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“The most beneficial way to diminish the prominence that these people have in times of tragedy in America is to stop giving them the attention they crave. This is a call to stop the unnecessary coverage that is given to Westboro Baptist Church.”

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detailing the manhunt of two suspected robbers on

Baylor campus that ended in an arrest Tuesday morning

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Walk-on dreamsThink you can play college football? Prove it! The Baylor football team is hosting walk-on tryouts this week. Those interested can attend an information session from 2 to 4 p.m. today in the team meeting room of the Alwin O. and Dorothy Highers Athletics Complex to fill out paperwork and meet with a trainer. Tryouts will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday at the practice fields of the athletic complex. Candidates will participate in the 5-10-5, L-drills and run a 40-yard dash.

The place to go to know the places to go

By Nick DeanEditor in chief

One of two suspects in rob-beries of two local cash lending stores was arrested on Baylor campus at 3:43 a.m. Tuesday, hours after an on-campus man-hunt.

According to the Bellmead Police Department, a Cash Store located at 1517 N. Interstate 35 Access Road in Bellmead was robbed at gunpoint Monday morning by two men of slim builds. One of the men asked for all the money in the store while the other waited by the door. The two robbers were seen leaving the store in a silver Ford Taurus with chrome rims.

Later in the morn-ing, the Cash Store l o c a t e d at 1333 N. Valley Mills Lane in Beverly Hills was robbed by

two men fit-ting the same descriptions.

Police were notified that a car matching the silver Ford reported in Monday morning’s incidents was at the Casa Royale apart-ment complex located in the 1100 block of Speight Avenue.

“Waco Police and Beverly Hills Police converged [at Casa

Royale] and talked to the owner of the vehicle,” said Baylor Police Chief Jim Doak. During the con-versation with the vehicle’s owner, two armed men jumped out of an apartment window and ran west down Speight Avenue toward Eighth Street and, subsequently, Baylor’s campus.

Doak said the suspects en-tered campus between 10:45 and 10:55 p.m. At the intersection of Eighth and Speight, one of the suspects turned left and ran to-ward I-35 while the other ran to-ward La Salle Avenue, Doak said.

Waco Police officers notified Baylor Police that the suspects were headed toward campus.

Campus manhunt ends in arrest

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March unites community, honors King

Jackson

By Sally Ann MoyerReporter

Baylor’s Nu Iota chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. and Nu Zeta chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. hosted their 18th annual MLK Peace March Mon-day morning across the Waco Sus-pension Bridge to Martin Luther King Jr. Park.

Veronica McClain, president of the local Zeta Phi Beta alum-nae chapter, gave a welcoming speech once the crowd arrived in the park.

“Usually when we come over the bridge, we’re singing ‘We Shall Overcome,’” she said, “but I think it being 2011, we have overcome.”

Participants in the march in-

cluded members and family mem-bers of National Pan-Hellenic Council organizations, members and family members of Zeta Aux-iliary Youth, students from Live Oak Classical School and other community members.

This was Live Oak’s fifth year participating in the march.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fra-ternity Inc., one of the participat-ing organizations. King’s legacy of encouraging unity drew Alpha Phi Alpha and Longview junior Dex-ter Dafney to join in the march for the first time this year.

“All of the years after he died, people can still wake up early in the morning and march,” Dafney said. “People can still come to-

gether; his dream is still alive.”Alpha Kappa Alpha Soror-

ity Inc. traditionally recognized as Alpha Phi Alpha’s sister soror-ity, also joined in the march. Al-pha Kappa Alpha senior Gabrielle Whitmore from Aurora, Colo., has marched the past two years because of King’s cultural impor-tance and status as a role model.

“He’s an important part of our culture and heritage, and MLK was an Alpha,” she said, “and he’s someone we do look up to.”

Houston sophomore Le’Paul Jack, a member of Phi Beta Sigma, marched for the first time this year to “show unity and honor Dr. King,” he said.

McClain credits the march with encouraging community in-

volvement and community con-sciousness.

“I think the march has helped to start the communication pro-cess, really getting to know the differences between people, how you look at things,” McClain said.

She also applauds the growth of the crowd each year, not just in numbers, but in diversity.

“I’ve seen it grow, like in num-bers, but what I like is the impact, the concern,” McClain said. “We’re finding that more nationalities, all walks of life, are starting to be in-terested ... and the interest groups are a lot younger now.”

Following the ceremony in the park, the group marched onto

By Stephen StrobbeReporter

Continuing its evolution alongside the rest of the news industry, the Baylor Lariat has found a new place to call home online. Officially launching with this issue, visitors to the Lariat’s website will notice the new inter-face coupled with a media-rich design that has been in the works since August.

The Lariat began its online presence in 1995 with a website designed primarily as a place to post stories originally written for

the print publication. As the news world has gone through signifi-cant changes, the Lariat kept up by maintaining its website to include timely stories of interest to Baylor students, teachers and alumni. In recent years, the Lariat has ac-tively updated a blog and joined popular social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook in an effort to stay connected with the reader-ship and offer a way for them to interact in a more personal way with the paper.

When Paul Carr took over as Director of Student Publications last January and Austin junior

Nick Dean began as editor in chief for the Lariat in August, they made it a primary focus to com-pletely revamp the website.

“We’re going into new media; that’s where it’s going. And so this website kind of is the capstone to all of it,” Dean said.

The new site, which can be found at http://www.baylorlariat.com and is still housed on Baylor servers despite the change in do-main name, was built entirely on WordPress with a custom theme.

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Students gather in Speight Plaza Monday for a candlelight march to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Day of remembrance

By Sara TirritoStaff Writer

The Baylor Health Services Counseling Center saw a 64 per-cent increase in crisis appoint-ments for fall 2010 compared with fall 2009.

Crisis appointments serve students who are experiencing emotional and/or psychological distress or who have recently ex-perienced trauma. This increase comes after a more than a 100 percent increase in crisis appoint-ments between the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 school years.

Dr. James Marsh, director of counseling services, said the numbers of crisis appointments have been increasing across the nation. Marsh said Baylor’s in-crease probably stems from sev-eral causes, including successful outreach programming by the university, an increase in the total number of students on campus, changing demographics of the student population and a more

Crisis visits see sharp increase

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Nearly 4,800 don’t receive emergency notifications

By Nick DeanEditor in chief

An incomplete file up-loaded to the university’s alert system failed to notify nearly 4,800 students during Tues-day’s on-campus manhunt that resulted in the arrest of one of two suspects in two lo-cal robberies.

Baylor’s alert system was

initiated at 11:15 p.m. Mon-day, telling all recipients to re-main indoors until further no-tice because two armed men were on campus.

“We activated it pretty quick after we realized what was happening and we had the big picture,” Baylor Police Chief Jim Doak said in an in-terview with the Baylor Lariat.

“I am aware that there are

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Media should ignore church’s cries for attention

Study abroad helps students

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Little can be said to ease the pain resulting from the horrible tragedy of the Tucson, Ariz., shootings on Jan. 8 in which six people died and 14 more were wounded. However, much can be said to bring more pain to the people of the community, espe-cially from the thoughtless ac-tions of media-hungry protesters.

United in grief, the commu-nity of Tucson has successfully protected their grieving members by keeping the protesters of West-boro Baptist Church out of their city.

Many may remember the con-troversial “church” from there deplorable protests at multiple soldiers’ funerals, the funerals of many homosexuals and even at the memorial in the wake of the Fort Hood shooting in Novem-ber 2009. Bearing signs that read “God Hates Fags,” “Thank God for Dead Soldiers,” “Thank God for IEDs” and “1,2,3,4, God Hates the Marine Corps,” Westboro Baptist Church has made quite the name for itself in the media and it’s cer-tainly not a good one.

This group, which takes ad-vantage of tragedy to relay its message of hate, planned to pro-test at the funeral of the shoot-ing victims, 9-year-old Christina Green and U.S. District Judge John Roll.

In a valiant effort, many mem-bers of the Tucson community made plans to deter the church, including wearing oversized angel wings to block the protesters from the view of those attending the fu-neral. None of this was necessary because two radio personalities bargained with those from West-boro to ensure they would not at-tend either funeral.

Steve Sanchez gave Shirley Phelps-Roper, the spokeswoman for Westboro and daughter of the church founder and pastor John Phelps, 30 minutes of air-time Saturday on a Phoenix-based talk show he hosts. In addition to this 30-minute time slot, Phelps-Roper was also given an hour on a nationally syndicated radio show hosted by Mike Gallagher.

To many, it may seem abso-lutely ridiculous that the “church” was given this time, and in actu-ality, we think it is absurd. It is a shame that this group was able to put the people of Arizona in that position. The goal of keeping the

protesters away from the funerals was reached and for that, we are thankful. These two radio per-sonalities did express their disgust at the Westboro’s efforts, but Steve Sanchez said the decision was not a difficult one.

“I believe it’s a small price to pay for me to not give this hate group [in my opinion] the oppor-tunity to be disruptive,” Sanchez said in a statement on his website.

Moreover, Sanchez did bring up an important benefit to giving the “church” a platform to appear on his radio show.

“The great thing about Amer-ica, is we have First Amendment rights no matter how outrageous one’s views may be. When some-thing offends us, we can turn the channel. This would have not been the case if they showed up to that funeral, which in fact, they would have.” Sanchez said.

There are few words for how horribly manipulating the people from Westboro are. They utilize the media for their own disturb-ing gain, for this is the primary medium for spreading their igno-rant, and highly unbiblical, mes-sage.

It is a shame for this group to even be associated with the Bap-tist denomination or even Chris-

tianity at all. They do have a right to protest, but it seems it would be far more beneficial for the media to prevent all opportunities for the “church” to continually spread itst lies. It is better that the protest did not occur, but it is absurd that the only way to stop these people is to bend to their thirst for atten-tion. How is it that a group of few-er than 100 people, most of whom are members of the Phelps family, are still receiving these massive amounts of attention?

The most beneficial way to di-minish the prominence that these people have in times of tragedy in America is to stop giving them the attention they crave. This is a call to stop the unnecessary coverage that is given to Westboro Baptist Church.

In the same way that one might ignore a child who is throwing a fit for unwarranted attention, if the media strives to simply ignore the actions and threats of this group, there will be little that they can do to further their protests.

Perhaps the members of this church should open their Bibles to Leviticus 19:18: “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.”

Editorial

After 26 hours of travel, a canceled flight, one train, three planes, a taxi and pickup truck, I finally arrived back in Texas at 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 22. I felt almost as if I had been on a continual journey for four months, while I studied abroad.

When I stepped off the plane at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, I was a completely different person than when I left in September.

There are few things that can change you as a person like removing yourself from your comfort zone and step-ping into independence can.

When I arrived in London, all I could think about was ad-justing to living in a foreign city.

I decided to study abroad there because I fell in love with London when I traveled through Europe during the summer prior to my freshman year. In addition to adding an impressive semester, complete with foreign internship, to my resume, I wanted time away from my usual rhythm at Bay-lor.

Once I arrived, it was a whirlwind of sightseeing and discovering some of my new favorite places. From having tea at the Victoria and Albert Museum to making late-night crepe runs, I easily submerged myself into a pattern in this unfamiliar, yet exhilarating city.

I was able to do things and go places that would have been unthinkable if I stayed at Baylor. We saw the pope on his trip to England. I saw Manolo Blahnik at London’s Fashion’s Night Out and he signed a pair of shoes for me.

During my lunch hour at work one day, I saw Simon Cowell going into a hotel. We

went to the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” premiere.

As the weeks progressed, not only did my bond with the city become stronger, my bonds with my roommates strengthened as well. It isn’t difficult to get to know people when you live in such close quarters. I lived in a room with three other girls in an apartment with five additional people. It’s safe to say that it was the most crowded place I’ve ever lived.

I feel blessed to say that I came home with friendships so unique that they will as-suredly be lasting ones. There really are few people who can understand the way my life changed over those four months like those who expe-rienced the changes with me.

