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FRIDAY | APRIL 15, 2011
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A&E Page 6
SPORTS Page 7
Check out a two-page photo spread of activities from Diadeloso, including concerts, tug-of-war and the Step Show
A coalition partners with groups to bring maintainable gardens to local neighborhoods
The Baylor track and field team breaks three school records in one day at an event in Austin
Dia captured from all angles
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In Print >> Unusual fundraiser
A couple organizes a garage sale to raise funds to adopt a boy from Uganda
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>> Scary bad
Wes Craven’s “Scream 4” is panned for resorting to gored-up violence that the original avoided
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>> TV deal inked
The Big 12 signs a deal with Fox Sports Media Group, meaning Baylor fans will see the Bears on TV more often
Runoff to determine president, IVP By James Stockton Reporter
A runoff Tuesday will determine both the student body president and internal vice president elections. Houston juniors Zach Rogers and Ben Aguinaga will continue to campaign for the office of student body president. “I think it’s another opportunity to continue campaigning and to maintain votes and to also get more votes,” Rogers said. He added that he plans on reassuring voters that he is the best candidate for the job.
Aguinaga echoed the same sentiment in his plans for the runoff. “We’re obviously going to try to reach out to those who did vote and also those who didn’t,” Aguinaga said. The office of internal vice president will also continue to be fought for as neither Falls City junior Michael Lyssy or Houston sophomore Brian Kim could secure a majority of the votes, with Lyssy garnering 41 percent of the vote and Kim receiving 30 percent. “I think everyone did great in this race,” Kim said. “The next
three days I’m really going to push hard.” Kim wasn’t the only one who thought that all the candidates ran a good, clean race. “I think it was a pretty clean election,” Lyssy said. “I hope that everyone turns out to vote on Tuesday.” The only student body officer position filled yesterday was that of external vice president as Corpus Christi junior Angela Gray won with 79 percent of the vote. In addition to the student body officers elections, each class, except the freshmen, voted for new class officers. The freshmen
class elections are held in the fall. Permanent class officers include Amber Como as president, Ashley Thomas as vice president and Jacob Voncannon as secretary-treasurer. The new senior class president is Paul Warren. The senior senators include Alex Gray, Allison Temnick, Gabby Garrett, Shaun Wysong, Jake Lane, Daniel Cervera, Chandler Lucius and Randall Holoman. Newly elected junior class president Briana Treadaway will be working with vice president Rafael Diaz. The junior senators are Blessing Amune, James Mai,
Celeste Russell, Cody T. Orr, Nick Pokorny, Silvia Ogo Nweze, Miriam Hobma, George Parfet Bachman II, Greg Torres and Michelle Singleton. Finally, the sophomore class elected Raechel Adams as its president. Working with Adams will be newly elected vice president Abby Scheller and secretary-treasurer Haley Davis. Sophomore class senators include Daniel Lin, Azeem Malik, Caitlyn Henckel, Lexington Holt, Thomas Damrow, Dresden Hasala-Shooks, Jacob Moran, Joshua Foster, Kirby Garrett, Paul Sclaudraff, Wesley Hodges and Ellie Garcia.
Darden garners esteemed award
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Endless photos See photos of Diadeloso that weren’t included in today’s paper in the Lariat’s photo slideshow online
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Students, faculty and members of the Waco community come together on Fountain Mall in an attempt to beat the world record for the largest Zumba class Thursday during Diadeloso. More than 600 people were in attendance for the fast-paced, 30-minute dance workout, and proceeds went to fund the Baylor accounting vocational mission trip team’s summer trip to Uganda.
