comes with a 4 x 8 brick with 1-3 lines of customized text.

A $350 option features an 8 x 8 square brick with up to 6 lines of customization and a $500 BU Logo brick that is 8 x 8 brick featuring the interlocking BU logo and 1-4 lines of customized text. The most expensive brick is $1,250 in the South Plaza Premier, which is an 8 x 8 brick with 1-6 lines of text that will form the interlocking BU design.

For more information on buying a brick for the new Baylor stadium, go to www.baylor.edu/stadiumbricks.

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Dr Pepper Hour celebrates 60th anniversary

By Taylor Rexrode Staff Writer

Dr Pepper Hour is officially 60 years old.

Students celebrated the 60th anniversary of Dr Pepper Hour Jan. 15. Students, faculty and staff had the opportunity to gather together under a glowing Dr Pepper Hour banner and share memories of the beloved soft drink.

Students took in the sights around them as they entered Barfield Drawing Room. A photo booth stood in one corner for attendees to take photos with classic soda bottle props. Treats such as a Baylor green-and-gold cake and bear-shaped cookies were laid out next to the original Dr Pepper floats. The Dr Pepper Museum table laid out a timeline of the Dr Pepper bottle evolution and held a drawing for free tickets to the museum.

Jordy Dickey, assistant director of the Student Union, planned the community gathering months in advance.

“Coming into this role, I’ve been dreaming and thinking about this for a couple years now,” Dickey said. “We wanted a fun kind of feel that was modern but brought in

elements of the classic tradition. It was a joint team that thought together how we wanted to make it fun.”

Dickey worked alongside Jennifer Cook, coordinator of Student Union for Events, and Holly Smith, graduate apprentice for Student Union Programming Board, as well as other students and administrators who had a hand in making the commemorative event come to life.

The tradition of Dr Pepper Hour started in 1952 as Coffee Matinee Hour under Marie Mathis, assistant to the dean of the student union.

She wanted students and Baylor faculty to meet together and socialize in a carefree environment.

A year later the coffee matinee changed into Coke Hour where Coca-Cola was added to vanilla ice cream to create a float. When Dr Pepper became Baylor’s official beverage in July 1997, the university began creating Dr Pepper floats, which have remained a Dr Pepper Hour tradition.

Joy Summar-Smith, associate director of the Dr Pepper Museum, attended the event and spoke of her love for Dr Pepper and the Dr Pepper Hour.

“I love the pride that the Waco community takes in Dr Pepper and how it has spread onto Baylor campus,” Summar-Smith said. “And I love those 23 different flavors that make a unique combination. Before I even started working at the museum I was a Dr Pepper fan.”

Bedford sophomore Cameron Melton shared her favorite memory of Dr Pepper Hour.

“It was when I wanted to learn about studying abroad,” Melton said. “Every culture you could imagine was there. I had a Dr Pepper and we were all drinking it together. The Dr Pepper seemed to unite everyone.”

Bushland junior Trenton Garza likes seeing friends every Tuesday at Dr Pepper Hour.

“It’s always fun to run into friends that I may not be able to see on a daily basis,” Garza said.

“Dr Pepper Hour always invites the Baylor community together.

It reminds you of being a unified Baylor family.”

To experience more Dr Pepper Hour memories, students, faculty and staff can visit the BU Student Activities Twitter page @BaylorSA or post their own memory by tagging #DPH60.

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Baylor students create carry-out bags filled with candy during the 60th Anniversary of Dr Pepper Hour last Tuesday, in Barfield Drawing Room.

Baylor bears down on fitness and health

By Taylor Rexrode Staff Writer

Mideast Israel elections underway

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Yair Lapid gestures as he delivers a speech today at his “Yesh Atid” party in Tel-Aviv. The party, formed just over a year ago, outdid forecasts by far and are predicted to capture as many as 19 seats, becoming parliament’s second-largest party, after Netanyahu’s Likud-Beiteinu bloc, which won 31, according to the exit polls.

The Baylor fitness department will host the Health and Fitness Expo from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 2 in the Barfield Drawing Room of the Bill Daniel Student Center.

Educational sessions spanning a variety of topics from fitness to nutrition will be available to attendees and are taught by Baylor faculty.

Participants can choose to attend four sessions out of 12 offered.

The list of sessions has not yet been posted and will be available online before the event.

Students and faculty will also go to a Fitness Bash, where all participants will engage in group fitness activities such as zumba, pilates and yoga.

Students and faculty that are interested in the event may register at the McLane Student Life Center front desk before Sunday for $12, which pays for four educational sessions, the Fitness Bash, lunch and a T-shirt.

Registration between Monday and Feb. 2 will cost $15 and does not include lunch or a T-shirt.

Becky Louber, a facilities graduate assistant, worked alongside Van Davis, assistant director for

fitness and nutrition education, to coordinate the event.

Louber encourages all faculty and staff seeking a healthier lifestyle to attend the expo whether or not they are experienced in fitness and healthy dieting.

“It’s encouraged as a way to get information about fitness,” Louber said.

“We have a lot of opportunities for activities at Baylor. I think it’s a good way to share knowledge across campus, especially at the beginning of the year when everyone is making resolutions,” she said.

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BU professor finds calling in cell phone addiction research Partnering with great place to start,’ and others in the field of it just turned out to be consumer science, a real good match.”

Smartphone users and compulRoberts has done few In 1992, Roberts sive shoppers might be more simi- published his first papapers on his own, lar than once thought. choosing to build both per, “Diagnosing ConDr. James Roberts, professor of sumer professional and perInformation marketing and the W.A. Mays pro- Problems: An Investisonal relationships fessor of entrepreneurship, recent- gation of Deception in with others through ly published a study that compared the Mail-Order Video his studies. cell phone addiction to compulsive Camcorder Market.”

“Jim and I met Roberts buying. years ago at a confer“I’ve been pretty The study explored the idea that successful in that evence and we just hit cell phone use is similar to being a erything I have written has been it off,” Dr. Steve Pirog, co-author “shopaholic,” the need for a cell published at some level,” Roberts of “A preliminary investigation of phone fueled by materialism and said. “There are good journals, me- materialism and impulsiveness as the appearance of wealth that ma- dium journals, and of course not so predictors of technological addicterials can sugtions among young adults,” and good journals.” gest.

Out of his associate professor and chair of “He’s like the Van Gogh 75 published department of marketing at Seton The study, in the area of research.” articles, two of Hall University, said. “He’s fun to which has been published in nuthem have been work with and we always started Dr. Steve Pirog | associate merous journals named “Paper of off with a few laughs and talked professor and chair of and featured on the Year” within about the important things before department of marketing at shows such as their respective getting down to business. His huSeton Hall University the O’Reilly Facman approach and his discipline, journals. tor and websites “When you while still old school, focuses on like the Daily publish your how marketing affects us socially Mail, is only one of more than 75 article in a paper, it goes through and his research is simply cutting studies addressing sales and com- an editorial board that is built of edge. He’s like the Van Gogh in the pulsive consumerism that Roberts people who have agreed to sort area of research.” has published throughout his ca- through and decide which papers Roberts also released a book in reer. to publish,” Roberts said of the November 2011, “Shiny Objects: “When I first arrived at Baylor I process for how the paper of the Why We Spend Money We Don’t did a lot of research in the area of year is chosen. “Paper of the year Have in Search of Happiness We personal selling and it wasn’t really is just an honor that says not only Can’t Buy,” which was featured on my passion,” Roberts said. “Then I The CBS Early Show, America’s was driven to the question of what Morning News and numerous oth“The book [Shiny drives compulsive buying, and so er media outlets. that started it off and since about “The book is about 15 years Objects] ... talks about 15 years ago I have started studyworth of research where I studied how our love of money ing issues related to consumer becompulsive buying, materialism impacts our life and all havior.” and credit card abuse,” Roberts Roberts, who is a Minnesota said. “It talks about how our love those things we do that native, earned his doctorate of of money impacts our life and all has a negative effect Business from Nebraska State Unithose things we do that has a negaon us.” versity in 1991 and began teaching tive effect on us.” at Baylor the same year.

Continuing with his research Dr. James Roberts | professor of “I interviewed with a bunch on cell phones and the effect it marketing of schools and Baylor was one of has on everyday life, Roberts is them,” Roberts said. “Some of the currently working on a study people who interviewed me were are you published but you were that will narrow down the activisome of the leading researchers the best paper out of that given ties that may cause addiction to in the field and I thought, ‘What a year’s journals.” mobile devices.

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Ana Leal, left, embraces Lone Star College student Sabrina Cuellar after she was evacuated and picked up by her mother, Maria Cuellar, right, from the campus following a shooting on Tuesday at the north Harris County school in Houston. Authorities say the shooting was the result of an altercation between two people, and at least one was a student.

Fight escalates at Lone Star College; three wounded in campus shooting

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HOUSTON — A fight between two people erupted in gunfire Tuesday at a Houston-area community college, catching a maintenance man in the crossfire and leaving students and others cowering in classrooms.

No one was killed, but the volley of gunshots heard shortly after noon sparked fear of another campus massacre just more than a month after 26 people were killed at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

The shooting happened outside between an academic building and the library where Luis Resendiz, 22, was studying on the second floor.

An employee called police and then herded the 30 to 40 people in the library into a small room and told them to crouch down, he said.

Keisha Cohn, 27, was in a building about 50 feet away and began

running as soon as she heard the shots.

“To stay where I was wasn’t an option,” said Cohn, who fled to a building that houses computers and study areas. All the students eventually were evacuated, running out of buildings as police officers led them to safety.

Authorities offered no details about what led to the fight. One of the people involved had a student ID, and both people were wounded and hospitalized, Harris County Sheriff ’s Maj. Armando Tello said.

A fourth person also was taken to a hospital for a medical condition, he said.

Mark Zaragosa said he had just come out of an EMT class when he saw two people who were injured and stopped to help them.

“The two people that I took care of had just minor injuries,” he told KHOU-TV. “One gentleman had a gunshot to the knee and the (other) actually had an entry wound to the lower buttocks area.”

The shooting last month at

Sandy Hook Elementary School heightened security concerns at campuses across the country.

Resendiz said the Connecticut shooting was the first thing he thought of when he heard gunfire and he wondered if a similar situation was happening on his campus.

“I didn’t think something like this could happen. You don’t think about it happening to you,” he said.

Several school districts in Texas have either implemented or are considering a plan to allow faculty to carry guns on campus.

While guns are not allowed on college campuses, the Texas Legislature this year may debate a bill that would allow them.

Richard Carpenter, chancellor of the Lone Star College System, said the campus is a gun-free zone that “has been safe for 40 years.”

“We think it’s still safe,” he added. He also described the maintenance man, who was said to be in his 50s and listed in stable condition, as “in good shape.”

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Psychologist weighs in with study tips and debunks myths taking for learning. That’s probably one of the most counterintuitive things we’ve learned in the past 10 As we swing in to the spring years. Testing has huge benefits for semester, cognitive psychologist learning as long as you test yourself Dr. Charles Weaver gives the Lar- honestly. iat his professional take on what Q: Do you see anything in your study methods work and classes that confirms which ones don’t. your findings about Q: What are some studying? good general study tips A: Students repeatfor students? edly suffer from what A: Probably the two researchers call the or three most important “illusion of knowing.” things would be to first, That’ll happen for exstudy in what we would call a dis- ample when you make flash cards. tributed way. To prepare a little bit If you look at the front end where every day or a lot each day rather the question is and take a peak than try to cram all your study of the back at the answer and tell time in to a day or two before the yourself “Oh yeah, I would have test. Cramming will work if you recognized that” that’s going to just need to remember informa- lead to a tremendous overconfition for a day or so, but if you want dence on the part of the students. to remember information in the You see students think test-taking long term, spacing it out in the way strategies are more important than we just described is by far the best they are. They’re really not. What way to do it. Second big tip would students ought to focus on isn’t be to take the opporhow am I going to be tunity to test yourself tested but how can I even if that cuts into maximally learn? And your study time. If you the last thing you see, have 10 hours to preand it’s not unique to pare for a test, you’re students, cognitive efbetter off studying five fort is aversive to most hours, testing yourself people. Given a choice for five hours than you between reading “War would be studying all and Peace” and watch10 hours. Studying is ing “Gilligan’s Island,” not as effective as testWeaver we all watch “Gilligan’s

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Island.” People just don’t like to engage in cognitive effort, me included. Almost anything you do to make studying easier is going to impair your long term attention.

Q: What do you recommend to a student who feels overwhelmed by a class or doesn’t believe they can make a good score in the class?

A: They need to break things down into manageable goals. Students that come to Baylor that say my goal is to become a neurologist, there’s really nothing you can really do in the next five minutes that will help you do that, but if you

break that into goals and say OK, to do that I have to get into medical school, to do that I have to keep my grades up, to keep my grades up I have to study every day, put time and effort into that and I can do that. Break it down into manageable chunks, manageable goals, something you can check to see you’re making progress. Students also ought to be a bit more realistic. Students come into college with a tremendous variety of academic experiences and someone who has avoided science their entire life is going to struggle in a pre-med bi-

ology class the same way someone who has never practiced a violin is going to struggle if they tried to join the Baylor orchestra. Doesn’t mean students can’t make A’s and B’s, but it means some are better prepared to do that than others.

Q: Sometimes students may feel intimidated knocking on a professor’s door or really don’t know what to ask or where to start. What do you suggest to those students?

A: That’s a perfectly OK thing to say. We can be intimidating people.

We try not to be and Baylor prides itself on having faculty that is ac-

cessible. Quite honestly, for almost all of us, teaching is the fun part of our job, so get over it, knock on doors, send emails. No professor is going to feel put upon by a student doing that. We actually enjoy doing that.