I remember when I first got to London, I was so wor-ried about the tube system.

I knew that I would end up completely lost and have no idea where I was or how to get home. Then, by the end of the trip, I practically had the tube map memorized. I knew what lines to take to always get home.

I came to depend on my-self. Living in Waco is a great way to cultivate indepen-dence, but I am little more than 70 miles from home. I can call my parents anytime and they provide a solution to any problem.

Being 4,000 miles away and six hours ahead often hindered my communication with those I left at home. So I solved problems on my own. I made decisions by myself.

I learned to be indepen-dent over those four months. It was something I was lucky to learn.

I learned so much about myself while I studied abroad and it truly was the experience of a lifetime. It is an experi-ence that cannot be replicated. It is absolutely something that I would recommend to every Baylor student. The world out-side of Waco is so much big-ger.

Jessica Acklen is a senior journalism and political sci-ence major from Arlington and the A & E editor for The Lariat.

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FDA oversteps bounds when distributing lethal injection drugs from U.K.Our Food and Drug Admin-

istration has crossed the line, and entered territory where the or-ganization itself has said it don’t belong — executions.

A public records request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, a liberal legislative lobby-ing nonprofit, produced e-mail correspondence between Arizona officials and the FDA discussing the shortage of sodium thiopental — the drug used to put inmates into a sleep prior to execution. The messages proves the FDA was actively engaged in the execution process for the state of Arizona. One e-mail states that an FDA official wanted a shipment of the drug to “be processed expedi-tiously to [them] as it was for the

purpose of executions and not for use by the general public.” The kicker: the drugs were going to be coming from Britain. (Frankly, I was also shocked an FDA official thought his bureaucracy-filled administration could do anything

“expeditiously.” Lest we forget the expedient and error-prone egg farm inspections of August 2010.)

According to the Associated Press, a federal lawsuit in Ari-zona “challenges the use of over-seas drugs, saying they may be substandard and could lead to botched executions if they do not put an inmate to sleep properly.”

The FDA official’s recommen-dation is degrading, improper and simply unjust. A drug “not meant for the general public” is the exact drug that should not be given special, “expeditious” treatment especially if it is being shipped from over seas.

The ACLU is accusing the FDA of saying one thing and do-ing another and there is definitely

proof. FDA spokesman Chris-topher Kelly told the Associated Press, “Reviewing substances im-ported or used for the purpose of state-authorized lethal injection clearly falls outside of FDA’s ex-plicit public health role.” Thanks to the power of the public records request, we now know that is exactly what the FDA has been dealing in — the use of overseas drugs for state-authorized sui-cide.

Regardless of the belittling, narrow-mindedness of some, in-mates deserve to be treated hu-manely. Recently, the Supreme Court extended a reprieve to a former Army recruiter six hours before his execution was sched-uled. The Supreme Court is re-

viewing his appeal in which he maintains his innocence sur-rounding the rape and murder of a Fort Worth in 2002.

The high court properly ex-tended the man his constitutional right to a fair trial. I think the same should be done to those that are being executed. The Con-stitution does not allow for cruel and unusual punishment. The use of overseas drugs that were not intended for the general public and were only “expeditiously” re-viewed by a public health organi-zation not meant to handle these drugs constitutes such unusual — and potentially cruel — pun-ishment.

This is not to start a debate on the propriety of capital punish-

ment; that is a state decision. The FDA’s involvement with the state of Arizona perfectly illustrates that the federal government is getting involved. The rights of states are clear as is the purpose and role of the FDA. The FDA has no right to negotiate transac-tions of these drugs and should have never offered the “help” in these e-mails. Concerns of public health are the FDA’s job, and its recent history of major risk lead me to believe we shouldn’t put any more on the agency’s plate.

Nick Dean is a junior journal-ism and political science major from Austin and Editor-in-chief of the The Lariat.

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Community garden to foster relationships

Baylor and Waco officials gather Monday in the Bill Daniels Student Center to dedicate the newly created community garden. Attendants included Presi-dent Ken Starr, center, and Waco Mayor Jim Bush, immediately to the left of President Starr. Following the ceremony, Starr told The Baylor Lariat that the garden “is the closest connection between the Waco community and Baylor, and the most efficient way to educate children on sustainability.”

Code revampSenate addresses

ambiguity in electoral code

rewriteBy Will DeWitt

Reporter

The Operations and Procedures Committee of Student Senate, which is responsible for reviewing bills involving internal issues and official documents, has continued the process of revising the Elec-toral Code this semester.

“There has been a disconnect between the candidates who are running for office, the individuals on the electoral commission and the student court who are enforc-ing provisions,” said Fort Worth junior senator Daniel Houston, the primary bill sponsor.

The revisions are intended to remove ambiguous language, but the original proposed revision was too unwieldy to get through Stu-dent Senate last semester.

“I think we were too quick in bringing it to senate,” Sugar Land sophomore Senator Cody Orr said. “We needed to have other people listen to the bill and think about it, deliberate about it, before we brought it to full senate.”

The committee has revised the bill for clarity.

“We just want to make sure ev-erything runs as efficiently as pos-sible,” Houston junior Greg Ortiz, the electoral commissioner, said.

The revisions themselves cover coalition campaigning, campaign workers and disqualification crite-ria, as well as several other issues.

To alleviate concerns over se-crecy, the committee has invited everyone to voice their opinion on the proposed changes to the code.

President Ken Starr participates in a sic ’em with children involved in the Waco Arts Initiative at the dedication ceremony of Baylor’s Community Garden Monday in the SUB Den of the Bill Daniel Student Center Monday.

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Project aims to bring together Baylor, Waco

By Stori LongReporter

Despite adverse weather condi-tions and sudden venue changes, the Baylor population and the Waco community came to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the dedication ceremony of the Baylor Community Garden.

The garden represents a collab-orative effort between Baylor stu-dents and the Waco community, including such groups as Campus Kitchen, Urban Garden Coalition, Waco Arts Initiative, the Office of Sustainability, the environmental studies department and the family and consumer science department.

“I feel like this is one of the more progressive moves toward community engagement because we pulled in such a broad array of partners,” said Amanda Allen, project manager of Baylor Inter-disciplinary Poverty Initiative. “I’m really excited that we have art majors, nutrition majors, environ-mental majors … all serving the community together.”

The purpose of the garden is to improve nutritional outcomes for youth, enhance classroom experi-ences for Baylor students, serve as a demonstration and learning site for schools, encourage healthy lifestyles and strengthen ties to the community, according to a univer-sity press release.

The garden will provide an out-door classroom for Baylor students while producing food to be given back to the community.

The produce will be used by Campus Kitchen Project, which delivers rescued food and home-made meals to Salvation Army and the Family Abuse and Crisis Cen-ter in Waco.

Although the garden is lo-cated at Ninth Street and Bagby Avenue, the dedication ceremony was moved to the SUB Den on the first floor of the Bill Daniel Student

Center due to muddy conditions. The ceremony opened with a

welcome by Rosemary Townsend, the director of Community Part-nership and Business Affairs, and a prayer from Kelly Baker BA ‘06, MSW ‘08, a Hunger Alleviation Volunteer in Service to America.

President Ken Starr began the dedication by appealing to the legacy and memory of King. The president made reference to the commemorative worship service held in Miller Chapel on Sunday.

The Rev. Jimmy Hunter, pastor of Toliver Chapel Missionary Bap-tist Church, led the service which was sponsored by the School of Social Work, George W. Truett Theological Seminary and the reli-gion department. Hunter exhorted those at the service to not only share King’s dream, but to keep that dream alive and to be stew-ards of that dream by continuing in King’s legacy of service.

Starr dedicated the garden to the mission of furthering the values of service, education, sustainability and to setting the example of “soci-ety at its best, when university and community come together.”

The garden was envisioned as the center of community by those involved with its creation.

“Because all of these people are at the table, it’s an awesome image of the beloved community,” Allen said. “The university should not be separate from the community, it should be serving the community and engaging the community in what they are studying.”

As the garden has progressed from idea to reality, this hope of engaging Baylor students with the community has become a reality.

“None of this would have been possible without the Baylor stu-dents,” Townsend said. “They had the passion and the energy, they made it happen.”

Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream of a united community ded-icated to serving one another, an idea that will hopefully be promot-ed by the creation of this garden.

“What’s so cool is that [King] was all about service,” Baker said. “And that’s the whole purpose of the garden.”

College Station junior Andrew Peirce carries lunches for volunteers.

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By Leigh Ann Henry Reporter

Baylor exceeded their recycling goal by almost 20 tons, recycling 417.37 tons of material according to the 2010 annual recycling re-port.

Smith Getterman, sustainabil-ity coordinator at Baylor, is re-sponsible for publishing the initial report. Included in the report was the 2009 total, which was 369.4 tons. This year’s total represents a 12.98 percent increase in recycling totals for efforts across campus.

The 2010 recycling results were based on the combined work of Baylor students, faculty, visitors, organizations and various depart-ments.

Awareness has been raised through several different initia-tives. During move-in, teams of students are responsible not only for getting new residents settled into their rooms, but also for help-ing to educate them on opportu-nities for recycling. The move-in teams generated 6.87 tons of re-

cycled material. Vicki Pierce, assistant director

of housekeeping, attributes the in-creased success to the arrival of the sustainability committee and Pattie Orr, vice president for information technology and dean of libraries.

“It’s been one of the proudest years for recycling at Baylor with sustainability, grounds and ev-eryone else’s involvement as well,” Pierce said. “Without everyone it just wouldn’t be possible.”

Baylor has been recycling for many years — what is new is the scope of the efforts.

John Rose works with Waco Grounds, the company in charge of keeping the athletic fields main-tained. Rose has been with the group for 13 years and says the company’s efforts in recycling have escalated dramatically

“The problem we face is get-ting people knowledgeable in what to do and what not to do,” Rose said. “At games, people may throw away a half empty bottle of water, but with water still in the bottle it contaminates other items, making

some things unable to be recycled. Certain portions of things cannot even be recycled because they are contaminated.”

Waco Grounds has made strides in helping to get recycling numbers up. In 2010, the recycling at football games resulted in 6.5 tons of recycled material.

The teams responsible for the demolition of Ivy Square were also involved in the recycling effort. The material resulted in 93 tons of recycled iron and almost 1 ton of aluminum and copper.

The large increase has come not just from large projects but from students who take the time to put their old newspapers in the recy-cling bin instead of the trash.

Baylor provides recycling re-ceptacles around campus, giving students a daily opportunity to contribute. White bins are also placed in each of the residence halls with a list of recyclable mate-rials printed on them.

For more information on Bay-lor recycling efforts, visit www.baylor.edu/sustainability.

By Molly DunnReporter

It’s that time of year again. Temperatures change drastically, students are back in classes for the spring semester and just about everyone is coughing, sneezing or feeling ill.

Whether it is sitting in a class-room with coughing students, touching the door handle after someone who is sick or simply walking around campus in the cold weather, students are more prone to get sick during the winter than most other people.

“As the weather gets cold, it takes moisture out of the air and germs float more freely into the air,” Katherine Weaver, Providence Medical Center’s infection control nurse said.

This is why more people get sick or ill during the wintertime, especially college students.

Dr. Sharon W. Stern, Baylor’s medical director, also helped ex-plain the increased illnesses in an e-mail to the Baylor Lariat.

“The fact that our students re-turn after Christmas break from all corners of the globe, some of them bringing viruses with them, it is no surprise that there are many ill people during these months,” Stern said.

Stern and Weaver are encour-aging students to take extra pre-cautions during this time of the year due to the higher probability of catching a virus.

“Try not to touch your eyes, nose or mouth with your hands be-cause that is how germs get trans-mitted into the body,” Weaver said.

