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Friday | October 18, 2013

From ashes to tats Many people use body art to cope with death

By Paula Ann Solis Staff Writer

In a world of fleeting moments and memories, the 21st century has embraced an old idea to hold on to the past forever — tattoos.

Dr. Candi Cann, assistant professor in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core, has researched in detail the many ways people are choosing to remember the dead. Specifically, she has studied the occurrence of makeshift roadside memorials, Internet memorials, car decal memorials and tattoos.

“People have a need to remember the dead and these memorials are a response to disappearing religious rituals surrounding the dead,” Cann said. “You see a lot of memorials instead of traditional religious funerals. You also see a rise in cremation, so you have the corpse disappearing from our everyday experience.”

Cann said funeral services were once held in a family’s home with the body in the house and, in some cultures, family members would wash the body before the burial. It was a hands-on SEE

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Three generations later, the legacy continues This family doesn’t mess around when it comes to bleeding the green, gold

By Rayne Brown Reporter

Three generations and 14 family members — a family of Baylor legacies.

A resonating family presence on campus doesn’t give legacy students any preferential treatment over an average Baylor student. Waco junior Rachael Brown and Dallas sophomore Caty Beth Holstead know this all too well. They are cousins, and are only a small portion of the longstanding Allen legacy family.

Dr. A. Dale Allen, a recently retired professor from the Hankamer School of Business, and his wife, Anita Allen, both attended and met at Baylor.

Since then, the green and gold has held strong in their family.

The Allens sent four of their five children to Baylor. From those four children, eight out of 16 grandchildren currently attend Baylor as well.

“We definitely all love Baylor,” Brown said. “So many of us have gone to Baylor so it’s like that’s our thing. We’re just a Baylor family.”

Baylor has been in the family for years, but each family member’s experience has been different. Whether it’s differences in time periods, majors or the ending of a legacy at Floyd Casey, each person has had an individual experience. Even a multitude of campus visits can’t compare to of-

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Dr. A. Dale Allen and his wife, Anita Allen, started their family legacy at Baylor three generations ago. Now, eight of their grandchildren keep the tradition by embracing life at BU.

ficially being a Baylor Bear.

Holstead said that before coming to Baylor she had spent alot of time on campus with her brother and cousins, but still wasn’t sure of what to expect when she be-

came a student.

“It was actually better,” Holstead said.

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Despite rain, stadium on track to open fall 2014

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Construction for Baylor stadium has been going full speed since the start. It is set to open in the fall of 2014.

The construction of the new Baylor Stadium, projected to be open by the first football game of 2014, is on schedule.

“It’s an aggressive schedule from the very start,” said Jim Heley, the senior project manager for Austin-Flintco. “We knew that going in.”

Heley was referring to the six-day workweeks that construction crews often carry out. Brian Nicholson, associate vice president for facility, planning and construction, said some workdays can range from 18 to 24 hours.

This pace has been kept from the beginning of the project. Nicholson said last week he estimated 470 workers to be on site and anticipates between 600 to 700 workers in the late fall or early spring.

“Our focus here at this point has been getting the structure up,” Nicholson said. “Now we’re going to focus on getting the windows in and the roof on so we can start building out some of the finished spaces here in the club and suites.”

Though the project is currently on schedule, the weather has been an obstacle. Heley said they will probably have to work this Sunday because of weather setbacks that occurred this week. Rain prevents the pouring of concrete and working with cranes becomes dangerous. According to the National Weather Service, Waco has received 3.59 inches of rain in the past week.

“The rain certainly is not helpful at least to the project, but I’m sure the community and the state of Texas appreciates it,” Nicholson said. “If we could find a way for it to rain everywhere but there it would be a ben SEE

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Student alliance brings talents to life

By Abigail Loop Reporter

The artistic passions of Baylor students can now be expanded and shared.

Austin sophomore Nathan Elequin has created an independent organization that helps Baylor students pursue their creative talents.

Elequin said he is giving Baylor students a chance to explore their passions and become better at doing what they love by joining Bearthology, a collaborative group of students who are interested in different aspects of the arts.

Students who have talents in music, dance, film, poetry, visual and digital art, graphic design, theater speech or photography make up the organization.

Elequin said he came up with the idea of Bearthology when he was a freshman at Baylor.

“I explored a lot of organizations,” Elequin said. “Swing Dancing, After Dark, Uproar, you name it. But I realized I had the most fun sitting down and producing music for my friends. I loved the experience when their face lit up when their music was heard. So I decided to get everyone together and make a network.”

Elequin spent this last summer researching and working on plans to create this network, now known as Bearthology.

“I researched aggregators and wanted to do a lot more with people’s passions,” he said. “I wanted to take music and put it on iTunes, maybe get some writing and get it on Nooks and at Barnes and Nobles. I want to do that for people.”

Now, Bearthology is up and running and has 48 active artists, all hoping for their art to become known and to become professional artists one day.

The purpose of Bearthology is to help produce student’s talents to achieve these goals. All departments work with one another on different projects to show each departments set of skills. Whether making a song, filming a video or writing poetry, students work together to make a finished product. A singer could record a song and then a music video could be made by other departments, such as film and digital and visual art.

“We emphasize collaboration. It maximizes the potential to be discovered one day by helping each other,” Elequin said. “They get the experience and thrill of trying new things and then also have the opportunity to promote one another.”

Rockwell sophomore Taylor Neely, an officer of photography for Bearthology, said she thinks the aspect of collaboration the coolest thing about the organization.

“The collaboration between departments of Bearthology is great,” Neely said. “The poets will write something and then give it to the SEE

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Breast cancer awareness shouldn’t be this profitable It’s October, and that means it’s breast cancer awareness month.

Cancer is a horrible disease that scientists will hopefully find a cure for soon, and during breast cancer awareness month, people are called to donate toward research organizations.

Some organizations, however, have turned these pink ribbons into green stacks of cash.

The NFL gives its players pink gloves, shoes, towels and equipment to draw attention to breast cancer.

To raise money, the NFL started “A Crucial Catch,” a program that sells pink NFL accessories, apparel and regular items donned with the famous pink ribbon.

One hundred percent of the net proceeds are donated to the American Cancer Society, according to the NFL. What the NFL does not tell you is what ESPN’s Darren Rovell released.

For every $100 in pink NFL gear sold, $50 goes to the retailer, $37.50 goes to the manufacturer and the NFL takes $1.25.

This leaves $11.25 for the American Cancer Society, but the buck doesn’t stop there.

Of that original $100, only $8.01 goes toward actual cancer research.

The rest goes to the American Cancer Society’s other expenses.

The NFL is drawing a lot of attention toward breast cancer, and that is certainly admirable. Now the league just needs to put its money where its mouth is.

This means it needs to stop making a profit off of breast cancer awareness and start pushing part of its own revenue, which Forbes estimates will be more than $9 billion, toward the cause.

The American Cancer Society doesn’t get off scot-free either. According to the Charity Navigator website, the American Cancer Society uses 71.2 percent of its income to fund actual research and services related to breast cancer.

While we applaud the company for being transparent with how its money is allocated, it needs to funnel more money into research and services.

Charity Watch claims that the American Cancer Society CEO John R. Seffrin received $2.4 million in compensation in the 20092010 fiscal year.

The American Cancer Society spent nearly $20 million more than it took in, and this forced the company to reassess how it distributes money.

According to its most recent 990 IRS filings, Seffrin’s compensation is down to more than $832,000.

Some say that this is still too much for a nonprofit company.

New York, New Jersey, Florida and Massachusetts have all attempted to put a cap on highly compensated employees at nonprofit organizations that receive public funding.

Massachusetts attempted to cap executive pay at $500,000.

Florida took this a lot further and tried to set its cap at $130,000.

No such legislation has gotten enough support to become law, however.

While Seffrin’s pay was slashed, another highly compensated employee received a raise.

According to the organization’s 990 IRS filings, Nancy Brinker, founder and chair of Global Strategy for Susan G. Komen, received $417,000 for the 2010-2011 fiscal year, but the company decided to raise her total compensation to $696,717.

Unfortunately, this problem of highly compensated employees extends to many more charities.

According to Bloomberg, CEOs of the largest U.S. foundations and charities receive an average annual compensation of nearly $430,000, and this number is trending upward.

In theory, these organizations exist to help those impacted by cancer. In practice, they are profiting off caring people who want to help.

Cancer is not a business. If you would like to help people in need instead of pouring money into greedy pockets, do your homework and find out where your money is actually going. The Charity Navigator website will give you a breakdown of how a charity allocates its funds.

Find a responsible charity and donate to it.

In the case of the NFL, the American Cancer Society and Susan G. Komen, you won’t like where your money goes.

United States soccer fans should be proud of team’s win The U.S. national soccer team had the decision resting at its feet on whether or not to guarantee Mexico’s elimination from World Cup qualification.

All it had to do was lose against Panama on Tuesday night. Deep into stoppage time, down 2-1, midfielder Graham Zusi and forward Aron Johannsson scored to give the U.S. a comeback 3-2 win.

This win stirred up plenty of controversy among U.S. fans.

Should the U.S. have given up so that Mexico wouldn’t qualify?

America is about having a winner’s mentality. Why are the Olympics so popular in America? It’s because we like to watch our country dominate across the tournament every four years.

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cans want to see winners on their national soccer team as well. We want to be the best.

Many fans, such as myself, were watching the game on Tuesday ac-

tually hoping the U.S. would end up losing the Panama game. That way, Mexico would be disqualified.

Surely, U.S. fans should want nothing more than to see Mexico, their arch rivals, suffer the embarrassment of missing out on the World Cup in Brazil next summer.

On the contrary, U.S. fans should want nothing more than the U.S. team to be ruthless in its pursuit to win and get the job done no matter the circumstances.

Say what you want about the U.S. foolishly helping out their long-standing bitter rival across the border in Mexico, but the U.S. got this result for no one but themselves. This result is about Americans stamping their superiority in North American soccer for all to see.

I believe the 3-2 score line on Tuesday night against Panama is a testament to how far the national team has come.

A U.S. team, made up largely of reserve players, went into an incredibly hostile environment in Panama, gave up two goals, faced a team that had every reason to be motivated to beat the U.S., and still managed to fight to solidify the win.

Mexican announcers who were calling the U.S. and Panama game were actually commending the U.S. and criticizing their own national team as the U.S. gifted Mexico with the goal they needed for qualifying.

The announcers said directly to Mexican players on Azteca TV, “You didn’t earn anything to wear

our colors. The USA, with subs, with many subs as the visiting team, shows us once again what the USA is all about … how to play this game with dignity, how to approach the sport.”

The announcers went on to call the Mexican team a bunch of “punks” and “arrogant” players.

And finally, they said what many Mexicans believed would never be true, “America is better than Mexico in soccer.”

Should Americans be mad that their national team gave Mexico a lifeline to qualify?

I’ll answer with another question: Who cares?

The U.S. team does not operate on anyone else’s terms. This team showed the rest of CONCACAF (North America’s governing soc-

cer confederation) exactly what it takes to be the best in North America — relentlessness, chemistry, belief and pure grit to grind out the tough results.

That’s where the great victory for the U.S. is. We earned our respect from some teams that consider us inferior to theirs, and the other teams that thought they were on the same level as us were reminded of where they really stand.

We showed them that we don’t care what they think or what they say. We want to be the best, and Tuesday showed the rest of the region just that.

We are the best in CONCACAF, without question. We earned it.

Jeffrey Swindoll is a sophomore journalism major from Miami. He is a reporter for the Lariat

Lariat Letters

Class regulation a bad idea for BU As with any university, there are likely some classes or professors at Baylor that are not conducive to excellent learning.

However, the Oct. 17 Lariat editorial, “Regulated curriculum helps BU,” prescribes a vague solution that could very well do more harm than good.

The Lariat is correct in articulating the importance of professor reviews. Thoughtful, honest feedback can be extremely useful to professors and department heads. But if the goal is to facilitate the best possible learning process, it is illogical to argue that “courses should be regulated for leveled experience.”

Just as in other levels of schooling, teachers themselves, not administrators, are the best equipped to manage their classes. The Lariat keeps mentioning “regulation” without outlining a plan for how this would happen.

How can courses be regulated for “across-the-board equality” without violating academic freedom and eliminating personal teaching styles?

The Lariat goes on to argue, “With across-the-board equality for all sections of courses, students get the best shot at the quality education they paid Baylor to give them.” I couldn’t disagree more.

A blind mandate for perfect equality leads to suppression of personal differences between professors and a robotic repetition of information on a screen. Let professors teach things in different ways. Students have ways of talking to each other to determine which professor’s class structure may best fit their needs Even if you take a class in which the teaching style is difficult, it hardly means you don’t have a “fair shot at getting an A,” as the Lariat argues.

In Stephen R. Covey’s revolutionary book, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” he speaks against this reactive mindset. “Instead of reacting to or worrying about conditions over which they have little or no control, proactive people focus their time and energy on things they can control.

Requirements for classes are clearly outlined, and there are existing systems and procedures to follow if a professor is unhelpful or disrespectful. The way to reform bad teaching is through reviews and evaluations. Arguing for a vague, undefined system of “regulation” will not help us achieve the most out of our Baylor education.

Danny Huizinga Chicago junior

Baylor entrepreneurs inspire current Bears In light of this week being midterm week for most students, I find the recent article about three Baylor entrepreneurs who have launched a studying site to be very motivating.

For most students, our main avenue of studying is restricted to taking good notes, talking to peers and also our professors. This innovating idea of an online study interface will really benefit students, especially those who miss class and are unable to take notes. These three students truly found a correlation between studying and technology.

Their technique in making this a social site but one not like Facebook is genius to me. I also liked the fact that, this site will also be compatible with our mobile devices.

Students can say bye-bye to those .50 cent notebooks, because with this innovation, students can take notes on their phones and have it saved to their online profile.

This grabbed my attention because for Generation Y-ers, social media is the main source of our daily lives, so for the site to have an atmosphere of a social network but only focusing on collaborative studying is a good marketing tool to help them gain popularity, compared to their competitors.

This new way of renewing the way students study is an innovation that, in my opinion, will change the talks in the library.

Valerie Soyinka Collierville, Tenn. senior

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Baylor homecoming parade to include international flags

By Claire Cameron Reporter

International students from 73 countries will showcase their Baylor spirit Saturday at the homecoming parade.

International students and students part of the Global Living and Learning program will come together and carry flags from different countries from all across the world.

San Diego senior Hayley Gibson, an International Student Relations student worker, helped organize the flags for the parade.

Gibson said having international and American students come together to walk in the parade was a great way to present the diversity of Baylor and the students who study here.

“It’s encouraging to see how global our Baylor community is,” Gibson said.

Gibson said she has been part

of the parade for the last three years and many of the students who participate in the parade have a lot of pride in their country.

“Many of the students come dressed in traditional clothes or outfits from their home country,” she said. “Those who participate are proud to represent their country when they are so far away from home.”

Australian graduate student Ben Cooper said he will be participating in the parade.

“This is the first American university I’ve been to and I wanted to experience that iconic American college tradition of homecoming so I was keen on getting involved in the event,” Cooper said.

He will be carrying Australia’s flag and said he is looking forward to representing his home country.

“I think it’s a truly unique opportunity and a lot of fun,” he said.

Cooper also said he is a big football fan and after the parade,

he is excited to watch the football game.

“I’m a big fan of American football,” he said. “It’s a good time to be a Baylor Bears fan.”

Finland exchange student Elina Bruk said she will also participate in the parade.

“I got an email asking if any international students wanted to sign up to hold a flag in the parade, and I thought there is probably no one else from Finland here at Baylor, and I would like to hold that flag,” Bruk said.

Bruk said this is her first time to come to Texas and she is looking forward to being a part of the homecoming tradition.

“I wanted to participate in something important to Baylor because I will only be here for one semester and I think this is a really fun and unique way to do that,” Bruk said.

She said she is glad American students will also participate in the

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Baylor homecoming parade 2012 included flags from several countries, with students carrying them as they walked through Waco.

parade with the international students.

“It’s good for everyone to participate and come together in something so special to Baylor,” she said.

Cooper said he is excited to show off the Australian flag and is looking forward to seeing all the different countries represented in one place.

“It’s a big wide world out there and for students to see all of us caring our nations’ flags will be really special and a great experience not just for us but for all the people watching,” he said.

Gibson said she was also gearing up to be a part of the parade.

“I’m an international studies major, so I love different cultures,” Gibson said. “It’s really special and

exciting to see so many cultures from all over the world come together and participate in one of our treasured traditions.”

The parade will take place at 8 a.m. Saturday at Eighth Street and Austin Avenue. From there, it will go down Austin Avenue, make a right on Fourth Street and progress down Fifth Street. It will be broadcast live at 9 a.m. on KCEN-TV . 6.

Two more students arrested in connections with drug ring

By Paula Ann Solis Staff Writer Two more Baylor students have been arrested in connection to the high-grade marijuana drug ring discovered near Baylor’s campus in August, said Lt. Joe Coy, the criminal investigator for the McGregor Police Department.

Baylor junior Jay Kumar, 19, was arrested and charged with possession of controlled substances and senior Baba M. Fahnbulleh, 22, was arrested and charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance.

This is Kumar’s second drug related arrest. Kumar was first charged with possession of less than 2 ounces of marijuana Oct. 4

after investigators linked him to the drug ring, though Coy could not reveal how exactly he was linked.

A search warrant of his residence near the 100 block of Breckenridge Drive was issued the same day.

Kumar was released after he posted a bail bond of $1,000, according to McLennan County Jail records.

Significant amounts of marijuana, mushrooms, traces of ecstasy and Adderall were found in Kumar’s residence and after further lab analysis, investigators found cause for further charges and issued a second warrant for possession of controlled substances, Coy said.

Coy said Kumar and other Baylor students were wandering

in a cemetery in Hubbard as part of prank on Oct. 16 when police arrived to check on a disturbance.

Coy said after police d is c ove re d Kumar was wanted, he was taken to Hill County Jail.

He posted Fahnbulleh a bail bond of $10,000 the same day and was released, according to Hill County Jail records.

As a result of Kumar’s arrest, Fahnbulleh decided to turn himself in to McLennan County authori-

ties Thursday morning, Coy said.

He was charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance and was released later the same day after posting a bail bond of $20,000.

Baylor Police and the McGregor Police Department have been working in conjunction with each other to identify students involved in the drug ring, Coy said.

Some of the focus is moving off campus, but several students are still being evaluated, Coy said.

Because the investigation is still ongoing, Coy could not say exactly how many students were being looked at or if any arrests were pending.

The investigation, which was sparked after three former Baylor

students and one Baylor graduate were arrested in connection with a $30,000 to $40,000 marijuana ring, originally led to the investigation of more than 50 Baylor students who police said were Kumar customers.

McGregor, Lorena and Baylor police departments, in cooperation with the Drug Enforcement Administration, served two warrants less than one mile from campus Aug. 28 and found marijuana,

prescription pills, packaging materials, weapons and more than $12,000 in two residences, according to the McGregor Police Department. The main customer base of the suspected distributors was the Baylor student body, but Coy said the investigation has since narrowed.