Q: When a student first comes in, knocks on the door, what do they say?

A: The student ought to ask what kind of questions they have before they get in. What specifically is it that they don’t understand, express it as best they can, but we’re also used to students saying “I got lost at the very beginning and I have no idea what’s going on. I am almost too lost to ask a meaningful question” and then we’ll ask you guys questions and back it up to the point where we say, ‘Ah see what you don’t get is this, and we’ll go from there.’

Professors and students have slightly different goals. Professors want students to master knowledge. You can do things that elevate your test scores short-term, but professors generally put things into place to prevent that. It makes studying harder but long term retention better.

Some of the questions and answers for this Q&A were shortened or omitted for length. The full version of this interview can be found online at www.baylorlariat.com.

Dallas stepmom gets 85 years in dehydration death of stepson

By Nomaan Merchant Associated Press

DALLAS — A Dallas woman whose 10-year-old stepson died after she denied him water, even as temperatures soared over 100 degrees, was sentenced Tuesday to 85 years in prison.

Tina Marie Alberson did not react as her sentence was announced. She was convicted last week of reckless injury to a child, a second-degree felony, in the July 2011 death of Jonathan James.

Jonathan’s mother, Krista Bishop, and other relatives said they

were pleased with the verdict.

“We got what we needed,” Bishop told reporters outside the court.

Police had thought Jonathan’s death was heat-related until the medical examiner’s report indicated otherwise.

Alberson, who testified in her own defense, told jurors that she limited Jonathan’s water intake a few times as punishment for misbehaving, and that she saw him drinking water when he wasn’t in “time-out.” She said she saw no sign that he was in medical distress.

The boy’s twin brother, now 12,

testified that Jonathan repeatedly asked for water and pretended to use the bathroom so that he could sneak a drink from the faucet before their stepmother ordered him out.

Joseph James told jurors he was concerned for his brother’s health but was too afraid of Alberson to do anything.

During the sentencing phase, the twins’ maternal grandmother, Sue Shotwell, testified that they didn’t like to go to Alberson’s house and that Jonathan couldn’t understand why he was always in trouble with his stepmother.

“There was a time he came home with a red mark around his neck and we asked him what happened and he said, ‘Tina,’” Shotwell said Tuesday.

“We trusted you with our baby,” she said in a statement to the court after the sentence was handed down. “If I could speak for Jonathan right now, I would know — you would know — that he still loves you.”

Alberson is expected to be eligible for parole after serving onequarter of her sentence, or a little more than 20 years, according to Debbie Denmon, spokeswoman

for the Dallas County District Attorney’s office. Alberson’s attorney, Bill Fay, said he planned to appeal the conviction and sentence, but wouldn’t say on what grounds.

“I can’t comment about a case that’s still pending,” Fay said.

The boy’s father, Michael Ray James, testified against Alberson because he said he wanted to see “that justice gets done.” James, 43, will be tried for felony injury to a child next month.

Shotwell said she’s forgiven Alberson but many members of the family, including Jonathan’s mother, have not. She said they re-

member Jonathan as an active little boy who wanted to wake up before dawn so he could ride his bike.

“I had to remind him that everyone else was asleep but us, and that he had to be very quiet outside, which he couldn’t do,” Shotwell said.

While in jail, Denmon said, Alberson became friends with an inmate involved in a high-profile child injury case: Elizabeth Escalona, who was sentenced to 99 years in prison last year for gluing her toddler’s hands to a wall and attacking her over potty training problems.

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Famous chemist seeks to inspire students at Baylor Yale University from 1998 to 2006 and then moved to his home state of Colorado to teach as the A.I. World renowned chemist Dr. Meyer Professor of Chemistry at John L. Wood will join the Baylor Colorado State University. faculty this fall as the new RobIn his plans to come to Baylor, ert A. Welch DistinWood said he wants to guished Professor of teach chemistry coursChemistry. es along with running Wood has perhis laboratory. Accordformed groundbreaking to Farmer, he may ing research that has begin teaching as early been used to help betas spring 2014. ter understand and “The part of my treat cancer and other job I like the most is diseases. He specialwatching people learn,” izes in the synthesis of Wood said. “Welch small molecules used professors were traWood in pharmaceutical ditionally research agents. positions, but that is Dr. Patrick Farmer, chair of the counter to my position. I think if chemistry and biochemistry de- you improve undergraduate repartment, said Baylor has tried to search and interaction, you will get Wood to bring his laboratory to improve the university as a whole.

Baylor for years.

I like interacting with undergradu“He came and visited a long ate students and watching them get time ago,” Farmer said. “And we introduced to the excitement.” have had him back about three Dr. Lee Nordt, dean of the Coltimes on different visits as a Welch lege of Arts and Sciences, linked chair candidate. He has a great ca- Wood and the Welch chair posireer and is really well known. In his tion to Baylor’s Pro Futuris plan. own particular field, he is a star.”

“If you look at Pro Futuris as a Wood realized he had a passion guide,” Nordt said, “there is a lot of for chemistry while he was an un- verbage about the need to build in dergrad at the University of Colo- the health sciences. One-third of rado at Boulder. our incoming freshman class de“Chemistry was one thing I was clares a health science major, so considering,” Wood said. “I was as- we are going to make a concerted signed an adviser in the chemistry effort toward building health scidepartment who recommended ences for the next 10 years.” research. I was paying my way Wood’s position will not only through college and being a lab as- improve the lives of students and sistant helped pay my way. I found faculty within the science building that I really enjoyed it.” but will help bring national attenWood graduated summa cum tion to Baylor as a research institulaude in 1985 from the Univer- tion. sity of Colorado at Boulder with “The Welch chair position was a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. originally meant to bring in a reHe then continued his studies at searcher,” Farmer said. “A researchthe University of Pennsylvania er who was going to raise the qualwhere he received his doctorate in ity and stature of the university and organic chemistry in 1991. He be- provide a research core that the decame an American Cancer Society partment could build around. John Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard in really fits the bill.”

1993.

The Welch Foundation, foundHowever, Wood found that ed in 1952, has helped strengthen performing the research was not chemistry research in Texas through his favorite part of working in a lab. research grants, departmental proHe enjoyed being able to teach grams, endowed chairs and other other scientists his methods while special projects. allowing them to find their own With funds from the foundation, ways of solving scientific, medical Baylor and other Texas universiproblems. ties are able to bring in top chemWood went on to teach as a ists from around the world to their tenured professor of chemistry at research facilities.

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Vouchers could save Texas $2 billion Associated Press

AUSTIN — Texas public schools could save up to $2 billion annually if the state allows families to use public funding on private schooling, a school vouchers advocate testified Tuesday at the ongoing school finance trial.

Joseph Bast, president of the conservative, Chicago-based think tank the Heartland Institute, acknowledged however that no Texas government entity agreed with his cost-savings analysis and said that some experts estimate such a program actually costs public schools money in the short term.

He co-authored a report on a taxpayer savings grant proposal with John Merrifield, an economics professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Bast said the taxpayer savings grant proposal is similar to a voucher program and that key beneficiaries of such initiatives would be “primarily low-income families.”

“If you’re low income, you’re pretty much trapped in the public school that’s in your direct area,” Bast said, adding that teachers would benefit from increased competition for their services.

More than 600 school districts across Texas have sued the state, claiming that $5.4 billion in cuts to public education and grant programs imposed by the Legislature in 2011 have made funding for schools so inadequate and inequitable that it violates the Texas Constitution.

“If you’re low income, you’re pretty much trapped in the public school that’s in your direct area.”

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The trial began in October before state District Judge John Dietz. The court is now hearing testimony from experts called by a group known as Texans for Real Efficiency and Equality in Education.

Rather than argue that schools are underfunded, the group says pouring more money into public education may not improve classroom learning if the overall system is inefficient and otherwise flawed.

Bast estimated that approxi-

mately 6 percent of Texas public school students would move into private schools if a tax grant program offering families private school vouchers were available. He said the state saves $7,750 when a student leaves the system.

That led him to the assertion that schools could save as much as $2 billion per year under such a program.

On cross examination, Bast acknowledged he has not graduated from college and holds no degrees in economics, although he considers himself an economist. He also said the report he co-authored wasn’t peer reviewed.

Bast agreed that Texas’ nonpartisan Legislative Budget Board concluded that a taxpayer savings grant proposal would likely cost the state money in its first two years of operation. He acknowledged no other Texas state institution concurs with his cost-saving estimates.

Robyn Wolters, director of human resources and professional staffing for Irving Independent School District in suburban Dallas, testified later about how onerous Texas rules governing teacher contracts can be.

She said the regulations were

especially strict when school districts don’t want to renew the contracts of, or otherwise dismiss, underperforming teachers.

Wolters said coping with employment regulations were very time consuming and expensive and that they pull school principals away from their regular duties in order to compile all the necessary documentation.

They also often involve attorney fees, and there’s a 90-day period when individuals that the district wants to terminate are typically on paid administrative leave, she said.

Wolters said costs can sometimes play a part in the decision to pursue termination or non-renewal. She said district staff members sometimes have to weigh the cost of continuing with the process against the harm of having the employee return for another year.

On cross examination, however, Wolters agreed that due process rights are important and that all employees should be entitled to an appeal process.

Asked whether all of the Irving district’s financial woes would be eliminated if rules regarding teacher contracts and dismals were eliminated, Wolters said they would not.

Texas lawmakers propose tax plan to fund armed guards in schools

By Jim Vertuno Associated Press

AUSTIN — Texas voters could decide whether to tax themselves to pay for armed guards or other public school safety measures under a plan outlined Tuesday by three Houston-area state lawmakers.

The Texas School District Safety Act is the latest attempt to beef

up security at public schools after last month’s mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. Schools typically pay for security measures out of their general budgets.

The plan broadly outlined Tuesday by Sens. Tommy Williams and John Whitmire and Rep. Dan Huberty would allow local schools to set up special taxing districts — if approved by local voters — to raise

the money. Williams and Huberty are Republicans; Whitmire is a Democrat.

Williams, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, called the plan “a Texas solution to save lives without sacrificing freedoms” or instituting new gun control measures. The plan is separate from Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst’s call to have the state pay for special weapons and tactical response training for

teachers and other school workers.

The Texas PTA called the School District Safety Act a “promising” plan that will “hopefully serve to shift the focus away from arming teachers and principals in our schools, a strategy the Texas PTA does not support.”

The three lawmakers said school districts would have a dedicated source of money to pay for school safety measures.

But because it may levy new property or sales taxes, the plan may also require an amendment to the state constitution, Williams said. If approved, Williams and Whitmire said they would encourage school districts to contract with local law enforcement for security rather than try to create new, independent police agencies.

“We’re not looking for school districts to have SWAT teams and

tanks,” Williams said.

The plan was announced on the same day a shooting on a community college campus in Harris County wounded three people and sent students scrambling for cover.

Whitmire said that while the original plan was to include only public school districts, lawmakers could consider whether to expand it to include higher education campuses.

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Tonya N. Davis, Ph.D. helps disprove reliability of common treatment in children with autism

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New research from Baylor’s Center for Autism finds chelation, a commonly-used therapy for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders which is known to remove metals from the body, is not as effective nor as reliable as was previously thought according to a Baylor professor.

Tonya N. Davis, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Education Department and lead researcher for the review of the treatment of chelation in children with ASD found that chelation therapy may be reliable in adults who have been exposed to metals such as mercury or lead, but can, and has been fatal when administered to children

with ASD. Chelation is an agent that, when added to the body’s bloodstream, removes heavy metals, which decreases the amount of toxins in the body.

The goal of the study is “to serve as a base of information for people who might be considering chelation as a treatment,” Davis said.

The researchers began with the idea that because mercury poisoning may be a cause of ASD, and chelation could remove metals from the body, chelation may help the symptoms of ASD. The team of ten researchers, three of whom are Baylor affiliated, evaluated the effects of chelation by comparing five different studies and published their findings in Research in Autism Spectrum

Disorders.

“Chelation is a medical procedure that has been used outside the world of autism. It has very recently been applied to kids with autism,” Davis said.

Both Davis and Copeland found that chelation is used in adult patients who work in toxinpolluted environments and may help their symptoms but when administered to children, the results can be fatal.

“It tries to remove toxins from the body. Chelation works for adults who may work in factories where exposure to chemicals is possible, but doctors are using this treatment in children without the proper evidence,” said Daelynn Copeland, a researcher from the review who is working toward a

doctorate in Educational Psychology.

The researchers findings were quite surprising, Copeland said.

According to the researchers’ findings, four out of five studies showed mixed results, whereas only one study reviewed proved chelation is a treatment with positive results for children with ASD. Davis said she was surprised that so few studies had been published on the effects of chelation on ASD. “I knew countless children who have used this, but we only found five studies. We had found some pretty significant results because there was a lot of risk with children,” Davis said.

A reason for the lack of studies may be that since chelation can

have such harmful effects, many researchers don’t want to risk the possibility of bringing harm to their patients by using it, Copeland said.

The actual studies used in the review involved 82 children ranging in age from three to 14 years old that received chelation therapy.

Each study reviewed by the team had to pass a level of certainty, this means that if the evidence to support their claim did not match the actual results the studies were deemed insufficient.

The team did not have expectation coming into their study but were shocked by the fact that a commonly used treatment was not as effective as previously thought.

“I’m surprised at families who put their support in chelation ther-

apy, regardless of the evidence that it does not work,” Copeland said.

This could be due to parents who want to try every option available.

These parents need to be looking at the right kinds of treatment and put their dollars towards that, Copeland said.