“There are more problems with asthma when the weather gets cold and dry,” Stern said. “In addition, we here in Waco have mountain cedar pollen, which affects people with allergies. Mountain cedar pol-len tends to peak from December to February.“

Stern also mentioned that there have not been any sudden illness outbreaks on campus yet, but Bay-lor Health Services is monitoring the activity of viruses on campus to keep students and faculty healthy.

“Students are at an increased

risk because they may not eat healthy or get enough sleep and also are in closer contact with peo-ple,” Stern said.

Due to these circumstances, students are asked to follow the advice of Deloris Shaw, Infection Control Director for Hillcrest Bap-tist Medical Center. “If you are sick, be kind to other people and stay home,” Shaw said.

Shaw also explained the simple action of taking a step back when talking or standing next to another person could diminish the chance of spreading germs, since germs

cannot be transmitted farther than 3 feet.

Shaw said other cold and germ preventions include a well-bal-anced diet as the immune system needs to be strengthened through multivitamins and various anti-bodies.

“The best way to avoid getting sick is to take care of yourself, eat right, get plenty of rest and wash your hands before eating or touch-ing your face,” Stern said. “Fresh fruits and vegetables are helpful in keeping your immune system functioning well.”

Recycling effort picks up steam on campus

Weather impacts health

As cold air depletes moisture in the air, germs are more able to spread from person to person. Students are especially prone to sickness and should take extra precautions during the winter months.

Photo IllustratIon by MakenzIe Mason

With greater attention being paid to recycling across campus, recycling receptacles placed in areas of easy ac-cess have contributed to an increase in total recycled material.

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By Kelly GalvinReporter

The college experience would not be what it is today if it were not for those infamous roommate sto-ries: the roommates that stay up all hours of the night, or the ones that have a boyfriend or girlfriend who seem to have moved in.

San Antonio junior Jessy Book-binder holds a long list of argu-ments and compromises that she has had with past and present roommates, but says if she let every little fault of a roommate get to her, she would go crazy.

“For me it is all about picking and choosing your battles,” Book-binder said.

Bookbinder referred to difficul-ties with her freshman roommate while explaining that their sched-ules were on opposite clocks.

“As I started to study around 9 p.m., she would be getting ready for bed,” Bookbinder said.

Bookbinder said she got through the year because she had grandparents who lived in town, and she would escape to their house when she needed space.

“They were my outlet, where I went to take a breath,” Bookbinder said.

But roommate situations don’t always have to be unfortunate. Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., junior Ra-chel Buehler met her best friend from going “pot luck,” where roommates are chosen randomly to live together, her freshman year. “We were both from California and just kind of clicked,” Buehler said.

Buehler admits there were times she and her roommate need-ed space and time to themselves, but to this day they are best friends.

“We still do everything togeth-er, and it seems like we have known each other all our lives,” Buehler said.

Bookbinder and Buehler are currently roommates and openly say there are times when they have both been annoyed with each oth-er, but say they feel they can talk to each other and resolve their issues.

“Our reoccurring problem is the dishes,” Bookbinder said. “They seem to pile up, and no one takes responsibility for them.”

They both acknowledge that this is a problem, but always seem to get through it.

“We have figured out each other’s faults and now try to make a conscience effort to fix them,” Buehler said. “It’s all about give and take.”

Oklahoma City, Okla., junior Regan Nicewander, Buehler and Bookbinder’s third roommate, agreed with Buehler and recog-nized their issues, but said it wasn’t anything to break up their friend-ship.

“We all have our separate

rooms, which helps when you need time to yourself, but we all seem to

get along,” Nicewander said.Bookbinder and Buehler both

have boyfriends, which also seems to be a non-issue.

“They aren’t overwhelming,” Nicewander said. “They come and go, and don’t really make prob-lems. They actually take out the trash and help around the house. It’s nice.”

Nicewander felt if she did have a problem with the boys, especially if they were starting to move in, she could talk to her roommates and resolve it fairly easily.

These women agreed that it’s all about respect and knowing when you’re wrong.

It’s easy enough to clean up your mess or buy more milk for the week, but it’s harder to mend a broken friendship.

“It has never gotten to the ar-gument stage where we are yelling and fighting,” Bookbinder said. “We understand each other and know how to handle problems ac-cording to the person.”

Being friends and roommates can have its benefits and appears to work for this set of girls. They work with each other and respect each other’s space and belongings.

“It’s about approaching the problem with a solution,” Nice-wander said. “That way everyone knows what to expect.”

Whether a roommate becomes a lifelong friend or just someone to help make rent, communication is the key to healthy relationships and problem resolution.

San Antonio junior Jessy Bookbinder, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., junior Re-gan Nicewander, and Oklahoma City, Okla., junior Rachel Buehler are friends as well as roommates.

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By Ariadne AberinStaff Writer

Twenty years after being built, the John Knox Memorial Center at The Texas Rangers Hall of Fame and Museum is being renovated and given a more updated look, including a new banquet hall.

The Texas Rangers Hall of Fame and Museum was founded in 1968 and had been in operation for about 20 years when the ban-quet hall was added.

One of the reasons the hall was added was because the museum itself was active in many organi-zations and groups. The banquet center hosts a plethora of events, including weddings, local high school proms, business affairs and Baylor events.

Because the John Knox Me-morial Center served as a venue for so many events, making the space more aesthetically pleasing and functional was a top priority for the city.

According to the Waco Cham-ber of Commerce, in 2007 Waco citizens approved a $63 million bond that helped fund the renova-tion of various facilities, including the downtown convention center and the John Knox Memorial Cen-ter.

Byron Johnson, the museum’s executive director, was also very active in obtaining funds for the new banquet hall.

A committee put together a list of improvements for the fa-cility. The committee members - including caterers, people who rented the hall and museum staff - worked with architects to make as many improvements as possible while staying within budget.

The budget for the museum renovation was $2 million, ac-cording to the 2007 annual report from the City of Waco. The full cost of the renovations reached just over $1 million.

Christine Walker, representa-tive for marketing, promotions, and development at the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Muse-um, said the catering kitchen was one of the major changes made to the facility since it was dark and dated.

Walker pointed out that a res-taurant grade dishwasher was in-stalled, and the size of the kitchen was increased, providing more space for food preparation.

“Now we have a large, double-sided refrigerator more suited to catering jobs for 200 plus guests,” Walker said.

Additional changes include the flooring, which was previously a Spanish tile floor.

“It had its charm, and it flowed with the museum. But as a dance floor, it wasn’t very practical,” Walker said.

The flooring was stripped

down and replaced with new laminate flooring, which resem-bles hardwood, but requires less maintenance and is more stain-, scratch- and impact-resistant than standard hardwood.

Updated technology was also included in the renovations. The committee had a nook created for the bar, and the electric wiring was reworked so that it now lights up and serves as a centerpiece for the space.

The most apparent change made to the Knox banquet cen-ter was the addition of the large windows overlooking the Brazos River and displaying a view of Cameron Park.

“Before, the facility was sim-ply a wood paneling with no win-dows, but now it’s light and airy and modern,” Walker said.

Walker said that on average, the Knox facility hosts about 160 events per year, but with the reno-vation, she hopes that that number will double.

The grand opening of the new-ly renovated John Knox Memorial Center will take place from 2-4 p.m. Jan. 27.

The facility is behind the Tex-as Ranger Museum at I-35 exit 335B. The Knox Center will also host Lone Ranger Fan Day on Jan. 29, which will include live radio shows and a re-enactment of “The Lone Ranger.”

Rangers Museum renovatedThe Texas Rangers Hall of Fame and Museum is undergoing renovations after 20 years of service to the Waco community.

Makenzie Mason | Lariat PhotograPher

“It has never got-ten to the argu-

ment stage where we are yelling and

fighting. We under-stand each other and know how to handle problems according to the

person.”

Jessy Bookbinder | San Antonio junior

By Tom RaumAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, in another move to smooth frayed ties with corporate America, ordered a far-reaching review of federal regulations Tues-day with the goal of weeding out rules that hurt job growth and cre-ation.

Business groups have bitterly complained that new regulations carrying out health care and finan-cial overhaul, among others, are holding back hiring and economic growth.

Despite Obama’s directive, there was no indication that the White House will pull back from

the biggest regulatory fights ahead: the Environmental Protection Agency’s plans to regulate green-house gases and rules carrying out Obama’s health care overhaul.

Obama said his executive order would “strike the right balance” between economic growth and regulations protecting the environ-ment and public health and safety. Agencies have 120 days to submit a plan for how they intend to review existing regulations.

The move was the latest out-reach by the president to repair relations with the business com-munity following last November’s midterm congressional elections, in which Republicans gained con-trol of the House and increased

their numbers in the Senate. Some of Obama’s critics have accused him of overstepping his federal power via rules and regulations and of being anti-business.

The president announced the regulatory review in an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal. Sometimes regulations “have got-ten out of balance, placing unrea-sonable burdens on business__ burdens that have stifled innova-tion and have had a chilling effect on growth and jobs,” Obama wrote.

“Regulations do have costs; of-ten as a country, we have to make tough decisions about whether those costs are necessary. But what is clear is that we can strike the right balance.”

Obama orders review of regulations

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Baylor’s School of Social Work has a new home in downtown Waco.

The school, which has a staff of 35 and about 260 students, out-grew its old location in the Speight Plaza Parking Garage and is now moved into the former Wells Fargo building at 811 Washington Ave.

Dr. Diana Garland, dean of the School of Social Work, said the school is better located downtown.

“We had been in this wonder-ful space, but it had become totally inadequate for our needs,” Gar-land said. “The move to downtown was actually thought of first by the wonderful folks in design and construction at Baylor. We thought this was a natural fit for the School of Social Work to be in downtown Waco so we jumped at the oppor-tunity.”

Dr. Gaynor Yancey, associate dean for baccalaureate studies and professor of social work, is excited for the opportunities the new loca-tion will bring to the school’s stu-dents.

“We believed that by being located downtown we would be

in the midst of where we have so much of our work,” Yancey said. “There are many agencies there where our students intern, and we believed we needed to be in the midst of the needs and resources that help our students learn the practical things.”

Chris McGowan, director of urban development for Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce, said the school’s move will have a posi-tive effect on downtown Waco in many ways.

“Baylor’s expanding the scope of the university into downtown is good for the future of downtown and also further cements the rela-tionship Baylor and the commu-nity have,” McGowan said. “Also, having 300 people downtown ev-ery day is great for the businesses down here, and having students off campus and in downtown on a daily basis is a great way to expose the student body to what the com-munity has to offer.”

Garland and her colleagues are looking forward to being together in one space for the first time.

“We see ourselves as a com-munity of people who care about one another, and being able to be together is really important to us,” Garland said. “For students to have

classes in the same building where their faculty have offices is a really wonderful opportunity for us.”

The school completed the move downtown at the end of last De-cember, and students began at-tending classes at the new location at the beginning of this semester.

Students are also looking for-ward to the opportunities the school’s new location brings, but there are still things to work out.

Lubbock junior Bailey Bar-tholomew said the school will mean good things for downtown Waco, but not without affecting how its students will travel be-tween the downtown location and Baylor’s main campus.

“[Teachers] haven’t figured out the scheduling of it yet, so it’s kind of hard to get from on cam-pus down here,” Bartholomew said. “But we really like our new loca-tion. It’s a lot nicer than the park-ing garage.”

Bartholomew said she either takes the DASH bus between Bay-lor’s main campus and the school of social work, or she drives her own car. “Either way, you’re cut-ting it close for making it on time to class, but teachers are going to be really flexible this semester until they get everything figured out.”

The future of the school and its effect on downtown Waco is still uncertain.

“I hope we’ve brought a lot more diversity to the community

in terms of age. We will have lots of students in downtown Waco during the day,” Garland said. “We can walk to local eating establish-ments for lunch, so I hope we will

be spending money and support-ing businesses downtown. Beyond that I think it remains to be seen, and we are not presuming we know what our role is going to be here.”

