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TUESDAY | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
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Little-known fact
The Men’s golf team starts off a Students can take a break from all new season in Japan today, looking the stress with massage therapy for victory in the Topy Cup offered in the SLC. Vol. 113 No. 9
What’s in the now
Check out a list of upcoming music releases to see when to hit up the stores for your favorite jams © 2012, Baylor University
In Print >> Real or imagined
A photo exhibit in the Croft Art Gallery explores how memories are made
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>> Who’s on the ball?
See how Baylor volleyball and soccer fared over the weekend
Page 5 >> Summer fun
Students in the military ROTC participated in several summer programs
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Viewpoints
“Research opens the doors for students to learn something completely new and innovative, and what’s on the cutting edge of their respective fields. Besides, without research, we wouldn’t have half the discoveries that we’ve had.” Page 2
Bear Briefs The place to go to know the places to go
Be prepared
A first aid certification class will be held from 5 to 9:30 p.m. today in 308 McLane Student Life Center. Following successful completion of the course, participants are issued a course completion card that is valid for two years. Cost is $35. Students can register at the SLC front desk.
Get hyped
The Bears will play Sam Houston State at 6:05 p.m. Saturday at Floyd Casey Stadium. Tickets can be purchased online at www. baylorbears.com or at the ticket office in the Bill Daniel Student Center Den.
Music to the ears
Baylor Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble conducted by Isaiah Odajima and Eric J. Wilson will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Jones Concert Hall of the Glennis McCrary Music Building. This event is free and open to the public.
Pat Neff bells still ring for Sept. 11 By Connor Yearsley Reporter
Every year on the anniversary of Sept. 11, Americans do what they can to commemorate a tragedy. Lynnette Geary, resident carillonneur (pronounced CARE-uhlahn-oo-er), will perform a memorial carillon recital at 5 p.m. today from the tower of Pat Neff Hall. Geary said she’s been performing this recital every year, beginning on Sept. 11, 2001, just hours after the attacks. “The day it happened was such an awful day. I came over here and played some piano music, and I don’t know if anyone noticed, but I didn’t know what else to do. I’ve done it ever since,” she said. Geary has been here since before Baylor first acquired the McLane Carillon in 1988, and she was already an experienced player at the time. She and her students have exclusive access to the carillon, a keyboard instrument
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Photos by Nick Barryman and Connor Yearsley
Lynnette Geary stands beside the McLane Carillon located on the top floor of Pat Neff Hall. She has performed a recital every year on 9/11 since the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.
with keys, called levers, attached to correspondingly-tuned bells. For instance, pushing the low C lever will ring the low C bell. Both the keyboard and the bells together make up the carillon. A room at the top of the tower on the fourth floor of Pat Neff Hall houses the McLane Carillon, named after Drayton McLane, the instrument’s donor and a 1958 Baylor graduate, and his family.
Police: Texas teen killed to keep quiet By Jamie Stengle and Nomaan Merchant Associated Press
CARROLLTON — A Texas man accused of raping a 16-yearold girl used social media to lure her to a meeting, abduct her from her school and drive her to a river, where he killed her to keep her from testifying against him, an arrest warrant said. The man insisted in a jailhouse interview Monday that he only wanted to talk to the teen and prove his innocence but said he was overcome by “demons” once they were face-to-face. Franklin B. Davis, 30, of the Dallas suburb of Irving, was charged with capital murder Sunday in the death of Shania Gray. Gray was last seen alive Thursday afternoon at Hebron High School in nearby Carrollton. Her body was found Saturday in a secluded area near the Trinity River. Carrollton police say Davis confessed to arranging a meeting with Gray under false pretenses, driving her to a trail near the river and shooting her twice with a .38-caliber pistol. According to an arrest affidavit, Gray fell into the river and called Davis by his nickname: “Why, Wish?” Davis told police he then stepped on her neck until she stopped breathing, the affidavit said. Carrollton police spokesman Jon Stovall said in an email that police believe Davis killed Gray because she was about to testify against him.
A spokeswoman for Gray’s family, Sherry Ramsey, told The Dallas Morning News that Gray met Davis when she babysat his two children. Ramsey said that later, after the teen declined many requests to babysit, Gray told her grandmother that Davis had raped her. The crime was reported to Mesquite police, and Davis was charged with four counts of sexual assault of a child. The trial was scheduled to start next month. Ramsey said Davis had warned Gray he would kill her if she told anyone about the assault. According to an arrest warrant, Davis contacted Gray through social media and pretended to be someone else in an attempt to get information about the sexual assault case. Davis then used a pre-paid cellphone to set up a meeting with Gray at her high school on Thursday. Davis told WFAA-TV in a jailhouse interview that he tracked Gray down because he wanted to prove his innocence in the sexual assault case. “I needed to get some kind of evidence, some kind of proof myself to show I did not have sex with her and that she’s lying,” Davis told the television station. He said he didn’t intend to harm Gray but was overcome in the moment. “I was fighting demons,” Davis told the station. “It was like a different person was in me. It wasn’t me.” SEE
TEEN, page 6
Photos Courtesy of Ryan Duncan | Baylor Photography
Judge Ken Starr receives gift basket Veterans of Baylor, including Army veteran and Waco junior Ben Betner, Navy veteran and Hewitt senior Rachael Harrelson, and Army veteran and Waco junior Kelli Betner, present President Ken Starr with a patriotic basket in remembrance of 9/11 on Friday in the president’s office at Pat Neff.