Davis said she would like those who are curious about such research or have questions to visit the Center for Autism Research, which located is in Baylor’s School of Education Learning Resource Center in Draper Hall.

The results of researcher’s review is published in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, found online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/ S1750946712000724.

TSA to remove controversial scanners from airport check-ins

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In this March 2010 file photo, volunteers pass through the first full body scanner, which uses backscatter technology, installed at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. Those airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images will soon be going away.

Those airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images will soon be going away.

The Transportation Security Administration says the scanners that used a low-dose X-ray will be gone by June because the company that makes them can’t fix the privacy issues. The other airport body scanners, which produce a generic outline instead of a naked image, are staying.

The government rapidly stepped up its use of body scanners after a man snuck explosives onto a flight bound for Detroit on Christmas day in 2009.

At first, both types of scanners showed travelers naked. The idea was that security workers could spot both metallic objects like guns as well as non-metallic items such

as plastic explosives. The scanners also showed every other detail of the passenger’s body, too.

The TSA defended the scanners, saying the images couldn’t be stored and were seen only by a security worker who didn’t interact with the passenger. But the scans still raised privacy concerns. Congress ordered that the scanners either produce a more generic image or be removed by June.

On Thursday Rapiscan, the maker of the X-ray, or backscatter, scanner, acknowledged that it wouldn’t be able to meet the June deadline. The TSA said Friday that it ended its contract for the software with Rapiscan.

The agency’s statement also said the remaining scanners will move travelers through more quickly, meaning faster lanes at the airport. Those scanners, made by L-3 Communications, used millimeter

waves to make an image.

The company was able to come up with software that no longer produced a naked image of a traveler’s body.

The TSA will remove all 174 backscatter scanners from the 30 airports they’re used in now. Another 76 are in storage.

It has 669 of the millimeter wave machines it is keeping, plus options for 60 more, TSA spokesman David Castelveter said.

Not all of the machines will be replaced. Castelveter said that some airports that now have backscatter scanners will go back to having metal detectors. That’s what most airports used before scanners were introduced.

The Rapiscan scanners have been on their way out for months, in slow motion.

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Baylor assistant professor leads chelation research team Dr. Tonya N. Davis helps disprove reliability of common treatment in children with autism

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New research from Baylor’s Center for Autism finds chelation, a commonly-used therapy for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders which is known to remove metals from the body is not as effective nor as reliable as was previously thought according to a Baylor professor.

Tonya N. Davis, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Education Department and lead researcher for the review of the treatment of chelation in children with ASD found that chelation therapy may be reliable in adults who have been exposed to metals such as mercury or lead, but can, and has been fatal when administered to children

with ASD. Chelation is an agent that, when added to the body’s bloodstream, removes heavy metals, which decreases the amount of toxins in the body.

The goal of the study is “to serve as a base of information for people who might be considering chelation as a treatment,” Davis said.

The researchers began with the idea that because mercury poisoning may be a cause of ASD, and chelation could remove metals from the body, chelation may help the symptoms of ASD. The team of ten researchers, three of whom are Baylor affiliated, evaluated the effects of chelation by comparing five different studies and published their findings in Research in Autism Spectrum

Disorders.

“Chelation is a medical procedure that has been used outside the world of autism. It has very recently been applied to kids with autism,” Davis said.

Both Davis and Copeland found that chelation is used in adult patients who work in toxinpolluted environments and may help their symptoms but when administered to children, the results can be fatal.

“It tries to remove toxins from the body. Chelation works for adults who may work in factories where exposure to chemicals is possible, but doctors are using this treatment in children without the proper evidence,” said Daelynn Copeland, a researcher from the review who is working toward a

doctorate in Educational Psychology.

The researchers findings were quite surprising, Copeland said.

According to the researchers’ findings, four out of five studies showed mixed results, whereas only one study reviewed proved chelation is a treatment with positive results for children with ASD. Davis said she was surprised that so few studies had been published on the effects of chelation on ASD. “I knew countless children who have used this, but we only found five studies. We had found some pretty significant results because there was a lot of risk with children,” Davis said.

A reason for the lack of studies may be that since chelation can

have such harmful effects, many researchers don’t want to risk the possibility of bringing harm to their patients by using it, Copeland said.

The actual studies used in the review involved 82 children ranging in age from three to 14 years old that received chelation therapy.

Each study reviewed by the team had to pass a level of certainty, this means that if the evidence to support their claim did not match the actual results the studies were deemed insufficient.

The team did not have expectation coming into their study but were shocked by the fact that a commonly used treatment was not as effective as previously thought.

“I’m surprised at families who put their support in chelation ther-

apy, regardless of the evidence that it does not work,” Copeland said.

This could be due to parents who want to try every option available.

These parents need to be looking at the right kinds of treatment and put their dollars towards that, Copeland said.

Davis said she would like those who are curious about such research or have questions to visit the Center for Autism Research, which located is in Baylor’s School of Education Learning Resource Center in Draper Hall.

The results of researcher’s review is published in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, found online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/ S1750946712000724.

TSA to remove controversial scanners from airport check-ins

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In this March 2010 file photo, volunteers pass through the first full body scanner, which uses backscatter technology, installed at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. Those airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images will soon be going away.

Those airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images will soon be going away.

The Transportation Security Administration says the scanners that used a low-dose X-ray will be gone by June because the company that makes them can’t fix the privacy issues. The other airport body scanners, which produce a generic outline instead of a naked image, are staying.

The government rapidly stepped up its use of body scanners after a man snuck explosives onto a flight bound for Detroit on Christmas day in 2009.

At first, both types of scanners showed travelers naked. The idea was that security workers could spot both metallic objects like guns as well as non-metallic items such

as plastic explosives. The scanners also showed every other detail of the passenger’s body, too.

The TSA defended the scanners, saying the images couldn’t be stored and were seen only by a security worker who didn’t interact with the passenger. But the scans still raised privacy concerns. Congress ordered that the scanners either produce a more generic image or be removed by June.

On Thursday Rapiscan, the maker of the X-ray, or backscatter, scanner, acknowledged that it wouldn’t be able to meet the June deadline. The TSA said Friday that it ended its contract for the software with Rapiscan.

The agency’s statement also said the remaining scanners will move travelers through more quickly, meaning faster lanes at the airport. Those scanners, made by L-3 Communications, used millimeter

waves to make an image.

The company was able to come up with software that no longer produced a naked image of a traveler’s body.

The TSA will remove all 174 backscatter scanners from the 30 airports they’re used in now. Another 76 are in storage.

It has 669 of the millimeter wave machines it is keeping, plus options for 60 more, TSA spokesman David Castelveter said.

Not all of the machines will be replaced. Castelveter said that some airports that now have backscatter scanners will go back to having metal detectors. That’s what most airports used before scanners were introduced.

The Rapiscan scanners have been on their way out for months, in slow motion.

The government hadn’t bought any since 2011.

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Student Government set goals to pass more bills this year at their first Senate meeting last Thursday.

Colorado Springs, Colo. sophomore Chaplain Meagan Rowell encouraged Senate members to start the year off with patience. Rowell reminded Senators to listen and be slow to anger using James 1:19 as a guidepost.

“There is a whole whiteboard of ideas,” said Arlington sophomore Dominic Edwards. Edwards is the public relations chair.

Issues the senate will examine this year include upcoming legislation concerning the adoption of a plus/minus grading scale.

Big Sandy senior Miriam Hobma said research suggests Baylor’s current grading system depreciates its ranking academically in comparison with other schools. Hobma serves as the Senate’s Operations

and Procedures Chair.

Baylor’s grading scale is strictly a plus system, whereas most schools have adopted a plus and minus system. Grades like Bminus and C-minus would be assigned to students.

The A minus-grade option decreases inflation in grades and is believed to accurately represent a student’s academic standing.

The Senate will vote on the bill proposed by the Academic Affairs Committee 5 p.m., Thursday at Cashion 203 at the weekly meeting.

The empty seats on the Senate floor were addressed Thursday evening as well. The Senate consists of 52 representatives, and six spots remain open.

Houston senior President Brian Kim encouraged Senate members to recruit individuals who would be good for the positions. Hobma said filling these positions was a top priority.

Applications close today, and

interviews to fill these positions will be taking place soon.

In light of the vacancies, three members were sworn in to Senate positions last Thursday. Lewisville senior Nick Norris took his place as Chief Justice, and Colorado Springs, Colo. junior Katie Coast and Fremont, Calif. freshman Andrea Hanna joined senior Vice President Briana Treadaway’s cabinet. Treadaway said Coast and Hanna are both excited about working in the VP cabinet.

Edwards encouraged students to attend Senate meetings.

“It’s something that some people may yawn at, but it’s something that I think is really important,” Edwards said.

Students can voice their concerns at the Senate’s weekly meetings.

“Sometimes it’s just good to see what your representatives are doing,” Edwards said. “Senate meetings are a great place to do that.”

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Colorado Springs, Colo. junior Katie Coast and Fremont, Calif. freshman Andrea Hannah are sworn into senior Vice President Briana Treadway’s cabinet Thursday at the first senate meeting of the spring semester.

Roe v.

Wade, 40 years later

Parents get custody of kids living in old bus

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TOPEKA, Kan. — Abortion opponents marked the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision Tuesday with workshops, prayers and calls for more limits on the rights established by the Supreme Court in the landmark ruling that still defines one of the nation’s most intractable debates.

Many in the anti-abortion movement looked to Kansas, where Republican Gov. Sam Brownback signed a series of tough anti-abortion measures during his first two years in office.

Other states with GOP governors and Republican-controlled legislatures have taken similar steps.

“There’s joy in what you’re doing and keep it up,” Brownback urged hundreds of fellow abortion opponents at a rally outside the Kansas Statehouse.

Abortion-rights groups observed a quieter anniversary — a possible reflection of the reality that it’s far rarer for lawmakers to expand access to abortion. The National Organization for Women planned a candlelight vigil at the Supreme Court to commemorate the 1973 decision, which created a constitutional right to abortions in some circumstances and prevented states from banning the practice.

President Barack Obama issued a statement reaffirming the decision’s commitment to “reproductive freedom” and the principle that “government should not intrude on our most private family matters, and women should be able to make their own choices about their bodies and their health care.”

The ruling “should be honored,” said Rep. Emily Perry, a lawyer and Democrat from the Kansas City suburb of Mission who supports abortion rights.

In Topeka, at least 1,000 people rallied with Brownback and antiabortion legislators. The Kansas governor has called on state lawmakers to create “a culture of life.”

He is expected to support whatever further restrictions they approve.

Kansans for Life, the most influential of the state’s anti-abortion groups, plans to ask lawmakers to enact legislation ensuring that the state doesn’t finance abortions even indirectly, such as through tax breaks or by allowing doctorsin-training at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., to perform them on the center’s time.

The group also wants to strengthen a state law dictating what information must be provided to abortion patients, banning abortions because of the fetus’ gender and allowing wrongful-death lawsuits when a fetus dies because of an accident.

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Freak train accident spares passengers A train sits beneath the carriage of another train after a train crash on Tuesday at a station in Alfarelos, Portugal. Emergency services say a high-speed intercity train rear-ended a local train waiting to enter a station in central Portugal, derailing several carriages leaving a pile of wreckage on Portugal’s main northsouth line, slightly injuring 21 people.

CONROE, Texas — Nearly a year after their two children were found living virtually unsupervised in an old school bus in Southeast Texas, the parents regained full custody of their kids Tuesday when a judge dismissed a child welfare case against them.

“It feels really good,” said Sherrie Shorten, of Splendora, after she and her husband, Mark, stood before Judge Jerry Winfree at a hearing that lasted only a few minutes.

“This is just one more thing we’ve gotten resolved.”

“If you love your family, you never give up,” Mark Shorten said outside the courtroom, standing close to his two children, Jessica, 12, and Chance, 6. “You do what it takes. ... It takes a lot of faith in God, belief in your family and a good attorney. You just work the problem, just don’t give up, hunker down and work the problem.”

The Shortens last March were serving 18-month federal prison terms for conspiracy to embezzle Hurricane Ike benefits in Louisiana when a postal worker repeatedly spotted the disheveled children in the Montgomery County neighborhood about 35 miles northeast of Houston. Child welfare officials were notified and took Jessica and Chance into foster custody.

There were no front wheels on the bus and the section of the vehicle from the windshield and engine firewall had been removed.

Extensive media coverage of the case showed the bus sitting in a trash-filled yard. Despite its worn appearance, the bus inside had been renovated, furnished, had hot and cold water and a bathroom, and was air-conditioned. The family moved it from Louisiana after their home there was flooded from Hurricane Ike. It was intended as a temporary home until they could build on the lot.

The Shortens had arranged with an aunt to care for the children while they were imprisoned but the woman told authorities her 12-hour workdays and caring for the children had overwhelmed her.

“CPS was absolutely right to take then kids when it did,” the family’s attorney, Chris Branson, said. “The aunt obviously dropped the ball and was neglecting these kids and it was the proper thing to take these kids into custody.

However, the parents got out of jail, they fixed the problem, they cleaned up the property and the situation should have been over at that point.” Sherrie Shorten and her husband also have been fulfilling a care plan and attending counseling and therapy. The family was reunited last September under CPS watch, and still lives on the bus.

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the board is working on, but he gave insight as to what the student government plans to be working on in the next year.

“We have a couple of initiatives we are working on in maintaining and upholding Baylor’s mission – Pro Futuris,” Rapp said. “We want Baylor to become more global and we are constantly trying to reach, to gain student input.”

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been hiring new faculty and expanding our research labs,” Lee said.