“The investigation is starting to come to a close,” Coy said. “I think the message of our investigation has come across.”

Baylor Police Chief Jim Doak said because of the sensitive nature of the investigation, he could not comment on the involvement of Baylor Police Department in the investigation other than confirming the department is working alongside McGregor police.

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Shuttles expand, carry hundreds of students daily

By Henry Eckels Reporter

The question of whether to take the bus or drive yourself to campus might be the most insignificant and simultaneously the most crucial decision that a Baylor student makes.

The Baylor University Shuttle, or BUS, is a system of transportation operated by Waco Transit in coordination with the Baylor Department of Parking and Transportation services.

Matt Penney, Baylor’s director of parking and transportation services, said the BUS system only had one route when it was first established.

“It started about 15 years ago, out of a need to get students from one place to another,” Penney said. “When it originated the only route was around the housing on the south side of campus, and it evolved from there.”

Penney said as more routes were created and more buses were acquired over the next few years, the BUS system also became more efficient.

“For a while the routes suffered from a lack of focus and they were

taking about 30 to 45 minutes to run their full course,” Penney said.

“Then each route got a specific purpose.”

Penney said the BUS system has experienced marked increases in ridership over the course of just a few years.

The Baylor buses travel on three different routes between 7:25 a.m. and 5:25 p.m. on weekdays. The three routes consist of Baylor Red, Baylor Blue and the DASH. There is also a late-night bus that stops by the Moody Library from 6:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Mondays through Thursdays.

“Our total ridership has increased by 20 percent in just the past year,” Penney said. “The Baylor Red route alone services well over 800 students per day.”

Baylor students who regularly commute to campus with the BUS system have expressed mixed feelings about the transportation service.

Danville, Calif., junior Brandon Hoff, who lives at the Outpost Apartments, said the Baylor Red bus is inconvenient to board in the mornings.

“I get to the bus stop more than a half hour before my class starts

and I usually have to wait for Baylor Red to make multiple trips because they are too crowded,” Hoff said.

Hoff said he thinks there should be at least three buses on the Baylor Red route on weekday mornings rather than just two.

“I usually end up late to class because the first bus is completely full of students who live at University Parks and because of this, there are dozens of students stacking up at the Outpost bus stop who take up whatever space is left on the second bus,” Hoff said.

Penney said although the Baylor Red route deals with a larger volume of students than any of the other routes, the data shows that two buses are enough for the popular route.

“There is a rush hour between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. on the Baylor Red route when most students go to class for the day,” Penney said. “However, based on our research, with two Baylor Red buses arriving at each stop an incredible 7.5 minutes apart, there is not a real need to supply a third bus just for the morning rush hour.”

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The Baylor University Shuttle has three day routes — Baylor Red, Baylor Blue and DASH — that take hundreds of students to and from campus daily.

Traffie, who is a community leader at University Parks apartments, said he is grateful for the service Baylor makes available to off campus students.

“For Baylor to provide a bus service that stops at off campus housing every 10 minutes every day is going above and beyond the call of duty,” Traffie said. “I don’t think we appreciate the service or the drivers nearly as much as we should.”

The Woodlands junior Drew Thomas, who lives at University Parks apartments, said the buses are sometimes inconsistent in their arrival times.

“Often you’ll see that both of the Baylor Red buses often show up within a couple of minutes of each other,” Thomas said. “This isn’t inconvenient all the time, but it creates a longer gap between when the bus is advertised to arrive and when it actually does.”

Cypress junior Aaron Gladstone, who lives at the Outpost apartments, views taking the Baylor Red bus as both a blessing and a curse.

“I love the bus because it helps me save money I would otherwise spend purchasing gas to drive myself to campus every day,” Gladstone said. “On the other hand,

trying to get on the morning bus can be a hassle where I either miss it altogether or get on an extremely crowded bus.”

Penney said Baylor Parking and Transportation Services is constantly looking for ways to improve the bus commute experience, including releasing a new iPhone app that lets students track the buses’ locations on their routes in real time.

“One thing I’ve been trying to get is a bus shelter by the Speight Avenue bus stop,” Penney said.

“Right now, students are exposed to whatever weather there may be while waiting for the bus.”

Poverty becomes norm for public students in South, West

By Lyndsey Layton Associated Press

A majority of students in public schools throughout the American South and West are low-income for the first time in at least four decades, according to a new study that details a demographic shift with broad implications for the country.

The analysis by the Southern Education Foundation, the nation’s

oldest education philanthropy, is based on the number of students from preschool through 12th grade who were eligible for the federal free and reduced-price meals program in the 2010-11 school year.

The meals program run by the Department of Agriculture is a rough proxy for poverty, because a family of four could earn no more than $40,793 a year to qualify in 2011.

Children from those low-in-

come families dominated classrooms in 13 states in the South and the four Western states with the largest populations in 2011, researchers found.

A decade earlier, just four states reported poor children as a majority of the student population in their public schools.

But by 2011, almost half of the nation’s 50 million public-school students — 48 percent — qualified for free or reduced-price meals. In

some states, such as Mississippi, that proportion rose as high as 71 percent.

In a large swath of the country, classrooms are filling with children who begin kindergarten already behind their more privileged peers, who lack the support at home to succeed and who are more than likely to drop out of school or never attend college.

“This is incredible,” said Michael Rebell, the executive director

of the Campaign for Educational Equity at Columbia University, who was struck by the rapid spike in poverty. He said the change helps explain why the United States is lagging in comparison with other countries in international tests.

“When you break down the various test scores, you find the high-income kids, high-achievers are holding their own and more,” Rebell said. “It’s when you start getting down to schools with a ma-

jority of low-income kids that you get astoundingly low scores. Our real problem regarding educational outcomes is not the U.S. overall, it’s the growing low-income population.”

Southern states have seen rising numbers of poor students for the past decade, but the trend spread west in 2011, to include rapidly increasing levels of poverty among students in California, Nevada, Oregon and New Mexico.

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Student Senate passed three bills, awaiting Board approval

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Mopeds are parked on fifth Street, where the Moped/Motorcyle Parking Bill will be supporting parking here and other places on campus. The Student Senate passed this bill on Thursday.

Senate members passed three bills Thursday that include having wi-fi in Baylor Stadium, creating parking spaces for mopeds and scooters and the increasing the number of staff members at Baylor who can help provide students with career opportunities.

The wi-fi bill would include enhancing mobile broadcast and wi-fi coverage during games and events in Baylor Stadium, said said Dallas junior Connor Mighell, campus improvements and affairs chair. The bill supports the Board of Regents’ proposition to install a number of telecommunication networks in the new Baylor Stadium.

AT&T installed the distributed antenna system network in Floyd Casey Stadium last year.

The Baylor Stadium Wi-Fi and Cellular Coverage Act favors installing the same network

system in the new stadium along with other networks.

“It will improve the fan experience, allow for fan participation during the games and enhance the overall game day experience,” Mighell said.

Mighell said other events will be held at the stadium, and will benefit from installing additional Wi-Fi access.

According to research done by the student senate, there has been a large spike in the number of two-wheeled vehicles on campus the past few years. In response, the Moped/Motorcycle Parking Bill supports adding parking spots for mopeds and scooters on campus.

Additional areas specified for these vehicles will encourage students to keep mopeds and motorcyles out of car parking spaces and off of pedestrian walkways.

The bill mentions fifth Street, visitor parking spaces and small spaces on the ground floor of parking garages as potential ar-

eas for the implementation of this bill.

The Increasing Job Opportunities for Students Bill supports increased funding and staff for the Career Development-Employer Relations Department, San Antonio senior Grant Senter, academic affairs chair, said.

The bill states that, according to research, less than half of Baylor graduates have a job upon graduation.

“We are currently ranked 97th out of 124 by employers,” Senter said. “UT is ranked fourth. That is unacceptable. Career development is underfunded and understaffed.”

To improve this lack of job opportunities, the bill proposed hiring at least five additional staff members devoted to providing students with connections, opportunities and any other help they need to secure a job.

The bills will go to the Board of Regents to be further discussed and possibly implemented.

1.8 million year old skull gives glimpse of human evolution

By Seth Borenstein and Sophiko Megrelidze Associated Press

DMANISI, Georgia — The discovery of a 1.8-million-year-old skull of a human ancestor buried under a medieval Georgian village provides a vivid picture of early evolution and indicates our family tree may have fewer branches than some believe, scientists say.

The fossil is the most complete pre-human skull uncovered. With other partial remains previously found at the rural site, it gives researchers the earliest evidence of human ancestors moving out of Africa and spreading north to the rest of the world, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.

The skull and other remains offer a glimpse of a population of pre-humans of various sizes living at the same time — something that scientists had not seen before for such an ancient era.

This diversity bolsters one of two competing theories about the way our early ancestors evolved, spreading out more like a tree than a bush.

Nearly all of the previous prehuman discoveries have been fragmented bones, scattered over time

and locations — like a smattering of random tweets of our evolutionary history. The findings at Dmanisi are more complete, weaving more of a short story. Before the site was found, the movement from Africa was put at about 1 million years ago.

When examined with the earlier Georgian finds, the skull "shows that this special immigration out of Africa happened much earlier than we thought and a much more primitive group did it," said study lead author David Lordkipanidze, director of the Georgia National Museum. "This is important to understanding human evolution."

For years, some scientists have said humans evolved from only one or two species, much like a tree branches out from a trunk, while others say the process was more like a bush with several offshoots that went nowhere.

Even bush-favoring scientists say these findings show one single species nearly 2 million years ago at the former Soviet republic site.

But they disagree that the same conclusion can be said for bones found elsewhere, such as Africa.

However, Lordkipanidze and colleagues point out that the skulls found in Georgia are different sizes but are considered to be the same

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species. So, they reason, it's likely the various skulls found in different places and times in Africa may not be different species, but variations in one species.

To see how a species can vary, just look in the mirror, they said.

"Danny DeVito, Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal are the same species," Lordkipanidze said.

The adult male skull found wasn't from our species, Homo sapiens. It was from an ancestral species — in the same genus or class called Homo — that led to modern humans.

Scientists say the Dmanisi population is likely an early part of our long-lived primary ancestral species, Homo erectus.

Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, wasn't part of the study but praised it as "the first good evidence of what these expanding hominids looked like and what they were doing."

Fred Spoor at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, a competitor and proponent of a busy family tree with many species disagreed with the study's overall conclusion, but he lauded the Georgia skull discovery as critical and even beautiful.

"It really shows the process of evolution in action," he said.

Spoor said it seems to have captured a crucial point in the evolutionary process where our ancestors transitioned from Homo habilis to Homo erectus — although the study authors said that depiction is going a bit too far.

The researchers found the first part of the skull, a large jaw, below a medieval fortress in 2000. Five years later — on Lordkipanidze's 42nd birthday — they unearthed the well-preserved skull, gingerly extracted it, putting it into a clothlined case and popped champagne.

It matched the jaw perfectly.

They were probably separated when our ancestor lost a fight with a hungry carnivore, which pulled apart his skull and jaw bones, Lordkipanidze said.

The skull was from an adult male just shy of 5 feet (1.5 meters) with a massive jaw and big teeth, but a small brain, implying limited thinking capability, said study coauthor Marcia Ponce de Leon of the University of Zurich.

It also seems to be the point where legs are getting longer, for walking upright, and smaller hips, she said.

"This is a strange combination of features that we didn't know before in early Homo," Ponce de Leon said.

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David Lordkipanidze, director of the Georgia National Museum, displays the ancient skull and jaws of a pre-human ancestor at the National Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Oct. 2, 2013. The discovery of a 1.8-million-year-old skull of a human ancestor found below Dmanisi, a medieval Georgian village, captures early human evolution on the move in a vivid snapshot and indicates our family tree may have fewer branches than originally thought, scientists say.

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By Rebecca Fiedler Staff Writer

Is it a natural disaster? Is it the apocalypse? Not to worry - it’s SpaceX! Waco is home to the only development facility of privately owned spacecraft company, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., also known as SpaceX. Once parts for rockets and space craft are engineered and maufactured at other SpaceX locations around the country, Waco is the place they are sent to be tested before they are sent to a different SpaceX location to be launched, said Jeff Van Treuren, the test director at the Waco facility.

SpaceX is the only American company that can take cargo both to and from the International Space Station, Van Treuren said. SpaceX often works closely with NASA. Recently SpaceX in Waco has been testing the vertical takeoff and landing of rocket Grasshopper, Van Treuren said.

“Here in Texas we’ll lift that thing off and land it a couple of times a month, even,” Van Treuren said. “As far as actually sending stuff into space, I think we will launch at least three times this year.”

The goal for SpaceX with the Grasshopper is to make the first stage vehicle section of the rocket reusable, where the capsule is not the only part of the rocket that returns to Earth, Van Treuren said.

Another project of SpaceX is a rocket called the Falcon 9. The Falcon 9 is a payload to orbit. Instead of being used for commercial space tourism, it hauls cargo into orbit, such as to get items to the International Space Station, Van Treuren said. According to SpaceX’s website, the Falcon 9, named after the Millenium Falcon from the Star Wars movies, was designed for maximum reliability.

“Falcon 9 features a simple two-stage design to minimize the number of stage separations,” the website states. “Historically, the main causes of launch failures have been stage separations and engine failures. With nine engines on

the first stage, it can safely complete its mission even in the event of a first-stage engine failure.”

SpaceX has launched the Falcon 9 six times and all launches were successful, he said.

The most recent launch of the Falcon 9 was an upgraded version of the rocket, Van Treuren said.

The engines and tanks were upgraded, as well as storage capacity.

The next step of the project with Falcon 9 is to get it man rated which means for it to be suitable for manned flight.

“We are working on getting our vehicle man rated, but that’s still a couple of years out,” Van Treuren said.

The Dragon, which carries cargo, is the space capsule portion of the Falcon 9. It flies to the International Space Station and can return and re-enter, Van Treuren said. The Dragon is what SpaceX is trying to make ready to carry people.

“The big thing there is we’ve got to deal with the launch-abort system, so we’re developing that right now,” Van Treuren said.

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SpaceX has is also developing a rocket called A few years ago SpaceX tested the first stage of a the Falcon Heavy, whose expected launch is in space vehicle that was a propellant with nine engines 2014, SpaceX’s website states. strapped to it, Van Treuren said.

“The Falcon Heavy is really exciting be“You fire those all simultaneously and it gets kind cause it’s three first stages strapped together of loud,” he said of the engines. and just a single second stage on top of it,” Carolyn Hoy is a citizen of Crawford, a town near Van Treuren said. “The idea is that you get the Waco facility. Hoy said she recalls the night the more payload into orbit. The Falcon Heavy nine-engine vehicle was tested. is exciting, because it’ll Normally Hoy knows in be 27 engines firing at the advance when rockets are “Really; I thought maybe same time.” being tested at the SpaceX Van Treuren also said facility, because there are billthe heavenly trumpets the Falcon Heavy will be boards on the highway near sounded in Heaven [...] the second-most powerher house alerting locals that and I just followed the ful rocket in history, seca test is going to happen, Hoy ond only to the Saturn said. But on that night in parorange glow up the road a V moon rocket ticular she was not prepared. ways until I realized what of 1973.

The windows of Hoy’s it was.”

S p a c e X ’s house were rattling and there website was an orange glow outside states the that lit up the night sky, Hoy Carolyn Hoy | Crawford citizen Falcon said. Initially she thought the Heavy is commotion was an earththe most quake, but it continued for powerful rocket and carries numerous minutes, and she decided it was not and more than twice the payload earthquake. Hoy then got in her car and drove toward of the space shuttle. the source of the orange light, though she did not Rocket testings from know that at the time it was a SpaceX launch.

SpaceX have sometimes “I legitimately thought Jesus was coming back, and caught Waco area locals off- I was going to Jesus,” she said. guard. People from Waco Other Wacoans expressed that their children also posted on social media suspected the launch to be the biblical rapture. that larger engine tests have “Really; I thought maybe the heavenly trumpets shocked and surprised them. sounded in heaven, and that was the trumpet, and I Responses to rocket test- was going,” Hoy said, laughing. “And I just followed ings ranged from suspicion of the orange glow up the road a ways until I realized something happening at Fort what it was.”

Hood military base, to bombing from North Korea, to the rapture of Christian The Falcan 9 takes off on a demonstration flight on Sept. 29. SpaceX designs and manufactures the souls.

Falcon 9, which is a two-stage rocket used for the transport of satellites into orbit.

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Clinic offers services to low-income pet owners government assistance to the clinic for services. “We have used this criteria for about eight years, so we Free neutering and spaying ser- know it works,” Kuehl said. vices are now available for low-inShe said the city will only pay come cat and dog owners who live for the neutering and spaying. The in the Waco area. owner must pay for any other serOn Oct. 1, vices that the the Waco City clinic provides.

Council ap“This is all about basic “This is all proved Resoluabout basic pet pet responsibility.” tion 2013-585, responsibility,” which authoKuehl said.

Carrie Keuhl | Executive direcrizes the city She said it tor of the Animal Birth Control of Waco to is beneficial for Clinic reimburse the the owner to Animal Birth pay for other Control Clinic services like up to $100,000 for neutering and immunizations, because it teaches spaying services provided to low- animal owners that they are reincome families. The service will sponsible for their pets. cost the city an average of about “I think this is going to be im$55 per animal. portant for a lot of people, espe“It is available until funds are cially elderly people,” City Counexhausted,” said Carrie Kuehl, cilwoman Toni Herbert said. executive director of the Animal Kuehl said that on Sept. 1, the Birth Control Clinic.

ABC clinic also started another To qualify, an applicant must program that offers free spays and be a Waco citizen and eligible for neuters, in addition to the rabies Medicaid disability or food stamps. vaccine, exclusively to cats. There Applicants should bring their city are no income restrictions for of Waco water bill and proof of this program, but the owner must

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provide proof that they live in the 76708 zip code.

PetSmart Charities provided a $102,000 two-year grant to fund the free spay and neuter for cats.

Kuehl said these services are also available until funds are exhausted.

The ABC clinic, located at 3238 Clay Ave., also provides flea control services, immunizations, heartworm prevention, microchipping, nail trims and some blood tests.

Services at the Animal Birth Control Clinic are available to anyone. However, there is a small fee for anyone who doesn’t qualify for the special programs. Prices to spay or neuter a cat range from $25-$45 and prices to spay or neuter a dog range from $45-$75.

Prices for all services are available on the ABC clinic’s website www. animalbirthcontrol.org.

The ABC clinic is a nonprofit organization that relies heavily on donations. Kuehl said the Animal Birth Control clinic couldn’t provide discounted services without donations from the community.

Donations to the clinic can be made online at the clinic’s website

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The Animal Birth Control Clinic, located at 3238 Clay Ave., offers free neutering and spaying services to lowincome pet owners in Waco. These services are the result of a resolution from the city of Waco. The clinic also offers services for cats that include spay and neutering as well as rabies vaccinations as a result of a two-year grant from PetSmart Charities. Owners, however, must pay for any other services the clinic provides.

or in person at the clinic. The clinic also offers volunteer opportunities for anyone who is interested, according to the website.

