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Honors College gains new guide program

By Amando Dominick Staff Writer

The Baylor Honors College is testing a new program that will benefit both freshmen and upperclassmen.

The new Honor Guide program, which enters the experimental phase this fall, will pair an upperclassman with two to four honors freshman to mentor during the 2012-2013 school year. Only available to honors students, the new program will be

announced at the Honors Freshman Assembly at 7 p.m. tonight in Bennett Auditorium. Alamogordo, N.M. senior Allison Harlaine, the president of the Honors Student Advisory Council (HSAC) will make the announcement.

Harlaine was unavailable for comment.

Upperclassmen will receive upper-level honors credit for participating in the program, along with “creative rewards,” said Sarah Marcum, Honors Program Faculty Advisor and Sponsor to the

Honors Student Advisory Council. The creative rewards have yet to be determined, but will be included to assure that the Honor Guides feel appreciated and rewarded, Marcum said.

The Honors Student Advisory Council will match students based on majors and interests.

“HSAC is the matchmaker,” Marcum said. Marcum said the time commitment for the Honor Guides is a minimum of eight interactions per year, including “four times with their small group

of two to four freshmen and twice a semester for an Honors event chosen at the Honor Guide’s discretion.”

In addition, Marcum said the guides must essentially be on-call, available to answer their group’s questions through texting, email or Facebook.

Though the idea is still being tested, Marcum said the council has discussed the idea of partnering with Student Life to train future guides. Proper training will be essential.

Proper training for the Guides is crucial.

“It helps them to reduce stress knowing what their role is and where it ends,” Marcum said. “If a guide gets over their head, they have someone to pass the baton to, whether it be anyone in the HSAC or even myself.”

DeLand, Fla. senior Emily Tichenor, the former president of the Honors Student Advisory Council, said she came up with the idea of the Honor Guide sys-

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Find out this Sunday as Waco Missions Club brings San Antonio’s Tejano Music Award winning band Los Hermanos Farias to Waco for their annual pre-Labor day event.

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Viewpoints “We’re talking about a Baylor and Waco Institution with more history and meaning than probably anything else that Baylor has built- Floyd Casey Stadium.”

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Bear Briefs The place to go to know the places to go Meal plan changes,

reductions or drops for the Fall 2012 must be submitted by Friday, Aug. 31.

Volleyball hits Hawaii

for the Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic this Saturday and Sunday.

2012 Physics Fall Colloquium Series

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Lorin and Christopher Matthews pose with their children in the newly remodeled kitchen of their luxurious apartment above the Palladium after the remodeling process. Pictured are also the living room and foyer areas.

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Lorin Matthews, associate professor of physics, and her husband Christopher Matthews live in a home they completely renovated themselves. What’s more? It’s the Palladium. The Palladium is a banquet hall located in downtown Waco at the corner of Austin Avenue and 8th street

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where many private and Baylor organizations hold events.

“We were looking for a building to put a business in, and we had been looking at locations in Hewitt and in Waco,” Lorin said. “At the time, all of downtown was mostly vacant buildings.”

The prices were really good, Lorin said, because downtown was not very busy; it was a prime time to develop. Lorin and her husband were able to buy the building that became the Palladium without having to build it themselves. However, the couple knew it was going to take some work.

Lorin said she and her husband would walk by the building every day and look in the window.

“It had the nice columns but they were covered by graffiti and it had this ugly wallpaper,” Lorin said. “I would just think, ‘I wish I could get in that building and take that peeling wallpaper off the walls.

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renovations were required to turn the Palladium into a banquet hall: a level floor, a new downstairs ceiling and bathrooms.

Lorin said she and her husband didn’t consider making the Palladium into a banquet hall at first.

“As soon as we bought the building, we would have people stop by saying ‘Who are you, what are you doing, and can I have my daughter’s wedding here?’” Lorin said. “Then florists and caterers who did events in Waco would tell Chris, ‘If you turned it into a banquet hall, you could rent it out every weekend of the year.’”

The Palladium typically hosts events on Friday and Saturday nights. Many Baylor student organizations hold events at the Palladium.

“We make sure they follow the Baylor event guidelines,” Lorin said. “We tell them straight up that they have to follow the rules and their sponsors have to be there and there will be no alcohol.”

As a result, the Matthews said they believed they usually get the nicer events.

“We usually get formals, semi-formals, formal rush.” Chris said. “We get quite a few rush events.”

The Matthews said the events downstairs don’t interrupt their home life very much. All events must end by 11 p.m., so that the groups have time to clean up and leave by midnight. Because their kids have grown up with the noise, they said, it doesn’t bother them too much.

“Sometimes they do complain when they hear the same song over and over again,” Lorin said. “Everyone thinks their party is unique, but they play the same songs.”

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All things Baylor will pass.

To think otherwise would be foolishness, it has happened before and it will happen again.

For example, there used to be a very large pool where our very large practice field is now.

Brooks College and Flats — the insular havens for “potterphiles” and married couples ­— is a completely new creation. It used to be a men’s dormitory called Brooks Hall. The face of Baylor has fundamentally changed over the years, and will continue to change in the future.

Sure some of the more stately buildings will stay around. Carroll Science is still here for no particularly good reason. It looks cool and all. It’s a storied old institution, but it’s not really fitting with the sleek new Baylor that’s taking over the area’s low-income housing.