Lee said after the Baylor Board of Regents approved the electrical engineering department’s Ph.D. program in 2010, the university approved the hiring of 10 new faculty members to expand the program.

“Whenever new faculty comes in, they need a research lab,” Lee said. “Rogers doesn’t have that, so tentatively, the university allowed us to use the engineering research annex, but now that BRIC is completed, we are moving into the second floor.”

Lee said the building research labs are larger than the previous research labs they have used.

“It will be a first-class research facility,” Lee said.

Hyde said the building will also include a symposium space for the partners as well as Baylor faculty who need meeting space to bring in national and international research meetings.

“There’s space for about 300 people plus breakout space,” Hyde said.

Hyde said there is 40,000 square feet for TSTC’s advanced workforce training program and 50,000 square feet for industry partners to become part of the collaboration.

“As far as we can tell, the ability to provide research and development, business incubation, workforce development and actual industry support through industrial partners is unique,” Hyde said.

“We’re programming the building so the research coming out will bump into the businesses and industry. It’s synergy, which was the same idea behind the science department having all the departments in one building and the atrium to connect them all. It’s an interesting experiment.”

Hyde said the institutes in the building are all interdisciplinary involving different academic departments.

“For example, CASPER has faculty from the School of Business, School of Engineering, College of Arts and Science, School of Education, and also faculty from German China, countries in South America and all over,” Hyde said.

Hyde said the building was built as a research-only building.

“There won’t be formal classes, but I think the best place for students to learn is in a research lab one-on-one with a faculty member,” Hyde said.

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Texas-Tyler. Baylor was also the only Big 12 member.

Baylor offers many programs that focus on the African-American population. These programs include the African Student Association, the Association of Black Students at Baylor and the Department of Multicultural Affairs.

“I definitely agree that Baylor is one of the best universities for African-Americans,” Beaumont sophomore Ambreea Warren said.

“Baylor has plenty of resources and programs that give not only African-Americans, but all minorities opportunities to further succeed while pursuing secondary education.”

Memphis, Tenn., junior Valerie Soyinka said the Multicultural Office highlights the importance of diversity.

“Baylor has a lot of activities going on for MLK week,” Soyinka said. “Baylor really makes AfricanAmerican students feel at home.”

Such events include the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Luncheon and the Celebration Dinner put on by the Department of Multicultural Affairs.

Baylor will also be hosting GospelFest and the Black Heritage Banquet in February.

“As an executive board member of the Association of Black Students and a member of Baylor’s chapter of NAACP, we strive to keep the African-American community active on campus by having events that root back to our culture,” Warren said. “Baylor’s small campus allows everyone from all different cultures to interact and learn from one another.”

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self but 10 percent bigger,” Sutherland said. “They said, ‘Shawn, you can probably ratchet it down to 90 percent.’ They had no idea what to do with me.”

Before getting on set, Sutherland pointed out photographs of past “Millionaire” winners — from John Carpenter to Nancy Christy — lining the hallway that led up to the green room. He met Meredith Vieira, Emmy award-winning host of the game show.

“Meredith was really nervous,” Sutherland said. “I had come in saying, ‘It’s totally not about the money.’ She just looks at me and tells me between questions, ‘No, seriously. Walk away.’ She was really nice and seemed to genuinely care.”

Shawn Sutherland worked his way up to the $250,000 question.

The question asked for the name

of the “Friends” cast member who had a museum in the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a child. He guessed “Lisa Kudrow” as his final answer but the correct answer was “Jennifer Aniston.”

Despite losing all but $25,000, he does not feel regret.

“I would never be able to forgive myself if I walked away,” Sutherland said. “I had to go for it all the way.”

“I thought he had a really good shot,” Joshua Sutherland said. “But I knew he would never walk away. I didn’t expect him to win but he had as good of a shot as anyone. He was exceptionally prepared.”

Joshua Sutherland says that he plans to accompany his brother to his audition for “American Ninja Warrior” and “Big Brother” in the coming year.

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Baylor football moving up in the world

That Holiday Bowl trophy really ties the room together

By Daniel Hill Sports Writer

To put it lightly, when Baylor football first went to the Texas Bowl in 2010, it was a big deal. It marked Baylor’s first bowl game appearance since 1994. Baylor nation was happy just to go to a bowl game, never mind actually winning it. But times have changed in Waco. The Bears have won two straight bowl games with the Alamo Bowl against Washington in 2011 and the Holiday Bowl versus UCLA in 2012.

Going to a bowl game is officially an expectation now and winning that bowl game is a must.

Baylor put on a dazzling performance in San Diego during the bowl season by shellacking the UCLA Bruins 49-26.

Senior quarterback Nick Florence made his final game in the Baylor green and gold a memorable one by rushing for 37 yards and a touchdown and by completing 10 of 13 passes for 188 yards and two touchdowns.

Sophomore running back Lache Seastrunk and junior running back Glasco Martin ran behind Baylor’s supremely talented offensive line to combine for 236 yards and four touchdowns.

Next year Seastrunk and Martin will return to lead the Bears’ rushing attack.

Seastrunk had a breakthrough finish to the season by rushing for more than 100 yards in the five of the last six games of the season.

He asserted himself as the featured running threat in the Baylor backfield. Whenever Seastrunk received double-digit carries, he proved to be a lethal difference maker.

In the last four games of the year, his lowest rushing total was an astounding 136 yards against Texas Tech. Seastrunk had an electrifying average of 7.7 yards per carry for the entire season.

With Seastrunk being more prominently featured in next year’s rushing attack, look for him to topple his season

mark of 1,012 yards that he posted this past season.

While running backs typically receive all of the glory, they can’t go anywhere without a solid offensive line.

Baylor’s offensive line was stocked with elite talent and experience this season and that shouldn’t change much heading into next year.

Much of the offensive line also returns as the Bears only lose two starters in center Ivory Wade and guard Cameron Kaufhold.

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valued NFL offensive line prospect and it looks as of now, that he will be returning to Baylor next year

instead of declaring for the NFL. Starting tackles Troy Baker and Spencer Drango both return with a year of experience under their belts. Baylor will lose two talented wide receivers in Terrance Williams and Lanear Sampson.

Thankfully, the Bears are still loaded at receiver with senior Tevin Reese, juniors Levi Norwood and Antwan Goodley.

Both Norwood and Goodley are versatile receivers with immense potential. Much of the offense remains in-

tact, except for the obvious task of replacing starting Florence.

The early favorite to replace Florence would be junior quarterback Bryce Petty.

Petty is an athletic quarterback with a big frame and a strong arm.

He was a highly sought-after high school prospect from Midlothian who had offers from Arkansas, Nebraska, Tennessee and Virginia Tech.

With Baylor’s successful offensive schemes and a talented offensive line, playmakers at running back and game-breakers at receiver, Petty or whoever the quarterback is,

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should be in a position to succeed next fall.

During the first half of the season, the Bears’ Achilles heel was the atrocious play of the defense.

During the latter half of the season, the Baylor defense started to perform at an extremely high level.

The defense had a coming out party against No. 1 ranked Kansas State in which they had three interceptions and held the Wildcats to under 100 yards rushing as a team. Baylor made the sure tackles and intimidated the Kansas State offense, including then Heisman front-runner Collin Klein.

The Kansas State game singlehandedly shifted the momentum of the Baylor season.

After that upset win over the top-ranked team in the country, the Bears went gangbusters and won all three of its remaining games—including two over ranked opponents in Oklahoma State and UCLA. The Bears’ defense should continue to build upon its late season 2012 successes to lead into 2013. Key returning defensive members are senior safety Ahmad Dixon, senior safety Sam Holl, senior defensive end Chris McAllister, senior defensive end Terrence Lloyd, junior linebacker Bryce Hager and senior linebacker Eddie Lackey.

Defensively, the Bears should also get a boost of the addition of Penn State transfer Shawn Oakman. The junior defensive end will be eligible for the 2013 season after sitting out the 2012 season due to NCAA transfer rules.

If the defense can keep the momentum from the 2012 season and improve over the offseason, the collective wealth of experience should lend itself to a stout Baylor defense in the fall.

Robert Griffin III led Baylor to new heights and Nick Florence followed. Both greatly helped the ascension of Baylor football.

The foundation has been laid for this current Baylor football team to accomplish something that both Griffin and Florence could not—win a Big 12 championship.

Griffin rejuvenates Washington, makes Baylor Nation proud

By Parmida Schahhosseini Sports Writer

As the NFL season comes to an end after the Super Bowl on Feb. 3, the NFL teams will be looking back on their season trying to figure out what adjustments they need to make for next season.

The Washington Redskins are no different.

The Redskins have a rich history. They had the heated rivalry

one quarterback started to make history­ —that was Baylor’s own Robert Griffin III. Griffin and the Baylor Bears began the season with a 50-48 win over No. 14 TCU in which he threw

for 359 yards and five touchdowns.

He followed that up with a 10-win season, including a thrilling 38-45 win against Oklahoma at Floyd Casey Stadium in which Griffin threw a touchdown pass

with eight seconds left in the game.

Griffin finished off the season winning numerous awards, including the Heisman Trophy, and led the Bears to their first bowl victory since 1992, ironically the same year

Sports TAke with the Dallas Cowboys and won three out of five Super Bowls, but they have not been relevant since 1992, the year they won Super Bowl XXVI. While they have been in the playoffs a few times, they only won two out of six since then.

In 2010, Mike Shanahan was named the Redskins’ new coach, which brought a small glimmer of hope for the franchise waiting for a turnaround.

People started to question Shanahan, however, after he posted a 6-10 season in his first year and followed that with an abysmal 5-11 record.

While Shanahan never had much to work with in the quarterback position, which included the likes of John Beck and Rex Grossman, 2012 was destined to be a better year because Washington finally found its franchise quarterback.

In 2011 when Shanahan was switching between quarterbacks,

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Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III salutes the crowd as he walks off the field with a twisted knee during the second half of a playoff football game Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks. Washington lost the game.

the Washington Redskins won the Super Bowl.

After the season ended, Griffin decided to enter the NFL Draft.

Before the draft, the Redskins gave up “the farm,” as many people called it, when they traded three first round picks and a second round pick to the St. Louis Rams to move to the second spot to get their franchise player.

The Redskins did indeed pick Griffin with the second overall pick.

While many people thought they traded away the future, Griffin is rejuvenating a once-great football city.

In Griffin’s rookie debut, he out-dueled Drew Brees on the road at the Superdome, completing 19 of 26 passes for 320 yards and two touchdowns in the 40-33 win.

Despite big plays from Griffin, the Redskins went 3-6 before the bye week and people began to write them off, but Griffin did not quit and neither did his team.

The Redskins went on to win seven straight games, including a week 17 victory against the Dallas Cowboys for the division title.

Through that win streak, Griffin made Baylor proud as reached the 100 mark in quarterback rating five times, threw 14 touchdowns and only two interceptions during that span.

In the regular season Griffin recorded 3,200 yards, a 102.4 passer rating and 20 touchdowns and five interceptions, which was an NFL low among starting quarterbacks.

He is also in the running to win

Rookie of the Year.

Griffin was a vital part of the Redskins’ success because there was pressure on him to score since his defense allowed an average of 25 points per game, though he was under the same pressure while at Baylor.

While the defensive unit was ranked 28th in the league, there were some key injuries on that side of the ball, such as linebacker Brian Orakpo and safety Brandon Meriweather.

Despite the shortcomings on defense, Griffin turned this franchise around and made the Redskins relevant again as teams started to consider them a threat.

Their pistol offense was enough to keep defenses on their toes, which allowed for more play action passes and bigger plays down the field.

Injuries to the offense also hurt as they lost tight end Fred Davis for the year and wide receiver Pierre Garcon for parts of the year.

Griffin, however, kept putting up big numbers with his arm and legs leading his team to the playoffs.

The Redskins did lose the wild card game against the Seattle Seahawks, but many feared that they lost their franchise quarterback after Griffin tore his LCL and ACL. Griffin, however continues to be positive and is eyeing a bigger year next year. Who knows, maybe he can come back and have an Adrian Peterson kind of bounce-back year and continue to make Baylor proud.

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San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback Colin Kaepernick celebrates after the NFC Championship game against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday.

San Francisco 49ers’ Frank Gore scores a five-yard touchdown run during the NFC Championship game against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday.

Baltimore Ravens inside linebacker Dannell Ellerbe celebrates after intercepting a pass during the AFC Championship football game on Sunday.

By Daniel Hill Sports Writer

When the San Francisco 49ers play their brand of football, they cannot be beaten. In all but one of their losses this year, their opponent jumped out to a quick lead and San Francisco couldn’t regroup

Sports TAke and get back into the football game.

The 49ers did suffer two blowout losses this year. The New York Giants beat them 26-3 and the Seattle Seahawks beat them 42-13.

The 49ers have learned how to battle back from early deficits. This is due in large part to the maturation of Colin Kaepernick at quarterback.

In the NFC Championship game, Atlanta jumped out to an early 17-0 lead, but Kaepernick regrouped, and San Francisco made adjustments to beat the Falcons.

Kaepernick had an efficient day and was 16 of 21 passing for 233 yards and one touchdown.

The 49ers are dominant at the point of attack on the line of scrimmage. With Frank Gore and LaMichael James in the backfield, the 49ers were fourth in the NFL in rushing yards for the season. Kaepernick adds another dimension to the rushing attack with the utilization of the zone read offense. On defense the 49ers have six Pro Bowl players to Baltimore’s two.

It’s nearly impossible to run against the 49ers front seven, and they generate so much pass rush that it’s tough to succeed with the aerial attack. With dominant defense and a diverse offense, the 49ers should outmuscle the Baltimore Ravens and establish their physical dominance. The Ravens are an aging team on defense. They defeated Indianapolis, Denver and New England in the AFC playoffs, but the 49ers are on a higher tier physically than those three teams.