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This carillon has a range of four octaves and, like a piano, is arranged chromatically (think of the twelve black and white keys that make up an octave on a piano). The bottom two octaves can also be played with foot pedals. Unlike a piano, the carillon uses levers, which are connected by cables to the clappers of the bells in the belfry, a ladder’s
climb above. When the dowel-like levers are pushed down, the cables draw the clappers to strike the bells, which remain stationary. Only the clappers inside the bells move, although the low C, D and E bells can be made to swing for celebratory occasions. Geary said she remembers how exciting it was when Baylor was first given the carillon by
the McLane family in 1988. The bells were hoisted individually by crane into the belfry. The crowded belfry contains 48 pitched, cast-bronze bells. The largest bell is a low C and weighs 4,370 pounds. The smallest is a high C and weighs just 29 pounds. Combined, the bells weigh more than 22 tons. SEE
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Students feel the heat in stadium
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Baylor clarifies Floyd Casey water bottle policy for fans Matt Hellman | Lariat Photo Editor
Dating Doctor delivers the scoop
David Coleman, better known as the “Dating Doctor” who inspired the movie “Hitch,” speaks to a group of Baylor women on the Waco Hall stage after his annual presentation hosted by the Alpha Chi Omega and Sigma Phi Epsilon Greek organizations on Monday.
Ground zero off the table for politics By Jennifer Peltz Associated Press
NEW YORK — The Sept. 11 anniversary ceremony at ground zero has been stripped of politicians this year. But can it ever be stripped of politics? Today, for the first time, elected officials won’t speak Tuesday at an occasion that has allowed them a solemn turn in the spotlight. The change was made in the name of sidelining politics, but some have rapped it as a political move in itself. It’s a sign of the entrenched sensitivity of the politics of Sept. 11, even after a decade of commemorating the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. From the first anniversary in 2002, the date has been limned with questions about how — or even whether — to try to separate the Sept. 11 that is about personal loss from the 9/11 that reverberates through public life. The answers are complicated for Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles was the pilot of the hijacked plane that crashed into the Pentagon. She feels politicians’ involvement can lend gravity to the remembrances, but she
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empathizes with the reasons for silencing officeholders at the New York ceremony this year. “It is the one day, out of 365 days a year, where, when we invoke the term ‘9/11,’ we mean the people who died and the events that happened,” rather than the political and cultural layers the phrase has accumulated, said Burlingame, who’s on the board of the organization that announced the change in plans this year. “So I think the idea that it’s even controversial that politicians wouldn’t be speaking is really rather remarkable.” Remarkable, perhaps, but a glimpse through the political prism that splits so much surrounding Sept. 11 into different lights. Officeholders from the mayor to presidents have been heard at the New York ceremony, reading texts ranging from parts of the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address to poems by John Donne and Langston Hughes. But in July, the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum — led by Mayor Michael Bloomberg as its board chairman — announced that this year’s version would inSEE
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Maegan Rocio Staff Writer
High temperatures caused chaos at Baylor’s first home football game as game-goers crowded concessions to get much-needed water. Temperatures reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit during the Sept. 2 game against Southern Methodist University. Some students say they were not allowed to bring water into the stadium, and dozens of fans suffered heat-related problems. James Stefka, director of the East Texas Medical Center Emergency Medical Services, said 65 people at the stadium were treated throughout the course of the game for heat-related issues. Thomas Hill, the senior associate athletics director for facilities and operations, said the Baylor athletic department has policies in place to control what is brought into Floyd Casey Stadium during games. This policy includes water bottles. “On home games, it’s all decided based on health and temperature,” he said. “This last home game, we did allow water into the stadium. If you came in with a full bottle or a half bottle that was open, we let you bring it in. Typically, during a general game, whether it’s a baseball game or a basketball game, we typically don’t let outside food and drink into the stadium. But during inclement weather, high heat, things like that, we absolutely allow that, and that decision is made on a game by game basis.” However, several students saidthey were not allowed to bring bottles into the stadium. “Well, one of my friends tried to bring it in because I was going to the game, and they told her not SEE
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