Eventually Penland and Martin will probably be knocked over — much to the relief of everyone that has or might ever have to live there — to make room for new dormitories. They will be better and maybe won’t smell so bad and they’ll have big televisions and views of the river and parking.

There’s absolutely no reason that we should lament the destruction of those old, poorly furnished sanitariums.

Except we’re not talking about dormitories or English buildings.

We’re talking about a Baylor and Waco institution with more history and meaning than probably anything else that Baylor has built — Floyd Casey Stadium.

We now know that the stadium’s most likely fate is destruction. In this economy the used stadium market has really gone down the rathole. Nobody is looking for a midsize luxury football arena anymore — especially

the classic models.

Maybe it’s a good thing anyway. The new stadium will be a spectacular sight.

A broad oxbow of green and gold with screens and luxury boxes and a sweeping view back across the Brazos to campus. It will be modern and comfortable, and it will make us look really good in front of the other schools.

There will be fewer seats so we don’t have to sell so many tickets to people from Oklahoma or Tech when they come to play.

Next to the plans for Baylor Stadium, Floyd Casey looks a bit shabby.

Very few of the seats are covered, there aren’t many boxes, the bathrooms smell, the whole place gets wet and crowded when it rains, the insides are made of mostly unpainted cinderblocks and concrete. The seats are old and hard, the sun shines on the student section and we have trouble filling it on a good day.

More importantly Floyd Casey is the stadium of the past.

The shining new light of Baylor and Baylor football is calling us one and all to fling our green and gold afar. We hold our Heisman and bowl trophy aloft to light the ways of time. Look ahead, not back, young freshmen. The past is gone and a new green and golden age has begun.

Pro Futuris.

We are shedding what affectations of the past we can to make room for the new Baylor.

Floyd Casey is a stadium of the hard times, the times when Baylor couldn’t win a game. The times when Baylor was almost left alone in the Big 12. It is the stadium of our ascension, the stadium of the revolution. We rose up and cast off those degradations, but there is no room for Trotsky in Lenin’s Russia. Floyd Casey has no place in Baylor’s future.

No wonder we’re knocking it down.

You would be hard pressed to

August 29th, 2005.

On undeniably the darkest day in the rich history of the city of New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina absolutely destroyed the city, its coast and the surrounding area.

The city was filled with standing water of several feet for days, the storm surge reached twenty feet high and sustained winds exceeded 140 miles per hour.

People looted houses, martial law was in effect, businesses were closed, families were separated across miles of state lines, people died from both natural means and from violent ends.

Order was no where to be found.

If someone had seen photographs or videos of the city on that day, they would assume they were looking at a third world country.

Instead, they would be looking at a city terrorized by nature, ignored by many, neglected by the government, and left to fend for itself for days.

Fast forward to August 28th, 2012.

Seven years later and my neighbor’s house in Gentilly, located in the Orleans parish of the city about ten minutes from the

Superdome, remains unkempt.

The place was finally just gutted of its storm debris about a year ago. The storm left scars on the city that will last a lot longer than rotted houses.

Some people still flinch when they think of the destruction.

Others have even developed a phobia of water.

Isaac is not the raging category five that Katrina was, but another hurricane is the worst gift to give a city in the middle of recovery.

That is exactly what the city is in for as it braces to face Hurricane Isaac on August 29th, 2012, exactly seven years after Hurricane Katrina.

Many in the city are riding out this storm in their own homes, and are even hosting parties with their friends out of pure defiance of nature.

However, this anniversary rings as a dark reminder that although seven years have passed, the city has still not healed.

Why would anyone even want to live there? It’s several feet below sea level in the shape of a bowl, just waiting to be filled in.

As a direct result of the storm, nearly 2,000 people were killed, and 80 percent of the city flooded,

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find a Baylor grad that has been to a Baylor game in Waco not played at Floyd Casey. Most of them would be well into their eighties by now. The old battleship has been around since 1950 and has hosted such notable events as the Miracle on the Brazos where Baylor beat a heavily favored University of Texas team for the Southwest Conference Title. It

saw the Grant Teaff years, and the Art Briles years. It saw Griffin and Singletary and Everett and Trull bring awards and notoriety to our university.

It also saw seasons where we couldn’t win a game, or where three wins was a banner year for the bears. It saw that die hard fan stand up in the cheap seats after a near shutout and loudly proclaim,

“By God, next time we’ll make two field goals.”

We will lose that when Floyd Casey is gone. It is a little early to mourn for it, but we as the Baylor community need to remember what that stadium means for us. In its waning years we should honor it and be thankful for all the memories it has given us.

Floyd Casey raised genera-

tions of Baylor fans to consider what was really important­— that it doesn’t matter if our team wins every game.

All that matters is that we can all get out there and enjoy a football game with our Dads, and share peanuts and Dr, Pepper and all stand up together at the end of games and sing “That Good Old Baylor Line”.

Isaac: a chilling reminder of New Orleans’ stormy past because the levees failed.

When it came time to fix them, corrupt politics, finger-pointing, endless blame and red tape all inevitably led to nothing productive ever getting accomplished. Many people still don’t trust the levees any more than the politicians.

Still, I could list for hours why anyone would want to call New Orleans their home, but I shall

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New Orleans is a beautiful city in many aspects.

It is unique, charming — magical, even.

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heritage is the envy of the other forty-nine states, not to mention its world-class food.

However, if work is not done to protect this city, then “New Orleans” may very well have to be renamed “Atlantis.”