Super Bowl XLVII might not have much offensive fireworks, but it will be filled with brutal hits and a physical brand of football. The 49ers will outlast the Ravens in this heavyweight bout.

By Greg DeVries Sports Editor

The San Francisco 49ers will easily win this year’s Super Bowl against the Baltimore Ravens. All eyes will be on second-year quarterback Colin Kaepernick, but the Ravens will not have an answer to what he brings to the table.

In his second game of the playoffs against the Atlanta Falcons, Kaepernick was 16-21 passing for 233 yards and a touchdown. Even if the Ravens are ready for a quarterback whose efficiency is as high as Kaepernick’s, he can also run the ball. In his first game of the playoffs against the Green Bay Packers, Kaepernick rushed for 181 yards and two touchdowns. He can beat a defense a lot of ways, and Baltimore’s defense is not the Raven’s defense of old.

This Ravens defense ranks closer to the middle of the pack. They allow 228 yards per game through the air and another 123 on the ground. This ranks 17th and 20th in the league respectively.

The Ravens will have a tough

time trying to slow down this surprisingly productive San Francisco offense. Despite being known as a defensive team, San Francisco’s offense ranked 11th in total yards and in points per game during the regular season.

With playmakers like Kaepernick, running back Frank Gore, tight end Vernon Davis and wide receiver Michael Crabtree, San Francisco just has too many weapons for the Ravens to handle.

Defensively, the 49ers are stout.

They own the line of scrimmage and disrupt offenses by playing physical football. The team’s leading tackler is NaVorro Bowman, who recorded 149 tackles on the season. To put this in perspective, Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis only recorded 57 tackles on the year.

The 49ers had six players record more than 60 tackles on the year, and three of them were linebackers. The 49ers’ pass rush is led by second-year linebacker Aldon Smith. Smith had 19.5 sacks on the season. Only one player on Baltimore’s defense recorded more than five.

By Parmida Schahhosseini Sports Writer

At 6 pm, Feb. 3 the stage will be set for two brothers as their teams battle in the trenches toward the ultimate goal of hoisting a Lombardi Trophy.

The “Superbaugh,” as many are starting to call it, is going to be a great matchup as the two coaches, Jim and John Harbaugh, will try and earn the victory for their respective teams. The Ravens had to deal with the injury to Terrell Suggs, the loss of their shutdown cornerback Lardarius Webb, and injuries to linebacker Ray Lewis.

However, despite the adversity, the playoffs are a different animal.

The Ravens have been playing well. Injured playmakers got back together on defense in the first playoff game. Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco is playing at a high level with eight touchdowns and zero interceptions during the postseason. The Ravens offense has scored touchdowns in nine of their nine red zone trips. On the other side of the ball, the Ravens defense has

only allowed 43 points in the three postseason games.

This game can belong to anyone, but this is the Ravens year. The 49ers haven’t been as strong against physical teams such as the Seattle Seahawks and the New York Giants, and the Ravens play physical football.

While the 49ers do have Colin Keapernick, the Ravens did a good job on RG3, who plays a similar style, with a depleted defense.

The Ravens beat the Colts, Peyton Manning and the Patriots at Foxborough after trailing 13-6 in the half. The Patriots were 67-0 when leading at the half. The Ravens’ season ended in New England last year, but they came back and got revenge. After defeating the Colts, Ray Rice called this team the “team of destiny.” An announcer called the Seahawks the “team of destiny” after Marshawn Lynch scored a touchdown as they came back from a 20 point deficit during Atlanta’s game against the Seahawks.

Seattle lost 30 seconds later to a Matt Bryant field goal. The Ravens are a team of destiny.

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Baylor defeats Cowboys, moves to 4-1 in Big 12 play

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Freshman center Isaiah Austin rises up to shoot over an Oklahoma State defender on Monday at the Ferrell Center. The Bears won the game 64-54 and are now 13-5 overall. Austin finished with 10 points and 14 rebounds.

The Baylor Bears defeated the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Monday, 64-54. The game featured breakout performances from freshman center Isaiah Austin and junior forward Cory Jefferson: both Austin and Jefferson posted double-doubles on the stat sheet.

They also clearly impacted the game with their shot blocking and interior defense.

“We just wanted to be aggressive,” Austin said. “We wanted to control the paint and that’s what we did.”

Austin had 10 points and 14 rebounds and five blocks. Senior point guard Pierre Jackson led the way offensively for the Bears with 18 points and was four of nine from beyond the arc. But lately, the Bears have been all about defense.

“I know in the nonconference, we were better offensively than we were defensively.” said head coach Scott Drew. “I don’t want to jinx anything, but I think we are getting better at knowing how rotations need to be and what we need to do.

I think players really are doing a good job with listening to scouting reports and following through with execution on the court.”

After a tough conference road loss last week at the hands of the No. 4 Kansas Jayhawks, the Bears found their stride this past weekend with a blowout 107-38 win over Hardin-Simmons and a solid win over the Cowboys.

The Bears held OSU to only 35 percent shooting from the field in large part due to an outstanding defensive effort. Jefferson had a solid bounce-back game against OSU after he struggled against Kansas last week on ESPN’s Big Monday showcase game. Jefferson had 11 points, 11 rebounds and six blocks against the Cowboys.

Together Austin and Jefferson tied the Baylor team record for most blocks in a Big 12 Conference

game.

“Defensively, we just wanted to protect the rim,” Jefferson said.

“We are some of what I feel are the best shot blockers in the Big 12 and we wanted to come out and let everybody know that on every night.

Offensively, we just wanted to play our game whether it was with the guards or in the post. After that, it’s just executing everything we were supposed to. We know that every game gets won by the defense. It doesn’t matter what you do on offense if you can’t stop anybody.

That’s something we pride each other on.”

Senior guard A.J. Walton contributed to the OSU victory in almost every way possible. Walton had 13 points, five rebounds, four assists and two steals.

“Because one thing A.J. does is he plays hard,” said Drew. “When you play hard, good things normally are going to happen. That means loose balls, rebounds and steals. This year, I thought he’s had a great assist to turnover ratio.”

With a national audience watching on ESPN, Baylor helped set the tone for the kind of team they hope to be for the rest of the year.

“On Big Monday, everybody is watching, all around the nation,” Jackson said. “It’s a chance to shot what your team is capable of. Last week we didn’t do a good job of that. We faced a great Kansas team. At home, we came out here and showed the nation that we can compete with the best.”

Drew identified the overall team defense as being key to a Baylor victory.

“I thought the interior defense with Jefferson and Austin tying a school record with 11 blocks was really critical and crucial to our success,” Drew said. “It allowed us to get some transition buckets and get going. I thought in the first half, turnovers hurt us in that stretch. We gave up some transition baskets but for the most part

defensively we were good all game.

When Pierre gave us that offensive spurt, we were able to get some momentum in the second half. I thought in games like this, if you can get those loose balls, I thought A.J. did a great job, not only offensively, but coming up with some 50-50 balls tonight.”

A team-first and inside-out approach contributed to the strong Baylor performance.

“I thought the team really did a good job of making the extra pass and looking inside early on,” Drew said. “Cory and Isaiah were aggressive and successful. That helped some things so credit the guys on doing a great job hitting the bigs inside. At the end of the day, we know that if you don’t defend then you don’t give us a chance to win if you don’t shoot well. Hopefully we can keep this effort and keep getting better. Defending gives you a chance to stay in games on nights where you’re not making buckets.

With a three-guard lineup that we have, we should have more assists than turnovers and we have to continue to get better at that.”

Baylor will take the hardwood on Saturday against TCU on the road. TCU is winless inside the Big 12 Conference and only has a 9-9 overall record. TCU has losses to the likes of Southern Methodist, Northwestern, Houston, Tulsa, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State and Iowa State.

Baylor has already defeated TCU earlier this season at the Ferrell Center. The Bears won that game by 11 points, 51-40. The following week Baylor hoops will return to the Ferrell Center for a showdown against the Oklahoma Sooners on Wednesday night. The Sooners are proving to be a contender this year with a 4-1 conference record and a 13-4 overall record.

“There is so much parity in the Big 12,” Drew said. “Every game is so important, especially your home games.”

Griner, Baylor back on track to defend national title

By Parmida Schahhosseini Sports Writer

The No. 1 Baylor Lady Bears (16-1, 6-0 Big 12) have picked up where they left off last year as they continue to roll through their competition on their quest to repeat as national champions.

Head coach Kim Mulkey, who stresses defense, has her unit playing well as they allowed only one team to shoot over 50 percent from the field all season. They are also 6-1 against ranked opponents, which puts their competitive play on display.

The Lady Bears hope to continue their streak of consecutive conference as they try to win their 29th game against No. 24 Iowa State at 7 p.m. tonight at the Hilton Coliseum at Ames, Iowa.

Baylor did have a little bit of a hiccup as they lost to No. 4 Stanford Cardinals, 71-69 on Nov. 16. While it was a loss, the Bears learned from it and realized that the road to a championship will not be easy.

During the Stanford game, Baylor allowed its opponent to shoot over 50 percent, breaking their streak of 217 games without allowing a team to shoot 50 percent or more.

“You don’t ever want to lose.

You’re in Hawaii; you’re not under the normal circumstances of a regular practice schedule. You’re enjoying the beach and not having as much time to prepare,” Mulkey said. “We played Kentucky and had a quick turnaround to come here.

It’s a great schedule for us to prepare for another national championship.”

The Lady Bears did come back and played for a 73-61 win against No. 5 Notre Dame. The Lady Bears’ defense frustrated Notre Dame star Skylar Diggins as she was 4-of-19 shooting. Griner, on the other hand, had 24 points, 14 rebounds,

and three blocks.

“Last year, I guess I started getting even more patient,” senior center Brittney Griner said after the win against Notre Dame. “I couldn’t get my hands on the ball, keep moving. Whatever I can do, I will do. I took it a play at a time; post up strong when I had to. Did whatever I could to help my team out.”

Griner, who was named Big 12 Player of the Week on Jan. 21, is gearing up for another productive year.

Griner currently has 2,796 career points and is 40 points away from breaking the scoring record in the Big 12.

She also has 651 blocked shots and is 13 blocks away from an NCAA record.

Griner is not the only reason the team is winning. Under Mulkey, the Lady Bears have been playing unselfish basketball.

Their team chemistry allows their game to flow.

Junior point guard Odyssey Sims averages 12.5 points per game and is leading the team with 5.2 assists per game.

Senior forward Brooklyn Pope is also having a breakout season as she averages 11.4 points per game.

On the defensive side, the numbers of senior guard Jordan Madden continue to improve.

Four Lady Bears rank among the Big 12’s top 10 in field goal percentage with Griner’s 59.8 percent at No. 1, senior guard Jordan Madden at 57.7 percent at No. 2, Pope at 56.4 percent at No. 5, and senior forward Destiny Williams at 55 percent at No. 7.

The Lady Bears have won 14 straight games after the loss to Stanford.

They have been playing at a high level.

The Lady Bears lead the Big 12 in scoring offense at 82.1 points per game, field goal percentage at 50.8

percent, blocked shots at 5.8 blocks per game and a rebound margin at +11.4.

Baylor has been playing harddefense. Opposing teams also have to worry about Baylor’s third ranked offense.

There have been multiple games where several plays score in double digits and several games where they have one or more player with a double-double.

Mulkey teaches her players great work ethic and teamwork. It is one thing to have talent on the team, but without a coach putting them in positions for them to succeed, they would probably end up like the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Lady Bears have team chemistry, which keeps their offense flowing, but it also allows them to transition better from offense to defense and vise versa.

Currently Baylor is on a 49 home game win streak, the longest in the country.

The team has been competitive in every conference game winning all six so far.

Whether their opponents were ranked or unranked, the Lady Bears win in convincing fashion.

Their closest game a 76-58 win against a very physical West Virginia on Saturday.

While the West Virginia defense gave the Lady Bears problems, a big 20-5 lead in the early first half was enough for them to sustain the lead.

“We went over in the scouting report how physical and how hard they were going to play,” Sims said.

The defensive problems led to the Bears to have 19 turnovers, which is a season high.

The Bears did enough to win the game, but they expected to do better.

They have high hopes for the season and very high expectations after their 40-0 run to the National Championship.

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Senior center Brittany Griner reaches out to block a shot from a West Virginia player Saturday at the Ferrell Center. Griner finished with 26 points, 15 rebounds and nine blocks. Baylor is now 16-1 overall and 6-0 in the Big 12.

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Three Bears to try out for pro soccer

By Larissa Campos Reporter

The Baylor women’s soccer team saw its best season last fall with an overall record of 19-1-5 and made the program’s first-ever appearance in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen game against the University of North Carolina.

Although the team experienced a devastating loss in penalty kicks to the Tar Heels, three senior stand-out players didn’t want their time on the field to end just yet.

Senior forward Lisa Sliwinski, senior midfielder Hanna Gilmore and senior defender Carlie Davis all made the decision to try and continue their soccer careers in the newly formed National Women’s Soccer League.

“I remember sitting on the bus after we lost to UNC and thinking to myself, ‘this can’t be it’,” Sliwinski said. “I was done playing for Baylor but I didn’t think my days playing soccer were over.”

After the demise of the Women’s Professional Soccer league in 2012, women soccer players in the United States lacked a place to play at the professional level for an entire year.

The NWSL was created in place of the WPS,= and will start play this spring with eight teams in the league.

Sliwinski described the timing of the new professional league’s creation as perfect.