Kuehl said she offers a free 15-minute tour of the ABC clinic

to anyone who drops off a donation in person. “You actually get to see the surgeries,” she said.

Kuehl said it is important for the ABC clinic to offer tours because the clinic wants to be trans-

parent; it wants people to see what their donations are paying for.

Kuehl said the ABC clinic also offers tours to the local schools in order to expose the students to science and medicine.

Visitors flock to national parks after shutdown lifted

By Brett Zongker Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Visitors lined up for Washington’s museums to finally reopen Thursday after a 16-day government shutdown that cost each site money in lost retail sales, theater tickets and concessions.

The Smithsonian museums, National Gallery of Art and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum returned to regular operating hours. Tours resumed at the U.S. Capitol visitor’s center, and barriers were removed

at the memorials on the National Mall.

The National Zoo won’t reopen until Friday because the staff needs time to reopen the large park. Its popular panda cam, though, resumed showing live video of the zoo’s giant panda cub and mother.

The shutdown’s impact was already being tallied, though. The Smithsonian lost about $2.8 million in revenue from visitors since Oct. 1, said spokeswoman Linda St. Thomas. “People come from all over the world to visit Washington, and a big part of their visit is the Smithsonian,” St. Thomas

said. “So we have disappointed tourists.”

October is not the busiest tourist season on the National Mall. Still, the Smithsonian counted 400,000 visitors the week before the shutdown. Officials believe they lost hundreds of thousands of visitors.

Some tourists have been anxiously awaiting news of the government’s reopening with one thing in mind: visiting the museums. “If they hadn’t reopened today, we would have been a little cross,” said Bob Vincent of Adelaide, Australia. He was visiting the National Air and Space Museum

on Thursday with his wife, Annette.

Friends had warned Christy and Maury Mayer of Reno, Nev., to cancel plans to visit Washington because of government gridlock, but the couple decided to visit anyway, bringing along their teenage sons.

Part of the trip turned into a civics lesson, seeing the political drama come to an end. The family waited for three hours Wednesday to watch the Senate vote to reopen the government.

“We stuck it out, and we’ve been busy every day,” Christy Mayer said.

While many attractions were closed, the family took a trolley tour of the monuments by moonlight. They visited Arlington National Cemetery, George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate and saw money printed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, despite the government shutdown. “We are very thankful that today the Smithsonian is open because we leave tomorrow,” said Christy Mayer as the family examined the Apollo 11 capsule and other spacecraft. “This is our one day.”

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experience and that experience was a way to grieve and let go, Cann said.

With funeral homes and cremation overtaking that once personal experience, people are left grasping for some last chance, a way to say, “I’m grieving,” Cann said. This is why Cann said tattoos are often sought as a substitute.

Cann said a person’s first tattoo is usually associated with death and for a young person, the first person to die in their life tends to be a grandparent or a friend.

Emily Atwood, a 2010 Baylor alumna, only has one tattoo, and it is a tribute to her grandfather who committed suicide her sophomore year at Baylor.

“I didn’t get to go home for the funeral because it was so far away, and I never got a feeling of closure,” Atwood said.

Every year after her grandfather’s death, Atwood would write the word “love” on her arm as part of the To Write Love On Her Arms campaign that serves as a reminder for people that they are loved and should not choose suicide as an option, according to the campaign’s website.

Atwood decided she wanted the word on her arm forever.

“I actually wrote it in my handwriting just below my wrist and they tattooed over it,” Atwood said.

“It has been a really good reminder. It was difficult because he felt alone and unloved, which upsets me because I wish I could have told him I love him one more time.”

Cann said this type of memorial tattoo is not a phenomenon; the Bible speaks of memorial body markings in Leviticus 19:28. But now people are seen going one step further to be unique, Cann said.

With the body as their canvas, some people are choosing to tattoo cremains into their skin so as to literally carry around the dead.

Zac “Lefty” Colbert, owner of the Waco tattoo parlor Infamous Ink, has been a tattoo artist for 19 years and said he has inked two tattoos with human cremains.

“Using ashes may seem new to us, but in history this isn’t a new concept,” Colbert said. “Forms of ash were added with ink for a long time. You have some people who are doing this to stay connected and then you have some people who are just trying to do the next most drastic thing.”

Colbert said for many people, a tattoo is the most honorable way to remember someone; the human body is the ultimate canvas. However, he said he always cautions people before getting tattoos in remembrance of a loved one. People need to look past their current state of grief and into the future, Colbert said.

One grieving widow asked Colbert for a tattoo of her late husband on her back. His advice was to wait and think it through but she wanted it right then, Colbert said. He gave her the tattoo and two years later she came back remarried and needed it removed.

That was an extreme case, Colbert said. For the most part people who get tattoos, especially memorial tattoos, do it in a manner similar to the way people collect photos in a scrapbook, Colbert said. It is not about how great the picture comes out or what other people think; it is the memory that one associates with the picture.

Burleson junior Garrett Gray said his tattoo, a Superman emblem on his right upper arm, might seem silly to some people but for him it is how he continues to remember his brother-in-law, Kenny Cotten, who suffered brain damage after multiple seizures and was ultimately declared brain dead.

“He was only 29,” Gray said.

Gray said he always wanted a tattoo but did not want it to be something meaningless. After Gray’s

brother-in-law passed away two years ago, his sister had to cancel credit cards for her late husband. When the credit card service representative asked the security question “Who’s your favorite superhero,” they learned his answer was Superman. After that, Gray’s brother-in-law was affectionately called Superman and Gray knew what his first tattoo would be, a Superman emblem but instead of an “S” in the middle, it would be a “K” for Kenny.

“I never regret this tattoo and I don’t think I ever will because now, in a way, he’s always with me.”

Cann said tattoos and other non-religious memorials are not the solution to grief. She said they are a response to living in a country that does not allow for proper grieving. Other countries, such as canada and Australia, offer a federally mandated bereavement policy, Cann said. The United States does not.

According to Library of Congress, the Parental Bereavement Act of 2013 was introduced in February and would amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 by allowing eligible employees up to 12 weeks off from work after the death of a son or daughter.

However, the bill has been referred to a committee and since February has not been voted on or made any progress.

“Bereavement is a private industry,” Cann said.

“People just don’t have the space and time to grieve.

It’s a real problem.”

Cann is continuing her study of the grieving process in a place where space is seemingly endless and people seem to always have time to visit. The Internet. Her coming book, “Virtual Afterlives: Grieving the Dead in the 21st Century,” will examine how people are taking to the World Wide Web to say goodbye. It is an increasingly popular way to grieve, Cann said, without the physical permanence of tattoos.

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Top Left: Austin senior Rachel Woodfin got her tattoo in the spring of 2012 as a memorial to her grandmother. The tattoo is designed after the necklace her grandmother gave her before she died. Woodfin said it reminds her of her grandmother and of the woman Woodfin wants to be — free spirited, strong and curious. She said it is a reminder to always dream.

This tattoo was inked by Shane Harvey with Eastside Tattoo (Kailua, Hawaii), on a father whose son died. The father requested a tattoo of his son, but notice the addition of a Hawaiian islands “tattoo” on the son’s neck. The son had always wanted a tattoo, so Shane added one to the son’s memorial tattoo on the father’s arm. The picture is not only a memorial, but also a way in which the father can give his son something that he wanted before he died.

Denton junior Karisa Garner said she got her tattoo two years ago. It was inspired by her cat Raja, who was Garner’s first pet and who passed away. “I’m also your run of the mill crazy cat lady,” she said.

Raja inspired her obsession with cats and Garner said she doesn’t think she will ever stop loving the animal.

Above: When La Porte sophomore Tyler Orr was 7 years old, his family’s pet scorpion stung his father on the ankle. The venom killed him. When Orr’s family purchased the scorpion from a local mom-and-pop pet shop, they were told even though this particular breed of scorpion was poisonous, the company who ships the scorpions to the store milks the poison out of them. However, the company does not milk this particular type of scorpion. The monetary result of a lawsuit led to Orr being able to come to Baylor. He decided to pay tribute to his father by getting the tattoo when he was 16 years old.

Left: Burleson junior Garrett Gray said his tattoo is in memory of his brother-in-law who was nicknamed Superman. His brother-in-law suffered brain damage after having multiple seizures and was declared brain dead. Gray said he will probably never regret his decision to get a tattoo because it makes him feel like his brother-in-law is always with him.

News A12 Downtown to transform into Winter Wonderland | Baylor Lariat baylorlariat com

By Trey Gregory Reporter

Wacoans can strap on their ice skates for the upcoming Winter Wonderland.

After two years without a Christmas parade, the city of Waco, the Waco Downtown Development Corp., the Historic Waco Foundation and the downtown Public Improvement Project are making sure Waco will have a holiday parade and festival.

The event starts on Nov. 30 with a tree lighting ceremony and fireworks. The wonderland will end on Dec. 7 with Small Business Saturday, which will include the holiday parade and an opportunity for children to take their picture with Santa Claus.

The main attraction of the eight-day event will be a skating rink set up in downtown Waco.

The rink will have artificial ice that is slick and feels like real ice, but is not cold. Everyone is invited to skate on the artificial ice for $5 an hour.

“We want it to be an event that

caters to everyone,” said Jonathan Cook, spokesman of the Waco parks and recreation department. “We want everyone to leave with a smile.”

Most of the activities will take place in or around Heritage Square. In addition to the lights on the Christmas tree, Heritage Square will be decorated with thousands of holiday lights.

“The lights are such a spectacular component,” Cook said. “The lights will be up throughout the holiday season.”

Bringing more customers to Waco’s downtown businesses is one of the main goals of the wonderland’s planners.

“We have a lot of excitement for something that will bring businesses downtown, said Drew Vincent, a Baylor doctoral intern with the Downtown Development Corp. “We are trying to build a bridge that connects ice with business.”

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ers will set up in or around Heritage Square to offer an enhanced shopping experience.

Megan Henderson, the executive director of the Downtown Development Corp., said several downtown merchants welcome other businesses to come downtown and set up near them because

they believe it will bring more customers to their store.

Henderson also said she encourages Baylor students to come downtown for the events.

“It is critical for every student who wants downtown to be better to come downtown and spend money,” Henderson said. “This

used to be the time when everybody in Waco went downtown.

Please come and add some energy.”

The Waco City Council members expressed their gratitude to the wonderland organizers and said last year’s tree-lighting ceremony and lack of a parade was an embarrassment.

“We got a lot of questions from our constituents about why we didn’t have a parade when many smaller cities around us did,” said Alice Rodriguez, District Two city councilwoman.

The 2011 holiday parade was canceled because of rain and no organization volunteered to organize a holiday parade for 2012. However, the Mighty Wind Worship Center stepped up to organize this year’s holiday parade.

I know there were a lot of disappointed children because we didn’t have a parade last year,” said Wilbert Austin, District One city councilman. “So thank you.”

The Waco Wonderland has a $97,000 budget from the City of Waco and private donors.

Rodriguez said the Mighty Wind Worship Center will not have to pay anything for organizing the parade.

For more information, visit the Waco Wonderland website at http://www.waco-texas.com/cmswinter-wonderland.

BU offers students UBreak from classes with treats

By Claire Cameron Reporter

With classes in full swing and midterms, papers, reports and more piling up, the new program UBreak offers students a way to relax and met new people.

UBreak is a program that is open to all students and provides an opportunity to enjoy free coffee, fruit, juice, Chick-Fil-A chicken minis and also make new friends.

Jordy Dickey, assistant director of the student union, and Los Angeles graduate student Holly Smith are the program’s directors.

Both Dickey and Smith created the program in June.

“Holly and I were thinking of a program that would be a way to better connect students with one another,” Dickey said.

Smith said the main focus of this program was getting students to feel more comfortable at Baylor.

“We wanted a way to make the SUB to feel more like a home away from home,” Smith said.

The program is held twice a month on Fridays from 10 a.m. to noon in the Union Board room, which used to be the old barber-

shop, on the first floor of the Bill coffee. What’s not to like?”

Daniel Student Center. The next Smith said UBreak was not UBreak will be Oct. 25. only a time for students to take a Beaumont senior Alex Nelson break. went to the fist event and said she “It’s also a time for students to though it was great. share program ideas with Union “Overall I think it was a great Board about how to improve the success,” Nelson said. “So many SUB,” Smith said. people came, they ran out of The Union Board is a student food.” group that Nels on started last said she year.

“I got to take a break was lookSmith said and enjoy company. ing forward the Union I think more students to going Board was to the next created to should come. There’s event. sustain profree food and free coffee.

“Just the grams, such What’s not to like?” general atas UBreak and mo sphe re Movie night, Alex Nelson| Beaumont senior of getting that are both to know all engaging and the people enriching in there and order to fostalking to people that I had never ter community and relationships seen on campus before was great,” among one another.

Nelson said.

“We are like a family, and She said she thought it was a \ we want to serve students in the great way for students to start off SUB,” Smith said. their weekend with something UBreak is one way the Union fun.

Board members hope to get more “I got to take a break and students involved in the group enjoy company,” Nelson said. and a way to make students feel “I think more students should more comfortable at their home come. There’s free food and free away from home.

Dickey said she wanted students to have at least one opportunity during their week where they didn’t have to worry about school.

“It’s very important for students to feel like they have a community here at Baylor,” Dickey said. “Academics here at Baylor are very important, but when you look back at college, it’s the friends you made and the community you had that you remember.”

Smith said she also felt that taking time to de-stress was important.

“I think sometimes we get so lost in the busyness of classes that we forget to take a break,” Smith said. “UBreak is a time to refocus on friendships.”

The program also offers mugs for students. Students can buy the mugs for $3 and if they bring them to any of the other SUB events, such as Acoustic Café, movie night or Karaoke Night, they will get free coffee.

“It’s one way the Union Board is trying to support sustainability,” Smith said.

Dickey said the mugs are one way they hope to get students to come.

“We want UBreak to be something that brings students together and feel connected here,” Dickey said. “We want the Union Board to be group of familiar faces around campus.”

Dickey and Smith said they hope to see the program grow in the future.

“We hope it grows out of our space and moves to a bigger room that can accommodate more students,” Dickey said.

Smith said she is hoping the program will be able to grow into a weekly event instead of something the Union Board does twice a month.

“It’s a small program now, but it’s important for students to connect with their peers and make lifelong friendships,” Dickey said.

“That just one aspect of this program.”

Smith said she is looking forward to more students coming and getting involved with the Union Board.

“Academics are important, but with UBreak and all the other events we host we want students to make friendships that will outlast their time here at Baylor,” Smith said.

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Virtual campus tours take viewers to new heights

By Henry Eckels Reporter

The new virtual tours of Baylor’s campus as seen from the sky is meant to attract new students to the university and captivate those currently enrolled.

The Guided Virtual Tours, which were released just last week, comprise four videos that give tours of Baylor’s campus and tell real stories from the perspective of Baylor students.

The virtual tours guide views all parts of campus as seen from a helicopter.

Each of the four videos portrays a theme of life at Baylor and is narrated by a different Baylor student.

The guided virtual tours are designed to attract prospective students and inform them about the university, as well as remind alumni about their experiences.

It also reminds current students about on-campus opportunities.

The four videos present different aspects of Baylor life, highlighting topics such as class sizes, campus traditions, dorm life, student activities and study abroad opportunities.

Other features included from Baylor’s campus are The Baylor Marina, The Rock and the Bill and Eva Williams Bear Habitat.

Ben Brune, the video production coordinator for Baylor Media Productions, filmed Baylor’s campus from the confines of a helicopter.

Brune said filming from the helicopter required him to make use of unfamiliar technology.

“The process was new to me,” Brune said. “We used a handheld mount to control the camera to collect nice and smooth aerials of the campus. For some of the footage we even used a remote-controlled hexacopter when we wanted to shoot a location on campus that we couldn’t do ei-

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Prospective students can take a virtual tour with Baylor students as they explain the university’s traditions, campus life, academics and sense of community.

ther on foot or in an actual helicopter.”

A hexacopter is a six-blade, remote control operated machine with camera connecting capabilities.

Brune said although the project had been in the works for more than a year, the actual shooting had to be postponed for months.

“We couldn’t shoot campus during the fall or winter season,” Brune said. “During that time Baylor looks grayer and deader than during the spring, so it wouldn’t look

as appealing in the virtual tour.”

Niskayuna, N.Y., junior Nick Foreman said he thinks the virtual tours are attractive to both attending and prospective students.

“The tour of campus alone is enough to make Baylor most high school students’ first choice.”

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The virtual tours show Baylor’s campus in full bloom with spring flowers. Some areas highlighted in the tour include the Baylor Marina, The Rock, and the Bill and Eva Williams Bear Habitat.

“The helicopter views were really well done,” Foreman said. “They really put into perspective just how gorgeous our campus is in a way that you couldn’t perceive by simply standing on the ground.”

It is important to have a virtual campus tour video because of the age in which we live, Brune said.

“It is important because we’re now at a generation of students who have such great access to the Internet,” Brune said.

“If a good virtual tour is the difference between whether or not a student is interested in going to Baylor, then we’ll make sure they have access to one.”

One of the virtual tour guides, Hardin senior Luke Russell, said the virtual tour guides will help attract students to Baylor whether they live in Texas or on the other side of the world.

“People involved in the making and

communicating of the video tours, and those that post them on Facebook and Twitter have connections to people in other countries,” Russell said. “I think that when students from the other side of the world have access to these tours on the Internet and see Baylor’s beautiful campus, they’ll want to come here more.”

Another one of the tour guides, alumna Sarah Carr, said the virtual tour videos fulfill a crucial need that pictures and pamphlets cannot.

“Alot of prospective students don’t come to campus before applying, so these tour videos are important because they show Baylor from a bird’s eye view,” Carr said. “They also let prospective students hear stories from real students and give them a taste of what Baylor life is like.”

Waxahachie junior Ben Larson said he thinks the video tours’ aerial shots of campus alone would be enough to convince most high school students to become interested in attending Baylor.

“When you see the Baylor Sciences Building, Draper Academic Building and Pat Neff Hall in the evening light, that is enough to make any high school senior go ‘whoa, this campus is beautiful,’” Larson said. “The tour of campus alone is enough to make Baylor most high school students’ first choice.”

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Baylor’s athletic heritage is preserved, and its future supported by the Baylor “B” Association.

This association is made up of former athletes that lettered at Baylor. While the requirements for lettering vary from sport to sport, a letter signifies that the athlete was recognized for significant contribution on the team.

“The main purpose of the ‘B’ Association is to honor the players who have worn the green and gold,” said executive director Walter Abercrombie. “That is why we exist.”

While it is true that every letter winner is a member, only those that pay dues are considered active.

Active members attend annual meetings and any other meeting that the board of the association may call.

Currently, the association is honoring the previous football players that played at Floyd Casey.

At each home game, a specific decade is honored. This weekend, the players from the 1950s will be honored.

“A big part of our purpose is to also make sure we preserve the heritage of our athletes that have come through,” Abercrombie said.