Zumba record unclear; fun undeniable Dia through the years Take a history lesson by watching a video that juxtaposes Diadelosos from as far back as 1973 with the festival in 2011
Paintball warfare Watch the paint fly as the Air Force ROTC cadets train for combat in this video that captures the action
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Viewpoints “Toughness cannot be confused with foolishness. When athletes and coaches look back on this generation of athletics, they should not have to question how injuries were avoided in training.” Page 2
By Liz Hitchcock Reporter
This year Baylor kicked off Diadeloso with possibly the largest official Zumba class ever held in the world. Participants young and old gathered in Fountain Mall Thursday morning to attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest Zumba class. Organized by the accounting department of the Hankamer School of Business, the event was not only fun for participants and observers, it also raised funds for the department’s upcoming mission trip to Uganda. Guinness sent officials to Bay-
lor to observe and count the number of people dancing, and the result was 632 people who participated for the duration of the class. It was unclear if the number was enough to set a world record. “There’s an unofficial count of 1,100, but we checked and as of last night there is no official Guinness [record] of the world’s largest Zumba [class],” said Dr. Kathy Hurtt, an accounting professor who helped organize the fundraiser. “We don’t think anybody else has actually filed all the paperwork. We think we will have set the world record with our 632.” If the record wasn’t set, the event was still worth organizing, said Van Davis, assistant director
for fitness and nutrition education. “Even if we didn’t meet the goal of breaking the record, it is a win-win situation where we held a great event on campus and helped raise money for the mission trip,” Davis said. Hurtt estimated that about $6,000 was raised toward the trip. Zumba, a popular aerobic exercise routine, incorporates a variety of dance music. “It is so different,” said Susan Bell, a Zumba instructor of two years. “It is a Latin dance-based fitness class, where the instructor doesn’t have a microphone on, and any other fitness class will have the instructor wear a micro-
phone to tell you what to do.” Bell, who holds classes at Waco’s YMCA and at Fellowship Bible Church, led the group through a wide variety of dance exercises. “With Zumba, you just let the music teach you and visually follow the instructor,” Bell said. “So it feels more like a dance party than a regular fitness class because you’re just moving and shaking.” Both experienced dancers and people new to Zumba were invited to come join the fun. When encouraging people to come and join the dance, Zumba instructors refer to it as partying, in hopes of not scaring people away who SEE
ZUMBA, page 8
Cadets simulate combat with paintball battle By James Stockton Reporter
Outnumbered and outgunned, the members of the Air Force ROTC professional officer course fought valiantly but were ultimately defeated Wednesday at Powerplay Paintball in Waco. It was the 13th leadership lab of the semester for the cadets of the ROTC and this one was used to teach the cadets basic ground tactics. “We’ve taught them small unit tactics and some MOUT training,” said Cadet Lt. Col. Evan Ross, an Aledo junior who helped coordinate and run the leadership lab. MOUT stands for military operations on urban terrain. Tactics like these are being taught to Air Force cadets as their role in the military evolves. “The Air Force today is not
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what the Air Force was 25 years ago,” Ross said. “A lot of airmen are being asked to go pick up an M16 and go fight on the front lines.” Paintball has been used for the past five years to give Baylor cadets a taste of what battle would be like. It also prepares sophomores for their field training, which happens at the end of the spring semester. The cadets were split into two teams for two games. The first pitted the field training preparation cadets against the rest of the group, while in the second game, members of the professional officer course, or POC, went into battle against pretty much everyone else. “POC held strong as best we could,” said Cadet Cpt. Luke Dempsey, a junior from Bel Air, Md. “Our numbers were down, but we did what we could.”
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Kirkland, Wash., senior David Brenna gains a vantage point by crawling on the ground around barriers and forcing his opponents to surrender during Air Force ROTC’s Powerplay Paintball training event Wednesday at Meyers Lane.
It was Dempsey’s third year participating in the lab, and his experience showed. To make up for the smaller number of soldiers, Dempsey and a couple of other cadets made
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paint grenades the night before out of corn starch and water. They hoped the “grenades” would help turn the tide of battle. SEE
PAINTBALL, page 8
The English have a word for Robert Darden’s feelings once he was notified he had won: Gobsmacked. “Gosh, to be on that list. That is really how I felt,” Darden said. Darden, associate professor of journalism and media arts, has been named this year’s Cornelia Marschall Smith Professor of the Year, a Baylor award that includes a $20,000 cash prize. From intense researchers to the eloquent in-class lecturers, the recipients of the Professor of the Year award span a variety of departments and talents. Darden — the first professor from the journalism and media arts department to win the award — is on a sabbatical that began this semester and ends in August. “I was quite stunned. As I look over that list of previous winners, I see people who were both re s e a rc h heavy and people who are great in-class lecturers. I was quite astounded,” Darden Darden said. “It makes it even more special to me that the rest of the campus notices that over here in journalism and media arts we are doing some pretty good stuff. I think it is the best department on the campus.” Dr. James Bennighof, vice provost for academic affairs, announced Darden’s award at the honors convocation Wednesday, pointing to his wealth of writing and research experience. “In addition to having performed a great deal of service. ...One of the most outstanding achievements has been closely connected to his research,” Benninghof said. “He has made it possible for Baylor to receive a grant that allows for the digital restoration of black gospel music. These materials will not slowly deteriorate to the point of being unusable, but rather will be made available to scholars around the world to access and study.” Darden’s passion for oral history found in both the common man’s diary and the hardly-known musician’s lyrics has been the fuel for his most recent work in academia. The Gospel Music Restoration Project is an initiative largely taken on by the Baylor Libraries and Darden to create a digital haven on SEE
DARDEN, page 8
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