The city claims that they’ve spent billions of dollars repairing levees, but with New Orleans politicians being exposed for corruption and pilfering money every time you open a newspaper, the average citizen can understandably find it hard to believe that all of that money went towards protecting their city.

Celebrities like Brad Pitt and Ellen DeGeneres have defended the city both with their words and actions, donating their time and money to assist those still reeling from the effects of the historic storm, but it is the politicians, local leaders and federal government who should be stepping up to help this great city.

New Orleanians live in constant fear six months out of the year during hurricane season that a huge storm can suddenly brew up and, within days, destroy everything that they have ever loved and valued.

Many who evacuated during

Katrina were scattered around the country, from Houston to Virginia to California to as far away as Alaska.

The hurricane fundamentally changed the way people viewed everything.

Even now, everyone uses it as a reference point. They say things like, “hey, you remember when that corner store was there before Katrina?”

New Orleans is a strong city filled with resilient people, but when will enough be enough?

A good percentage of those who safely evacuated out of the city saw the effects of the storm, saw that their house was demolished, heard of friends who died in the chaos and decided that maybe New Orleans simply was not worth the fight anymore.

Now with a solid category one hurricane landing seven years to the day after Katrina, the question is ‘At this rate, how long will our city last?’

Anyone and everyone who can help must take swift, efficient action to protect the city from nature before it is too late.

This means rebuilding wetlands, building stronger levees, more efficient evacuation plans,

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and other measures to prevent disaster from destroying everything once nature rears its ugly head.

Tangible things can be replaced, memories and people, however, are irreplaceable.

The city learned that lesson the hard way on August 29th, 2005, as Katrina killed nearly 2,000 people, 80% of the city was flooded, and a countless amount of photographs and records were destroyed, all because the mechanisms designed to protect the city failed.

Isaac, a pathetic excuse for a hurricane, is a chilling reminder that it is possible and realistic for another catastrophic storm to pass through New Orleans.

If people sit idly by while the city drowns, they are willingly throwing away generations chance to experience the great beauty that New Orleans has to offer.

Do not let the time come when all you have to show of the city are pictures of places that you once loved, but now sit several feet under the Gulf ’s warm water.

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Missions Club brings Tejano group to Waco

By Debra Gonzalez A&E Editor

What better way to spend your Labor Day weekend than dancing with friends to the sounds of conjunto music and enjoying great food?

Waco Missions Club brings San Antonio’s Los Hermanos Farias to Waco for its pre-Labor Day event this Sunday.

Waco Missions Club member Frank DeLeon said the club began with mostly charity work.

“We pulled together a baseball team and we were playing under the St. Francis Church organization, and we called ourselves St. Francis Missions,” DeLeon said.

“Then we decided to have an organization of our own, where we started donating to charities like the churches, needy people and other stuff. We’re nonprofit. We do have dances and quinceaneras and weddings… but we do have a lot of fundraisers for people that lost families and people that are in need.”

They have since turned to helping the community.

“We have events like an Easter egg hunt and a Christmas party for the kids,” DeLeon said. “We do have our events hall for dances and business parties and softball tournaments. We also have a baseball team that we provide uniforms for and we feed the kids.”

Their annual pre-Labor Day

event brings music, food and fun.

“We have a pretty well known group participating as far as providing the music,” DeLeon said.

“We will have food stands out there and we stress for people not to bring any food or beverages because vendors will be selling those out there.”

The original Los Hermanos Farias, previously of La Tropa F, are back together and are celebrating with a reunion tour that will lead them around the South from Texas to Nevada to Arizona.

The band (as La Tropa F) won a Tejano Music Award for best album of the year in 1993 for its album “Right on Track” and has recently released a new album titled “Back on Track” in May. David Farias, accordion player and singer of Los Hermanos Farias, says the band originally started under his father.

“Los Hermanos Farias started back when my dad was playing in the band and it used to be Los Compadres Allegres,” Farias said.

“It was my dad, an uncle of mine and my two older brothers. It was just a four-piece band, and from there, it merged into my older brother Joe Farias starting Los Hermanos Farias. It was John, my other brother on drums, and he brought in Jesse on bass and myself on accordion and singing, and my other brother on keyboards. It was the six brothers of Los Hermanos Farias.”

In the ’90s, Los Hermanos Farias became La Tropa F. “I guess to the fans, we were the brand new group that came out,” Farias said. “We were coming out of Los Hermanos Farias to La Tropa F. I did 34 years with Tropa and I haven’t been with them for eight years now as far as myself playing the accordion. We’ve more or less been a musical family band all these years.”

A few years after Farias left La Tropa F, he found that his brothers also left.

to his groundbreaking “Thriller.”

It is one of two major projects pegged to the 25th anniversary of the 1987 hit-filled album.

“This will be a very special Thanksgiving for all families to enjoy the genius of Michael Jackson,” Lee said in a statement. “Big thanks to ABC for allowing people to witness the making of Michael Jackson’s ‘Bad’ album.”

Lee teamed with Jackson’s es-

tate and Legacy/Epic Records to search their archives for never-before-seen footage, including some shot by Jackson himself.

The director also conducted interviews with some of Jackson’s confidants, choreographers, musicians and collaborators, including Martin Scorsese, Mariah Carey, Sheryl Crow, L.A. Reid and Kanye West.

Before Lee’s documentary

“There’s a lot of fans in Waco that are fans of Los Hermanos Farias and Tropa back in the day. Hopefully we’ll see everybody there Sunday.”