The “B” Association preserves this heritage in multiple ways. The Legend Award is presented by the association to honor outstanding

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Former Baylor players from the 1980s are honored on the field at Floyd Casey Stadium during the game against the University of Louisiana-Monroe on Sept. 21.

former athletes in their sport. The association is also in charge of the Baylor Athletic Hall of Fame.

Six players are to be inducted to the Hall of Fame tonight. According to the Baylor Athletics website, these players include Brandon Couts, from track and field in 1998-2001; Sheila Lambert former women’s basketball palyer in 2000-02; Jerry Marcontell, for-

mer football player in 1955-57; David Murphy, former baseball player in 2001-03; Walter “Pinkie” Palmer, former football in 1966-68; and Brian Skinner, former men’s basketball player in 1995-98.

Abercrombie said many new facilities have the names of previous letterwinners. He said he hopes being a part of the association helps former athletes feel more connect-

ed to Baylor.

“That’s one reason the lettermen association is important because we help keep athletes engaged and feeling good about the university,” Abercrombie said.

The association started out as a reunion between players before World War II. Dutch Schroeder, former president of the “B” association, said this reunion started

out as informal meetings during Homecoming.

Schroeder is also a letter winner for his contribution to Baylor’s baseball team in the 1940s. Schroeder ran the association as a volunteer for 40 years.

“The meeting would take place in an Austin Ave Hotel,” Schroeder said. “It was usually at a breakfast before the homecoming parade.

‘Froggie’ Coleman, who had been a Baylor letter winner, was working in the physical education department and he became the leader in getting the men together.”

These meetings halted during World War II as athletics at Baylor temporarily shutdown. After the war, the homecoming meetings were resumed. Eventually, officers were elected and dues were established.

For the following 20 years, the organization continued to meet, but never got involved with anything outside of meetings.

In the mid 1960s, Bennie Strickland a multi-sport athlete from the 1920s was selected to be the volunteer executive director.

Soon, plans were developed for a room to house the association.

When sufficient funds had been committed to the project, Baylor’s administration made space available on the Northwest corner of Floyd Casey Stadium. By the 1972 football season, the “B” Room was completed.

“The “B” Association has assisted the athletic department in various projects and event over the years,” Schroeder said. “From purchasing batting cages for the baseball team, completing the finances at the Ferrell center for the basketball team, building a dressing room for the volleyball team, and many other things.”

Think pink: Volleyball money goes to breast cancer research

By Ada Zhang Staff Writer

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Chillin’ on the hill A group of freshmen who originally did not know each other prior to gathering on what they now call “The Hill” relaxed and got to know one another on Fountain Mall, on Oct. 17. The groups activities consisted of spoken word poetry, singing, playing the guitar and playing computer games.

In October, we wear pink.

Members of the Baylor Alpha Kappa Delta Phi sorority are hosting the Dig Pink volleyball tournament from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 26 on the Mclean Student Life Center basketball court.

There will be a costume contest before the tournament begins. In the actual tournament, six teams will play against one another. Prizes will be given to the top three teams.

The tournament is free for spectators and there will be complimentary refreshments and snacks.

Everyone in the Baylor community is invited to this event said Sugar Land junior Alex Bui, aKDPhi internal vice president.

Each team is formed by a different Baylor organization, Bui said.

This year’s participants include Delta Epsilon Psi, Lamba Phi Epsilon, Alpha Phi Omega and Delta Kappa Delta. Prizes will be given to the winning teams, Bui said.

Bui said each team had to pay a registration fee to enter the tournament. All the money aKDPhi receives from registration fees will go to the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade fund to support breast cancer

research.

According to the Avon foundation website, Avon is the leading corporate supporter of breast cancer awareness, diagnosis, education and research across the globe. aKDPhi is an exclusive affiliate of the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade, according to the aKDPhi website.

Spring senior Alyssa Villanueva, aKDPhi president, said this is actually only the second year aKDPhi has hosted this event, but members of the sorority are trying to create a tradition by hosting Dig Pink every year.

Villanueva said the planning process began before the semester started.

“We’ve been planning this event since the beginning of summer,” Villanueva said. “Right when school ended, we thought about it.”

Various duties were delegated to members to prepare for the tournament and make it a success.

To garner interest in the event, some members had to go to other organizations and speak about the event, Villanueva said.

In order to officiate the tournament, each member also had to learn the logistics of volleyball, Villanueva said, since some members were previously unfamiliar with the sport.

“Each of us had to think of cre-

ative ways to make the tournament more fun and entertaining,” Villanueva said.

The creativity component of this year’s tournament takes form in a costume contest that will happen before the tournament begins, Bui said. Villanueva said she thought this would be fun since Halloween is coming up.

Besides hosting this tournament, aKDPhi has been doing other forms of outreach to raise money for Avon.

“Each member was required to go out and find businesses to sponsor us,” Villanueva said.

Businesses from Waco, Austin and Dallas has sponsored aKDPhi with monetary donations, which will all go towards Avon, Villanueva said. Alumni have donated as well, she said.

From the combined efforts of the 48 aKDPhi chapters across the U.S and in Canada, the sorority has raised $13,000 as of Tuesday, Villanueva said.

Bui and Villanueva said students should watch the tournament because it supports a good cause.

“It’s not just volleyball- you learn about breast cancer awareness while you’re there and what our sorority does to help the cause,” Villanueva said.

Fighting hunger across oceans Ex-UK leader: Governments key in hunger fight

By David Pitt Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa — The discussion Thursday at the World Food Prize symposium about hunger and poverty in developing nations turned largely from the controversies of global warming and genetically modified crops and focused on governments and their role in solving social ills.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and philanthropist Howard Buffett, son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, discussed how they and the foundations they've created work in African nations and elsewhere to improve lives.

They were joined by Ritu Sharma, president of Women Thrive Worldwide, a Washington-based advocacy group dedicated to women's equality.

Blair, who left office in 2007, started the Africa Governance Initiative five years ago to help improve governance in Rwanda, Sier-

ra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Malawi and South Sudan.

He said he has learned through his work that unless a country has a basic capacity at the center of government to make improvements, change will not occur.

In some countries, it's as important a need as offering reliable electricity, roads, and other basic infrastructure, he said.

AGI sends teams of people to work alongside leadership in the underdeveloped nations to help implement change.

“If you've got a great agricultural program and you want to deliver it, unless you've got the basic capacity at the center of government to make the thing happen it doesn't happen,” Blair said.

He said he has found it surprising how little political leaders are educated about the programs and organizations available to help them but is encouraged that a new generation of leaders in Africa and elsewhere want to learn and accept

assistance.

“The surprising thing has been the lack of knowledge of what's out there, and the most optimistic thing is there's a new spirit and attitude out there that says, OK if you've got something to teach me, I'm willing to listen,” Blair said.

Howard Buffett said among the bigger challenges are getting the knowledge, farming tools, seeds and techniques appropriate for each country into the hands of farmers and encouraging governments to let farmers make decisions that are best for their own land.

“We have to empower farmers to make good decisions, and to make good decisions they can afford comes down to government policy in the end,” he said.

Blair said the World Food Prize Foundation's focus on developing agriculture is essential for developing countries that need to feed growing populations.

He said industrialized nations

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offering help also need to be far less bureaucratic and more creative about solutions they offer. Sharma said poverty is rooted in peoples' lack of power to change their environment or circumstances.

“You have to address the relative powerlessness of those you’re trying to help, and woman are the

least powerful among them,” she said.

She said she has witnessed men take away productive land after local women aided by organizations were successful in growing crops.

“I see that time and time again.

You have to look at what is underlying that poverty. What are the

power structures, what are the barriers that any farmer, male or female, is facing and address that at the same time,” said.

Making an impact in some cases requires talking with elders to change attitudes or drafting new national laws to permit women to own land.

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Student fulfills ‘God’s plan’ in African prison

By Brittney Horner Reporter

Mulenga Chella said it was God’s plan for him to go prison.

In 2006, Chella, a master of divinity student at George W. Truett Theological Seminary, was imprisoned in Tanzania, directly north of his home country in Zambia. He spent two years in prison and was released in October 2008.

“This was the will of God for me,” Chella said.

A year before he went to prison, a fellow minister used Chella as an example that God can use people in miraculous ways. The minister said God could use Chella by sending him to prison.

Chella said he did not want to believe God would ever allow him to suffer in prison, and as time passed he forgot about the minister’s words.

Ten months, Chella met an African man named Trojack, who said he was a missionary helping widows and children.

The man invited Chella to go along with him to Tanzania for mission work.

Chella said when they arrived in Tanzania, they were confronted by police officers.

“For the first time in my life, a gun was pointed to my head,” he said.

The police officers told Chella that the man he was with was an international criminal and the vehicle they had been traveling in was stolen.

Chella said because he was a foreigner with a criminal in a stolen vehicle, law enforcement assumed he was a criminal too.

Before being taken into a prison cell, Chella was put in a police holding cell that was about 10 feet by 16 feet.

“There were about 30 men sleeping on the concrete floor with bed bugs everywhere,” he said. “The room had no running water.”

Just before entering the cell, Chella emptied his pockets, handing over $5 to the guard to hold for him. The men in the cell saw the exchange and began to taunt Chella, asking him for money.

After searching his pockets and finding nothing, they got angry and began to beat Chella.

“I was thrown into the toilet and covered in human waste,” he said.

Chella said he was angry with God at the time for allowing this injustice.

“I cried to the Lord and asked him why he allowed me to suffer,” he said.

One of the men who had beaten him heard Chella praying, and he asked Chella to pray for him too. Although tempted to pray for the man’s death, Chella prayed for the man’s well-being. Chella said his prayer was answered, and the man was released from prison.

However, prison was even worse than the holding cell. Three people slept on a mattress meant for one and the food was

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Master of Divinity student Mulenga Chella spent two years in a Tanzania prison. Chella sees his experience as an extension of “God’s plan.”

measly and disgusting, Chella said.

“When you compare African prisons to American prisons, American prisons are what we consider a five-star hotel,” he said.

Chella said one of the men who slept on the mattress next to his was insane. He had killed his entire family — father, mother and two other relatives — with an ax.

“I prayed endlessly for protection,” Chella said.

Chella said trusting God was not easy, especially being in close quarters with the man who had deceived him.

“Trojack was a wicked, deceptive criminal,” Chella said. “He had made enemies even with the most feared criminals in prison.”

Not all hope was gone, though. Chella made a friend named Masho.

Masho, an elderly man, was serving a life sentence. In 1973, Masho’s brothers had committed murder and although Masho was innocent, he too was convicted of murder. Masho had become a Christian while in prison and prayed that if God spared his life then he would share the Word of God. “Since then, he preached the Word like a madman,” Chella said.

Prisoners come in and out every day, and those who are imprisoned for life meet thousands of people over time, Chella said.

“Some 40,000 prisoners have been saved because of Masho,” he said.

Chella said Masho encouraged his faith.

“That man inspired me to stop complaining and preach the word,” Chella said.

Chella said Trojack attempted to break out of the prison. When his escape failed, he tried to commit suicide by drinking poison, but the poison left him unconscious for two weeks.

The police advised Chella to let the man die because any kindness shown to

“The Angel told Mary there is nothing that is impossible with God I have faith in that.”

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him would make Chella look like he was indeed friends with the criminal and, therefore, guilty.

“It was a hard decision,” Chella said.

“By the grace of God, I surrendered to God’s Word. I nursed Trojack and did all the dirty work. I washed his diarrheastained clothes and fed him.”

Chella said he kept referring to Matthew 5, which calls people to love their

enemies and pray for those who persecute them.

“If it was not for the Bible I had, I would not be alive today,” he said.

It was while caring for Trojack that Chella struggled with ontological questions like what is life and what is the meaning of living.

“It was in those moments that I learned that life is an opportunity to love, to honor God and serve mankind,” Chella said.

Chella said after two weeks, Trojack recovered and wept for the love he had been shown. When their time in court came, Trojack said Chella was innocent.

“Trojack opened the doors for my release,” Chella said. “Had he not, I would have been in prison for 10 years.”

Chella said he learned from the pain.

“What man intended for evil, God intended for good,” he said. “It was worth it.

I have come to know God better.”

Wes Yeary, director of sports ministries, is friends with Chella and often has Chella speak to Baylor athletes.

“Mulenga Chella is authentic and passionate,” Yeary said. “He bubbles with joy when he shares the Lord. His faithfulness is so inspiring to me.”

Chella said anyone going through a difficult time should hold onto their faith.

“Trust in the Lord that he will bring a testimony out of your trials,” Chella said.

Patience was also an important aspect

of Chella’s journey to a greater faith.

“I prayed and prayed for months, for a year,” he said. “The enemy filled my heart with thoughts that God was not real. God would not let me suffer like this. My faith was tested. God gave me the strength and I was blessed.”

Pat Murphy, the pastor of donor ministries and director of development at Antioch Community Church in Waco, met Chella in 2012 while visiting Northrise University, a private Christian college in Africa.

“God gave Chella some sort of encouragement, using an example that pierced his heart,” Murphy said. “The Lord planted a seed.”

Murphy said it is unlikely any American will endure what Chella endured, yet Chella is not angry or bitter.

“If he can come out of that, why can’t we, amidst our struggles, draw near to God?” he said.

Chella got his bachelor’s degree in theology from Northrise University. Chella said he was called into full-time ministry.

After Truett, he plans to return to Africa and plant churches. He has written a book about his life called “Story of Surrender,” which is still in the editing process.

“The Angel told Mary there is nothing that is impossible with God,” Chella said, “I have faith in that.”

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BU Law students win at moot court, will compete more

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Two Baylor law students will try to argue their way to the top in pursuit of protecting civil rights and liberties.

Faith Johnson, San Antonio 2nd year law student, and Kelsey Warren, Decatur 2nd year law student, will compete together in the Andrews Kurth Moot Court National Championship hosted by the University of Houston Law Center January 22-25, 2014.

The competition is a moot court, which does not involve actual testimony by witnesses or the presentation of evidence, but it focuses solely on applying the law to a predetermined case. All competitors have access to the case problem in advance. The case problem is a simulated case that defines issues to be argued.

The case problem was released Thursday and the team has already started to prepare although the competition is months away.

The team just returned from a moot court competition that took place from Oct. 11-13.

Johnson and Warren competed in and won first place in the competition, which was the sixth annual Emory University School of Law Civil Rights and Liberties Moot Court Competition at Emory University School of Law Gambrell Hall in Atlanta, Ga. All schools were limited to sending two teams. Each could have included two or three students.

Two teams went to the competition from Baylor Law School.

Faith Johnson and Kelsey Warren made up one team, and 2nd year law students Brittney Symons and Scott Nyitray were on a team.

Professor Larry Bates, InterScholastic Moot Court team coach and a professor in the law school, accompanied the teams to the competition.

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Mo. sex assault case may get a fresh start

By Bill Draper Associated Press

MARYVILLE, Mo. — The case of a 14-year-old girl who says she was raped by an older boy from her Missouri high school and left passed out on her porch in freezing temperatures is expected to get a fresh start under a special prosecutor.

A special prosecutor will be able to launch his own investigation, interview witnesses and work independently from the local prosecutor who's faced intense scrutiny for dropping felony charges in the case last year, experts said Thursday.

“The idea is really to have a third party who is removed from the process, who can bring the appearance of objectivity and neutrality,” said Richard Reuben, a professor at the University of Missouri School of Law. “At the end of the day they would look like a prosecutor who is truly independent.”

The new prosecutor's final decision carries high stakes: It could settle the debate over whether Rice was right to drop the charges, or validate the accusers’ outrage by pushing the case toward a trial.

Nodaway County prosecutor Robert Rice filed a motion Thursday for a judge to appoint a special prosecutor in the case, which has gained new attention and an outpouring of responses of social media following a Kansas City Star investigation.

The girl's family also spoke out this summer to Kansas City radio station KCUR. The case and the publicity has shaken the small college town of Maryville, where the girl's mother, Melinda Coleman, said her family was forced to move after being harassed over the allegations.

Her house in Maryville burned down while the family was trying to sell it, but a cause hasn't been determined.

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lous,” Bates said. “They truly put the best face on Baylor law school that any one could have put on.

And they were fun to work with too.”

The teams began the preparation process on Aug. 1, when the case problem was released. The case was a civil rights case with two internal issues, a fifth amendment issue and an eighth amendment issue.

Each team had until Sept. 6 to submit a 30-page written brief.

The brief is a written legal document presented to a court arguing why one party to a particular case should prevail.

“The brief writing period is

“Both of the teams were fabulous. They truly put the best face on Baylor Law school that any one could have put on. And they were fun to work with too.”

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called the ‘blackout’ period,” Bates said. During this period, the teams were not permitted to seek assistance from Bates or any other faculty.

From Sept. 6 to Oct. 9, the day before departure, the students

practiced and prepared with Bates.

Faith said by the time they got to the competition, there wasn’t a question they hadn’t heard because they had so many practice rounds, with different faculty members, professors, practitioners and law-

yers in town.

“Confidence is really important, but you only get that from being extremely well prepared,” Johnson said.

The competition lasted three days and seven rounds.

Only 16 teams survived the three preliminary rounds.

“Once you get past the preliminary rounds, it works just like the NCAA basketball tournament,” Bates said. “After the cut, there is an octa-final round, quarter final round, semi-final round and final round.”

The judges and competitors change from round to round, and competitors have to be prepared to

argue both sides of the argument because they don’t know until the coin flip at the beginning of the round which side they will be arguing.

Each round was judged by practicing lawyers and judges.

The competitors were scored on a point system that rated total “speaker points”, Warren said.

The points were received based on their knowledge of the case law, the case facts and public policy.

They also received point for general presentation style, speaking style, and ability to answer questions. The team with the most “speaker points” by the final round was the winner.

In the final round the panel had three particularly prominent personas.

“We had the opportunity to be judged by an eighth circuit court of appeals judge, a third circuit court of appeals judge and a federal judge,” Johnson said.

Johnson and Warren argued the case for the last time in a vast auditorium.

During the final round, the competitors faced the judges on one side of the stage, while the audience sat side on in their peripheral vision, Johnson said.

Instead of letting nerves get the best of them, Johnson and Warren remained unwavering.

“In the final round, we were very calm. We were on. We were ready to go. We were ready to win,” Warren said.

Their extreme preparation paid off on Sunday when Johnson and Warren were announced the winning team of the 2013 Emory Civil Rights and Liberties Competition.

The two said they worked well with each other and they look forward to competing together again in January.

“Winning felt really great,” Warren said. “We hope to do it again.”

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Shutdown aftermath preview of 2014 elections

By Ken Thomas Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of House Republicans planning Senate campaigns next year took different bets on a bill in Congress ending a government shutdown and avoiding a default. For some, a general election loomed large while for others, the vote was a matter of competing for conservative primary voters.

The high-profile vote Wednesday night to end the 16-day partial government shutdown and stave off a national default divided Republicans in the House and Senate and could turn into a noteworthy issue in next year’s midterm elections.