She couldn’t play college soccer anymore, but she was still fit enough from last season to jump into an intense and competitive soccer environment right away.

Each of the eight teams are made up of players from the United States, Canada and Mexico’s national teams.

The college draft took place last Friday and added four more college players to each roster.

The rest of the spots will be made up of players picked up in

team tryouts that will be held throughout the next two months.

Although Sliwinski, Gilmore, and Davis did not get picked up in Friday’s college draft, they are determined to continue their campaign to play professionally.

The trio plans to travel to Washington, D.C., this weekend to attend the open tryout of the Washington Spirit.

“It would have been awesome to get picked up in the college draft,” Gilmore said. “But I think this will be a great experience for us. I’ve never done anything like this, and I just feel blessed for the opportunity.”

As a part of head coach Marci Jobson’s first recruiting class at Baylor, the three are considered a major part of “building the dynasty” she envisioned when first taking the job.

Jobson said Sliwinski, Gilmore and Davis are prepared physically and their time at Baylor has prepared them mentally for the intensity and high competition they will be up against.

“You have to have a consistent practice,” Jobson said. “Those coaches may only be watching you for 10 minutes of the whole session. You have to be at the top of your game at all moments.”

Jobson also expressed her excitement for the future of the program and said this could be a turning point for Baylor soccer.

“We are now turning the corner to not only be a winning program on the field and in the classroom, but also a developmental program for kids who want to play professionally.”

Davis also thinks pursuing a professional career will benefit the program.

“In the future, girls are going to see Baylor as a place that can prepare them to play at the next level.

It’s cool that we can set that precedent for the program,” Davis said.

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Senior left-handed pitcher Whitney Canion will look to bounce back from a knee injury this season. Canion missed all of last year, but two years ago she earned All-American honors for her work on the mound for the Bears.

Softball team gets healthy, changes identity

By Parmida Schahhosseini Sports Writer

Baylor softball finished third in the Big 12 preseason poll.

This is the fourth time in program history that the Bears were chosen third, but the team has high hopes that it can finish better and play competitive ball on the road to go to another world series.

Last year, Baylor softball made the post season. The team entered the NCAA regional tournament and ranked No. 23 despite losing its All-American left-handed pitcher Whitney Canion after she suffered a torn ACL. The team continued to fight though the adversity as senior right-handed pitcher Courtney Repka and junior right-handed pitcher Liz Paul filled in the role of pitching. Sophomore outfielder Kaitlyn Thumann also contributed with big hits.

The team fought hard and came together, finishing 34-22 and making it to the NCAA Regional in Lafayette, La. The team fell in regional play to the Stanford Cardinal.

“I am very excited,” senior infielder Kathy Shelton said. “We had a rough year last year, so I’m excited for our opportunities this year.

I think it’s going to be a lot better than last year.”

Having Canion back on the lineup is a huge confidence booster as several team members noted that their game is different when she is on the field. Canion took the team to the College World Series two years ago and is an impact player. Canion is doing well as she prepares to get ready for the new season.

“I’m just trying to get back to the swing of things,” Canion said.

“I’ve pitched three times this week and hit. Everything feels good right

now. I just have to get back into game shape.”

Having Canion back isn’t the only change the team has made.

They also added new players that will help them transition from a speed team to a power team.

“We’ll have decent speed as a team but a lot more power, “ head coach Glenn Moore said. “So that’s kind of the direction we wanted to go in for the last couple of years to be honest with you.”

The players are excited for the new offense and hopeful that they will enjoy more success with their new power game.

Baylor also brings back 10 letter winners and seven starters off the 2012 squad. This season will be different not only because of the type of offense the team will play, but it’s also who it plays.

After Texas A&M and the University of Missouri left for the

Southeastern Conference, the Big 12 lost two softball teams. This means that the Bears will have to play more non-conference games.

Moore said it was sad to see A&M go because it was nice to have that competition to prepare them for the postseason.

The Bears will have to do a good job of getting tough non-conference opponents in the future.

Many players are still optimistic that the conference games will still be competitive because there are many strong teams.

Baylor softball will begin the 2013 season Feb. 7 at home for the Getterman Classic. The Getterman Classic will include seven home games and will run through Feb. 10.

The opponents will include games against Illinois State, Sam Houston State, Northern Illinois and Southern Mississippi.

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Golf team What should happen to the faces of steroids? all set for The baseball writers voted to keep every player associated with performance-enhancing the start drugs out of the baseball Hall of Fame. Did the voters make the best decision for the game? of season

By Greg DeVries Sports Editor

By Ryan Daugherty Reporter

Football season is over in Waco, but another sport is just around the corner.

The Baylor men’s golf team is just a few weeks away from starting a highly anticipated season.

The Bears look to start the 2013 season the way they finished last season: on top.

Baylor participated in the Warrior Wave Intercollegiate in Hawaii last November and came out in first place, giving them their first win in over a year.

Baylor lost seniors Drew McGee, Joakim Mikkelsen, and Lorenzo Scotto but has added two talented freshmen to the club.

One of the newer faces on the team is Andreas Gjesteby, a freshman from Drammen, Norway.

Though he is one of only two freshmen on the roster, Gjesteby has had a remarkable career up to this point, winning numerous tournaments, including two 2011 Titleist Tournaments at Skjeberg GK and Kragero GK respectively, and the 2012 Norges Cup at Notteroy GK. Gjesteby, however, isn’t satisfied.

He is eager for the UTSA Oak Hills Invitational in San Antonio on Feb. 11 to arrive.

“I am really excited to start playing tournaments again. We have had a really long pause now,” Gjesteby said. “Who’s going to San Antonio isn’t final yet, but I’m going to do everything in my power to get a spot on the team.”

Gjesteby is well prepared for the season but he can already spot differences from golf in Norway.

“We tend to play more rounds of golf outside tournament than I did back home in Norway where I spent most of my time grinding short game, putting or technique,” Gjesteby said.

Gjesteby joins an already talented squad of golfers.

Among those golfers is senior Ryan O’Rear. O’Rear has appeared in three consecutive Big 12 Men’s Golf Championships, and he is motivated to make one last run during his last season as a collegiate golfer.

“It’s my last go around so I’m just going to give everything I’ve got and do whatever I can to help my team get back to nationals,” O’Rear said.

Being a senior, O’Rear now steps into a mentor-like role for incoming freshmen such as Andreas Gjesteby.

O’Rear has advice for the Bears’ newest additions for being successful on the green. “Just work hard,” O’Rear said. “Work on your game.

You know they’re very talented, very good golfers, so they don’t need to change anything. Going back to what I’m saying, they’ve played hard golf courses and tough competitions. They’ll be fine. Just be themselves.”

As the season nears, both Gjesteby and O’Rear have certain goals they wish to accomplish.

For Gjesteby, he looks to carry over his dominance from Norway.

“My main goal would be to play all the tournaments this spring and hopefully place top 10 in at least one of them,” Gjesteby said. “Other than that I keep working on my game.”

As for O’Rear, his goal is for the team to achieve similar success as it did his freshman season.

“It’s mostly team related. You know I want to win a tournament individually but all my goals are just getting our team back where we were freshman year,” O’Rear said.

O’Rear’s freshman season was a success.

He finished 12th overall at the Big 12 Championship, a career best.

When asked about how he felt about the team’s outlook this season, O’Rear sounded confident.

“I think we’ll be fine. Our guys have played for their national teams,” O’Rear said. “I don’t think it’s going to be anything new for them. They’ve played in big events so I expect big things out of them.”

The team will tee off for the first time in 2013 on Feb. 11 at the University of Texas - San Antonio for the UTSA Oak Hills Invitational.

If a player is found to have used performance-enhancing drugs, then that player should not be voted into the Hall of Fame.

About 21 years ago, the Baseball Writers Association of America voted to permanently ban Pete

Sports TAke Rose from the Hall of Fame.

His crime? Betting on baseball games.

Betting on baseball games is definitely not something to be taken lightly, but the fact that Rose gambled didn’t help him reach 4,256 hits, the all-time record.

If Pete Rose is permanently banned from the Hall of Fame, then it would be a travesty (and awfully hypocritical) for other players associated with cheating to have an honorary place in baseball’s history books.

Keeping these players out of the Hall of Fame helps the game of baseball in the long run.

The voters can help make sure that history doesn’t repeat itself.

If the voters send a powerful message and keep all of the known steroid abusers out of the Hall of Fame, then players who are tempted to use the next popular drug will see what is happening now and will know people will find out in the future.

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Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa, shown left to right, have become the faces of the “steroid era.” Despite impressive stats, none have been voted into the baseball Hall of Fame. Bonds and Clemens were named in the Mitchell Report, and Sosa testified before Congress about his innocence.

of Fame and be remembered as one of the greatest players of all time is to stay clean and play baseball the way it was meant to be played.

Even if the cheating was as widespread as some fear it may have been, future players need to know that cheating will not be tolerated.

It’s like the old adage your mother used to tell you.

“If everyone jumped off of a cliff, would you do it too?”

Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa seem to have jumped off of that cliff, and there is no climbing back up.

By Daniel Hill Sports Writer

The endless debate about the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame is overwhelmingly subjective. Baseball writers want to protect the integrity of the Hall of Fame and not let anyone with any connection whatsoever to steroids or other performance enhancing drugs in.

How do the baseball writers, or anyone else for that matter, play judge and jury to know whether or not someone used performance-

enhancing drugs? It’s impossible to figure out. What if someone already is in the Hall who used these drugs? We might never know the truth.

The Hall of Fame is meant to be the history keeper and preserver of baseball history. How can the Hall of Fame pretend like the historic home run record chase of 1998 between Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa didn’t exist? Who is to judge whether or not Jeff Bagwell did steroids? Bagwell had some muscle on his frame, but he was never linked to steroids. How can the Hall of Fame punish Bagwell just because

he was a muscular baseball player?

The voters denied all-time greats like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens from being first-ballot inductees. The bottom line is that players like Bonds and Clemens were the defining ballplayers of the era.

Baseball simply can’t pretend like steroid use was never a part of the game.

Everybody now knows that steroids were rampant in baseball throughout the 1990’s and 2000’s.

It was part of the history of the game, and the Hall of Fame can’t deny it.

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‘Hipster’ style invades record stores, thrift stores, Waco

By Rebecca Fiedler Reporter

They can be found walking around college campuses in their vintage clothes, listening to the strange music of obscure artists through their headphones.

Many people follow their style precedent, yet many find them too egotistical to stand. They are hipsters, and they are taking America’s thrift shops and record stores by storm.

According to “The Indie Cred Test,” a humorous book on the indie and hipster culture by Henry H. Owings and Chunklet magazine, what sets a “hipster” baby apart from any normal infant, among other things, is that when hav-

ing a diaper changed, the hipster child will likely stare at the popcorn ceiling and make connections to a Stephen Hawking theory.

As opposed to normal bedroom trappings, a hipster child will have their room decorated with “black and white photos of infamous heroin addicts.” It also offers a statement to hipsters.

“A lot of people just despise you.

You’re living in the last days. You’re the butt-end of postmodernism, the ultimate shipwreck of American culture, the embodiment of self-absorbed nihilism with a dumb haircut,” said Owings and Chunklet in the book.

In a chart on Cracked.com written by Amaya Perea and designed by Randall Maynard, Perea interprets a number of things that hipsters say as really meaning, “I think I’m better than you.”

Further down the page, past the big chart, a satirical pie chart, anonymously pre-

sented on the page, declares that over half of a hipster’s persona consists of “unwarranted self importance.”

Dr. Lorynn Divita, associate professor in the department of family and consumer sciences, categorizes hipsters as a type of “style tribe,” just as “goths” or “preps” are types of style tribes.

She credits hipsters with being the first to bring to modern popularity vintage T-shirts, trapper hats, Buddy Holly glasses, the mountain-man trend including big beards and flannel shirts, handlebar mustaches, and, most recently, three-wolf-moon T-shirts.

“One thing that separates true hipsters from ‘wannabes’ is an appreciation of the very obscure; a knowing about the trivia involved with various aspects of music or art or beverages, even,” Divita said.

Hipsters, she added, are no different than any other style tribe. The hipster movement contains three distinct groups that are characteristic of a style tribe: those people who are innovators of the style, those people in the majority, and finally those people who are “wannabes” or posers.

Davita said that one trait that sets hipsters apart from other style tribes, however, is their affluence.

“They don’t really stand for anything, unlike some other groups,” Divita said.

Divita said the common theme of being a hipster is an appreciation of irony. Everything they do is adopted in an ironic sense.

“When the mainstream adopts it,” she said, “it’s without irony.

They’ve seen it and gotten used to it, and they think it looks cool.”

Jake Patterson, a Common Grounds coffee shop employee and self-proclaimed hipster, said he had difficulty defining the hipster style and that to him, it is a collaboration of things that can’t be put into words.

“The idea of a hipster or ‘hip’ culture is the rejection of whatever the social norm is,” Patterson said.

Holden Whatley, Patterson’s coworker and another self-proclaimed hipster, said the hipster culture is a primarily college-aged movement for people who reject being labeled, but do not

want to lose recognition within their own culture.

Divita described hipster style as an evolving trend. After people in mainstream culture saw hipsters wearing some of their signature hipster clothes, those in mainstream culture began to follow suit.

She said that after a while, people began to develop a taste for hipster style, then the hipsters had to move on.

“I can tell you only one thing about ‘coolness,’” Divita said. “Once everybody’s doing it, it’s not cool.”

In terms of the music aspect of the hipster culture, however, Whatley finds

“One thing that separates true hipsters from ‘wannabes’ is an appreciation of the very obscure; a knowing about the trivia involved with various aspects of music or art, or beverages, even.”