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“There was a party, and my boss said ‘why don’t you call your brothers?’ so I did,” Farias said. “We did a little Christmas party and two days later it was on YouTube and Facebook and we started getting calls. I got a call from Julian Johnson, which is my label now, RO Records, that he wanted to sign Los Hermanos Farias. Wow. A year

Los Hermanos Farias will play at Waco Missions Club’s pre-Labor Day event this Sunday. The show is part of their reunion tour.

later the CD came out and it’s doing great.”

Farias says the fans like to see them back together.

“To do this again is an honor,” Farias said. “It’s good to be side by side with them again after I’ve done it all my life.”

Though they haven’t been to

Waco in years, Farias is looking forward to it.

“I’m very excited to go back,” Farias said. “There’s a lot of fans in Waco that are fans of Los Hermanos Farias and Tropa back in the day. Hopefully we’ll see everybody there Sunday.”

The event will begin at 5 p.m.

with the bands beginning at 8 p.m. at Waco Missions Club, which is located at 3316 J.J. Flewellen Drive.

Cover charge is $10 or free for those 12 or under.

For more information contact the Waco Missions Club at 254867-8332.

“Bad 25” airs on Thanksgiving, the film will premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival.

“Bad,” the third and final album collaboration between Jackson and Quincy Jones, made history with five consecutive No. 1 singles.

To commemorate the anniversary, Jackson’s estate, in collabora-

tion with Epic/Legacy Recordings, will reissue the disc the first rerelease of an album from Jackson’s catalog since his 2009 death.

Dubbed “Bad 25,” the deluxe package will feature three CDs, two collectible booklets and the first-ever authorized DVD release of a concert from his recordbreaking Bad tour.

Of the three CDs, one is a re-

mastered version of “Bad,” another features demos and songs recorded in Jackson’s studio that didn’t make the cut, as well as remixes, and the third will feature audio from the soundtrack recordings of the accompanying DVD, making it Jackson’s first live album.

The album will hit stores Sept.

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Spike Lee bringing Michael Jackson documentary to ABC Los Angeles Times ABC has acquired the television rights to Spike Lee’s upcoming Michael Jackson documentary, the network announced Tuesday.

The acclaimed filmmaker, who had previously collaborated with Jackson, has been prepping “Bad 25,” a documentary tracing the late king of pop’s creative vision during the making of “Bad,” the follow-up

Hollywood blockbusters battle same-day releases in China McClatchy-Tribune

China is rolling up the red carpet for Hollywood.

Just six months after Chinese and American leaders reached a new agreement allowing more foreign movies into the world’s most populous nation, officials there are trying to torpedo the box office returns of some of Hollywood’s biggest summer films.

American studios carefully schedule their pictures’ launch dates — often declaring them a year or more in advance _ to avoid colliding with similar movies going after similar audiences. But the state-owned China Film Group, which oversees the release of imported movies, has been scheduling U.S. films from the same genres on the same dates, aiming to limit their total grosses and boost the percentage of box office generated

by Chinese-made pictures.

On Tuesday the superhero movies “The Dark Knight Rises” and “The Amazing Spider-Man,” the Nos. 2 and 4 films of the year at the global box office, were to open simultaneously in China.

A similar case of “double dating” occurred July 27 with the release of the animated movies “Ice Age: Continental Drift” and “The Lorax” in China. Next month, the thrillers “The Bourne Legacy” and “Total Recall” are tentatively set to open opposite each other as well, according to knowledgeable people not authorized to discuss the

matter publicly.

China, now the world’s secondlargest movie market, also insists upon monthlong “blackout periods,” during which only locally produced movies can premiere.

This summer, the blackouts have lasted longer, according to American movie executives familiar with the China market.

A China Film spokesman previously told the Los Angeles Times that the overlapping dates were a result of a crowded calendar. But in a subsequent interview in local media, officials gave a different explanation.

“We hope those protective measures will be able to create a space for domestic movies to survive and grow,” Zhang Hongsen, deputy head of the film bureau controlled by the State Administration of Radio Film and Television, said to the state-owned People’s Daily newspaper.

China Film representatives did not respond to requests for further comment.

The face-off between “The Dark Knight” and “Spider-Man” was the No. 2-trending topic Monday on Sina Weibo, China’s wildly popular Twitter alternative, drawing nearly 13 million comments by the early evening.

“The American studios are getting more movies into China ... but on the other hand there are these new constraints occurring,” said Steven Saltzman, a Loeb & Loeb partner with extensive experience

in China. “One shouldn’t be surprised, however, because this is a market where noncommercial considerations, including political ones, matter greatly.”

“The Dark Knight Rises,” “The Amazing Spider-Man,” “The Lorax” and “Ice Age” were cleared by government censors and given a coveted quota slot relatively quickly. The studios then waited— half a year in the case of “The Lorax” — until officials from the China Film Group, part of SARFT, informed them they would be opening against competitive Hollywood pictures. China Film refused to provide an explanation to the studios for its decision.

There is no official appeals process, and unofficial lobbying efforts by studio representatives in Beijing were unsuccessful. The Motion Picture Assn. of America, Hollywood’s trade organization, has been similarly unable to persuade Chinese authorities to change their policies.

The studios’ only recourse would appear to be withholding future releases from China, cutting off a growing revenue stream in an increasingly important foreign movie market. Spokespeople for the MPAA and several Hollywood studios declined to comment.