In the Senate, Republicans need to pick up six seats to recapture the majority during President Barack Obama’s final two years. Republican outside groups paid close attention to the vote, with organizations like the Club for Growth and Heritage Action urging lawmakers to vote against the measure, while business groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said it was necessary to avoid an economic calamity.

For House Republicans with Senate ambitions, the vote offered a window into their political standing. By voting for the bill, Republicans were insulated to a certain degree against Democrats’ accusations that they would have allowed the government to default. By opposing it, they sided with conservatives who despise Obama’s health care law and spending record.

Four lawmakers who may seek the GOP presidential nomination in 2016 — Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Marco Rubio of Florida, Ted Cruz of Texas and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin — voted against the bill.

In the House, Reps. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Steve Daines of Montana supported the bill. All three are well-positioned to win the Republican nomination for Senate seats currently controlled by Democrats.

Cotton is challenging vulnerable Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., the son of the state’s former senator and governor. Cotton said supporting the bill gave Congress time to “stop Washington’s out-of-control spending,” but his vote put him at odds with the Club for Growth. The group has supported Cotton and been airing ads in Arkansas criticizing Pryor’s connection to Obama’s health care law.

Barney Keller, a club spokesman, said the group strongly supported Cotton, but “we simply disagree with him on this vote.”

Capito said the government needed to be reopened, and it was “clearly not in our country’s best interests to default on our debts.” Daines cited

frustration that the measure was temporary and Congress could face another debt crisis in months.

The vote could affect at least two Republican incumbents in the Senate.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., helped negotiate the deal with Democratic leaders and his role quickly drew opposition from tea party-backed primary challenger Matt Bevin, who said McConnell had sold out conservatives.

Democrats are waiting in the wings with Alison Lundergan Grimes, Kentucky’s secretary of state, hoping a difficult primary could weaken the powerful GOP leader in the general election.

In Mississippi, the Club for Growth and the Senate Conservatives Fund, which have played formidable roles in Republican primaries, endorsed Chris McDaniel, a state senator who announced his campaign Thursday to unseat GOP Sen. Thad Cochran. Cochran, who voted for the bill, has not said whether he’ll seek re-election next year.

“The lamps of liberty are going out across the Republic. Millions of people feel like strangers in the land,” McDaniel said Thursday in Ellisville, Miss.

For House Republicans facing crowded Senate fields, the calculation was different. With many conservatives furious with the nation’s new health insurance program, siding with Obama and establishment Republicans could hurt them in primaries fueled by tea party activists. Many lawmakers still remember the fate of former Utah Sen. Bob Bennett, who supported the $700 billion bailout of the financial industry in 2008 and later lost the Republican nomination to now Sen. Mike Lee. In Louisiana, Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy opposed the bill, potentially helping his cause in a primary field in which some have questioned his conservative bona fides. The winner will face Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. In Georgia, where GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss is retiring, three House Republicans — Reps. Jack Kingston, Paul Broun and Phil Gingrey — voted against the bill. The congressional trio joins former secretary of state Karen Handel and businessman David Perdue in a crowded primary field. Democrats have recruited Michelle Nunn, the daughter of former Sen. Sam Nunn.

Yes vote or not, Democrats intend to make the shutdown a major theme against Republicans next year.

“They could have voted for a nearly identical deal weeks ago and spared their constituents a lot pain, but they put their own politics ahead of what’s best for their state,” said Matt Canter, deputy executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

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The Judge Baylor statue is a common place for students and visitors to take pictures. Tom Phillips, a former Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court and Baylor alumnus will deliver a speech Oct. 23 at 4 p.m. about the life and influence of Judge Baylor and his role in founding Baylor.

Past and Present: Alumnus to discuss who is Judge Baylor

By Brittney Horner Reporter The Carroll Library is offering a unique opportunity for those seeking knowledge of Baylor’s past.

Tom Phillips, a former Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court and a Baylor alumnus, will deliver a speech at 4 p.m Oct. 23, titled “Texas Law in One Saddlebag, the Holy Bible in the Other: The Life of R.E.B. Baylor.”

The speech will discuss the life and impact of Judge Baylor in founding Texas’ oldest university.

“In order to move forward, we need to know where we come from,” said John Wilson, director of The Texas Collection.

Phillips said he is looking forward to returning to Baylor, although it is much different than when he attended in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.

“I think we won five football games in all the time I was there,” he said. “The campus was much smaller, and tuition was only $25 an hour.”

Phillips will share many unknown facts about Judge Baylor and the university’s past.

Although his name is on the largest Baptist school in the world, Judge Baylor did not grow up as a Christian.

“He was late to religion but when he discovered it, he fervently adhered to it,” Phillips said.

According to the Univeristy of Texas School of Law’s website, Judge Baylor experienced a religious conversion in 1839 and became an ordained Baptist minister.

Wilson said Judge Baylor was a passionate and humble individual.

“He did not want his name on the university,” Wilson said. “He was one of three founders, but the other founders chose his name for the university.”

Wilson said Judge Baylor was never president of the university.

He taught law classes, and talked about his faith openly, Wilson said.

“What people remember about Judge Baylor is his high academic standards,” Wilson said.

One of the most surprising facts about Judge Baylor was that he was neither a leading donor nor a fulltime faculty, Phillips said.

“During my talk, I will discuss Judge Baylor’s background, political career and why the other donors chose Baylor as the name,” he said.

Carroll Library will be open Saturday morning for those who will already be on campus for the parade.

Those interested in more Baylor history can explore The Texas Collection, located in Carroll Library and Morrison Constitution Hall.

There will be an exhibit called “Coming Home: The Changing Landscape of Baylor University,” showcasing aerial photographs of Baylor overtime beginning as early as the 1940s, and other memorabilia, Wilson said.

“This is a great opportunity to learn more about R.E.B Baylor, who the university is named after,” said Carl Flynn, director of marketing and communications for information technology and university libraries.

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Nolan Ryan calls it quits as Texas Rangers’ CEO

By Schuyler Dixon Associated Press

ARLINGTON — Nolan Ryan is leaving the Texas Rangers again, stepping away from his CEO role 20 years after ending his Hall of Fame career as a pitcher.

In what the team had called a retirement, Ryan said Thursday that he is resigning as chief executive of the Rangers in a move effective at the end of this month. He is also selling his ownership stake in the team to co-chairmen Ray Davis and Bob Simpson.

“It closes a chapter of my life in baseball,” Ryan said. “I feel like it’s time for me to move on to other things. It’s been a decision that weighed on my heavily, but I feel like it’s the right decision. ... At this point and time, it’s the correct thing for me to do.”

Asked about the difference in the team announcing that he was retiring and him calling it a resignation, the 66-year-old Ryan

paused and then said he wouldn’t be the CEO of another major league team and called this perhaps the “final chapter” of his storied career in baseball.

Ryan’s older son, Reid, became president of the Houston Astros earlier this year. Nolan Ryan dismissed any speculation that he’s leaving the Rangers to join his son and another of the teams he pitched for and worked for in the past.

The move takes effect Oct. 31.

Ryan became the 10th president of the Rangers in February 2008 when he was hired by former owner Tom Hicks. Ryan added the title of CEO three years later.

He was also part of the ownership group that acquired the team in August 2010, months before its first World Series.

Ryan’s departure comes less than a year after ownership gave general manager Jon Daniels and chief operating officer Rick George new presidential titles and took the

president’s title from Ryan.

Davis insisted the change in Ryan’s title earlier this year was just that.

“From a corporation standpoint, Nolan’s authority didn’t change at all,” Davis said. “On all major decisions on baseball, Nolan made all final decisions.”

Ryan said the title change wasn’t a factor in his decision.

“I don’t look at it from that perspective,” Ryan said. “I just look at it from where I am in life and what I want to do going forward and that’s what really drove my decision.”

George left in July to become the athletic director at the University of Colorado. Daniels attended the news conference at Rangers Ballpark, but left without speaking to reporters.

Davis said the ownership group is disappointed with Ryan’s decision but understands it. Simpson said he tried to talk Ryan out of leaving.

“You don’t wake up one day and make a decision of this magnitude,” Ryan said. “It was something I’ve been thinking about on and off for a while now. Just felt like it was probably time for me to move on.”

Ryan said he planned to go home and enjoy getting back out to his ranch “and doing things I haven’t done for six years now. ... I don’t know what a year from now might bring. This may be the final chapter of my baseball career.”

Texas made its only two World Series appearances during Ryan’s six seasons in the front office.

The Rangers have averaged more than 90 wins the past five seasons, though they missed the playoffs this year after losing an AL wildcard tiebreaker game to Tampa Bay. “During times of significant change for the franchise, Nolan has been a constant — accessible, dedicated and an icon to his fellow Texans who love our game,” Commissioner Bud Selig said. “Nolan’s

unique perspective as a legendary player and an accomplished executive has been invaluable to the Rangers franchise.”

Ryan’s name has been synonymous with the Rangers for decades.

The major league strikeout king with 5,714 spent the last five seasons of his playing Ryan days in a Rangers uniform, getting his 300th victory, throwing the last two of his record seven no-hitters and getting his 5,000th strikeout. He retired as player after the 1993 season.

His No. 34 jersey is the only one worn by a Rangers player to be retired, and there is a statue of the pitcher at Rangers Ballpark. He is the only player in the Hall of Fame whose bust is topped by a Texas

cap.

“As his son, I am extremely proud of what he has accomplished as both a player and as a front office executive. He was an integral part of all three of the World Series appearances by Texas teams, in 2005 with the Astros and in 2010-11 with the Rangers,” Reid Ryan said in a statement.

“He has always treated the game with dignity and respect and has appreciated those that make our game great: the fans, players and employees,” he said.

The co-chairmen said there are no immediate plans to announce a new CEO. Rob Matwick, who’s currently executive vice president of ballpark and event operations, will take on more responsibilities with the help of others who have also been shifted into new roles.

As for representing the Rangers in MLB business, Davis said he’d “be the control person for the next two or three years, and Bob and I will rotate that title.”

Davis campaign disavowing robocall using her name

By Chris Tomlinson Associated Press

AUSTIN — When the recorded phone message asked Gene Malish if he supported Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis last week, he pushed the button indicating yes, and he kept pushing buttons until he’d given $500.

Then the 83-year-old saw his credit card statement and realized the money hadn’t gone to the Fort Worth senator’s campaign, but to a group called the Foundation for Justice for All. That led him to do a little searching until he learned on the Internet that the group specializes in robocalls to political progressives about social issues.

“I was looking forward to giving to Davis,” Malish told The Associated Press on Thursday. “After I found out it was what I consider a scam, I called ... for the city detec-

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Davis began the slow rollout of her campaign for Texas governor on Wednesday, Sept. 18, becoming the first Democrat to make an official bid for a statewide office.

tive.”

A tagline on the group’s website says it is focused on “forward thinking social advocacy.” But Bo Delp, Davis’ communication direc-

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efit. Anytime you get rain, it slows your crew down. There are certain things you can’t do if it’s raining. You can’t set structural steel or be up in there air, so certainly we need some dry conditions a little while longer.”

The structure of the stadium is almost complete. The work on the bridge is also underway. The foundations for the bridge will be complete in the next few weeks.

After the foundation is complete, columns will be put in. This will set the stage for the bridge piece projected to be set at the first part of next year.

The stadium is not the only thing undergoing changes. The Waco community is experiencing changes from a business standpoint.

“We’ve seen heightened interest and activity in waterfront development for sure, but that takes a long time,” Waco mayor Malcolm Duncan said. “We’ve been working at riverfront development for almost 30 years, so it’s not going to happen overnight just because a stadium gets built. But there is certainly much more interest from what I’ve heard from investor activity and interest because of the stadium.”

The Brazos Riverfront Project is aimed at bringing business to

the Brazos riverfront area as well as bettering the economy of Waco.

The project is a public-private partnership between the city of Waco and the Brazos River Partnership.

The project’s aim is to create retail, residential, restaurant and public spaces. This is also changing and being impacted by the new stadium. Duncan said when the project is fully developed, the investment will almost rival that of the stadium.

“Everything I have heard has been overwhelmingly positive, even from people that are not huge Baylor supporters,” Duncan said.

“People that have been looking at downtown and riverfront development for the last 30 years feel that this is a positive step.”

Elizabeth Taylor, director of Waco Convention Center, also has positive predictions for the stadium’s effect on the community.

She said the project raises Waco’s profile and is a sign of the health and openness of the community toward development.

“I’m expecting that we as a whole community will experience a tremendous uplift in the attitude of people and I think that we see more business in the area around where the new stadium is,” Taylor said.

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The Baylor Stadium is scheduled to open Fall 2014. Due to the rain over the last couple days, construction has been delayed.

tor, urged supporters to stay away from the group, saying the group was not connected to Davis’ campaign.

“We are aware of robocalls

falsely posing as our campaign and asking for money,” Delp said. “It is disgusting that anyone would take advantage of hard-working Texas families looking to participate in their democracy and make Texas even better.”

Federal Election Commission documents list Marquita DeJesus of McKinney as the group’s director and Marcia Fern, also of McKinney, as the treasurer, while listing a mailbox in Washington, D.C., as the group’s office.

“We do advocacy for social justice issues like affordable health care, gun control and human trafficking,” DeJesus told The Associated Press. “We’ve been reaching out for some issues across America doing advocacy calls, but recently in Texas, we’ve trying to generate support for Wendy Davis.”

Democratic strategist Matt Angle showed The Associated Press

online records from the Colorado Secretary of State that show the same attorney that is listed for Justice for All also represents several conservative groups based in that state.

“This group hasn’t made any effort to be in contact with the Davis campaign or, as far as we can tell, communicate with others, so we worry about what their real intentions are,” Angle said.

DeJesus denied she has any ties to Republican or right-wing groups, but said neither does she have any ties to Democrats or Davis.

Foundation for Justice for All raised money for gun control legislation after the Newtown shooting and during the Trayvon Martin murder trial, DeJesus said.

Malish said he felt duped after making the donation and said the group hung up on him when

they called a second time to ask for more money and he asked for a refund.

A detective in Wincrest, a suburb of San Antonio, suggested Malish contact the Texas attorney general’s office and file a complaint because that office investigates deceptive trade practices. But Malish said he didn’t do that because Attorney General Greg Abbott is Davis’ likely opponent in the general election.

“If I called the attorney general’s office, I was afraid I’d divulge information they’d use against Wendy,” he said.

“Any Texan who believes they’ve been deceived by a telemarketer is encouraged to file a complaint with the Texas Attorney General’s Office,” said Lauren Bean, spokeswoman for the Attorney General’s office.

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HOMECOMING 2013 Today

Saturday

Friday Night Flashback

Football vs. Iowa State

Extravaganza/Bonfire

Pigskin

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Parade

All day Bill Daniel Student Center

6 - 10 p.m. Fountain Mall

6:30 - 9 p.m. Waco Hall 10:30 p.m. - 1 a.m. Waco Hall

6 - 9 p.m. Floyd Casey Stadium

1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Waco Hall

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7 - 8:30 p.m. Seventh and James Baptist Church

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photographers. The photographers will then go out and shoot something for the poem.”

As of now, Elequin has not completed any contracts for Bearthology to be an official organization at Baylor but hopes that Bearthology will be a part of Baylor in the future.

“This is the very beginning, and the potential artist growth is insane,” Elequin said. “Right now, we’re independent of Baylor, you could say we’re an unsanctioned gorilla operation. One day I hope this turns into a company with students on campus and that we build a partnership with Baylor. I want to make Baylor the ideal university known for this to help student talents become known.”

In the future, Elequin said he also hopes to showcase the artists of Bearthology to show what talents are being produced.

“We tell our artists to showcase all the time but we want to do a night for people to see what our artists can do,” Elequin said. “Families at home can see what their kids are doing. “ All students with a passion to express their talents are invited to join Bearthology.

“We are all inclusive and there’s no discrimination,” Elequin said.

“All we’re about is creative expression and collaboration.”

To learn more about Bearthology, interested students can visit the Bearthology Facebook page or the Bearthology website.

She and her brother take similar classes and thus have some of the same professors.

“One of my professors thought I was his wife,” Holstead said. “That was interesting.”

Although their family has been on Baylor campus for generations, the grandchildren currently enrolled don’t expect their familial ties on campus to gain them any preferential treatment.

“I definitely hold myself to a higher standard anyway,” Brown said. “I want to be the best student I can be and always try and be a good Christian in the classroom and outside of the classroom.”

Only time will tell how many generations this legacy will continue, but it’s safe to say the Allen family can give most family legacies a run for their money.

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or his sister. Everyone is just so open and so welcoming to who you are.”

While this is a “Baylor proud” family, granddaughters Brown and Holstead said they never felt pressure to choose Baylor over another university.

For Holstead, Baylor was the smartest choice after a basketball injury.

“I hurt my knee right before

my senior year,” Holstead said. “So I was like basketball is not on the table anymore. So it was definitely like a peaceful, ‘this is where I need to go’ type thing. Not pressure or anything like that.”

For Brown, Baylor has been her choice from day one.

“Ever since I knew what college was, I wanted to go to Baylor,” Brown said. “Just because we would go to homecoming and we

would go to women’s basketball games. So I always just really liked the atmosphere and everything.”

While many members of the family may be in the same city, daily life is busy and they don’t see each other as much as they would like.

Baylor serves as more than just a tradition for the family — it keeps them connected, bonding over sports and academics.

“We all go to games together,” Holstead said. “My aunts and uncles and my grandparents. Every so often we’ll go and have dinner together, like on Sundays normally.

I mean it’s definitely good family time.”

With a legacy so big, it can get easy for people to get the family members confused with one another.

Holstead is no stranger to this.

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Bears control Big 12 destiny

By Shehan Jeyarajah Sports Writer

With Oklahoma losing last week in the Red River Rivalry, Baylor moved up to 12th in the country in both the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches Polls, which is the highest the Bears have been since 1991. For the first time in the 16-year history of the Big 12, Baylor is the highest ranked team in the conference.

The Baylor Bears will look to prove they belong at the front of the pack as they play Iowa State in the final homecoming game at Floyd Casey Stadium.

Looking in the context of previous homecomings, Baylor is clearly at a special place in its history. In homecoming games, Baylor is 4243-4. Yes, there have been more Homecoming football losses than there have been wins. In the Art Briles era, Baylor has started a winning homecoming tradition.

“Anytime you get in conference play, anything can happen,” head football coach Art Briles said.

“Everybody’s got history with each other. Iowa State is a good, tough football team that plays extremely well.”

Despite playing a challenging game against Kansas State last Saturday, Baylor still leads all of college football with 714.4 yards per game and 63.4 points per game.

The passing and rushing attacks each are top four in the country with 412.2 yards passing per game and 302.2 yards rushing per game.

Junior quarterback Bryce Petty has stepped right in line to become the next stellar Baylor quarterback.

He is ninth in college football both in passing yards per game and completion percentage. Petty also leads the NCAA in yards per attempt at 14.9. The next highest player averages only 11.7 yards per attempt. To top things off, Petty has rushed for a touchdown in each of the last four games. Despite coming in as an unknown, there is no doubt that Petty is establishing himself as a Heisman contender.