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that hyper-accepted, popular music doesn’t dissuade him. It actually makes the music more comfortable to him.

What bothers him is when bands that he was really into and whose music he had a personal connection with become popular.

He says that he accepts “his” music becoming popular because it’s music’s job to grow up, but he feels less connected with a band once it takes off.

“It’s not because everyone knows about it and now it’s not cool,” Patterson said in regards to losing connection with a band’s music that has become

popular. “It’s just more of a personal thing.”

Divita said being insulted or feeling hurt or angry when a trend one has a personal connection with becomes popular is not unique to hipsters. She said there is a big tendency in any style tribe to regard anyone new to the scene as less authentic.

Patterson said hip culture is about being more aware. He doesn’t see it as narcissism.

Patterson said he disagrees that rejecting popular culture is necessarily a factor in the hipster style.

For example, when he’s at work, Patterson said, sometimes he loves to hear Katy Perry music because he thinks that she’s talented, though his reasons for liking her would be different than someone else’s. He really does like to listen to her, Patterson said, because he likes her music and not to mock her.

Whatley said that he intentionally pushes himself outside of his comfort zone and listens to new types of music.

For a while he said he dumped out a lot of his iTunes library and put late 1970s to 1990s hip-hop on his iPod so that he wouldn’t have his comfort zone of musical styles and would be forced to explore that type of music.

Eventually he found himself only wanting to listen to hip-hop. After he learned more about it and gained a respect for it, he was able to appreciate it.

Divita said all style groups think that they’re better than everybody else, not just hipsters. All style groups have an egocentric viewpoint, she claimed.

Hipsters, she added, are one of the most recent tribes to spring up; that’s why she believes the narcissism stereotype is put on hipsters.

“I think they’d be disappointed to hear they’re more

like everybody else than they’d want to imagine,” Divita said.

Whatley said the stereotyping of hipsters as narcissists is natural because of what hipsters do, which is things for themselves. “‘Hipster’ means that you are -- to break down narcissism -- self-oriented,” Whatley said. “Thoughts of self, thoughts of one’s own perspective on things, thoughts of one’s own preferences, thoughts of how other people view and receive you as a person.”

Patterson said that people might think that, as hipsters, he and Whatley reject “mainstream style” people, but that he has many friends w h o don’t share his p a rticu-

lar style.

He claimed that it’s more important for a person to be true to who they truly are; their specific interests are not as important.

“Don’t ever hide,” Whatley said, advice for anyone in the mainstream culture. “Don’t ever tell yourself that you need to follow the social trend, this norm, to be accepted, loved and Ph oto by s b respected yM att anyone.”

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‘Hobbit’ fails to impress those who loved book

By Ashley Davis Copy Editor

Category: Action and Adventure, Science Fiction and Fantasy Run time: 2 hr. 50 min.

Directed by: Peter Jackson Written by: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Guillermo del Toro, J.R.R. Tolkien 65% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes For those of you that saw “The Hobbit,” please hear me out. If you disagree with my views, feel free to contact me, and we’ll hold a public forum at your earliest convenience.

Reactions to these kinds of movies can always be divided into two categories: 1) those that have read the books 2) those that haven’t. I fall into the former.

If you haven’t read the books, most of this column will not apply to you.

On opening night, I came to the theater with high expectations, as I loved the other Lord of the Rings movies.

This was perhaps my downfall.

As an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy, I have great respect for J.R.R. Tolkien’s works. I’ve read the Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit respectively and think they are great books that everyone should at least be familiar with.

When you admittedly and unashamedly love something, you set yourself up for disappointment or

even disillusionment for when that thing (or person) inevitably fails you. Nothing will ever sway my love for the books, but seeing “The Hobbit” movie was one of the lowest, most underwhelming points of my life.

First of all, splitting it into three movies? Unnecessary. I think it’s a sham and an exploitation of true Tolkien fans’ time. I hated “The Hobbit” movie, but I’m going to see the next movie and the next because I have to see whether Peter Jackson will destroy Tolkien’s good work again or do a halfway decent job.

The movie was incredibly long.

That’s what made it all the more disappointing. The whole time,

in my mind I kept saying, “This is going to get better.” But it never did. And then it was over.

When I stood up to leave my legs were hurting, and not because the seats were uncomfortable.

I also think the director took way too much creative license with

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the story. The brown wizard isn’t in the book at all, and the “pale” orc was unnecessary as well as inaccurate.

I understand that for production purposes there must be some leeway given for the sake of time and details must be reworked to fit a video timeline, but in this case it was too much.

The acting was subpar. Gandalf (Ian McKellen) was the only redeeming presence among the lot.

Bilbo, played by Martin Freeman, was true to character in looks and had a good start. But after they left the Shire, it was downhill from there.

The special effects were disappointing as well. Throughout the movie, I couldn’t understand why the special effects were so crummy when The Lord of the Rings trilogy, made years ago, was amazing in quality with less advanced technology.

I will concede that the soundtrack was great, but you should expect nothing less of Howard Shore. Peter Jackson, on the other hand, should’ve known better.

Bottom line, this movie was hard to get through. Even putting aside my more critical expectations as a journalist and as a fan of the books, it was hard to get through.

Shame on you, Peter Jackson!

This undated publicity photo released by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. shows Jessica Chastain, as Maya, a member of the elite team of spies and military operatives stationed in a covert base overseas, who secretly devoted themselves to finding Osama Bin Laden in Columbia Pictures’ new thriller, “Zero Dark Thirty.”

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ is fiction that reflects reality about CIA

By Caroline Brewton Editor-In-Chief

Category: Drama Run time: 2 hr. 37 min.

Directed by: Katherine Bigelow Written by: Mark Boal 93% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes Zero Dark Thirty is a spy-thriller that blends fiction with details dug up by the film’s creators in conjunction with the CIA. Even the film’s trailer, which shows censor bars being erased from the title, implies that secrets will be uncovered. “Thirty” recounts the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

The movie follows the story of Maya, a young intelligence agent who joins a task force to help in the search for bin Laden. Maya is played by Jessica Chastain, whose delicate features and young-sounding voice belie the strength of her character. Chastain’s Maya is tough and dedicated; it is Maya’s dogged steeliness, the movie suggests, that ultimately led to bin Laden’s capture. Maya’s character, who, based on her traits and personality, could have been shallow and undeveloped if portrayed by a lesser actress, shone through Chastain’s performance.

While the acting was a draw

for some to see the film, if other elements like dialogue or plot had been weaker, the strength of the actors would not have been enough.

Filmmakers face a monumental task to create suspense in a movie where the audience already knows how the story will end. By revealing details about the inner workings of the CIA during the period, including controversial depictions of torture, the movie achieves the suspense necessary to carry the audience through.

The film’s depiction of torture, which drew criticism from some quarters, mostly occurs early in the film. While it’s uncomfortable, it isn’t so explicit that I had to leave the theater (I’m personally uncomfortable with graphic depictions of torture). Instead, the heavy stuff is implied: for example, the battered face of a detainee is shown as opposed to the actual beating, and the filmmakers rely heavily on the use of dialogue to convey the gist of what’s happening.

I wouldn’t call the film pro-torture, although some have argued the film suggests the torture of detainees ultimately led to finding bin Laden. I can see where that interpretation comes from: such might be the case of one elderly gentleman who answers Maya’s questions eagerly after expressing a wish not

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to undergo torture again. However, one prisoner named Ammar, who is kept at a CIA cite for interrogation, only answers the agents’ questions once the agents have taken him out of his cell and given him a meal, and not under torture.

Instead of revealing a clear position, I believe the film leaves room for ambiguity; it suggests you can’t form neat groups of good guys and bad guys. Instead, these larger groups -- Americans versus their enemies -- are made of individuals whose distinct narratives help to form impressions of the whole.

The good guys in this film use torture. The bad guys are shown vulnerable, naked and at the mercy of their American captors. And some are cowardly -- spilling secrets so as not to be hurt.

It’s about individuals. Real nations --real stories-- are about individuals who don’t follow a fairy tale format with clearly delineated moral lines.

This film is brilliant because it provides a look at real life through the lens of fiction.

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Baylor students host Waco’s first music and film fest

By Rob Bradfield Assistant City Editor

A small group of people is trying to change Waco’s image in the music and film world.

The group is Waco Arts-Media and their event is the Waco Independent Media Expo.

The Expo is the brainchild of the three co-founders of Waco Arts-Media: Owen McGrath, Abilene senior Mackenzie Wilson and Waco senior Ben Palich.

It was born out of an idea to expand The 8th Street Film Festival, a project started in part by Palich and Wilson, and to help put Waco on the increasingly growing Texas independent entertainment map.

It was a small film festival held at Common Grounds.

“Even though not all of us are from Waco initially, we are all Wacoans in our own right,” Wilson said.

The Expo is divided into two parts. The film festival will be held on March 6 at the Dancing Bear and the music festival will be held on March 7 at Common Grounds.

According to the event coordinators, the Expo will try to connect the Waco music and film scenes with each other and the larger Texas communities.

“It’s more ‘Texas local’ than solely ‘Waco local’,” McGrath said.

The idea of “Texas Local” comes through most prominently

in the music lineup.

The Expo’s schedule blends local music staples like Kat Dixon (Married with Sea Monsters) and O, Loveland with up-andcoming bands from across the state such as headliner Bobby Jealousy (Austin) and Hydra Melody (San Antonio).

The music starts at 1 p.m. and continues all day.

Common Grounds’ live event coordinator, Wes Butler, has been working closely with the Waco Arts-Media team and is an eager partner. He has been using his experience in the

Texas music scene to draw in talent for the music side of the Expo.

“We love promoting arts in every facet that we can,” Butler said.

The film portion of the Expo will be hosted in the backyard of the Dancing Bear, at 1117 Speight Ave. On its website, the Expo promises to screen some of “the best independent and student films made in this great state of Texas.”

According to the organizers, the film festival is a way to get new

filmmakers exposure beyond what they could get at their Universities.

“Universities are great for many things, but it’s not their prerogative to give people exposure,” Palich said.

The list of films showing hasn’t been released yet, but they will all be student or independent short films from across the state. The film area at the Dancing Bear will be 18 and up, while the inside will remain 21 and up. Interested filmmakers may submit their shorts for the festival until Feb. 28 by sending Palich an email at Ben_Palich@ baylor.edu with a link to their Vimeo or YouTube account.

The third part of the event is the little-talked-about “After.” It’s an

event at a currently undisclosed location for participants in both the film and music festivals, and a select number of Gold Pass holders. “‘After’ was an idea to give filmmakers and musicians a chance to mingle and build connections between those communities,” McGrath said.

Tickets range in price from $10 for the film festival and $15 for the music festival. A silver pass is available for $20, which grants access to both film and music, and a limited number of gold passes are available for $30 that include entrance to the film festival, the music festival and the “After” event.

Tickets can be purchased at wacoartsmedia.com.

Meet your maker: Searching for the perfect cup of coffee

By Stacy Downs The Kansas City Star Via McClatchy-Tribune

So deep is my passion for coffee that I’m excited each night to wake up to it each morning. I love the ritual of grinding beans, pouring filtered water and brewing, because it results in a product that looks, smells and tastes divine.

Recently, my darling drip machine died. I’d always been forgiving of its temperamental nature because it delivered such a satisfying cup. I sought a quick store replacement because the thought of going a day without home-brewed coffee was just too much to bear.

I found a cutie of a coffee maker, better looking than my last one. This new model was white everywhere, except a glass carafe. It featured the stylish simplicity of just one button. And the price was right at a little more than $30.

But it wasn’t the same. It left a burned aftertaste and produced a muddy cup. So I went looking for Mr. Goodpot.

I’m not alone in my search.

Coffee makers are a popular homerelated holiday gift, especially onecup machines like the Keurig that allow you to brew French roast, French vanilla or whatever strikes your fancy that day. And then there are manual methods like French press and pour-overs that are becoming popular at coffee shops. Percolators are even making a nostalgic hipster return.

I wondered if more expensive drip machines were worth the price tag. In my quest, I sought scientific knowledge.

Ben Helt of Benetti’s Coffee Experience in Raytown, Mo., is a coffee roaster who teaches home coffee-brew classes. We analyzed my $30 coffee maker and determined how to make it better.

Marty and Tooti Roe of Service Call clean coffee machines throughout the area at independently owned shops and at fastfood chains. About a year ago they opened About the Coffee, a coffeeequipment store open to the public in an industrial section of Kansas City, Mo.

At The Roasterie in Kansas City, Mo., owner Danny O’Neill hooked me up with coffee tasters, Some of the company’s top baristas also joined us to determine the flavor differences produced by a variety of equipment. We used one bag of beans and seven kinds of makers.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE At the Roasterie’s cupping room, we put seven sets of equipment in five categories of brew methods both machine and manual and to the test using filtered water, clean equipment and the same bag of whole beans, the Roasterie’s Don Quijote of Costa Rica. The beans were ground just before brewing.

POUR OVER (Best for baristas and foodies.)

The equipment: The Hario V60 ceramic funnel. It’s a manual brewing method, allowing you to brew coffee right into your cup.

Pros: -Rich flavor.

-Allows control of brewing time and temperature so the coffee is just the way you like it.

-You can get intimate with your coffee, watching it bloom and brew.

Cons: -You have to baby your coffee, watching the kettle for the right temperature and wetting the filter before adding coffee.

-Although it’s manual, it requires equipment, including an electronic gram scale (about $30) to weigh ground coffee and water and a kettle.

Models with an electronic reading are best because 200 degrees is the magic number, rather than the boiling point of 212. Those will set you back $60.