People familiar with the thinking of studio executives said they were fearful that speaking publicly on the matter would antagonize Chinese authorities and lead to further punitive measures.

Rockers against politicos using music at campaign events McClatchy-Tribune

Not so fast, Mr. Candidate!

Silversun Pickups is the latest band to take issue with politicos in this election year. The alt-rock band from L.A. recently sent a cease-and-desist letter to presidential candidate Mitt Romney to stop using the group’s 2009 song “Panic Switch” at campaign functions. The Romney campaign said it won’t play the song again.

Here are some other musician

on politician rebuffs: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN VS. RONALD REAGAN: The Gipper didn’t really understand what The Boss was saying in “Born in the U.S.A.” when he referenced Springsteen on a New Jersey re-election stop in ’84. Bruce was not amused.

EVERYONE VS. JOHN MCCAIN: Sen. McCain could not get permission from the Foo Fighters, Jackson Browne or even John Mellencamp to use their songs when he campaigned in 2008.

SAM MOORE VS. BARACK OBAMA: During President Obama’s 2008 run, soul man Moore asked that the future POTUS stop using Sam & Dave songs in his campaign.

TOM MORELLO VS. PAUL RYAN: Rage Against the Machine guitarist Morello was so angry when he heard Romney’s VP pick, Paul Ryan, was a Rage fan back in the day, that he wrote a scathing Rolling Stone editorial about it.

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Harris leads teammates with grace

By Daniel Hill Sports Writer

Baylor volleyball’s current class of freshmen was rated as the No. 16 recruiting class in the nation by to Prepvolleyball.com.

With the infusion of freshman talent, the team needs veteran leadership to guide it through the grueling season.

Senior setter Kate Harris is the backbone of the team, and the team relies on Harris for her leadership and inspiration.

“She’s the heart and soul of this team,” Baylor head coach Jim Barnes said. “Hard work is her middle name. She’s always the first to practice and the last to leave.”

Her teammates were quick to give Harris credit for stepping up and taking a leadership role with the team this season.

“I would say Kate Harris has really come into her own this year,” sophomore defensive specialist Hope Ogden said. “She has really stepped up as a setter, and you really want to work hard for her because she gives her all on every practice and every drill.”

It’s clear that the entire squad of Baylor Bears look to Harris for motivation.

“Someone that I definitely look up to is Kate Harris,” junior defensive specialist Kayci Evans said.

“I can honestly say weight room, court, wherever we are, she is the hardest worker. She is always talking and has a smile on her face. She is definitely someone I look up to,

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Kate Harris goes up to set the ball during the Fairfield Inn North Baylor Classic Aug. 25.

and I know other girls look up to her too.”

Not only do the players respect and look up to Harris, but Barnes

also has high praise for his squad’s leader after Baylor went undefeated and took first place in the Fairfield Inn North Baylor Classic

on Saturday.

Harris recorded a pair of double-doubles in the tournament.

The 3-1 victory over Nevada was the setting for her first doubledouble of the season, with 38 assists and 13 digs.

Right after that game, Harris had 55 assists and 11 digs.

In both match-ups combined she recorded five kills.

“She’s probably one of the most competitive players I’ve ever coached and the most inspirational player I’ve ever coached,” Barnes said. “She was playing on one leg tonight. Her shin splint almost sidelined her. I think a regular player wouldn’t have played. I think that shows you just how tough this kid is. Kate Harris is a one-of-a-kind leader.”

Harris is the unquestioned leader of the volleyball team, but she is quick to point out that she plays volleyball for a higher cause.

“I just play for God’s glory,” Harris said. “I play for the Lord everyday. It is really his strength and power that I play from.”

One thing that makes this volleyball team so special is its sense of community and genuine friendship.

“Yeah, the chemistry is awesome,” Harris said. “God’s hand is just in this team. It just keeps us unified in him.”

This past summer several members of the volleyball team had the chance to travel to Kenya with Baylor Sports Ministry.

The trip lasted from May 10 to May 27.

“It was awesome,” Harris said.

“It was an awesome team bonding time too because there were 12 of us that went. It was very cool to experience a bunch of different cultures and to see the girls and how God worked in their lives.”

What did Harris take away from the Kenya mission trip?

“The joy that the people had over there amidst their circumstances and that Jesus is enough,” Harris said.

This weekend the Baylor volleyball team will be in Hawaii for the Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic, where it will face a stiff San Francisco, along with two ranked teams in No. 25 California and No. 6 Hawaii.

The team leaves today on an eight-hour flight to Hawaii.

Baylor will get Thursday morning off before the Bears have practice at 2 p.m.

Harris is looking forward to the competition and the tropical location.

“I’m so pumped,” Harris said.

“I know we get to go snorkeling, which will be really cool. To experience that with, you know, these are my best friends. So I get to take a vacation with my best friends, while obviously focusing on volleyball too.”

While the season is only just beggining, Harris has set a confident goal to end her time at Baylor with.

“I just want to dominate,” Harris said.

Baylor rugby lands new conference for 2012

By Linda Wilkins Assistant City Editor

Baylor’s men’s rugby club is in the Allied Rugby Conference, but it belonged to a different conference in 2011.

Last year, the Baylor rugby club was in the Southwest Rugby Conference.

However, Baylor remains on the Southwest schedule, and the league still considers Baylor a member.