Junior running back Lache Seastrunk’s statistics are among the

best running backs in college football. He is averaging 129.6 yards per game, despite having less than 10 second half rushing attempts on the season. Seastrunk leads all running backs in yards per attempt with a 10.0 yards per carry.

The wide receiver tandem of junior Antwan Goodley and senior Tevin Reese are statistically among the NCAA’s best. Goodley is second in receiving yards per game with 133.8 yards per game. Reese is right behind at seventh, averaging 121.8 yards per game. They are the only teammates in all of football to both average 100 yards per game of receiving.

Goodley and Reese also rank first and second respectively on the yards per reception list. Goodley leads the nation with 26.8 yards per reception. Reese averages 26.5 yards per catch. Reese also has the fifth-longest reception of the season in the NCAA: a 93-yard touchdown grab against West Virginia.

Goodley isn’t far off; his 83-yard grab ties him for 14th on the season.

“At the end of the day, it’s about Baylor for us,” Petty said. “From an offensive standpoint, it’s always about us going out to execute, us going out to produce the way we know how. It starts with practice the week before. It starts with game planning and watching film.”

The defensive side of the ball has been much improved this season after the horrendous defense played for most of last season. The Bears rank 24th overall in total defense, holding teams to only 346.0 yards of offense per game.

While Baylor’s defense under third-year defensive coordinator Phil Bennett has not been an elite containment defense, the Bears have been opportunistic. The defense averages 2.5 takeaways per game during the last 22 games, and in that span are 18-4. In games in which the Bears record two or more takeaways, Baylor is 19-2.

The front seven have impressed early for Baylor. The Bears defense is fourth in the nation in tackles for loss with 9.0 per game.

Sophomore defensive end Shawn Oakman is individually

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eighth in the country with 1.8 tackles for loss per game. The Bears also have 16 sacks, which ranks 10th in the nation and second in the Big 12.

Iowa State comes into this game searching for its first win in Big 12 play after losing the first two in heartbreaking fashion to Texas and No. 20 Texas Tech. The Cyclones also had a bad loss to Iowa and a terrible loss in their opener to FCS opponent Northern Iowa.

The Cyclones have struggled this season mightily on the defensive end. They rank 101 out of 123 in total defense, allowing opponents to average 447.6 yards per game. The Cyclones also rank 87 in points against, allowing 29.8 points

per contest. The Iowa State offense has not been strong enough to make up for its poor defense.

The Cyclones rank 81st in total offense per game with 387.4 yards and rank 74 in football in points per game with only 28.8 points per game.

Sophomore quarterback Sam Richardson has been relatively effective as the starting quarterback for Iowa State despite not having many weapons around him to work with. Other than a bad day at Texas Tech last week, he is averaging 254.8 yards per game, 2.3 touchdowns and an interception per game on 62.3 percent completion percentage. He is currently struggling with injury woes, but

plans to play on Saturday.

Despite Richardson at quarterback, Iowa State ranks 84 in rushing yards with only 150.0 rushing yards per game, and are 74 in scoring with 28.8 yards per game. The rushing game can be described as inconsistent at best.

“Iowa State is willing to take chances,” senior safety Ahmad Dixon said. “They play like they have nothing to lose. We know they’re going to test our secondary. Last year when we went up to Ames, Iowa, we didn’t do a good job controlling the secondary. We have to come back out and show them that this is not the same secondary we had last year.”

Iowa State is a team hungry for

a win after losing two close games to Texas (by one point) and No. 20 Texas Tech (by one touchdown).

Unfortunately for the Cyclones, Baylor is not going to give them that opportunity. The Bears average 70.5 points per game at home, and Iowa State has one of the worst defenses in the Big 12. Even a Herculean effort from Richardson will not be enough to even stay competitive with a Baylor team looking to prove a point on its home turf for homecoming.

Baylor football will play Iowa State at 6 p.m. Saturday in the final homecoming football game at Floyd Casey Stadium.

The game will be broadcast nationally on ESPNU.

BIG 12 FOOTBALL WEEKEND PREVIEW

By Shehan Jeyarajah Sports Writer

No. 21 Oklahoma State vs.

TCU Despite the perception of Oklahoma State as an offensive oriented team, the defense has stepped up and has been integral to the Cowboys’ success. OSU is currently 38th in the country and fifth in the Big 12 in total defense, holding teams to 361.2 yards per game.

The passing offense has been solid, averaging 300.4 yards per game, but the rushing offense has been virtually nonexistent. Sophomore quarterback J.W Walsh has been the leading rusher for the Cowboys this season, and they rank 87th in the country in rushing yards.

TCU has a lot to prove after nearly letting Kansas steal a game from them in Fort Worth. The game was tied 10-10 at half and only a 75-yard touchdown pass could separate the Horned Frogs from the lowly Jayhawks. TCU ranks 109th in the nation in total offense, and second to last in the Big 12. The Horned Frogs defense has generally been great, ranking 16 in the country and second in the Big 12, but it hasn’t been enough to make up for the lack of offense.

TCU will improve greatly when senior quarterback Casey Pachall returns from injury, but that will not be this week. An Oklahoma State team desperate for a convincing win should be able to get it at home in Stillwater.

West Virginia vs.

No. 16 Texas Tech West Virginia was torched at the hands of the Baylor Bears for 73 points and a Big 12 record 860

yards at Floyd Casey Stadium.

The WVU offense has been decidedly average, but quarterback Clint Trickett should be relatively healthy after battling injury woes for the last few weeks. Senior running back Charles Sims has turned some heads in his quest to the NFL. Outside of the Baylor game, WVU is holding teams

to establish a running game consistently this season, but three

ning backs went off for 80 yards or more and a touchd o w n

State.

It remains to be seen if any of the can repeat that feat, but the talent is there.

The defense has been surprisingly good against a weak schedule, ranking 21st in total defense.

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to 347.0 yards p e r game and 19.6 points per game which both express that West Virginia has a sound defense.

Texas Tech has the second highest rated passing offense in the Big 12 behind Baylor, and fourth overall in the nation.

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Mo r gantown is one of the most difficult places to play in the Big 12.

Kliff Kingsbury has not yet been challenged as a head coach.

Tech should be good enough to win, but the Mountaineers may make things more interesting than

anticipated in the unpredictable Big 12.

Kansas (2-3) vs.

No. 18 Oklahoma

Kansas has been woeful this season, especially against the Big 12. So far the Jayhawks are 0-2, with a blowout against Texas Tech and a convincing loss against TCU. Kansas also has a bad loss against Rice as a blemish on its schedule. The offense has been incredibly bad, averaging only 305.0 yards per game. That ranks 115th out of 123 teams in the FBS. The Jayhawks rank outside the top 100 in every major offensive metric despite having a supposed offensive guru in Charlie Weis at the helm.

The defense has been decent outside of allowing a big performance from Texas Tech, but you can’t ask a defense to win you games if you only average 18.2 points per contest in the Big 12.

Oklahoma is coming off of an embarrassing loss at the hands of an unranked Texas team in the Red River Rivalry. Junior quarterback Blake Bell showed the sort of offensive ineptitude that allowed freshman Travis Knight to earn the starting job over him during the offseason, throwing for 133 yards, two interceptions and a total QBR of 4.2 out of 100. The Sooners’ rushing attack was virtually nonexistent. No player finished with over 34 yards rushing. The Sooners are not this bad in either the passing or rushing game, and will look to prove that once again this week.

Win or lose, Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops is undefeated in games coming out of the Red River Rivalry during his time at OU. Against a terrible Kansas team, the Sooners should run away with the game.

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Odyssey Sims ready to step up as team leader

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Baylor senior guard Odyssey Sims was 2013 World University Games MVP, three-time Wade Watch list candidate and participant in the USA Women’s National Team mini-camp.

The World University Games are equivalent to the Olympics for collegiate athletes and Sims had the opportunity to play for Team USA at this summer’s games in Russia.

“The team that I was on, I was surrounded by, it was great,” Sims said. “If I could go back, I would.

It was a great experience. Anytime I could go and play for USA, it’s always a great opportunity.”

Sims didn’t just play, she helped lead the team to the semi-finals, doing enough during that time to win most valuable player.

“I didn’t know it had MVP,” Sims said. “That wasn’t my main goal to go out there and try to get it. I was just happy more than anything to win the gold medal. That meant more than anything to me.

More than getting MVP, but I was very honored.”

Coming back to the States with experience, an MVP title and a gold medal, Sims was invited to the USA Women’s National Team mini-camp Oct. 3-6 in Las Vegas.

According to an article on baylorbears.com, “the camp [was] used to identify players for the USA National Team pool from which the 2013 USA World Championship Team will be selected.”

Sims attended the camp along with former Lady Bears Brittney Griner and Sophia Young.

“I was kind of nervous being around all of these WNBA players that I actually look up to,” Sims said. “Tamika Catchings, she really helped me. She guided me every day I was there. She told me what to do. Looking up to them, seeing what they were doing and then trying to incorporate it. I kind of took leading a lot better than I had been doing since I’ve been here.”

Most recently, Sims was named one of 25 players to the “Wade Watch” list for the award. This is Sims’ third season on the preseason watch list. The Irving native was a finalist for the award in 2013, but lost to teammate Brittney Griner.

“Let me say this about Odyssey, Odyssey Sims has always been a talented player, and she’s won many, many awards,” head coach Kim Mulkey said.

“She’s now won a championship. Probably one of the greatest moments in my coaching, even though it was one of the worst moments, was the Louisville game and watching Odyssey Sims basically almost win that thing by herself,” head coach Kim Mulkey said.

“She gave everything she had and when the game was over. You always tell them, if you’ve given it everything you have you don’t even have energy to walk off that floor and she didn’t. When she walked off that floor, finished crying and the locker room was settling down a little bit, she just walked straight up to me put her arms out and said, ‘Coach I gave you everything I had—and she did,” head coach Kim Mulkey said.

As the Lady Bears move into their third week of practice, Sims is preparing to take on a leadership role as one of the few players left with her level of experience.

The Lady Bears lost some seniors after last year’s season, but this season they’re back with fresh talent.

“I’m just very excited just to go into this year,” Sims said. “No one knows what to expect as far as from us, and we are very young, but our talent is still there. We did lose a lot, but we also gained a lot with the five freshmen that came in.”

This season, Sims has a lot on her shoulders. Only time will tell how the Lady Bears adjust with some of their key players gone and freshmen talent still learning the ropes.

The outlook is positive and

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Senior guard Odyssey Sims drives to the hoop against Texas at the Ferrell Center on Feb. 23. With All-American Brittney Griner now in the WNBA, Sims is the clear leader of the Lady Bears on and off the court. Sims hopes to keep Baylor’s winning tradition alive this season as a senior.

Sims’ experience in all that she’s accomplished and participated in can help lead the team.

“When you’re still ranked in

the top 10 and you lose as much as we did, I think people outside of Waco will talk about Baylor, the program,” Mulkey said. “The

fun thing for me, though, is when people outside of Waco talk about Baylor now, they’re not just talking about women’s basketball and I

have loved every minute of it. I just think that winning is contagious and I’ve always thought that Baylor was a sleeping giant.”

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Soccer faces crunch time as Big 12 season winds down

By Parmida Schahhosseini Sports Writer

With only four more Big 12 games left for Baylor, the matchups occurring around the league will be important for the Big 12 Tournament seeding. The Bears will have to take care of business, but also keep an eye out for other teams.

“There’s no team you can take lightly,” sophomore forward Bri Campos said. Every game you go into, any team can really beat any team. We have to go into each game with the same mentality like you would against the Texas or the Tech or the Iowa State. They have to have the same mentality and you have to play just as hard for each game.”

Anybody can beat anybody in the Big 12 because no matter the sport, records are always thrown out the window. No. 11 West Virginia leads the way and is riding a seven-game winning streak on its way to a 5-0-0 Big 12 record. Kansas will have a tough task ahead as it tries to knock off the top team in the conference.

“I’ve seen everybody in the conference play, and I honestly don’t think there’s anybody we cannot beat, but we are not going to beat anybody if we don’t score some goals,” Kansas head coach Mark Francis said. “The way we are playing and competing is good, but right now that’s not enough.”

The Kansas Jayhawks (0-2-1) have struggled offensively and have not scored a goal in the last three matches. Senior forward Caroline Kastor leads the team with four goals and three assists while junior midfielder Jamie Fletcher puts pressure on defenses with her 43 shots. Prior to the three game goalless streak, the pressure put on

by Fletcher was effective as it averaged two goals a game for the three games before the streak.

Kansas has a solid defense, but West Virginia’s potent offense can match up well because of how the disruptive forwards. The Mountaineers have scored 38 goals this season, eighth most in the NCAA. Senior forwards Kate Schwindel, who was honored offensive player of the week, and Frances Silva lead the team with 10 goals apiece. Silva also is third in NCAA with her 11 assists. West Virginia can win the regular season for the second year in a row if it takes care of business.

“There’s nothing like waiting to see what other teams do in conference play, so at this point, our plan is to control our own destiny and take care of what we can take care of,” Mountaineer coach Nikki Izzo-Brown said. “If we execute our plan, we should be good. We’re really taking this season game by game right now. What we have to do is take care of 90 minutes on Friday - that’s what is really important.

It will be emotional for West Virginia because of Senior Night, honoring Kara Blosser, Sarah Keane, Frances Silva and Caroline Szwed.

“Of course, we want to win for our seniors, too,” Izzo-Brown said.

“There’s a lot Mountaineer pride that will hopefully come out and support what these four seniors have done for this program, this state and this university. These girls are pretty special.”

Another Big 12 matchup Baylor needs to look out for is Texas at Oklahoma State. Texas is second in the conference with a 4-1 record, with its lone loss coming against West Virginia. Texas has a stout backline and also has a height advantage, meaning that Oklahoma State must strengthen its game in the air.

Texas is playing well in all aspects of the game, with its defense leading the way. Junior midfielder Sharis Lachappelle’s two goals

against Baylor led a three-way tie between sophomore forward Kelsey Shimmick and junior defender Brooke Gilbert. Texas has scored 26 goals this season, but its stout defense has kept the Longhorns in the game to pull out wins.

Gilbert, the Big 12 defensive player of the week, is coming off of a game where she led her defense to shutdown a solid Baylor offense for 86 minutes before junior forward Natalie Huggins scored a goal. Texas has given up 12 goals, but is still third in the Big 12 with an .80 goals against average and a .79 goals against average.

Oklahoma State does have an advantage playing at home, where the Longhorns carry a 3-4-2 record in Stillwater. The Cowgirls hold a 35-3-6 record at Cowgirl Soccer Complex since 2010, but are 2-2-2 at home this year, unable to capitalize on home turf.

Ranking second to last in shots taken, Oklahoma State needs to apply pressure on the Texas team in order to stay in the game. The team’s ability to generate goals has been affected because of the lack of opportunity. OSU ranks sixth in goals with 19, but it has given up 17 goals, making it harder to consistently win games.

The Cowgirls are going to need production from the team to continue generating offense. The underclassmen have come up big for Oklahoma State with freshman forward Courtney Dike leading the way with eight goals and two assists and sophomore forward Allie Stephenson’s five goals and three assists. Only three other players have scored for the Cowgirls, two freshmen and three sophomores.

The senior class will need to step up its game offensively to give the team the chance to win.

Oklahoma State has led the Big 12 in shutouts in five of the last seven seasons, but ranks last this year tied with Oklahoma for three

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Freshman defender Emory Cason controls the ball and looks to pass against Northwestern State in a match at Betty Lou Mays Soccer Field on Aug. 25. The Bears only have four matches remaining before the Big 12 tournament.

shutouts. The defense has allowed more shots on goal than it has taken. The defense has been susceptible to pressure, so the Longhorns can take advantage and pull away with a win.

The Cowgirls’ in-state rival Oklahoma has struggled in the Big 12 with a 0-4 conference record and 3-10-1 overall. The Sooners will travel to Fort Worth to take on TCU, which is coming off its first Big 12 win of the season after a 1-0 victory against Kansas.

Both teams have struggled offensively, but Oklahoma isn’t doing itself any favors by giving up almost double the number of goals scored.

The offense has only been able to generate 15 goals this season and ranks last in every major Big 12 category. TCU has had problems offensively, but by applying enough pressure it can score.

The Sooners offensive ineptitude combined with defense leaves a lot to be desired, but junior forward Daisy Cardona is doing her

best to get a win by leading her team with four goals. Freshman defender Madison Saliba is the only other player to score more than two goals. The team has only scored four goals in its last five games, but TCU given up seven goals in its last five games, and only scored two goals in its last five games.

If Oklahoma can put enough pressure on the defense it can come away with a win, but it needs to shore up its defense to prevent TCU from getting goals to the back of the net.

TCU gets most of its production from its two main goal scorers, freshman forward Michelle Prokof, who leads the team with seven goals, and Makenzie Koch, who is second with four goals. The five remaining scorers have only scored a combined six goals.

No. 18 Texas Tech (3-0-2) has a bye, but it has also made noise in the Big 12 as the second unbeaten left. The Red Raiders have a po-

tent offense, scoring 38 goals to go along with the best defense in the Big 12.

Texas Tech posts a .36 goals against average .38 goals allowed, allowing only six goals this season.

It ranks first in the Big 12 in shutouts with 12, but ranks last in saves because of the stout backline.

Offensively the Red Raiders have had success because of effective committee scoring.

Sophomore forward Janine Beckie leads the team with six goals and four assists and sophomore midfielder Alli Murphy following with five goals and three assists.

Nine other players on the team have contributed with two or more goals.

The competition is stiff in the Big 12, but Baylor can’t worry about other teams. All it can do is take care of business and the rest will take care of itself.

(Top) Senior tight end Wofford on Aug. 31.

(Bottom left) Antwan Goodley gets tackled after making a catch against Buffalo on Sept. 7.

(Bottom middle) Jamal Palmer attempts to sack ULM’s quarterback on Sept. 21

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Running back Lache Seastrunk

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d Jordan Najvar dives over a Buffalo defender on Sept. 7. Baylor won the game 70-13. (Right) The Baylor defense makes a play on the ball against

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Larissa Campos leads by example

By Parmida Schahhosseini Sports Writer

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Senior midfielder Larissa Campos dribbles past a McNeese State defender on Sept. 15 at Betty Lou Mays Soccer Field. After tearing her ACL as a freshman, Campos is among the leaders on this years team looking to defend its Big 12 title.

Courageous. Determined. Passionate.

Those are the words many use to describe senior midfielder Larissa Campos, who has overcome many obstacles to pursue her dream of playing soccer.

As a talented basketball and soccer player in high school, Campos has never shied away from success and has continuously pushed herself to be the best.

When Campos arrived to Baylor, she had her whole future in front of her, but one moment changed everything. With 14 games under her belt, Campos sustained a season ending knee injury, affecting her soccer career onwards.

“That rocked my world a bit,” Campos said. “I’ve heard of people tearing their ACL’s, but I didn’t really know how serious of an injury it was.”