One way to save money is to buy a plastic funnel instead of a Hario V60. Coffee geeks like the Clever, which is about half the price.

-Makes one cup at a time.

Stacy’s tasting notes: Coffee from the V60 was my second fa-

vorite overall. I tasted the full body of the coffee first, not the water.

The equipment: Chemex drip coffee carafe. Grounds should be placed in the cone-shaped filter at the top and hot water poured over them. The wood collar with leather tie serves as an insulated handle.

Pros: -Makes more than one cup.

-Allows control of brewing time and temperature so the coffee is just the way you like it.

-Also allows you to get up close and personal with your coffee, watching the brewing process.

Cons: -Requires its own kind of paper filter that you can’t always find at the grocery store.

-You have to baby your coffee, watching the kettle for the right temperature and wetting the filter before adding coffee.

-Although it’s manual, it requires more equipment, including a scale and kettle.

Stacy’s tasting notes: I tasted the water first, coffee second. Although it had a clean-water taste, that’s what I didn’t like about it.

DRIP: ONE-CUP (Best for divided households and for those who don’t want it strong.)

The equipment: A cup of premeasured grounds is inserted into your single-serving machine.

Pros: -You can have hot cider one day, coffee another, hot chocolate another.

-No mess from grounds when using prepackaged cups.

-Fast.

Cons: -Wasteful to use disposable

cups.

-Expensive (roughly 60 cents per cup vs. 15 cents if you grind your own).

-Flavor is watery because extraction time is so short (1 minute).

-Coffee can be stale in the prepackaged cups.

Stacy’s tasting notes: We replaced the Keurig K cup with an Ekobrew reusable filter and freshly ground beans. Although the cup was filled to the max, the result was still a watery, weak cup of coffee. Almost a tie with my least-favorite cup.

DRIP: MULTICUP (Best for a household with working parents and

young kids.)

The equipment: A machine that can brew 10 cups of coffee at the magic number temperature of 200 degrees.

Pros: - Brews a lot.

- Cone-shape filter for proper extraction.

Cons: - Expensive Stacy’s tasting notes: This was my third favorite cup of coffee, following the French press and V60.

I could taste the coffee first, water second.

FRENCH PRESS (Best for lovers of bold coffee.)

The equipment: Stainless steel with a Pyrex glass liner.

Pros: - Extracts oils from the coffee.

- The least-expensive method.

- Not much babying.

Cons: - Hard to clean (it contains no filter).

- Leaves a trace of grounds in your cup.

- This isn’t the maker for you if you like more nuanced coffees.

Stacy’s tasting notes: The coffee looks like it has an oil slick on top, a characteristic of a French press

extraction. The flavor was divinely rich. My favorite!

VACUUM (Best for show-off entertainers and mad scientists.)

The equipment: Laboratorylike glass chambers heated by a flame at the bottom. Butane burners work best. Here’s how it works: Pour water into the bottom glass and insert the top chamber. Heat the burner, adjusting it for a slow boil. Water will rise into the upper glass and saturate the waiting grounds. Wait about 2 minutes for flavor to be extracted from the grounds, remove the flame, and the condensation in the bottom bowl will create a vacuum and will draw the coffee down through the tube and filter into the lower glass.

Pros: -Looks super-cool.

-Produces a clean brew.

Cons: -Pricey (burners need to be purchased separately).

Stacy’s tasting notes: This coffee reminded me of the brew from the Chemex. Both contain a noticeably clean taste.

PERCOLATOR (Best for those who want their home to smell just like Grandma and Grandpa’s.)

The equipment: A pot with a small chamber at the bottom close to the heat source. A vertical tube leads from this chamber to the top of the percolator. Just below the upper end of this tube is a perforated chamber for course coffee grounds.

Pros: - Incredible aroma, like coffee potpourri.

- The price is right.

Cons: - A harsh-tasting cup of coffee, because the water has gotten too hot (boiling point) and circulates through the grounds, causing over-extraction.

Stacy’s tasting notes: Compared with coffees brewed in the other

makers, this one tasted burned _ and this was just after it brewed.

My least-favorite cup. There’s a reason these fell out of favor in the early 1970s.

LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH (BUT WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A NEW ONE) Honestly, my $30 coffee maker doesn’t have much going for it except that it’s cute and cheap.

“It’s only got one button, which is good,” says Helt. Here’s what he advises: - Look for the absence of unnecessary features.

- The wattage should be higher than 1,000.

- Thermal carafes are good. It keeps your coffee warm. My former maker kept it warm for hours.

My new one, with a glass carafe, stays only hot (burned tasting) or cold.

- Check out the filter. You want one that requires paper filters. The permanent filters get stained with old coffee, which affects flavor. Conical ones are best.

- Invest in a burr grinder. This slices rather than smashes whole beans. Burr grinders start at about $50.

- Keep it clean. Marty Roe of About the Coffee suggests using 1 tablespoon of citric acid (from stores such as Whole Foods) to 1 gallon of water to clean your machine a few times a month.

- Clean the pot and filter basket daily. For manual equipment, clean with liquid dishwashing detergent and rinse well. To remove coffee oils (the brown staining that is rancid coffee, not “seasoning”) Roe recommends Puro cleaner.

COFFEE-WATER RATIOS Recommended ratio for that perfect cup: 2 tablespoons freshly ground coffee for every cup of filtered water.

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Cafe to add variety to Waco scene by opening club

By Ashley Davis Copy Editor

After almost two years of operation, Legacy Café and Art Gallery is looking to energize its clientele.

James Lafayette, owner and manager of the café, has announced plans to open a private club in the upstairs section of the building that has been largely unused.

Lafayette said the club would feature a TV/lounge area where customers can relax. There will be two adjacent rooms, one for foosball and air hockey and other arcade-like games, and one quieter

room for cards, chess or reading.

Lafayette said dues would be $50 per month and VIP cards would be issued to participating customers once they pay for membership. Members will have to present the VIP cards to gain access.

“I want it to be different from Treff ’s or Metro,” Lafayette said.

“My inspiration was just talking to people and seeing what they wanted.”

Lafayette said the club would also have a stage and live music scheduled on Fridays and Saturdays. The downstairs café would

close at 10 p.m. and the upstairs club would be open from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.

Though the upstairs club is still under construction, Lafayette said he hopes it will be ready for a dry run in April and ready for full business by Sept. 1. Lafayette said the café has struggled along with the rest of downtown Waco for the past several months.

“Business is rough, but it’s better when I have music. We don’t do a good job of promoting downtown as a whole in Waco,” Lafayette said.

Southlake senior and frequent

customer Amara Oji expressed enthusiasm and support for the upstairs club. She said she hopes it improves Lafayette’s business. “I think it can be a good thing if it’s done successfully and managed well,” Oji said.

Oji said she is aware that business has been slow for Lafayette.

“I think it would be best for him to promote his café’s location and make it known to people who want to do events,” Oji said. “Without the right advertisement it’s going to be hard for him to find new customers.”

Oji also performs original

songs and poetry occasionally on Legacy’s jazz nights (Fridays).

Though the café is located in prime real estate in the center of downtown Waco, Lafayette said business is slow.

The Hippodrome Theater, located directly across the street, is undergoing renovations and the developers have announced plans to reopen the building as a theater/ restaurant.

“I’m not sure how this will affect business,” Lafayette said. “The city needs more diversity of things to do. Not another bar or restaurant.”

Located at 723 Austin Ave., Legacy Café has been a new music and art venue since it’s opening in June 2011.

The café features the work of local artists and live musicians on weekends.

The art displayed on the walls and in the hall of the café are those of aspiring artists in the Waco area and many pieces are for sale.

On Friday, Legacy Café will host Solid State, a jazz band made up of Baylor students and then Dreamboat on Saturday.

Both shows are free and open to the public.

World-renowned pianist comes to BU for Lyceum series

By Rebecca Fiedler Reporter

Baylor University sees its share of talent come and go as it often hosts famous guests, and it will uphold that legacy by hosting critically acclaimed pianist, Joyce Yang.

Yang will perform at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday in Roxy Grove Hall, as part of the Lyceum series. Yang will be treating audience members to a plethora of musical pieces, from works of Chopin and Beethoven to George Gershwin’s “The Man I Love.”

Yang’s concert is free and open

to the public.

“She, in my opinion is the most complete pianist of her age I’ve heard ever in my lifetime,” said Dr. Bradley Bolen, lecturer in piano and member of the Lyceum Committee, the organization that will be hosting Yang at Baylor.

Bolen said Yang is not an average pianist. Yang won the silver medal at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2005, at the age of 19.

Bolen said this was a young age for a pianist to be winning a medal at the “Olympics of pianists.”

“In every generation you’ll have

10 or 12 young virtuosos that have this amazing technique that ever y body’s excited about, and very often they don’t ever mature,” Bolen said. “ S h e comes not only with Joyce Yang the technical package, but she is such a mature musician,” Bolen said. “She has a lot

of nuance to her playing that you wouldn’t expect from someone 26 years old. You expect it from someone who’s lived this full career.”

Bolen said playing piano music involves a balance of doing what the performer wants with the music and playing how the composer wanted the piece to be played.

“It’s not like pop music where I do what I want when I want to do it,” he continued. “You’re trying to create this window through which people can kind of travel back through time.”

Bolen said Yang has a deep understanding of style, and can really

communicate to an audience. Her sense of timing is more mature than other pianists.

Her characterization of sound is great, Bolen said. She is versatile, playing a variety of music.

Bolen found it impossible to explain the intangibles that characterize Yang’s playing. He described it as “sophisticated” and colorful.”

“There’s a certain amount of mystery that goes into music making, and if we understood it all, we wouldn’t necessarily be attracted to it. She has that quality of being provocative when she plays. It’s the intangibles you hear in her playing

that often define her character. It’s our quirks that make us have personality, and it’s a balancing act between letting those quirks get out of control and then doing what we think the composer wants us to do.

She walks that balance very well.”

Three students will play for Yang in a master class, which is a small lesson given to a few people in front of an audience. She will give each of them a lesson in their playing after they perform for her.

“I’m really excited to meet her,” Bolen said. “I hope I get to talk to her.”

Artist uses Hostess snack cakes to re-create historical pieces of art

By Martin Griffith Associated Press

Long before Hostess Brands’ plan to shut down made Twinkies the rage, Nancy Peppin found something special about the cream-filled snack cakes.

No, she doesn’t have a sweet tooth for them.

But she has featured Twinkies in hundreds of pieces of quirky, satirical artwork because of an obsession with what she calls the “ultimate American food icon.”

The prolific Reno artist says she was first influenced to focus on Twinkies in 1975 by Andy Warhol, who demonstrated that even a Campbell’s soup can could be an object of art.

“He showed you a new way of looking at a familiar object,” said Peppin, who has sold and exhibited her artwork. “That’s what I’m doing with Twinkies. I’m having people look at Twinkies in a brand new way and in an entertaining way.”

Shortly after Hostess Brands Inc. announced plans to go out of business last year, Peppin was among those who joined the rush to stores to fill shopping carts with boxes of the spongy cakes.

But unlike others, she didn’t

buy 12 boxes with 10 Twinkies each to turn a profit on eBay or Craigslist.

“I needed art supplies,” said Peppin, who uses Twinkies and their packaging to create some of her pieces. She also features renderings of the snack cakes in watercolor paintings, mixed media, prints and artwork.

Her works include her “Twinkies in history series,” which portrays how scientists such as John James Audubon, Charles Darwin and Leonardo da Vinci would have sketched and written about Twinkies in journals or books.

Peppin, an Oakland, Calif., native who earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966, conducted extensive research to make the series seem as authentic as possible.

Her Audubon series on the “North American Twinkie (twinkopus hostus)” includes illustrations of three “important subspecies — Cream-bellied Twinkie, Strawberry-throated Twinkie, Golden-backed Twinkie” — as well as writings describing the “birds” and explaining their migration patterns.

“Twinkies radiate out from

the spring St. Louis breeding area to the summer nesting habitats throughout the world. Populations are heaviest in the North American 7-11 meridian,” she wrote.

St. Louis and 7-Eleven stores both share a long history with Hostess and its brands.

She updated the Audubon series after Hostess shut down operations in November: “It went from being the most popular snack cake in the world to sudden extinction due to consumption by raptors — capitalist vultures (cathartes wallstreetidae).”

Her painting titled “The Last Snack” is a takeoff of da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” featuring Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Ho Hos and other Hostess products at a table with the same arrangement and background as da Vinci’s classic.

Her parody of a “girly” calendar from an auto body shop features a partially undressed “Miss Twinkie” standing next to her Harley.

The artwork reflects the offbeat sense of humor of a woman who by day creates special effects animation for Reno-based International Game Technology, one of the world’s largest slot machine makers.

Steven High, executive director of the John and Mable Ringling

Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla., said he finds Peppin’s artwork — and use of Twinkies as a metaphor to explore various subjects — clever, humorous and imaginative.

“In some ways, she takes this kind of silly item and treats it as a cultural artifact and imagines it as a subject of scientific studies,” he said.

“She’s an excellent illustrator and the way she pulls these (works) together is amazing. They’re fascinating and draw you in, even though the subject matter is unusual.”

Peppin foresees no end to her obsession. With many potential buyers lined up for Hostess brands, she says, Twinkies will survive into the future.

Hostess is expected to announce a bidder for Twinkies and its other snack cakes this month.

Other interested parties will be able to make competing offers once the top bid is announced.

“It’ll become a mutation of the species, but it’ll perpetuate the species,” Peppin said.

“There are all sorts of history applications that I haven’t exhausted like Twinkies being found in the ruins at Pompeii.”

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