Baylor, along with Texas and Sam Houston State, left the Southwest this offseason for the Allied Rugby Conference.

Texas’ and Sam Houston’s resignations from the Southwest were approved by the league, while Baylor’s was not.

“As a Division 1A Conference, Allied Rugby Conference is one of the best conferences in the nation,” Brookshire said.

Southwest’s argument for denying Baylor’s resignation comes from an agreement between the founding members of the conference to participate in the league for at least three years.

Sam Houston and Texas were allowed to leave the Southwest, free and clear, while the league fought to keep Baylor.

“The Allied Rugby Conference is one of the best,” Chang said.

SWC Members unanimously agreed to reject Baylor’s resignation earlier this summer. Baylor stated that due to their diminished membership numbers and [lack of competitiveness] in 2011-12, they wished to drop to Div II to

re-build.

Baylor was a founding member of the Southwest last year, with the Bears’ coach, Clayton Jewett, serving as the conference commissioner, as he still does. But following a coaching change, which saw former Baylor coach Nick Lane replace Jewett, the Bears chose to leave the league.

“We wanted to leave the Southwest Conference. We just weren’t comfortable with the way it was being ran, so we looked at our options,” said Baylor head coach Nick Lane. “We had a meeting with the management of [the Allied Rugby Conference], and the players decided that that was the best option.

They really liked how it was being ran, and the teams they were going to be playing against, so that’s what we went for.”

Lane, a former professional Australian rugby player, is the new head coach.

Lane and Josh Neff, the second new coach, volunteer their time.

The team regularly practices Tuesday and Thursday from 4:30–6:30 p.m. at the Baylor rugby pitch.

During these times tryouts for the team are also occurring.

“Practices are open to any male student and every practice is a tryout,” Brookshire said. “They are a good time to learn to play rugby, but players with the most experience will play during games.”

Other schools in the Allied Rugby Conference are the University of Texas, Texas A&M, University of Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Sam Houston State.

Texas A&M and Texas Tech

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Baylor men’s rugby football club’s next game will be Friday against the Baylor Rugby Alumni at the rugby pitch behind the Baylor Science’s Building.

were denied access to the Southwest Rugby Conference The Baylor rugby club’s next game is in Allied Rugby Conference 7’s tournament Oct. 6 in Norman, Okla.

“We have a strong core of returning players, but I also know we lost a lot of strong players last year.”

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Before then, Baylor will play former Baylor rugby club members in the annual Baylor Rugby Alumni Match on Sept. 1.

The game will take place at the Baylor rugby pitch behind the Baylor Science Building.

Houston sophomore Howard Chang, a Baylor rugby club officer, said both teams could be strong this year.

“We have a strong core of returning players, but I also know we lost a lot of strong players last year,” Chang said.

Those strong players will be on the Alumni team come Saturday.

Lufkin senior Brent Brookshire, president of the Baylor rugby club, said the upcoming game will be his third game against the alumni team.

He said he has not been on a team that has won against the alumni.

The game will start at 11 a.m. and consists of four sets of 15- to 20-minute periods.

The Baylor Rugby Association website states there are sponsorship opportunities for the game.

To learn more, visit www.baylorrugby.org.

Sports TAke

Fo’ real?

By Greg DeVries Sports Writer

I would like to imagine that when people see the University of Texas ranked No. 15 in the country, they laugh, roll their eyes and throw away whatever news source gave them such a standing.

They lost to every ranked team they played and then also lost to Missouri, finished the Big 12 season 4-5 and nearly missed bowl eligibility for the second year in a row.

I know its defense was pretty good, but it was this same defense that gave up 55 points to Oklahoma, 38 to Oklahoma State at home and 48 to Baylor in the rain.

Texas may return seven starters on the defensive end, but only three of them earned All-Conference accolades.

None were All-Americans.

The Longhorns are also losing big parts of that 2011 defense: Blake Gideon, Emmanuel Acho, Keenan Robinson, and Kheeston Randall have all moved on.

All in all, Texas’ defense will still be towards the top of the Big 12.

As I’m sure you remember, it was their abysmal offense that was the glaring sore thumb of the team, and that is an understatement.

David Ash has been named the starter for the first week against Wyoming.

You can watch that game on the Longhorn Network.

Or, you know, not.

Last season, Ash threw for a grand total of 1,079 yards and threw twice as many interceptions as he did touchdowns.

Those stats rival that of a running quarterback, but his best rushing game last season was against Texas Tech where he ran for 59 yards.

That’s over half of the field.

It doesn’t matter how good the Longhorns’ wide receivers are because Ash isn’t going to get them the ball on a regular basis.

That leads me to the running back situation.

Malcolm Brown was a five star recruit out of high school, but losing Fozzy Whittaker hurts.

I don’t want to take anything away from Brown and Whittaker’s talent levels, but it is likely that Texas ran the ball so much because they couldn’t pass the ball well enough to beat any conference foes.

A big part of every run game is the offensive line.

Texas has an experienced one, but there is a hole at one of the offensive guard positions.

The Longhorns clearly have a laundry list of problems, so what gives?

It is possible that ESPN would artificially inflate Texas’ football prowess so that they could generate interest in the Longhorns and, in turn, earn a return on their $300-million investment in the Longhorn Network, but I’m not one to back conspiracy theories.

If Texas does manage to linger around in the top 25 for a few weeks, it will probably drop after playing Oklahoma State, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Baylor in consecutive games.