Students get social in downtown Waco

This semester students attend class in the new downtown building for Baylor’s School of Social Work.

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By Sobia SiddiquiReporter

Though it is a fairly new phenomenon, there is a growing number of reverse transfer students throughout different universities.

The term “reverse transfer” refers to students who started their education at a four-year university then transferred to a community college.

Yet after attaining the degree or cred-its desired from the community college, these students transfer back to a four-year institution to complete their education.

Lisa Wilhelmi, the director of com-munity relations at McLennan Commu-

nity College, said there are a number of reasons for students to transfer back and forth between four-year universities and two-year institutions.

“I believe it’s because they maybe didn’t make good grades at a four-year in-stitution and needed to come back home,” Wilhelmi said. “It could also be that the four-year college was too big, so they came back home.”

According to the Baylor’s Institutional Research and Testing’s website, the ma-jority of entering freshmen return to Baylor for a second year, but some stu-dents may transfer out because of feel-ings of unease about being in a different environment or feelings of stress due to

financial difficulties.Students who do not return may have

chosen the same path as other reverse transfer students, which is to take the op-tion of fulfilling as many of their require-ments as possible before returning to a four-year college to lessen the financial burden.

“Part of the problem is, once students begin at Baylor they’re limited to taking no more than 15 hours away from Baylor,” Linda Johnson, associate director of aca-demic advisement for Baylor, said.

Wilhelmi said McLennan Community College offers academically challenging courses which Baylor accepts for credit.

“Our credits transfer fairly easily from

MCC to Baylor,” Wilhelmi said. “We offer freshman and sophomore classes just like a four-year, and we have quality educa-tion.”

Students may also decide to go back to community college after they have gradu-ated with a bachelor’s degree from a four-year university.

“We’ve had some folks that came back after their bachelor’s because of the re-cession, and they’re looking for a career where jobs are available,” Wilhelmi said.

These students take the option of ei-ther enrolling in a particular class to gain a skill or knowledge in a specific field or join a program that will end with a two-year degree and a job opportunity.

“Terminal degrees are two-year de-grees that you get and start working right after you get them,” Wilhelmi said. “Allied help fields include nursing, radiology and respiratory care. In health care, there are a lot of jobs open like that.”

More students are deciding to take the option of attending a community college after having experienced some time at a four-year university and then returning to complete their bachelor’s degree.

“I think it’s beneficial. Everyone de-serves an education. If the four-year is not what they need to be, then going to a community college is a good option, and they can continue their education there,” Wilhelmi said.

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Baylor Presidential Symposium Series

C E L E B R A T I N G T H E I N A U G U R A T I O N O F

Ethics in the Twenty-first Century

Baruch A. BrodyLeon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Center

for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine; Andrew Mellon Professor of Humanities, Rice University

3-5 p.m. | January 19, 2011Kayser Auditorium

Hankamer School of BusinessBaylor Campus

Rice professor to speak on medical ethicsBy Sara Tirrito

Staff writer

The Presidential Symposium Series will continue this semester with Dr. Baruch A. Brody speaking on “Ethics in the Twenty-first Cen-tury” at 3 p.m. today in Kayser Au-ditorium in the Hankamer School of Business.

Brody is the Leon Jaworski Pro-fessor of Biomedical Ethics and director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine. At Rice Uni-versity, Brody serves as the Andrew

Mellon Professor of Humanities.Dr. James Marcum, associ-

ate professor of philosophy, said Brody has an impressive amount of experience in the fields of modern medical ethics and bioethics.

“I think he was there pretty much with the origin of modern medical ethics and bioethics,” Mar-cum said. “He’s just a very promi-nent figure within the field itself, so I think we’re very fortunate to have someone that’s been respon-sible for and has seen the growth of medical ethics and bioethics over the past three or four decades.”

With new drugs and medical technologies that have been and are being produced to help prolong patients’ lives, Marcum said medi-cal ethics has become an important topic that most people will have to deal with at some point.

“I don’t think there’s one of us that these issues will not have an impact upon our life,” Marcum said.

Dr. Kay Toombs, a former stu-dent of Brody’s and associate pro-fessor emeritus of philosophy at Baylor, said Brody’s research, writ-ing and knowledge have made him

a leader in the field of biomedical ethics.

“He is internationally recog-nized as one of the primary leaders in the field of biomedical ethics, and at this particular time, there are so many issues that are very important in medical ethics that it’s very fortunate for us to have someone of his caliber who can discuss those kinds of issues with us,” Toombs said.

“He does incredible research, and he has written many books about bioethics. He’s very knowl-edgeable about the field. He’s just

one of the absolute top people in the field.”

Dr. James Bennighof, professor of music theory and vice provost for academic affairs, said the topic of medical ethics is important for the Baylor family to hear about be-cause of the university’s interest in ethics and its tradition of training students in pre-med programs.

“I think one of the things Bay-lor has always been interested in is putting pre-professional training-- such as for medical professions-- in the context of liberal learning and humanities and not just talking

about the technological or scien-tific side of medicine, but also tak-ing a philosophical and humanities kind of approach,” Bennighof said. “Baylor has a long tradition of do-ing pre-medical training, and we have also, because of our Christian mission, a great interest in ethics, so that’s a natural marriage for us as well.”

The next speaker in the Presi-dential Symposium Series, Lee S. Shulman, is slated to lecture on the future of higher education on March 31.

Program unites professors with data for models By Molly Packer

Reporter

The Hankamer School of Busi-ness is launching the Innovative Business Accelerator, a collabora-tive research effort between indus-tries and Baylor professors that will bring together researchers and data in an innovative way.

The Innovative Business Ac-celerator will allow companies to exchange financial support for three years of a Baylor professor’s research. The research that Baylor professors do will help companies revise business habits and become

more effective in their services. “[The Innovative Business Ac-

celerator] links business research-ers with the company and they coordinate that effort,” said Dr. Morris George, assistant profes-sor of marketing and one of the developers of the Innovative Busi-ness Accelerator. “Companies get research and better practices. We, in turn, get real-life data.”

Dr. Jeff Tanner, Baylor market-ing professor and associate dean of faculty development and research, calls the Innovative Business Ac-celerator an opportunity for pro-fessors to own commercialized

intellectual property.One of the first companies to

participate in the Innovative Busi-ness Accelerator, Viverae assists businesses in improving the health of their employees in order to low-er health care providing costs.

George is helping to develop a business model that will reduce cli-ent costs.

Viverae searched for medical experts to make its health care ser-vices more effective, but soon dis-covered they did not need medical experts.

“[Companies] thought they needed medical researchers. They

needed business models,” Tanner said. “What [Viverae] is trying to do is find actions that will have the biggest impact and model that big impact on people’s lives.”

It is the researchers’ job to de-velop business models that will help companies work more effi-ciently.

Baylor professors will develop those models in exchange for busi-ness data.

Viverae is not the only com-pany looking to participate in the Innovative Business Accelerator. ESET, an Internet security com-pany has also shown interest.

Real-life data is especially hard to acquire in the realm of Internet security because there are many laws protecting such information from scams.

The Innovative Business Ac-celerator’s research with ESET will give Baylor professors a chance to work with data that otherwise would be hard to obtain.

Dr. Randy Vaughn, professor of Information Systems, specializes in counter electronic crime.

“[The Innovative Business Ac-celerator will connect] industry and university together where they can develop a more scientific ap-

proach to targeting crime,” Vaughn said. “We get fresh data. The anti-virus [companies] have huge da-tabases and huge visibility into e-crime.”

The Baylor Research and In-novation Collaborative will house Innovative Business Accelerator projects. The building is scheduled to be completed in March 2012.

“The goal is that 20 to 30 com-panies would invest into the In-novative Business Accelerator and want the faculty researching,” Tan-ner said. “We want to be able to cherry pick the best projects for the best faculty.”

By Jonathan KatzAssociated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A judge will decide whether former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Du-valier will be tried on charges that include corruption and embezzle-ment for allegedly pilfering the treasury before his 1986 ouster, a lawyer for Duvalier said Tuesday.

The decision to move toward a trial makes clear that whatever Duvalier's reasons were for return-

ing to Haiti on Sunday, the govern-ment is poised to seek justice for his 15-year regime, widely regard-ed as brutal and corrupt.

Defense attorney Gervais Charles said the case is now in the hands of a judge who will decide whether there is enough evidence to go to trial, a process that can take up to three months.

There are no signs of wide-spread support for Duvalier. Dem-onstrations on his behalf have been relatively small by Haiti standards.

More than half the nation's people are too young to have lived through his government.

Duvalier’s arrival Sunday was a surprise for a long-impoverished country, and comes as Haiti strug-gles to work through a dire politi-cal crisis following the problematic first-round presidential election, as well as a cholera epidemic and a troubled recovery from the dev-astating earthquake of a year ago.

Amnesty International, Hu-man Rights Watch and others have

urged the Haitian government to arrest Duvalier for widespread abuses. Amnesty International is-sued a statement praising what it called "the arrest" of Duvalier but said it was just a start.

Fenel Alexi, a 31-year-old me-chanic, watched the scene and de-nounced both Duvalier and Preval, a former anti-Duvalier activist.

"The citizens of this country have endured so much crime," Alexi said. "We haven't had a president who hasn't committed

crimes."Duvalier assumed power in

1971 at age 19 following the death of his father, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier. The father and son pre-sided over one of the most brutal chapters in Haitian history, a pe-riod when a secret police force known as the Tonton Macoute tortured and killed opponents. The private militia of sunglasses-wear-ing thugs enforced the Duvalier dynasty's absolute power and lived off extortion.

For most of his exile, the ex-despot was quiet. But in Septem-ber 2007, Duvalier took to Haitian radio from abroad to apologize for "wrongs" committed under his rule and urged supporters to rally around his fringe political party.

A handful of loyalists cam-paigned to bring Duvalier home from exile, launching a foundation to improve the dictatorship's image and reviving his political party in the hope that he could one day re-turn to power democratically.

Dictator’s return gives government chance at overdue justice

open attitude concerning counsel-ing among students.

Dr. Martha Lou Scott, associate vice president for student life, said that issues such as border violence between Texas and Mexico, hav-ing a loved one in the military or the financial upheaval that the na-tion has been facing have probably contributed to students’ stress and their need for counseling services.

“The issues of the world don’t escape students just because they happen to be going to class in Waco, Texas,” Scott said. “I wouldn’t say that there is a cor-relation that exists number for number, but I would say that those issues along with the other issues have made a difference. I think it’s extraordinarily difficult to pull one thing out of the hat and say this is what caused somebody the stress. Most of us can deal with stress; there is that breaking point,

though, where we need more help to deal with what we’re dealing with.”

Although she regrets the fact that students are facing crisis, Scott said she is glad that they are reach-ing out to the counseling center for help.

“I hate that students are in cri-sis; I regret that very, very much,” Scott said. “The fact that they’re reaching out to get assistance — that’s fantastic. The counseling center’s there to help reduce the barriers that exist for students so that they can be successful in class. Above all else, they want students to be successful.”

Marsh said he also sees both positive and negative aspects to the increase in crisis appointments.

“I think that the good part is that students are more willing to seek help,” Marsh said. “They feel more comfortable talking about

mental health and coming and tak-ing care of their own mental health in maybe the same way that they would their own physical health — they see it as just as important.”

Marsh is concerned, however, with the high numbers of crisis appointments and what that says

about the amount of stress the cur-rent generation experiences.

“A lot of people have chimed in on this and so there’s all sorts of angles about it from parenting practices of the last generation to a genuinely a large cohort of stu-dents in a genuinely competitive world and so it’s true, there is more stress, it is more stressful. That sense is real,” Marsh said. “It does concern me that we have these trends across [the nation], not just at Baylor. Pick your school and it’s going to be the same. There’s just a lot of pressure.”