Soccer was her life. Ever since she received training from her youth coaches, Tito and Zico, her identity had been tied to soccer. Despite the circumstances, the way she handled her situation has inspired her sister, sophomore forward Bri Campos.

“What she’s been through as an athlete with her knee and everything she’s had to overcome, is very honorable,” Bri Campos said. “I respect that about her and how she handled those situations throughout her career.”

During her sophomore year, Larissa Campos took a medical redshirt. The adjustment was difficult because she didn’t want to be on the bench. Her dream to play soccer was halted, but she wouldn’t trade her experience for the world. It has not only taught her how to be a good teammate, but also strengthened her faith in God. Campos grew up in a religious household, with both her parents being devout Catholics, but neither of them forced Catholicism on her. All they hoped their daughters was for them to have a relationship with God. “It sparked my passion in my faith and to trust in God,” Larissa Campos said. “That injury gave me time to figure out what I really wanted to pursue in my faith.”

It took Campos longer than most people to overcome the ACL injury. Whenever she would try to get back on the field there was always a setback, leading to two more surgeries.

“Every single time that I was almost back

to where I wanted to be, God was like, ‘no, you’re not ready yet,’” Larissa Campos said.

“He [God] kept pulling me away from what I wanted so much to make me realize that your insight shouldn’t be soccer, your insight should be me.”

It has been a long journey for Campos, but she attributes it to making her stronger. She hopes to use her testimony to encourage others. She continues to push her teammates to be better on and off the field. It’s these experiences that have made her into a mature player that her teammates look up to.

“She’s a very hard worker,” Baylor co-head coach Marci Jobson said. “She’s a leader off the field. She’s a leader at practice.”

Campos cherishes her time as a Baylor soccer player because it has taught her not to be selfish and to play for the team.

While there are times where she wishes she didn’t sustain that knee injury, she realizes what a humbling experience it was. Her experiences have helped her appreciate the game more because it was almost taken away.

“Being able to put my cleats on every day is a blessing,” Larissa Campos said. “It changes the way I play. I always play like it’s my last time.”

Her competitive nature adds another element to the team. Growing up, her parents always pushed her and Bri to be competitive and fueled that fire in them. As they grew up they began to emulate each other.

“It’s a lot of fun playing with her,” Bri Campos said. “I think it’s good for both of us because we both have competitive natures. It pushes us to be better and one up each other, but it’s in a healthy way, pushing us to improve on and off the field.”

During her time at Baylor, Campos has learned to play with heart.

Campos wants to leave a legacy, so Baylor’s soccer teams in the future can continue playing with edge, because talent isn’t everything.

Her goal is to be an inspiration to others.

This season, Campos has been effective off the bench, giving Baylor the extra offense it’s looking for with two goals and an assist in its transition to committee scoring.

Campos’ love of soccer will always remain a part of her. The injury spurred her passion even more to continue following God’s plan for her and to continue to be an inspiration to others.

After she graduates, Campos hopes to continue to inspire others by coaching soccer.

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Rosenbaum steps up for Baylor volleyball

By Shehan Jeyarajah Sports Writer

“Setters are basically the quarterback of the volleyball team,” junior middle hitter Nicole Bardaji said. “They tell us what to do and they talk to the defense and tell what kind of passes she needs.

They have a big impact on the game.”

Sophomore setter Amy Rosenbaum has been relied on this season to be the starting setter for the first time in her collegiate career, and she has delivered big results.

In Big 12 play, Rosenbaum is third in the conference with 10.82 assists per set and second among underclassmen.

“It’s a new role for me,” Rosenbaum said of her performance.

“Last year, I was really relied on to encourage people. I was on the team, but I wasn’t really relied on to be a leader. Now I have to adjust to being the lead person. It’s a challenge I love because I know I can

“Young players like Rosenbaum have had to step up on this team.

She has a big role as a setter and has had to learn how to play a new position right on the court. She is a tremendously talented setter.”

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do it. I think I’ve played well.”

Rosenbaum played in four matches in 2012, but only major

minutes in two. This season, she has been thrust into a starting role and has started at setter in all of Baylor’s 21 matches this season.

She is one of only three players on the team to have played in every Baylor set this season.

“Moving to being a starting setter is a lot about confidence,” Rosenbaum said. “It’s not really about how to set the ball. It’s about how to run the offense and learning what each hitter needs. I’m not going to say it’s easy, but it makes it easier that I love my teammates.”

Rosenbaum’s teammates have loved her right back.

“My relationship with Amy is great; we’re teammates, roommates and best friends,” sophomore middle hitter Adrien Richburg said. “I think our relationship off the court helps. We have a good connection.”

Bardaji was quick to compliment Rosenbaum on her performance for Baylor.

“Every setter has a different type of play and different styles,” Bardaji said. “Our old setter, Kate Harris, was really, really quick with her sets. Amy’s are a little slower which I love. She is very mischievous as a setter. When it comes to who she’s going to set, she really tricks the blockers on the other side. She forces me to always be ready because I never know if she’s going to set me which is awesome.”

Rosenbaum has set a variety of career-highs this season for Baylor.

Against UT-San Antonio, Rosenbaum played the best match of her collegiate career. She finished with a career-high 50 kills and 19 digs in her first career double-double. She added another double-double on Oct. 9 against West Virginia with 35 assists and 12 digs.

This season has been a rough one for Baylor volleyball. In the second match of the season, the Bears lost freshman phenom out-

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side hitter Katie Staiger to a season- ending knee injury. The Bears have fallen to 9-12 on the season and 1-4 in the Big 12. Despite the trouble, it has been essential in building for the future.

“Young players like Rosenbaum have had to step up on this team,” head volleyball coach Jim Barnes said. “She has a big role as a setter and has had to learn how to play the position right on the court. She

“It’s a new role for me.

Last year, I was really relied on to encourage people. I was on the team, but wasn’t really relied on to be a leader.

Now I have to adjust to being the lead person.”

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is a tremendously talented setter.”

Baylor has three sophomores who have started 14 or more matches this season: outside hitters Thea Munch-Soegaard and Laura Jones and middle hitter Adrien Richburg. Those three will have a chance to grow together with Rosenbaum.

“We have a young group that’s constantly improving,” Barnes said. “We have two girls who aren’t even playing right now, freshman Staiger and sophomore Andie Malloy, who are two of the best outside hitters in the country. You have to feel really good about our future with Amy leading the way.”

Amy Rosenbaum and Baylor volleyball return at 1 p.m. on Saturday against Oklahoma at the Ferrell Center in Waco.

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Sophomore setter Amy Rosenbaum prepares to set the ball to a teammate on Wednesday night against TCU at the Ferrell Center. The Bears host Oklahoma at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Ferrell Center.

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Arts & Entertainment Friday | October 18, 2013

Sewing hope in Africa

Kith + Kin, student business gives jobs to women

By Michael Davidson Reporter

In an unlikely pairing of two worlds, a new business recently started by three Baylor students aims to combine the selling of luxurious, high-fashion products with the humanitarianism of fighting third-world poverty.

Kith + Kin, whose name is derived from the word kinfolk or community of people, was founded earlier this semester by Waco senior Christen Batson, Fort Worth senior Meredith Noles and Dallas senior Jeffrey Sholden. The company was created as part of Baylor’s Accelerated Ventures program, a course that funds students for the opportunity to create real businesses and make real profits over a two-semester period. Kith + Kin utilizes a unique business model to sell high-quality leather bags, which are designed by Noles here in Waco, but manufactured by former prostitutes in Rwanda.

“We want to be a change in the fashion world,” Sholden said.

“We want to show that you can be highly fashionable but also really care about people and help them.

Directly combining the two ideas into one product could be a very powerful thing.”

While the concept of aiding the poverty-stricken people of thirdworld countries has been around for decades, Kith + Kin hopes to do its part by approaching the issue in a different way.

Many prostitutes in Africa are forced into the practice indirectly, as they see no other way to provide for themselves or their family. In addition to being given a job, these women are also given an opportunity to become self-sustaining and to influence others struggling with the same issue, Sholden said. This can have a positive impact both economically and emotionally.

“There’s a certain sense of accomplishment that comes with earning your own money as opposed to someone just giving it to you,” Noles said. “A huge goal of ours is to not only help these women but to empower them. We see

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Kith + Kin gives former prostitutes in Rwanda a job and an opportunity to become self-sustaining.

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Nightmare Haunted Houses From 8 p.m. to midnight Fridays and Saturdays in October.

Exit 345 North Interstate 35 near Elm Mott.

Visitors get scared silly at this double feature Waco haunt. Tickets are $13 for each house or $20 for both.

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Fort Worth senior Meredith Noles, Dallas senior Jeffrey Sholden and Waco senior Christen Batson started Kith + Kin, a humanitarian

them as social influencers.”

A long lasting effect that will inspire future generations is the ultimate goal, Batson explained, which she said comes as a breath of fresh air in a world of charity currently dominated by a process of hearing about poverty, sending a lump sum of money and forgetting the whole thing ever happened.

“We just want to make a real, long-term impact with these women,” Batson said. “This may be a small drop in the bucket in terms of the overall poverty issue, but we hope it will ripple out and start the same process for their kids, and their kids’ kids, etc.”

The women are paid for each bag they produce, and are trained by a local tailor who is also employed by Kith + Kin. This concept is very important to the company as they see themselves as not only helping people earn money, but also stimulating the local economy by creating new jobs. Though it is,

at times, a struggle to run a business in which the operations are split between two different continents, Noles said the nature of the endeavor always makes it worth it in the end.

While helping those less fortunate is a large part of the company’s ideology, it is not the only one. They also hope to make an impact in the fashion world and in the lives of those who purchase their bags.

Noles said she believes that what sets them apart from similar organizations like Fairtrade International is the fact that their product is not only high fashion, but high quality as well. Made solely from premium grade Italian leather, the purses will be marketed toward middle to upper-class shoppers and sold in high-end boutiques in large cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Seattle.

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Show starts at 7:30 p.m. today at 1517 Lake Air Drive. The show will run Thursdays through Saturdays until Oct. 27.

Tickets are $18 for adults and $16 for seniors and students. On Thursday nights, tickets are $10. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit wacocivictheatre.org or call (254) 776-1517.

>> Color Me Rad 5k Starts at 9 a.m. Oct. 26 in the BSR Cable Park at 5347 Old Mexia Rd. Participants may register today for $45 or for $50 starting Saturday. Proceeds will go to Susan G. Komen of Central Texas.

For more information and to register, visit colormerad.com and search for the Waco location.

>> Switchfoot in concert 7 p.m. Oct. 28 Waco Hall

New kid in town

Uproar’s Luke Hicks draws inspiration from past

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The alternative Christian rock band comes to Baylor with new music and the premiere of the new film “Fading West.” Tickets can be purchased for $15 at the Bill Daniel Student Center box office or online at baylor.edu/studentactivities.

>> Waco Civic Theatre auditions 7 p.m. October 28-29 at 1517 Lake Air Drive for the theatre’s next production, “Cash On Delivery.”

The play revolves around a man who creates alter egos to bring in government aid money. The show is set to run Dec. 6-15.

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Impact. That’s what Uproar Record’s new artist, Austin junior Luke Hicks, wants to do with his music. His original songs, both about times of joy or heartbreak, are what he feels will touch his audience most.

Q: How did you get started in music?

A: I shared a room with my older brother growing up. Him and his friends were crazy into music, and I was surrounded by it. Their interest in finding new music really helped me want to play and create music.

Q: What would you say is your “sound?”

A: My sound is mostly folk. At times is could be called folk blues, some even call it acoustic folk.

Q: Where do you find inspiration when writing?

A: I get my inspiration from events in my life. Almost everything in my life gives me some sort of inspiration. Whether it is a painful or joyful event, it impacts me.

My spirituality also impacts my songs greatly.

Q: Who are some of the people you look up to in the music profession?

A: For songwriting, which is where I am most inspired, Conner Oberst. Also, Jon Foreman for the way he writes. I like Sufjan Stevens for the diversity in his writing.

There are just so many people. I look up to David Ramirez, who is from Austin as well.

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>> White Out Glow Party Doors open at 8 p.m. at Downtown 301 Event Center, 301 S. Second Ave. Attendees are told to wear white clothes so they can glow under black lights while listening to live music from DJ Odyssey and D3X. Glow products and face painting will be available.

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Q: What is your favorite song to perform?

A: The song that will be my single is my favorite, it doesn’t have a title yet. Or the song I wrote last night because it’s stuck in my head.

I like performing my own songs. I do sometimes play cover songs, but when I am playing my song I can do my own thing and put my style on it.

Q: What are some of your longterm goals when it comes to music?

A: I don’t know how this will all play out. Until I signed with Uproar, I was just playing music for fun. I haven’t given it much thought. Missionary work is my long-term goal. I would enjoy being a music minister being able to be involved in a church each week to lead worship.

Q: Who got you interested in music ministry?

A: There was this boy Joe from high school. He started discipling me. He was the first person who I really saw live by his faith. He is the

“Almost everything in my life gives me some sort of inspiration.

Whether it is a painful or joyful event, it impacts me.”

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one how encouraged me. Then my junior year of high school, I had my own calling moment for music ministry. I don’t really know what it will look like. It could be doing music like this or doing music in

the church or both.

Q: Do your songs have a Christian influence?

A: I hear it, but I don’t know if other might not. It is a huge part of my life, so of course it influences my music. But, I don’t right out say Jesus’ name or anything. I write a lot of love songs.

Q: What are some of your upcoming events?

A: I will be playing the homecoming parade, and I have a show at Common Grounds on October 26. I will be opening for Luke Wade and No Civilians. Tickets are $7 at the door.

Q: What are you looking to do with your music?

A: I want to create raw honest and genuine music that people can relate too. Whether it’s about heartbreak, truth, joy or sorrow.

Pre-sale tickets are available at Ninfa’s at 220 S. Third St. — $10 for 21 and older, $20 for under 21.

Tickets may also be purchased at the door for $15 for 21 and older. Attendees must be at least 18 years old.

>> Deck the Halls The Junior League of Waco will hold a 3-day shopping event from Nov. 1-3 at the Waco Convention Center.

The event will feature over 75 merchants. Events included are breakfast with Santa, a gingerbread house decorating activity, a mother-daughter and many others. Ticket prices vary by day and event.

For tickets and event details, visit jlwaco.org or call (254) 753-5574.

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Local theater to get lighting facelift

By Michael Davidson Reporter

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The McLane Carillon bells located in the top of Pat Neff Hall will ring out at 5 p.m. today in celebration of Baylor’s homecoming.

Bells to ring in homecoming

By Paula Ann Solis Staff Writer

As Baylor Bears stomp back into town for the oldest homecoming traditions in the nation, they will be marching to beat of the – bells?

The McLane Carillon bells of Pat Neff Hall Tower will ring out as part of the annual Homecoming Recital at 5 p.m. today. The performance is free and open to the public.

The recital can be best heard and enjoyed by bringing a lawn chair or blanket and sitting on the grass of Founders Mall with some snacks and drinks in hand, said Baylor alumna and university Carillonneur (pronounced CARE-uhlahn-oo-er) Lynette Geary.

Geary said these homecoming recitals have been a tradition on Baylor’s campus since the Drayton McLane family donated the 48-bell carillon to Baylor in 1988. Geary said she has participated in the recital for the past 17 years.

The recital will open with “Doxology,” arranged by Baylor’s first carillon performer, the late Dr. Herbert Colvin, a Welsh tune “Men of Harlech,” Claude Debussy’s “The Girl with the Flaxen

Hair,” “Toccata No. 10” by Johan Franco, a Yiddish folk melody “Tumbalalaika” and “Sarabande for Twenty-Six Bells” by John Courter.

“Men of Harlech’ is a march,” Geary said. “It is just this great rousing piece and it always, when I hear it, makes me think of the Bears marching into town.”

It is a fitting tune certainly as Baylor Bears return to Waco from around the nation for homecoming. The recital is expected to last between 20 and 30 minutes, which will leave plenty of time for those also planning to attend the homecoming extravaganza/bonfire at 6 p.m. today on Fountain Mall.

“The performance is just a nice mix of styles and it is not heavily academic,” Geary said. “It is a lighter and less formal recital.”

The final songs will be some classic Baylor favorites, “Saints Fight,” “Old Fight” and “That Good Old Baylor Line.” Herbert arranged all three for the carillon.

In the event of rain, Geary said the recital can still be enjoyed by standing under the walkway of Draper Academic Building. Printed programs will be handed out before the performance.

Homecoming guests will also have the chance to enjoy a performance by prominent carillonneur Karel Keldermans at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, also outside of Pat Neff Hall, serving as an additional treat for those that have trekked back to Waco.

Keldermans has served as the carillonneur for Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Mo., for 13 years, has played in concerts around the world and is the former president of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America, according to the Missouri State University website.

“He is absolutely fabulous and just wonderful,” Geary said. “Anybody who comes to hear him will be glad that they did.”

The performance by Keldermans will also be free, open to the public and can be enjoyed by sitting on the Fountain Mall lawn. His pieces will include “Chant and Jubilation,” “Romance,” “Waltz,” “Ballade Mistral” and “Concerto.” The performance is expected to run between 40 and 50 minutes.

For more information, call the Baylor University School of Music at 7103991.

The Waco Civic Theatre is enjoying some time in the spotlight. The local community theater has not only received a $50,000 grant from the Rapoport Foundation, which will be used to fund a complete renovation of their stage lighting system, but has also obtained the rights to perform the acclaimed Broadway musical “Les Miserables.”

The executive director of the theater, Eric Shephard, said the majority of the money will go toward new dimmers as well as new LED and spotlighting instruments.

He also said the grant, though unanticipated, could not have come at a better time, as the theater recently started experiencing problems with its current, nearly 30-yearold lighting system.

“It was unexpected, in a lot of ways, to get the money, and it was incredible that we got the full amount we applied for,” Shephard said. “We asked for $50,000.

They could have obviously denied the proposal or only given us a portion of the money, but they funded the entirety of the grant, which was much needed.”

Shephard partly attributes the theater’s receiving of the grant to their genuine effort to remain self-funded and their attempt to solve problems themselves. Volunteers at the theater have recently repainted many parts of the building, installed new flooring, replaced air conditioning units and repaired parts of the roof that once caused leaking. They also installed a handicappedaccess ramp at the front of the building earlier this year, in addition to buying a new light control board this past summer.

The new dimmers and instruments will help technicians light very specific parts of the stage, ensuring a more precise, pinpoint spotlight effect. Digital scenery projection is another aspect that comes with the new system. Shephard said this will allow the theater to produce a wider, more popular array of shows in the future, including the world-renowned play “Les Miserables,” which he is set to direct in the fall of 2014.

“It was a big deal to obtain the rights to ‘Les Mis’ as this show means a great deal to me,” Shephard said. “The new steps we have taken will absolutely affect our production of this show. We hope to include an orchestra and a choir. If you’re in the audience, your body should quiver from the vibration of the noise because it is so powerful.”