Five other teams in the Big 12 are ranked, so the road will be bumpy for every team. But Baylor fans can rest easy knowing that it will be another long season for the folks down in Austin.

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Future freshmen must declare ‘pre-biology’

By Linda Nguyen Staff Writer

No more biology majors, for freshman at least.

Instead, they must begin as prebiology majors.

The biology department implemented the new pre-biology designation for most current and future freshmen beginning with the class of 2016. The pre-biology designation is not a major, but an indication that a student is interested in preparing for a major in that area.

It functions like the pre-business and pre-nursing designations.

According to the 2012-2013 Undergraduate Catalog, which the class of 2016 will graduate under, students can declare a pre-biology designation upon enrollment at Baylor and will be allowed to declare a biology major after successfully completing the class Modern Concepts of Bioscience I and II or their course equivalents, Investigations of Modern Biology Concepts I and II. This designations will not affect students who entered in fall 2011 or earlier.

Ann Rushing, professor and undergraduate director of the biology program, said many incoming freshmen declare a major in biology.

“Historically, we have had a lot

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cake, or the florists will leave extra flowers,” she said.

Lorin said most of the students at Baylor don’t know the Matthews’ own the Palladium and also live above it.

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of students declare biology as a major and then realize the kind of effort that it requires to be a major in biology, and so we have had lots of students who have dropped out of the major,” Rushing said. “Having a pre-biology designation, our hope is that students will understand what it takes to be a biology major as they are completing their introductory courses, and then they can make a commitment to us as a biology major.”

Rushing said the department has been thinking about adding the pre-biology designation a couple of years ago, The department’s primary motivation for the pre-biology designation is to allow students to have a period of time to determine if they want to commit to studying biology.

“Sometimes students, when they declare a major, they feel like they are stuck in it and they can’t change it,” Rushing said. “We want students to understand that this is the time for them to explore their interests.”

Robert Doyle, professor and chair of the biology department, said he hopes with the new designation, students will put more thought into their chosen field of study.

“We think if we force people to actually choose something at the

end of that freshman sequence, that people won’t just remain biology majors just because it’s simple or convenient,” Doyle said. “Our hope is to encourage a little more thought about this earlier on.”

Rushing said the new designation does not affect transfer students or some incoming freshmen.

“Students who come in with credit, either a transfer student or someone who made a 5 on the AP test, they will be able to declare biology immediately as a major,” Rushing said.

Rushing said there is no difference between biology and pre-biology majors apart from the name: pre-biology students will still get announcements about upcoming biology department events and be able to participate.

“Pre-biology students are on our radar screen and they get contacts from us,” Doyle said.

Doyle said after the first year, biology majors have about the same retention rate as other majors at Baylor, and Rushing added they haven’t seen a drop in interest in biology since implementing the designation.

“We had over 500 on our prebiology designation list,” Rushing said.

students and honors colloquium over here, and those are usually the only students that know we live up here, and the representatives of the fraternities and sororities that come book events, but it’s not really common knowledge,” Lorin said.

Students are usually in awe

when they first see the Matthews’ home. Earlier this year, The Woodlands junior Emily Guberman visited the Matthews’ home for the first time.

“My first reaction was: Oh. My. Gosh. This is incredible,” Guberman said.

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Engineers welcome back bull-riding bonanza Wichita, Kan. sophomore Andrew Hoeckel attempts to ride a blow-up bull during the School of Engineering and Computer Science Welcome Back Bash on Tuesday, outside the Rogers Engineering and Computer Science Building.

Fort Hood shooter could be forced to shave for trial

By Angela k. brown associated press

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Army psychiatrist charged in the Fort Hood shooting rampage should be forced to shave his beard to avoid any potential jury bias in his pending murder trial, say some military experts and the judge overseeing his pending court-martial.

Maj. Nidal Hasan has grown the beard in violation of Army policy and says he wants to keep it for religious reasons. If he’s not forced to shave and is subsequently convicted in the 2009 attack

on the Texas Army post, the issue could also become grounds for an appeal.

Military trials are very formal and the juries expect all regulations to be followed, down to the smallest detail, some legal experts said.

“I’ve seen a judge send a soldier out of the courtroom because his uniform wasn’t right — his medals weren’t in order or his tie wasn’t tied right,” said Ret. Army Maj. Gen. John Altenburg, a former deputy judge advocate general who now is an attorney in private practice. “Jurors get a first

impression of that defendant, and at worst it’s neutral and at best it’s positive.”

Hasan faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole if convicted in the November 2009 attack that killed 13 people and wounded more than two dozen others at Fort Hood, about 125 miles southwest of Fort Worth.

Hasan first showed up with a beard at a pretrial hearing in June, saying it’s an expression of his Muslim faith. The judge said he would order Hasan to shave before trial if he didn’t shave himself.

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Isaac to sweep the South

Hurricane Isaac spun into the southern Louisiana coast late Tuesday, sending floodwaters surging and unleashing fierce winds as residents hunkered down behind boarded-up windows. New Orleans calmly waited out another storm on the eve of Hurricane Katrina’s seventh anniversary, hoping the city’s strengthened levees will hold.

Isaac, a massive storm spanning nearly 200 miles from its center, made landfall at about 6:45 p.m. near the mouth of the Mississippi River. But it was zeroing in on New Orleans, about 75 miles to the northwest, turning streets famous for all-hours celebrations into ghost boulevards.