The increase in crisis appoint-ments has also placed some strains on the staff at the counseling cen-ter, despite making changes in the center’s schedule to provide “crisis hours” and creating a triage sys-tem, but the staff members love what they do and are committed to helping every student who is in a

crisis, Marsh said.“We’ve made a few changes to

try to shift our scheduling,” Marsh said, “But at the end of the day it does present some challenges to our staff in terms of meeting the needs of students in that high vol-ume, but we push through it.”

If the increases in crisis ap-pointments continue, more chang-es may be needed in the counseling center’s schedule, and the center will continue to seek additional support, but students in crisis will not be turned away, Marsh said.

He said students are also en-couraged to take advantage of the counseling center’s therapy groups and M&M hour, which can help them to address problems before they reach a crisis point.

The M&M hour, short for meditation and mindfulness, pro-vides students with a broad range of meditation and relaxation ap-

proaches. The M&M hour meets at 4 p.m. every Tuesday and Wednes-day. Students do not need to make an appointment and there are no commitment fees attached to the hour.

“We’re expanding some of the things we do to help the students. Our group programs are one of the best ways to do that and the M&M Hour, our meditation and mind-fulness stress clinics — we just en-courage students to take advantage of those because they are helpful. Research has shown that these things are helpful,” Marsh said. “I just think there’s a lot of things students can do before things hit a crisis point, and so these are some of the things that they can take ad-vantage of.”

Students who need to speak with someone in the counseling center can call 254-710-2467.

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choice to use WordPress: “A col-league at a Texas high school rec-ommended WordPress, which she was using for her school’s news website,” Carr said. “The more I studied and researched WordPress, the more convinced I was it was the right choice. It’s currently being used by a number of national and international news organizations.”

The newly designed site run-ning on Baylor’s WordPress server, which was already hosting Word-Press blogs for faculty and staff members, will contain a database for stories written from spring 2011 and onward. The older site, which can still be found at http://

www.baylor.edu/lariat, will retain stories from 1995 through the end of 2010.

It took the combined efforts of several people throughout different departments to get things in order for the new site, from the Lariat web editor Jonathan Angel, to Tim Logan and Lance Grigsby with the Baylor Electronic Libraries, along with the rest of the Lariat staff.

The Lariat also intends to ex-pand the multimedia sections on the new site and even plans to re-lease Lariat apps for smart phones.

Despite the focus being put on the site, Dean said the Lariat will continue publishing a physical pa-

per and has no plans to move to an exclusively digital format.

“What we’ve done so far could easily be called an extreme make-over,” Carr said. “Everything has changed about the site. It is more attractive, easier to navigate, more robust in the visuals, slide shows and video components, and much, much faster.”

With highlighted videos, pho-tographs and stories on the front page, easy access to the most re-cent posts, the option to download the paper as a PDF, and variety of other new features, the new website should serve as a welcome addition for all of the Baylor community.

Bledsoe-Miller Recreation Center for lunch and entertainment.

Converse senior Sabrina Van Rogue, a member of Zeta Phi Beta, has marched all four years that she has been at Baylor.

Zeta Phi Beta and Phi Beta Sigma are the only two constitu-tionally recognized sister-brother organizations within the National Pan-Hellenic Council.

Members of the two organiza-tions participate in weekly commu-nity service activities and annually host StompFest, a funedraiser for sickle cell anemia. Last year, they raised $6,000 and hope to raise $8,000 this year, said Van Rogue.

Many campus police officers were directing outbound traffic from the Ferrell Center following the men’s basketball game against Kansas University on Monday night.

A Baylor alert e-mail, text message and phone call were sent out to students, faculty and staff around 11:15 p.m. notifying them of the two armed suspects and ad-vising everyone to remain indoors until further notice.

Doak said some officers were instructed to leave their traf-fic posts and begin a “systematic sweep” of the campus, beginning from the Eighth Street Parking Ga-rage. The police set up a perimeter around the campus while other of-ficers searched every open build-ing on campus.

No suspects were found on campus during the sweep. How-ever, a man was arrested near Penland Residence Hall during the campuswide search, unrelated to the manhunt. An Aramark em-ployee matching the description of the suspects was stopped and questioned by Baylor Police, lead-ing to his arrest for an outstanding warrant.

The suspect that ran toward the interstate was last seen near the corner of the I-35 Access Road and Eighth Street. Doak said Baylor Police assume the suspect crossed the bridge that spans I-35.

Baylor sent its second alert mes-sage to students, faculty and staff at 12:45 a.m. announcing that stu-dents could return to their dorms with caution. However, minutes after the all clear was given, Doak said the Baylor Police Department received five calls from different

locations notifying officers of two loud, gunshot-like noises the call-ers had heard.

“We were amazed because we had five separate calls at different locations,” Doak said. “With the cooperation of the Waco Police Department and all of [Baylor’s] officers, we fanned out and as-signed people to different loca-tions where gunshots were heard. It didn’t make sense why we could get these calls from different loca-tions at the same time.”

Doak said officers, after talking with maintenance men near one of the caller’s locations, ruled the two loud noises to be fireworks set off by young people.

At 3:43 a.m. in front of Brooks Residential College on Dutton Av-enue, the Bellmead Police Depart-ment arrested a man matching the description of the second suspect.

Sammie Jerome Antonio Jack-son, an 18-year-old from Dallas, was arrested on a charge of aggra-vated assault and booked into the McLennan County Jail at 5 a.m. Tuesday.

Bail was set at $50,000. A sec-ond aggravated assault charge was added at 10:30 a.m.

A jail spokesman said bail had not been set for the additional charge. As of press time, Jackson was still being held at McLennan County Jail.

The Bellmead Police Depart-ment has identified the suspect-at-large as Vernon Ray Hart, a 19-year-old from Dallas. Bellmead Police ask that any information about his whereabouts be reported to the department at 254-799-0251.

a number of people that did not receive it.”

Doak said his department worked with Baylor Information Technology Services on the lack of notifications.

Lori Fogleman, director of media relations, said Baylor’s risk management department conduct-ed an investigation Tuesday result-ing in the discovery of an incom-plete file used as the directory for the alert system.

“An incomplete file — contain-ing students’ names, numbers and e-mails — was selected for upload-ing into our notification system,” Fogleman said in an interview with the Lariat.

“As a result, some students were left out of the notifications last night.”

Fogleman said that despite the incomplete information in the file,

students still followed instructions and some informed others.

“Even though, unfortunately, a segment did not get to all of our students, the system did work and students heeded the warning and that was very much appreciated by police,” Fogleman said.

“Students that did receive the message started to use their own network — like Twitter and Face-book — to help to spread the word.”

One of the nearly 4,800 unin-formed, The Woodlands freshman Margie McGregor was told about the incident by her suitemate in Brooks Residential College Mon-day night.

“After [my suitemate] told me, I got on Facebook and obviously it was all over Facebook,” McGregor said.

McGregor had her current con-

tact information on Bearweb and said she felt lucky she was in her dorm room and had a suitemate to know what was going on during

the manhunt.“It kind of concerns me,” she

said. “What if I was the kind of person that doesn’t know a lot of

people? How would I have found out? Or, what if I was off-campus and alone?”

Currently, Baylor’s alert system is manually updated on a weekly basis. This seven-day lag in an in-formation update does not keep the system constantly complete.

“We are working toward, what is probably the important thing, which is to automate the import process to run every day and mov-ing away from a weekly manual re-port,” Fogleman said.

Until the switch to a fully auto-matic, constantly updating system is made, the university plans to make sure the schedule to update the system does not fall on any uni-versity holidays.

To update emergency notifica-tion on Bearweb, check the “view address(es) and phone(s)” link un-der the “personal information” tab.

“It kind of concerns me. What if I was the

kind of person that doesn’t know a lot of people? How would I have found out?

Or, what if I was off-campus and alone?”

Margie McGregor

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At No. 1 in the nation in both the AP and Coaches Poll, Baylor women’s basketball is, to put it simply, good.

Statistics like being in the top 10 nationally in scoring offense, scoring defense, field goal per-centage, field goal percentage de-fense, 3-point percentage defense, turnovers per game, blocked shots per game and assist to turn-over ratio seem to back up their ranking. (They also sit at No. 11 nationally in rebound margin and 3-point field goal percentage.)

In spite of the stats, the Lady Bears (16-1, 3-0) boast a relatively young group that features just two seniors and three juniors.

Though the early season feel seems to be fading from the Fer-rell Center, head coach Kim Mulkey remains content using a deep bench.

“We have no starting five. The thirteen that are in uniform could go out there and start for us,” she said. “I feel very comfortable with everybody healthy and everybody eligible. We’ve got lots of things we can do now, and it’s because of the personnel.”

Though neither starting roles or the roles of heavy contributors off the bench have been settled just yet, a knowledge of roles once on the floor make Mulkey’s job easier since she knows exactly what she can expect when she calls a name to check in.

Brittney GrinerThe 6-foot-8 sophomore cen-

ter calls the paint her home. Aver-aging nearly five blocks per con-test, the co-captain is the biggest reason the Lady Bears block the most shots per game in the nation (7.2).

Griner also leads the squad on the offensive end with 22 points per game and hauls in the most boards (7.4). She also draws a crowd of opposing defenders in the lane that her perimeter-dwell-ing teammates benefit from.

Odyssey Sims Knocking down 13.4 points

per game, the true freshman has established herself as the second leading scorer on the team and

the one who cashes in most fre-quently from the perimeter when defenses double-down on Griner.

She holds the highest average from 3-point land as well as the most attempts, dropping 34-70, just one make shy of .500.

Melissa JonesTabbed the “momma” of the

team by her coach, the 5-foot-11 senior leads from her captain role for the second year in a row. She averages 9.6 points a game, but leads primarily through her team-high 35 steals and 60 assists.

Multiple opposing coaches have recognized Jone’s contribu-tions to the team after the game.

“To me Melissa Jones is the reason why they are going to win a championship,” Michigan State head coach Suzy Merchant. “She is just a tough nut. She does ev-erything she can; she is the glue to that team.”

Kimetria Hayden and Jordan Madden

Nicknamed “flash” and “dash,” the pair of speedsters contribute 7.6 and 4.5 points a game respec-tively. Hayden shares point guard responsibilities with Sims and has picked up 34 steals, just one shy of Jones.

Meanwhile, the 6-foot Mad-den adds her own touch on the

defensive end.“Jordan Madden is a long,

lanky body that can harass the ball and she is quick enough that she can catch up and block it from behind,” Mulkey said.

Brooklyn Pope and Destiny Williams

Prior to January, Pope, who averages 7.9 points and 6.6 re-bounds a contest, had the No. four spot mostly to herself.

After sitting out a full calen-dar year to satisfy NCAA transfer requirements, Williams started making an immediate impact. In her first six games she has aver-aged 8.8 points an outing with a .618 field goal percentage.

Though Williams earned the start against Oklahoma State last Saturday, Mulkey believes both will be key components for the rest of the season.

“She is a totally different type of four player than Brooklyn,” the 10-year coach said. “You can’t compare the two styles of play. When you have the two of those guys to choose from at the four, you better stay on top of your game as a coach, because they can both be of value through the course of a basketball game.”

Where they go from hereThough they sit at No. 1 in the

country, the Lady Bears feel they have only up to go from here.

What’s more, they know ex-actly what their next step needs to be.

“Rebounding is our number one thing right now,” Williams said.

The Lady Bears rank eleventh nationally in rebound margin, but feel their height should lead to more boards than it does cur-rently, especially with their most recent edition at the four spot.

Williams and company will get a chance to improve their re-bounding tonight at Kansas Uni-versity at 7 p.m.

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NBA talentPerry Jones III has the size, talent and attitude that draws attention from scouts at the next level

The Meaning of Sports Reporter Daniel Wallace explains why diehard fans can never get enough sports

Regis Philbin retires 79-year-old Regis Philbin decides to leave “Live With Regis and Kelly” this summer

Big 12 hoops action in full swingWomen grab top ranking

No. 5 guard Melissa Jones runs the ball down the court during the game against Oklahoma State University Saturday at the Ferrell Center. The Lady Bears won, 70-39, and remain ranked No. 1.