For the past 20 years, the rights-owners of “Les Miserables” have been very protective of the play, only authorizing productions by high schools theater departments, even then requiring all actors involved to be under the age of 18. Recently, they have become more lenient, allowing different theaters across the country to direct and perform it. However, that window of time will close in March of 2015.

This news is not only exciting to the staff and volunteers of the Waco Civic Theatre, but also to the Waco theater community in general.

“The full version of the rights for ‘Les Miserables’ finally being released is a huge deal on every level in the theater world,” said Adam Flores, a St. Louis, Mo., theater directing graduate student at Baylor. “Even though it is an extremely popular show right now, only the boldest of the bold would take it on. Waco Civic is truly living their mission to the fullest in taking on this show.”

Though the process of becoming a renowned theater involves many steps and takes many years, according to Shephard, Waco Civic Theatre’s recent efforts and technological advances, without a doubt, aid his overall goal of their productions becoming indistinguishable from professional theater. Through this, Shephard also hopes to maintain a true communitybased aspect and said he loved the idea of an audience member potentially seeing their local dentist performing on stage.

“This is just one of those pieces of the puzzle that makes the whole thing better in every way, and its very exciting,” Shephard said. “It’s life changing for this organization. Let’s just hope it’s one piece of many to come.”

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With homecoming weekend upon us, I searched for the perfect dip to serve at a tailgate event or game watch party at home. The Velveeta and Ro-Tel snoozer is a classic but overdone, and I needed something to wow.

However, the recipe I found is a bit more sweet than savory.

Packed with peanut butter, chocolate chips and cream cheese goodness, this football dip is sure to please any sweet tooth.

Served with sweet or salty snack, it’s a sure touchdown at any party or tailgate this weekend.

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What you need

1/4 cup softened butter 4 oz. softened cream cheese 1 cup peanut butter 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2-2 cups powdered sugar 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips Chocolate sprinkles White frosting for football laces

What to do

Cream together the butter, cream cheese and peanut butter until thoroughly mixed with no lumps of butter. It should look a little whipped.

Add to the mixture the powdered sugar half a cup at a time. Fold in chocolate chips.

Put mixture on a sheet of wax paper and form it into the shape of a football.

From there, move the dip onto a serving plate.

Cover the entire shape in chocolate sprinkles and press them on the surface to make them stick. Pipe the icing on the dip to make the laces. Use pretzels, animal crackers, cookies, vanilla wafers or another good scoop for a variety of flavor.

What went right

I freaked at how quick and simple this pin turned out to be. Actually, I took a few liberties with this one.

I ran out of peanut butter and only

had about three-fourths of a cup to spare for the dip. To make up the rest, I added a half cup of Nutella. While I couldn’t taste it directly, it added a velvety texture that took it over the edge into decadence.

What went wrong

Not much to speak of went terribly awry. Something to note, however, is to let the butter soften completely before beating it with the rest of the ingredients.

Otherwise, the tasters are doomed for a lumpy, greasy bite.

Also, a good addition to the steps would be to chill the mix before shaping it into a football. It was quite sticky to manage, and for a bit, I thought I would have a giant lump of dough insead.

Final consensus

This festive dip is the perfect treat to celebrate the big game or for just a night at home to splurge.

While it’s certainly rich, it’s incredibly hard to stop once a bite is taken.

This recipe was definitely a favorite in the newsroom and a nice punt to the taste buds.

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Cantina Texas: Tex-Mex ‘gem’ has good food, atmosphere

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Top left: A healthy heap of Texas Cheese Fries make for a great appetizer. Bottom right: The Backyard combo was a plate full of goodness and more than one person could eat. Right: The patio outside Cantina Texas was relaxing and peaceful.

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Down North Hewitt Drive about 20 minutes from campus,lies Texas Cantina. This restaurant, located just outside the hustle and bustle of the Baylor Bubble, gives patrons an eclectic blend of foods that truly is TexMex. Atmosphere: The outside is not very impressive, but walking in, patrons have the option of eating inside, at the bar or outside in the patio.

We chose the patio for our visit since the weather was beautiful.

The inside of the restaurant had a very relaxed atmosphere complete with a party room for larger gatherings.

Menu: The menu had a large variety of food ranging from traditional Mexican fajitas to the burgers and sandwiches. It’s a really great place to bring bigger groups because of the variety in the menu.

Food: We split an order of Texas Cheese Fries as an appetizer. Their drinks menu consisted of sodas as well as Blue Bell ice cream shakes and floats. They also brought out

chips, salsa and queso for us to munch on while we were waiting for our food. I ordered the steak fajitas and my friend Matt ordered the Backyard combo.

I felt like my portions were a lot smaller than what I would normally get at a Mexican restaurant, but Matt’s Backyard combo was more food than either of us could finish in one sitting. For the same price, I should have just gone with the Backyard combo. The food, however, was great. Definitely a place that I’d want to go to again with my friends.

Service: The service was pretty slow, but the wait staff was friendly and helpful.

Overall, this place was a real gem to find. We made a great choice for randomly picking a restaurant off the street. It’s a nice, versatile place to bring a date or to bring a group of friends for a girls’ night out.

The prices were fairly reasonable, around the same price as any other casual dining restaurant, but the food and atmosphere makes it stand out so much more.

Documentary on sustainability reveals local farms, markets

By Jeffrey Swindoll Reporter

Baylor gardeners are using a Baylor alum-produced documentary to motivate students to get active in solving hunger issues in Waco.

“We’ve been wanting to reach the community more and have a collaboration for a joint effort to stop hunger in Waco,” Elizabeth Ross said.

Ross is the garden manager for Baylor’s Community Garden and a major organizer for Movie Night

in the Garden at 6 p.m. on Friday Oct. 25 in the Community Garden on Ninth Street and James Avenue.

“Farm-City State”a is a documentary produced by Baylor alum David Barrow that looks at Austin’s local food scene. The film seeks to expose efforts that local farms, markets and restaurants are doing to help Austin be sustainable on its own for supply the city with its food.

The films asks “what if a city was able to completely feed itself?”

Ross said she believes Movie Night in the Garden is an opportunity for

students to start thinking about feeding the hungry in Waco and help those who want to do something be able to do something.

Ross said she wants students and Waco natives to both be able to work together in a similar way that the people in the film are able to do.

The organizers of the event are strategically targeting certain majors at Baylor and other Waco organizations.

“A lot of people are unaware of the benefits of gardening in an urban community,” said Jenny

Moore, a staff member in the office of community engagement and service. “Presenting the idea to people is really exciting.”

Moore is part of Community Engagement and Services staff in Student Life.

Environmental science, film and digital media, communications are among the top majors that Ross has been targeting the event toward.

Movie Night is an opportunity for Baylor students, but Ross says its equally as important for local organizations to get involved in as

well.

“Practically speaking, hearing back from organizations about students who were getting involved with them would be what I view as a successful movie night,” Ross said. Partnerships with Meals on Wheels, Salvation Army, My Brother’s Keeper and Campus Kitchens Project are each among the many organizations that Ross thinks students have wonderful starting points in for stopping Waco hunger.

“There’s a lot of strength in numbers,” Ross said. “Being able

to see those connections between students and organizations and knowing that we are all interested in moving forward with this issue as a collective group that night will be great.”

It started as a movie night to help students get to know about the garden, but Ross said that idea for Movie Night eventually changed into an event with a much bigger goal.

“We started to think, ‘what if this was actually a big deal, and SEE

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Blast from the past: Baylor mums are coming back home

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Former Baylor student sports her vintage Baylor mum during homecoming festivities.

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Woodstock, Ga., senior Haley Davis, senior class president, poses wither her mom, Bridget Davis and her friend, Diane Hamilton, both Baylor alumni.

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Though the tradition of giving mums for homecoming has faded on college campuses, many recognize the custom from their high school years. The gift of this flower, decorated with elaborate ribbons, made a homecoming date official and used to be a big part of the university’s yearly celebration.

Until the ’90s, mums were given out to the homecoming court and were sold at the homecoming parade as well. This year, the senior class officers are bringing back the tradition to raise money for the class of 2014’s senior gift.

Cypress senior Julie James is the senior class secretary and treasurer and said the idea came from senior class president Haley Davis.

“She came up with it last year when she was with her mom at the homecoming game,” James said.

“They were with her mom’s best friend and all three of them had mums.” James said the popularity around the mums gave Davis the idea to sell them for this year’s homecoming.

James, the, said the mums were a big hit, and alumni recognized them and wanted to know where to get them. James is one of the officers who will be selling the mums on Friday evening and Saturday morning.

Tommye Lou Davis, vice president for constituent engagement and Baylor alumna, said she thinks the fundraiser is a great way to bring about nostalgia surrounding the last homecoming in Floyd Casey Stadium.

“What the senior class is doing this year is kind of a throwback to the tradition,” Davis said. “This week, we’re honoring the decade

of the 60s at Floyd Casey which is appropriate since mums were a big deal here back then.”

Davis said the mums were visible evidence of a special weekend.

Baylor’s homecoming, which will be recognized by the Smithsonian next year in a traveling exhibit, is a tradition that dates back to 1909.

Davis said she is excited for the last homecoming in Floyd Casey Stadium due to the energy surrounding the football team.

“In those years there was a lot of excitement about going to the football game,” Davis said. “In that way I think we’ve come full circle with excitement toward Baylor Football.

When I was a student you didn’t want to miss a game and I think this generation is the same with their energy around the team.”

James said the senior class gift is a way for the class of 2014 to leave their legacy at Baylor. The senior class officers are using the mums’ sales as their first fundraiser for the year.

The senior class will vote on how to spend the funds raised by the officers. Recent gifts have come in the form of a brick in the new stadium or scholarship money for future students.

The mums were assembled by Wolfe Wholesale Florist, a local business, and will be in limited supply during their sales on Friday and Saturday.

They will be available for $20 at the class reunion buffet from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, at the Getterman Indoor Softball Facility.

They will also be on sale at a table between the Bill Daniel Student Center and the Carroll Science Building Saturday morning during the parade.

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what if we could really reach a lot of people?’”

This event will be the first of its kind, but Ross says they are interested in doing more events that utilize the garden as a venue.

“Many people haven’t experienced it,” Ross said. “Gardens

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They also hope to offer personable customer service and provide the buyer with a product that means more than what meets the eye.

“The business world can be very cut throat, so another huge goal of ours is to be relational and make solid connections with our clients and customers,” Baston said.

“We are aiding a positive emotional experience for the customer buying the bags here, and we want them to feel like a part of something that’s bigger than themselves. With Kith +Kin, you can buy a really nice product, but you can also impact a community.”

Kith + Kin is ambitious in running their business said Sholden, who has had previous experience in this area, formerly helping run a similar company based in Kenya. In a collaborative effort and through carefully calculated planning, the three have combined their goals to create a win-win business model.

“It’s not about having the next billion dollar idea; it’s about mak-

ing an impact,” Sholden said.

“It’s incentivizing both ways, because the more bags we are able to sell, the more income these women will have. Yes, if we are successful, we will make more money, but our business is about more than just a profit line. It’s also about people.”

Just as Batson, Noles and Sholden have combined their respective yet diverse passions, they also hope utilize and build upon the talents of these African women. Noles said the end product will be like nothing anyone has ever seen.

“With our business, much like our name, we’re trying to tie two worlds together to form one large community and help people,” Noles said.

Kith+ Kin hopes to officially launch its first line of products in December, but in the meantime, those interested can check out its Facebook page, Twitter account and Instagram account, as well as sign up for their email list, which will keep customers updated on their ongoing business operations.

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Rock hall nominees: Who will make the cut?

By Malcolm X Abram Akron Beacon Journal via McClatchy-Tribune

It’s that time of the year again— the time when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announces the nominees for the next class of inductees.

Rock and other genre fans, who are still interested in the rock hall’s opinion of whom is worthy of enshrinement, get their musical undies all bunched up at perceived and real slights to their favorite artists.

The 2014 nominees are: the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Chic, Deep Purple, Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, Kiss, LL Cool J, the Meters, Nirvana, N.W.A., the Replacements, Linda Ronstadt, Cat Stevens, Link Wray, Yes and the Zombies.

Artists become eligible 25 years after their first commercial release.

It’s a lengthy list containing several artists who have been nominated before and dissed multiple times. As only five or six of the 16 nominees will make it in, let’s play a quick, nonscientific, speculative game of induction handicapping.

We’ll base it on the little information available about the foundation’s 600-plus voting body and the recently introduced fan vote available online at rockhall.com and rollingstone.com.

Among the artists who have previously made the nomination list, those with the best chance of

walking up to the stage are a few whose names should have been called years ago, namely Deep Purple (first nominated in 2013) and Kiss (2010). The fact that neither of these seminal, highly influential hard rock bands is already in the hall is a bit of an embarrassment and they are held up as clear examples (along with the Moody Blues and, until last year, Rush) by rock fans that there are biases among the official voters that trump an artist’s real-world contributions.

Other returnees include Chic (the seventh time might be the charm, guys!), New Orleans funkmeisters the Meters (second), emcee/actor LL Cool J (second), the Paul Butterfield Blues Band (second), N.W.A. (second) and Cat Stevens (second). Most of them, save perhaps LL Cool J who will fill the hip-hop seat for 2014 ahead of N.W. A., and Yusuf Islam / Cat Stevens will probably have to wait and try again next year.

Among the first-time nominees, Nirvana, in its first year of eligibility because its debut single “Love Buzz” was released in 1988 a few months ahead of its 1989 debut album “Bleach,” is the only shoo-in among them.

Yeah, boomers and non-alt/ grunge lovers can complain all they want, but the surviving members of the band are sure to take the stage in 2014. Nirvana is often credited—or cursed depending on your point of view—with

obliterating the party-hearty, girls, girls, girls arena/hair metal era and ushering in the drop-tuning, disaffected, disillusioned, anti-rock star-ambition era.

That that the April ceremony will be happening right around the 20th anniversary of band leader Kurt Cobain’s suicide probably won’t hurt either. And hey, perhaps it’ll be an excuse for Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, to get back in the spotlight!

First-timer Ronstadt, who recently revealed she has Parkinson’s disease, is the list’s lone female solo act and one of only three females — the two singing ladies of Chic also offering a needed estrogen injection—to make the list. Though not a songwriter, Ronstadt is still high on the list of top-grossing female acts in rock/pop and her versatility and longtime success (country-rock? sure; updated takes on early rock ‘n’ roll, easy-peasy; big band American songbook? no problem) make her a likely statue holder come spring.

Peter Gabriel is already in the hall as a member of Genesis, and though his first four solo albums are fine mixes of dark art-rock, technology and some good tunes and he blew up in the pop realm with his 1986 album “So” featuring the Motown-influenced hit “Sledgehammer,” we just don’t think the rock hall voters are in a rush to welcome him.

With Rush’s 2013 entry, pro-

gressive and prog-flavored rock bands might start finding their way into the hall and Yes would be a decent place to continue the trend.

The band had hits with eight-minute opuses such as “Roundabout” and “I’ve Seen All Good People” in the 1970s and then hit the pop charts pretty hard in the 1980s with “Owner of a Lonely Heart” and other tunes.

An onstage reunion of all the members being inducted (is drummer Bill Bruford being inducted?

He’s awesome!) also would be a pretty cool thing to see.

We also wouldn’t be surprised to see pop-rockers Hall & Oates get in on their first try on the basis of their extended string of hits that include six No. 1 singles and 34 others that hit the Billboard charts.

Despite Hall & Oates never being considered particularly “cool” or innovative, the duo’s enduring hits are pretty undeniable.

Alt/indie-rock makes some more inroads with the nomination of the Replacements, a beloved darling of critics and rock fans who came up with the rise of mainstream alternative music in the 80s, but we won’t be surprised if the band doesn’t join Nirvana as a 2014 inductee. We’re also not holding out too much hope for first-time nominees Link Wray, whose 1958 song “Rumble” was banned from radio play because of fears it might incite violence, and the 1960s band the Zombies (“She’s

LOS ANGELES — It looks like “Glee” will take its final bow next year.

The Fox drama/musical will end its run after six seasons, Ryan Murphy, the series’ co-creator, said at a Paley Center for Media event honoring FX Networks on Wednesday night, according to TV Line.

Murphy, who also runs FX’s “American Horror Story,” said “Glee” star Cory Monteith’s drugoverdose death earlier this year forced him to rethink how to close out the show.

“The final year of the show, which will be next year, was designed around Rachel and Cory/ Finn’s story,” Murphy said, as quoted by TV Line.

“I always knew that, I always knew how it would end. I knew what the last shot was—he was in it,” Murphy said. “I knew what the last line was—she said it to him. So when a tragedy like that happens, you sort of have to pause and figure out what you want to do, so we’re figuring that out now.”

A spokesperson for Fox declined to comment on the report.

However, Murphy’s reported remarks essentially confirm those made by Fox Entertainment Chairman Kevin Reilly at the Television Critics Assn. media tour this summer.Ratings for the show this year have been low compared with last season’s. The season premiere drew about 5 million viewers and earned a rating of 2.0 in the key 18 to 49 age demographic, down more than 30 percent compared with the Season 4 opener.

Members of the band Nirvana shown in a 1991 file photo, from left, Krist Novoselic, David Grohl and Kurt Cobain. Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, and The Replacements are among first-time nominees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The hall of fame announced its annual list of nominees Wednesday morning and half the field of 16 were first-time nominees.

Not There,” “Time of the Season”).

The 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees will be announced

in December and the ceremony will be held in New York in April and aired on HBO in May.

Michael Bay attacked on ‘Transformers 4’ film set

‘Glee’ to sing final number next year

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The McKinley family of the past and present joining together to remember and celebrate the life of Finn Hudson in “The Quarterback” episode of “Glee” that aired Oct. 10.

LOS ANGELES — A man attacked director Michael Bay with an air conditioner on the Hong Kong set of “Transformers: The Age of Extinction” on Thursday.

A statement the studio released described “a bizarre encounter with a man allegedly under the influence of a narcotic substance.”

“The man, who had earlier accosted several other crew members, rushed onto the set in Quarry Bay and swung the air conditioning unit directly at Bay’s head,” the statement said. “The director ducked and wrested the air conditioner from his attacker, preventing what could have been a serious accident. The company’s security team quickly stepped in and subdued the assault.”

The police arrested the man and two of his companions and the production immediately resumed filming without further incident, according to Paramount.

Several news reports said that the attacker had demanded a large sum of mon-

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ey from Bay. When asked about those accounts, a Paramount spokeswoman replied that she “cannot speak to that at this time.”

Bay, 48, and his the cast and MICHAEL BAY crew had just moved the production to Hong Kong this week after 4 { months of filming in Arizona, Utah, Texas, Michigan, Illinois and Washington.

The science fiction movie, which stars Mark Wahlberg as a troubled inventor and is set for a U.S. release on June 27, is the latest high-profile production to partner a U.S. studio with Chinese financiers, in this case Paramount Pictures and the statebacked China Movie Channel and U.S./ Chinese streaming company Jiaflix.

The last “Transformers” movie, “Dark of the Moon,” was a hit in China, grossing $165 million there.

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