The storm drew intense scrutiny because of its timing — just before the anniversary of the hurricane that devastated that city, while the first major speeches of the Republican National Convention went on in Tampa, Fla., already delayed and tempered by the storm.

While many residents stayed put, evacuations were ordered in low-lying areas of Louisiana and Mississippi, where officials closed 12 shorefront casinos.

By late Tuesday, more than

200,000 homes and businesses had lost power.

Ed Rappaport, deputy director of the National Hurricane Center, said Isaac’s core would pass west of New Orleans with winds close to 80 mph and head for Baton Rouge.

“On this course, the hurricane will gradually weaken,” Rappaport said Tuesday night from the Miami-based center. He said gusts could reach about 100 mph at times, especially at higher levels which could damage high-rise buildings in New Orleans.

As Isaac neared the city, there was little fear or panic. With New Orleans’ airport closed, tourists retreated to hotels and most denizens of a coastline that has witnessed countless hurricanes decided to ride out the storm.

“Isaac is the son of Abraham,” said Margaret Thomas, who was trapped for a week in her home in New Orleans’ Broadmoor neighborhood by Katrina’s floodwaters, yet chose to stay put this time. “It’s a special name that means ‘God will protect us’.”

Officials, chastened by memories and experience, advised caution.

“We don’t expect a Katrina-

like event, but remember there are things about a Category 1 storm that can kill you,” New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said, urging people to use common sense and to stay off any streets that may flood.

Tens of thousands of people were told to leave low-lying areas, including 700 patients of Louisiana nursing homes, but officials decided not to call for mass evacuations like those that preceded Katrina, which packed 135 mph winds in 2005.

Isaac also promised to test a New Orleans levee system bolstered after the catastrophic failures during Hurricane Katrina. But in a city that has already weathered Hurricane Gustav in 2008, calm prevailed.

Young, who lives in a new, twostory home built to replace the one destroyed by Katrina, said she wasn’t worried about the levees.

While far less powerful than Katrina, Isaac posed similar political challenges, a reminder of how the storm seven years ago became a symbol of government ignorance and ineptitude.

By Jocelyn Fowler Staff Writer

sophomore, junior and senior senators; the rising cost of tuition and any other issues that may arise.

One of the primary purposes of the meeting is to discuss the Education and Affordability Act, a bill written by senators Nick Pokorny, a senior from Rowlett, and Connor Mighell, a sophomore from Dalls.

“This year we really want to talk about affordability,” said Pokorny, the chair of the Campus Improve-

ments and Affairs Committee.

“This bill is the beginning of addressing that issue.”

The Education and Affordability Act is a support resolution bill that Pokorny and Mighell hope to have passed later this semester.

Support resolutions are legislation passed by the Student Senate that encourages an action on the part of the university. Some of the actions praised in the bill are the

peals court after top Army officials in June denied his request for a waiver to the no-beard rule based on religious grounds. On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled that Hasan’s appeal was premature, saying the judge, Col. Gregory Gross, hasn’t issued a definitive order for Hasan to be forcibly shaved.

Experts say Gross is likely to order Hasan to be forcibly shaved and that Hasan will appeal again.

Hasan’s court-martial had been scheduled to start Aug. 20, but all court proceedings were put on hold while Hasan’s appeal was be-

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tem at the end of last year and it was approved over the summer.

Assuming the program is successful, it will continue.

“It’s scary being a freshman and those upperclassmen are really intimidating,” Tichenor said.

She hopes this motivation will improve under- and upperclassmen relations and build community among .

“Hopefully through this program, these incoming freshmen can realize that the upperclassmen are students just like them.”

Marcum said she believes there is more for upperclassmen to enjoy by participating than just getting credit “There’s the intrinsic benefit that they’ve helped a younger student, helped the Honors Program, can put it on a resume as a leadership role, and it’s also just a plain good thing to do,” Marcum said.

Al Beck, admissions coordinator for the Honors Program, echoed Marcum’s excitement.

“I think it will be a great experience as the incoming freshmen begin their Baylor experience in the Honors Program.”

Student Senate to hold first meeting The first meeting of the Baylor Student Senate will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday in room 203 of the Cashion Academic Center.

During the meeting, the senate will discuss new appointments, including the upcoming election of freshman senators and the several vacant seats available to potential

Baylor University Staff Council’s achievement of its Endowed Scholarship Fund goal and the President’s Scholarship Initiative effort to raise $100 million in academic scholarship funds.

All Student Senate meetings are open to the public and allow an open-forum opportunity for five students to speak for one minute each.

ing considered. A new trial date has not been set since the military appeals court lifted that delay.

Hasan would not be the first military defendant forcibly shaved.

The Army has done it to five inmates since 2005, including one person who was forcibly shaved twice, according to the Army’s Office of the Chief of Staff. The most recent was in June 2011. The Army declined to release details, including the soldiers’ names, saying it would invade their privacy and the shavings are not public events.

Hasan’s attorneys say he believes not having a beard is a sin

and doesn’t want to die without one since his premonition that his death is imminent.

Gross has banned Hasan from the courtroom since the June pretrial hearing, calling the beard a disruption, and sent him to a nearby room to watch the proceedings on a closed-circuit television. The judge later said he wants Hasan in the courtroom during the trial to prevent a possible appeal on the issue if he is convicted.

Prosecutors say they doubt religion is Hasan’s motive, noting he was clean-shaven at the time of the shooting.