>> Destined to winThe Lady Bears’ Destiny Williams adds depth to a championship-caliber team

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>> Texas Bowl photos The Lariat captures the images from Baylor’s first bowl game in 16 years

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>> Country star honoredA Baylor lecturer honors the late Tommy Duncan’s life through a documentary

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Over the break

BU tops Lady VolsBrittney Griner scored 21 points and blocked nine shots as the Lady Bears beat Pat Summitt and No. 6 ranked Tennessee, 65-54. On Kim Mulkey bobblehead night, the Ferrell Center saw 10,569 fans.

While the semester ended, Baylor athletics continued

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Men seek quality wins combining talent, cohesionBy Chris Derrett

Sports Editor

The Bears have had their share of ups and downs in their 2010-11 season, unfortunately not yielding many quality wins.

But for a coach and a program that turned from Big 12 bottom dweller to Elite Eight qualifier, the finished product is all the Bears are worried about.

“Young teams take time, and the good thing is we’re no longer young. We’re more experienced,” coach Scott Drew said.

Baylor cruised through its first eight nonconference games before falling by four points to a battle-tested Gonzaga squad in Dallas. From there the road got rockier as the Bears dropped two of three games at the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic in Hono-lulu.

Now in conference play, Bay-lor’s season depends on whether its talent can meld into a postsea-

son-caliber team in one of the na-tion’s toughest leagues.

Young Guns

It did not take long for fresh-man Perry Jones III to show his teammates and fans why ESPN ranked him the No. 3 recruit in the class of 2010. The 6-foot-11 Duncanville High School product has given his team everything it asked.

“He takes more pressure off my back. With him playing like he did tonight, that’s him. That is the Per-ry Jones I know. He is being physi-cal and taking it to the rim and getting to the free throw line and knocking down shots, being all over the court,” senior LaceDarius Dunn said after Jones III scored a career high 25 points in Baylor’s win over Oklahoma.

Jones III’s skill set and rare blend of size and athleticism translates to post-up moves, mid-range jumpers and the occasional

perimeter shot if need be. His ball-handling also allows him to bring the ball up the court at the point.

The biggest adversary to Jones III could be himself. Unselfishness is usually praised on the court, but Drew and Jones III’s teammates would rather see him take more shots and call for the ball more ag-gressively.

“I have to be a beast on the court like coach Drew told me. Don’t be that nice guy that I am off the court,” Jones III said.

Another new face with high upside, freshman backup point guard Stargell Love, suffered a stress fracture that sidelined him for the last half of nonconference play. He returned to action in the Bears’ Big 12 opener at Texas Tech, logging five points in nine minutes off the bench.

“He gave us a great spurt, got us a few buckets and played great defense,” Drew said after beating

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No. 22 sophomore A.J. Walton floats a shot over Kansas defenders in a Monday night matchup at the Ferrell Center. The Bears lost, 85-65, and fell to 2-2 in conference play.

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By Chris DerrettSports Editor

Baylor’s new defensive coordi-nator Phil Bennett made his first appearance to the local media earlier this month, joining coach Art Briles in discussing Bennett’s hiring and plans on the field.

“Art and I have the same val-ues and the same passion about football,” Bennett said.

Bennett coached against Briles six times from 2003-2008 with Bennett heading SMU and Briles at Houston. They also faced each

other in 2000 and 2001, when Bennett was Kansas State’s de-fensive coordinator and Briles coached running backs at Texas Tech.

“I really kept a close eye on his defense; there was a lot of pressure-man there,” Briles said, later adding, “We were both born on the same day in the same year. He’s East Texas, I’m West Texas and we meet in Central Texas. Maybe there’s something to it af-ter all; I don’t know.”

Briles admitted it was difficult to let go of coaches Larry Hoefer,

Kim McCloud and Theo Young.“It’s horrible, because you’re

not talking about a profession, you’re talking about a family. That’s what makes it so tough, es-pecially guys that you respect, you love and you care for,” Briles said. “I felt like this could give our foot-ball team a better chance to go to another level. Ultimately that’s my job, that’s my position, that’s what I have to do and I did it.”

Bennett says he plans on get-ting to the quarterback more frequently. Last season the Bears managed just 12 sacks in league

play, ranking ninth in the confer-ence.

“We’re a pressure defense. I think there’s a lot of ways you can get pressure. We [University of Pittsburgh] led the nation in sacks a year ago, and we weren’t a huge blitz team,” Bennett said.

Earlier in the press conference he described his base defense.

“We’re a multiple four-man front, and we’ll use some three-man. In today, with the spread, it’s evolved to where you have to do it,” Bennett said. “Our three-man front is built into our

four-man package.”Although Bennett has not yet

evaluated his defensive players one-by-one, he looks forward to utilizing the overall speed on his side of the ball.

“Speed is the key. I’ll give up size for someone who can run,” he said.

Joining Bennett are coaches Jim Gush and Carlton Buckels. Gush coached at Kansas State while Bennett was defensive coor-dinator and was offered Bennett’s

Briles, new defensive coordinator Bennett address Waco media

the Red Raiders.Against Oklahoma Love was

scoreless in 16 minutes but notched three assists. As he gets more play-ing time and works back into the Bears’ rotation, he will provide much needed rest for starting soph-omore point guard A.J. Walton.

Returning Veterans

After serving his five-game sus-pension following an Oct. 5 arrest on an aggravated assault charge, Dunn has contributed to the Bears exactly as Baylor nation expected. His hot shooting has produced 22.3 points per game, good for 10th in the nation.

Dunn improved last season in getting to the basket as opposed to camping on the 3-point line. But with the departure of point guard Tweety Carter, Dunn has shouldered the load of perimeter shooting for this year’s squad. He attempts just over eight 3-point-ers per game and keeps opponents from loading defenders in the paint.

“Even if [Dunn’s] not scoring, he’s helping other people score,” Drew said.

Keeping pressure out of the paint frees junior Quincy Acy to do what he does best — create highlight reels with his monstrous dunks and make life difficult for post defenders.

Acy’s 50.6 field goal percentage ranks second in Baylor history, and 52 percent of his field goals (150 of 287) have been dunks.

It is difficult to classify Little Rock sophomore A.J. Walton as ei-ther a young or veteran player, be-cause while he played 17.6 minutes per game last season, his role has completely morphed since Carter left. Now the Little Rock, Ark., na-tive runs the Baylor offense and is up to 32.9 minutes per game, sec-ond only to Dunn.

“I’m thinking pass first instead of looking for myself, trying to get Perry going, Lace going, and Quincy, just getting them the ball on time and on target,” Walton said.

Although Walton’s 9.2 scoring average has not matched Carter’s 15.0 from last year, Walton’s 32 steals on the season are already ap-proaching Carter’s 2009-10 season total of 42.

Rounding out the starting five at the 3 position is junior Anthony Jones. Jones’ 6-foot-10, 190-pound frame joins Jones III and Acy to form the back line of the Bears’ zone defense. Offensively, Jones shoots 48 percent, third on the team behind Jones III and Acy.

Supporting Cast

Drew has substitution options at every position. In addition to Love at point guard, junior Fred Ellis and sophomore Nolan Dennis take backcourt duties off the bench. In the post, 6-foot-11, 265 pound junior J’mison “BoBo” Morgan joined the Bears in the offseason.

Ellis graduated Dec. 18 with a degree in speech communications, maintaining the standard Drew’s program has set of academic suc-cess. He is now in graduate school.

Righting the Ship

Four games into conference play, the patterns are clear in the Bears’ wins and losses. Turnovers and defensive breakdowns doom the Bears, while an effective inside-outside game keeps the W’s com-ing. After an 85-65 loss that Drew called “embarrassing,” he analyzed the game and the season in an hon-est and concise sentence.

“We’ve got a lot of film to watch,” Drew said.

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Tennis garners respectThe women’s tennis team is ranked No. 3 by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, the program’s highest preseason ranking ever. The men’s team stands at No. 7 and faces seven of the other nine top 10 teams this season.

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The action doesn’t stop with several events in Waco just

around the corner

Double the funMen’s and women’s basketball will keep the Ferrell Center rocking with a doubleheader this Saturday. The men take on Oklahoma State at 3 p.m., and the women face Texas Tech at 7:30. It marks the second back-to-back basketball day at Baylor this year, the first ending in decisive victories for both teams.

On the other courtBoth tennis teams also play in Waco this week. The men battle Louisiana-Lafayette at 3 p.m. Thursday, and the women welcome the University of Houston on at 3:30 Friday. The matches are the first team format contests of the season for both squads.

Competitive CheerCompetitive cheer closes the weekend of home events when it challenges Oregon at 1 p.m. Sunday.

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Only 20 seconds have passed in Baylor’s game against Oklahoma, and a lanky, mild-mannered fresh-man takes the ball into the lane with little between him and the basket. There is something about him that everyone can see; the Ferrell Center crowd knows it, his coaches know it and his teammates undoubtedly know it.

The question is, can he see it as well?

Always wanting to do whatev-er helps his team the most, Perry Jones III foregoes the open look at the basket and tries to pass to junior Quincy Acy, who stands slightly closer to the rim. The Sooners snatch the pass away and spoil the Bears’ first possession.

“We all said something to him,” head coach Scott Drew said about the play.

The critique was easy for Jones’ fellow Bears.

“Any time like that, no doubt you have to take that shot, and we have trust in him to take that shot,” senior LaceDarius Dunn said.

Jones III has to take that shot, and any open shot, because his NBA-caliber potential is just too much to waste.

Freak Athlete

Standing 6-foot-11 and sport-ing an estimated 7-foot-2 wing-span, Jones III is a specimen. His length says power forward, while his ballhandling and smooth mid-range jumper say otherwise. In Drew’s system he is posted up on the offensive end and anchors the middle of the Bears’ 2-3 zone de-fense.

Jones averages 13.5 points per game and has 18.8 in four confer-ence games. Since acclimation to the collegiate game, his free throw percentage has risen from 51 per-cent entering conference play to 77 percent in Big 12 contests.

In other words, he does it all.“There’s not many things he

can’t do. He can handle it, he can pass it, he can shoot it. He’s getting better rebounding and defensive wise,” Drew said.

To Pass or Not to Pass

At the Ferrell Center it’s never surprising for Jones to hear chants of “ball hog” from the Baylor faith-ful. The fans are simply encourag-ing him to do so.

Asking any NBA prospect fol-lower about Jones yields the same answer – he can be unselfish to a fault.

Raised to be a polite young man with strong moral values and a gen-eral compassion for others, Jones has yet to establish an alter ego on the court. That spells trouble at the college level when the competi-tion is manageable and possible to dominate, and even more concern at the next level where timid play-ers are devoured.

“That was a weak part of my game when I first got to college,” Jones said. “It’s been working for me so far. All I can do is stay ag-gressive and stay hungry.”

One and done?

If Jones stays hungry, this sea-son could be his first and last in a Baylor uniform. His offensive tear has caught the eye of scouts across the country who see raw talent in Jones’ game.

Jones looks like he might fit exactly what NBA teams are look-ing for. Gregg Polinsky, the Nets Director of Player Personnel and former basketball coach, said NBA scouts are not allowed to talk about underclassmen but described how scouts evaluate talent.

“You want guys that have a passion and high motive, who are instinctive to who they are as peo-ple,” he said.

For players like Jones, whose NBA position on the court is not concrete, scouts turn to the past to help predict the future.

“Many times it helps to think about a player that was like him that succeeded or failed in the league,” Polinsky said.

While Jones could be a power forward, his athleticism and his lack of weight could see him closer to the perimeter.

If Jones does go to the NBA, he would be the first Baylor freshman to jump to the league.

Signs of greatness

Every now and then he starts to show it. An outburst after throwing down a dunk. An aggressive cut to the basket on a fast break. A post up move with a strong finish, or a stepback jumper late in the game. Jones’ killer instinct is still in its in-fancy, but it is there.

His motivation is evident, as shown through performances like his second-half explosion against Gonzaga, on which he comment-ed, “I just didn’t want to lose.”

No matter how much or little Jones talks, his game is screaming to the basketball world at the col-lege level and beyond. Everyone can hear it loud and clear.

No. 5 freshman Perry Jones III throws down a dunk against Kansas Monday night. Jones scored 20 points in the Bears’ 85-65 loss. There were 35 NBA scouts at the Ferrell Center, all of whom came at least in part to see Jones.

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By Krista PirtleSports Writer

Destiny Williams, a sophomore transfer from the University of Il-linois, has added talent to the No. 1 ranked Baylor Lady Bear team.

At her high school in Benton Harbor, Mich., Williams was the 2009 Gatorade Michigan Player of the Year, 2009 Detroit Free Press Dream Team, a member of the gold medal USA Basketball Wom-en’s U19 World Championship team, a McDonald’s All-Ameri-can and a WBCA All-American, where she played with Baylor sophomores Brittney Griner and Mariah Chandler.

“I love playing with Destiny,” Griner said. “She has a great shot, so when she goes up high if they are doubling me I know she can make that shot. Then they are go-ing to have to go out and guard her so then that opens me up at the post. If I don’t get the rebound, I know Destiny is right there fight-ing. We have good chemistry.”

Playing alongside Griner also drew Williams to Baylor.

“It’s a once in a lifetime op-portunity,” Williams said. “Play-ing with [Griner] actually kind of helped me because they were so worried about her game and left me open..” Baylor’s athletic pro-gram wasn’t the only factor that drew Williams to Waco; academ-ics also caught her eye as well.

“I had a one-on-one talk with [head coach Kim] Mulkey, and she flat out told me what she had to offer, this is how it is, you can either take it or leave it,” Williams said. “Academically it was perfect. It wasn’t that big of a school so the professors you get a better chance of a one-on-one with the profes-sors and get to know you as a per-son versus a number.”

Williams played her first game in green and gold on Dec. 20, when the Lady Bears faced Clem-son in the Bahamas Sunsplash Shootout.

With her on the floor, many

different options open up, and the defense has to worry about more than making sure Griner doesn’t get the ball.

“It brings a lot of options to our offense,” senior Melissa Jones said. “Destiny has a tremendous abil-ity to be able to do either, play the three or play the four. She is just really athletic and talented.”

Mulkey said, “Destiny is a post player that can face the basket and give you things off the dribble,” said women’s head coach Kim Mulkey. “Just a tremendous shoot-er. She is a lot more fundamentally sound than I gave her credit for. She did some really good stuff in that Iowa State game that the av-erage fan doesn’t know about. She does some things that grow on you as a coach.”

Williams’ hard work and hustle earned her a spot in the starting five Saturday against Oklahoma State.

“It’s an honor to get in the game very quickly, get a feel for the game instead of coming off the bench. [I was just] trying to build team chemistry,” Williams said.

Williams has played well so far for the Lady Bears, but knows that her teammates will help her, both on and off the court.

“Actually, little do people know that Brooklyn [Pope] helped me a lot, especially in practice,” Wil-liams said.

Academic standout Ashley Field has also immensely helped Williams.

“Well I mostly just hang out with Ashley Field. She’s a great mentor, especially off the court. Academically she has a 3.8, so I mean coming’ in she helped me with my grades. So if I had to choose my best friend it’d be Ash-ley.”

Field feels the same way.“She’s a good friend; she’s loy-

al,” Field said. “Y’all see her out on the court but I get to see how she is off the court and both are amazing people and I’m so blessed to have her in my life.”

Jones III brings pro talent to BU

“All I can do is stay aggressive and stay

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Lady Bears add strength to team

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Baylor marched into Reliant Stadium hoping to claim the first Baylor bowl victory since 1992. Unfortunately the Illinois Fighting Illini had other ideas, blowing past the Bears, 38-14. It was a tough lesson, but one that will fuel the team as it heads into the offseason.

Tough times in Houston

Above: No. 10 quarterback Robert Griffin III hands the ball off to No. 23 running back Jay Finley.

Below: No. 23 running back Jay Finley slips past Illinois’ No. 45 linebacker Jonathan Brown for a first down.

Left: The Bears enter Reliant Stadium before kicking off.

Above: No. 36 linebacker Chris Francis tackles No. 21 Jason Ford.

Below: Baylor and Illinois huddle together at center field for a post-game prayer.

No. 23 running back Jay Finley is praised after scoring Baylor’s first touchdown of the game.

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job when Bennett left the Wildcats. Gush instead chose to join Ben-nett’s staff at SMU.

“You’ve got to have a guy like that. He’s a guy that knows my sys-tem. He’s going to coach the line-backers, and he’s a guy that I totally trust,” Bennett said.

Buckels played at LSU when Bennett was assistant head coach of the Tigers.

“I’ve watched him progress in this business. He’s an outstanding recruiter, and he’s a guy that I think will really do a good job with the corners,” Bennett said.

Bennett said his defensive coaching staff is complete and does not expect any other coach-ing changes at Baylor before next season begins.

the Red Raiders.Against Oklahoma Love was

scoreless in 16 minutes but notched three assists. As he gets more play-ing time and works back into the Bears’ rotation, he will provide much needed rest for starting soph-omore point guard A.J. Walton.

Returning Veterans

After serving his five-game sus-pension following an Oct. 5 arrest on an aggravated assault charge, Dunn has contributed to the Bears exactly as Baylor nation expected. His hot shooting has produced 22.3 points per game, good for 10th in the nation.

Dunn improved last season in getting to the basket as opposed to camping on the 3-point line. But with the departure of point guard Tweety Carter, Dunn has shouldered the load of perimeter shooting for this year’s squad. He attempts just over eight 3-point-ers per game and keeps opponents from loading defenders in the paint.

“Even if [Dunn’s] not scoring, he’s helping other people score,” Drew said.

Keeping pressure out of the paint frees junior Quincy Acy to do what he does best — create highlight reels with his monstrous dunks and make life difficult for post defenders.

Acy’s 50.6 field goal percentage ranks second in Baylor history, and 52 percent of his field goals (150 of 287) have been dunks.

It is difficult to classify Little Rock sophomore A.J. Walton as ei-ther a young or veteran player, be-cause while he played 17.6 minutes per game last season, his role has completely morphed since Carter left. Now the Little Rock, Ark., na-tive runs the Baylor offense and is up to 32.9 minutes per game, sec-ond only to Dunn.

“I’m thinking pass first instead of looking for myself, trying to get Perry going, Lace going, and Quincy, just getting them the ball on time and on target,” Walton said.

Although Walton’s 9.2 scoring average has not matched Carter’s 15.0 from last year, Walton’s 32 steals on the season are already ap-proaching Carter’s 2009-10 season total of 42.

Rounding out the starting five at the 3 position is junior Anthony Jones. Jones’ 6-foot-10, 190-pound frame joins Jones III and Acy to form the back line of the Bears’ zone defense. Offensively, Jones shoots 48 percent, third on the team behind Jones III and Acy.

Supporting Cast

Drew has substitution options at every position. In addition to Love at point guard, junior Fred Ellis and sophomore Nolan Dennis take backcourt duties off the bench. In the post, 6-foot-11, 265 pound junior J’mison “BoBo” Morgan joined the Bears in the offseason.

Ellis graduated Dec. 18 with a degree in speech communications, maintaining the standard Drew’s program has set of academic suc-cess. He is now in graduate school.

Righting the Ship

Four games into conference play, the patterns are clear in the Bears’ wins and losses. Turnovers and defensive breakdowns doom the Bears, while an effective inside-outside game keeps the W’s com-ing. After an 85-65 loss that Drew called “embarrassing,” he analyzed the game and the season in an hon-est and concise sentence.

“We’ve got a lot of film to watch,” Drew said.

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Sports take: Athletics more than just a game

It gives us a winner and a loser in each contest. It gives us magnificent athletes that we marvel over and wish to be like. It gives us cham-pionships, accolades and trophies. It gives us loud, obnoxious body-painted fans at games. A sport gives us all these basic things, but in real-ity gives us so much more.

Warning: you are about to en-ter the mind of one of thousands of “die-hard” sports fans, meaning we eat, breathe and live all things sports. This can be a dangerous place to enter if you’ve never been. So I will enlighten you in how our minds work when it comes to the games we love. At the heart of it, we believe that it is truly more than just a game.

Wanna get away? You don’t have to fly Southwest Airlines. Sports offer us a chance to just simply get away. When we are up to our eye-balls in papers due and studying for exams, we can get away from it all, even if just for four quarters. Sport-ing events offer us a place where we can leave it all behind, grab a Kit-Kat and a take a break. No, our problems don’t go away when we watch sports. But we do. And some-times, that is the best remedy of all.

Sports offer us anticipation like few things in the world can. As much as we think we do, we never know what is going to happen. Ana-lysts and so-called “experts” can spend hours talking and writing about what they think or “know” will happen. Yet at tip-off or when the first pitch is thrown, everything goes out the window. The game is played and fans wait to see if the un-expected happens. This anticipation of what should happen, or even bet-ter, what could happen, consumes our thoughts daily leading up to the main event.

Sports give us unity. This is why at games, you find yourself high-fiving or chest-bumping people you have never met in your life after an exciting moment. Where else do 40,000 people all at once let out a massive “Sic ’em Bears?” Sports have the power to unify people, in more ways than just screaming the same cheer. For the duration of the game, all the fans are focused on one thing—seeing their team win. This provides a bond that, even if only for nine innings or two

halves, is unparalleled in any other form of entertainment.

Finally, the most important thing sports can offer us is hope. Sports have a unique way of inspiring peo-ple, even from the youngest of age. Think about the way young boys as-pire to be just like the athletes they watch on television or see play at the ballgames. Those athletes become “heroes” and role models for young children and even up to the teenage years. Hope can also come when a team faces adversity. When a team or a player rises above hard times, inspiration is sure to follow. On any given game, or even any given play, the words of the great football coach Vince Lombardi reign true. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” When a player or team is able to rebound (no pun intended) from a challenging situ-ation, it gives us hope we can do the same for the battles we face in our own lives. One of the greatest lessons sports can teach is how we respond to certain situations. Even the greatest teams will fail; they will lose; they will make errors. But it’s how they respond that inspires and gives us hope.

Sports are so much more than just wins or losses, stats and stand-ings. The games themselves are great, but that is not why we love sports so much. We love them be-cause of what they offer us. Offer-ing us more than just a few relaxing hours of competitive entertainment, sports goes much deeper than W’s and the L’s.

Daniel Wallace is a sophomore journalism major from Colorado Springs, Colo.

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By Bob GlauberMcClatchy Newspapers

If you want an idea of just how good this Jets team has turned into after back-to-back road playoff wins over Peyton Manning’s Colts and Tom Brady’s Patriots, let the only man to ever lead the Jets to a Super Bowl championship tell you.

“I would expect this Jets team to be one of the best we’ve ever seen,” Joe Namath told Newsday on Tuesday in a wide-ranging in-terview.

And by “best we’ve ever seen,” the answer is yes: as good - or may-be better - than Namath’s Super Bowl III championship team.

“They’ve certainly outmanned our Super Bowl team with abil-ity and speed,” Namath said. “You have to feel good about this team. When I look at the physical abili-ties of the players, there’s no doubt they’re bigger and faster and stron-ger than we were.”

Namath feels so good about the Jets that he believes they’re about to reach the Super Bowl for the first time since the former quar-terback’s 1968 team got to the title game. Broadway Joe guaranteed a Super Bowl victory over the Colts, and delivered with a 16-7 win 42 years ago.

“This team’s better than last year’s team, and it’s doable,” he said of the possibility of beat-ing the Steelers in Sunday’s AFC Championship Game. A win over Pittsburgh, and the Jets would reach Super Bowl XLV in Dallas on Feb. 6 against the winner of the Bears-Packers NFC Championship Game.

“I really do feel better about this game, about the team, and we all know what it takes,” Na-math said. “They have to play the best game they’ve played in terms of execution and self-discipline. Now, to play together collectively as a group, win a championship game against the kind of opponent you’re faced with, it takes a special effort. You’re not only trying to beat an opponent, you have to play smart football.”

Namath gives the Jets the edge on Sunday, in part because of their 22-17 win over the Steelers on Dec. 19 at Heinz Field. But he knows it will take another huge effort, espe-cially now that All-Pro safety Troy

Polamalu, who missed last month’s game with a leg injury, is back in the lineup.

“They’ve already beaten Pitts-burgh at home, and granted, Pola-malu was out of the game,” Namath said. “I expect them to win because they’re playing better than they’ve played all season long, and they’ve made a nice habit of winning games they’re not expected to win, and winning on the road, too. They travel well. I know these players ex-pect to win.”

Another factor that bodes well

for the Jets, according to Broadway Joe: the vastly improved play of quarterback Mark Sanchez, whose on-field swagger is in many ways reminiscent of Namath’s demean-or. Sanchez has now won four play-off games _ all on the road. That’s twice as many career playoff wins for Namath, and tied for the most road playoff wins by a quarterback in NFL history.

“We sometimes forget Sanchez is in his second year, but this young man already has experience in big games,” Namath said. “So I don’t think the jitters are anything big here, and I don’t think it will affect the way Sanchez feels. Sanchez is a better player now, and that shows.”

Final score: Jets 27, Steelers 24.It’s the same score he predicted

last week, and it was almost dead on: The Jets beat the Patriots, 28-21.

No guarantees. But a lot of self-assuredness.

“I think they’re gonna do it,” Namath said.

As for the Jets’ trash talking in recent weeks, Namath doesn’t mind it all that much. After all, his infamous “We’re going to win the game. I guarantee it” comments before Super Bowl III were the stuff of legend. But he doesn’t mind the fact that the rhetoric has cooled

off now that coach Rex Ryan indi-cated on Monday he respects Steel-ers coach Mike Tomlin too much to get into a war of words.

“The only time I mind is when you see it and read it over and over again on different outlets,” he said. “But it was fresh when it was said, and they meant the things they said. They have their perception and point of view. So let’s give them credit for winning the games.”

Namath can only imagine if he’d made his famous victory guar-antee if today’s social media was around.

“Every time I do think back over the years and how things have changed, I come up with one thing,” he said. “When I was in New York, the Triborough Bridge cost 25 cents to cross.”

Now it costs $6.50. And it’s not even called the Triborough Bridge anymore. It’s the Robert F. Ken-nedy Bridge.

But even Namath is now fully engaged in the world of social media. While he’s watching Sun-day’s game from his home in South Florida, he’ll offer comments and insight on his Twitter (Twitter.com/RealJoeNamath) and Face-book (Facebook.com/JoeNamath) accounts. Namath also has his own Internet television setup (Broad-wayJoe.tv), where he goes over game plan specifics before and af-ter games.

“I don’t like to travel, so I’ve been afforded the chance to stay close to home, but still share the football thoughts that I have and the frustrations I have as a sports fan,” he said. “It’s fun for me, be-cause I’ve lived it. I still feel what (the players) feel. Change is con-stant, and I know Joe changes a bit every day. The key is to change for the better.”

But there’s still that old Namath confidence that always rises to the surface.

“I still am rather smooth,” he said.

And he’s still confident the Jets _ his Jets _ reach the Super Bowl for the first time since he pulled off the most improbable upset in NFL history on Jan. 12, 1969, when it was Jets 16, Colts 7.

He’s hoping Sanchez & Co. can add another championship a little more than two weeks from now.

“When I look at the physical abilities of

the players, there’s no doubt they’re bigger

and faster and stron-ger than we were.”

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Namath: 2010 Jets better than ’68 team; could be champions

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HOUSTON — Auburn coach Gene Chizik won the Paul “Bear” Bryant College Coach of the Year Award on Tuesday night.

Chizik, whose Tigers won the national championship, beat out six other finalists for the honor.

He said he hasn’t had time to reflect on his team’s perfect 14-0 season and the school’s first na-tional title since 1957 because he’s been so busy with recruiting.

“You work so hard and you’re so demanding on yourself, it’s re-ally hard to grasp everything until there’s a month or two that pass-es,” he said. “You really don’t have time to sit back. A month or two later when it really slows down and you get a chance to back off is when you really realize it.”

He said recruiting has also kept him too busy to think about next season.

“I’m not there yet,” he said. “We’ll get there. We’ve moved on

to the next phase and that’s re-ally finishing up this recruiting year really strong. Next year will get here quick enough. We’re try-ing to finish up and wrap up this year and I’m sure we’ll get to that pretty soon.”

Chizik was honored to win an award bearing Bryant’s name.

“As a football coach when you can have your name associated with a guy that’s done so much for the sport, it’s a blessing,” he said.

Former Florida State coach Bobby Bowden was the night’s other honoree, receiving the Bry-ant Lifetime Achievement Award given by the National Sportscast-ers and Sportswriters Associa-tion.

Bowden, who won two nation-al championships with the Semi-noles, said he has always looked up to Bryant. Bowden liked to make the short trip to Tusca-loosa to study Bryant’s coaching techniques at Alabama while he was an assistant football coach at

Howard College, now known as Samford, in the 1950s.

“It means a lot to me,” he said of the award. “When I was com-ing up my idol was Bear Bryant. He was just 50 miles away when I was at Howard and I was able to go down there and visit and learn football. It really helped me get kicked off on my career.”

The awards were given in con-junction with the American Heart Association, a fact not lost on fi-nalist and Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio, who suffered a mild heart attack in September.

“Because the American Heart Association is involved with this it becomes a little bit more spe-cial,” Dantonio said. “When I was asked to be at the event— win or lose — I was coming.”

The other finalists were Ne-vada’s Chris Ault, Bobby Petrino of Arkansas, Texas A&M’s Mike Sherman, Chip Kelly of Oregon and former Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh.

Chizik wins coach of year title

By Liz HitchcockReporter

This semester Baylor has added a new course to the curriculum for Medical Humanities majors and minors. The course, Medical Humanities 3300: Visual Arts and Healing, is focused on the study of healing through art techniques that will fine tune and enhance motor skills.

“Art provides a different way of looking at problems,” said Linda Bostwick, a nurse practitioner in the Baylor health center. “In reality, and in a clinical setting, sometimes that’s a more useful way to view it, a more holistic way. Art can also be a form of stress relief.”

When most people consider an art class, or view art on a surface level, they may not necessarily re-alize the connection between art and medicine; however, according to the class, there are substantial benefits in coordinated and simul-taneous study of the two.

Not only does the use of one’s hands in sculpture and fiber arts promote dexterity, but visual arts can train one’s eyes to recognize details that would otherwise go unnoticed.

“The reason for this class, in part, is because the world of medi-cine is noticing that doctors are shifting their concentrations in diagnosis away from visual assess-ment of a patient in favor of lab testing,” said Karen Pope, a senior lecturer in art history. “There’s a

worry that something is being lost in the process.”

Dr. James Marcum, Director of medical humanities, has been looking forward to the implemen-tation of this class and hopes stu-dents will be able to take away a new method of seeing things.

“I’ve been wanting to have a course that would emphasize the ability to be able to perceive more rigorously and with skill rather than just taking a look at a piece of work,” he said. “To really being able to observe keenly, rather than just superficially or quickly.”

Bostwick is the professor and lecturer for the course, which will also feature eight guest lecturers. The majority of the lecturers are from the art department, and each will concentrate on one aspect of therapeutic art or art that will re-fine the students’ senses.

The first class session was Mon-day, Jan. 10 when Pope began her section on observational exercises, ranging from rudimentary assign-ments to critical examinations.

Pope displayed Japanese wood block prints, where the artist used a different block or stamp for each color. She instructed the students to count how many blocks the art-ist would need to create the images they were looking at. The exercise challenged students to study the picture, notice details, and use their sense of sight at a higher level than they would normally use to view a piece of artwork.

Another guest lecturer, Mary

Ruth Smith, teaches fiber arts and 2-dimensional design in the art department. Her section of the course is titled “Stitches and Sta-ples,” referring to both a medical and artistic context.

During Smith’s week with the class, she will teach the students how to make coil baskets out of fabric in a project that they will fin-ish outside of class for stress relief and hand-eye coordination.

“Art is therapy for me; it clears my mind, it keeps me active, and this is what I want the students to feel too,” Smith said. “I think nurs-es and people in the medical field need a letdown and something that they can do with their hands to make them feel more comfortable with their hands, just something that gives them an outlet.”

Sandra Gregor, an art consul-tant who curated the art for Dell Children’s Hospital in Austin, will be lecture on “Visual Art in the Healthcare Environment.”

Gregor will help the students come up with ideas for their ser-vice learning project. At the end of the semester, the students will visit Waco’s Family Health Center and research ways that the environ-ment of the clinic can be changed through art to facilitate healing and benefit patients.

Other lecturers bring different concepts to the table including: pa-tient work, viewing medical related artwork, activities such as self-por-traiture and even playing the part of patient in a session of art ther-

apy. These lecturers include: Katie Edwards, assistant professor of art history; Leah Force, lecturer in 2- and 3-dimensional design; Julia Hitchcock, professor of art; Grace Ladd, Americorps Volunteer and Deanna Miesch, art therapist.

Between the excitement of the

professors and the determination of the students, Medical Humani-ties 3300 can become a course where both faculty and students alike can increasingly discover things about themselves and the environment around them.

“That’s what art does for us –

it interprets the world and gives meaning,” Marcum said. “So hope-fully students will come out of this being better observers rather than taking for granted that our most powerful and the sense that we gather the most information from: our vision.”

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Baylor lecturer, students document legacy of western swing starBy Bonnie Berger

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Journalism and media arts lec-turer Curtis Callaway appeared at the 100th anniversary celebration of Tommy Duncan’s birth in Whit-ney last Saturday to showcase his documentary in progress focusing on the country singer’s life.

The daylong event celebrated Duncan’s life and influence upon the music of artists George Strait, Willie Nelson, Billy Mata and Glen Duncan, Tommy’s brother.

Organized by Pam Townley executive director of the Tommy Duncan Fan Club, the day’s fes-tivities commenced with an an-tique car show through downtown Whitney at 11 a.m., followed by the dedication of the Tommy Duncan and Western Swing Museum and a gala dinner at 4:30 p.m. West-ern swing artists Billy Mata and the Texas Tradition, Dave Alexan-der and Grammy winner Carolyn

Martin took the stage around 7:30 p.m. and played well into the night.

With student enlistment, Cal-laway is filming a one-hour docu-mentary depicting the story of Duncan and his impact as part of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.

“Tommy was the voice of the Texas Playboys,” Townley said. “Tommy was never really recog-nized for that…[Bob Wills] was great at what he did…but Tommy did most of the singing.”

After Townley approached him regarding a documentary, Cal-laway was captivated by Duncan’s life and talent and involved stu-dents, turning the project into a fun, as well as rewarding endeavor.

“I saw it as a great opportunity for students to get involved and the story kept looking better and bet-ter,” Callaway said. “It’s a great sto-ry. It’s history, culture, and music.”

The documentary trailer, avail-able at www.vimeo.com/ 17379917, also debuted at the event.

Callaway and a group of five students will incorporate the event into the documentary entitled “In the Shadow of A King–The Tommy Duncan Story.” Students filmed the musical performances and in-

terviewed attendees, utilizing the opportunity to capture Duncan’s posthumous honors.

Ryan Fedor, a junior film and digital media major from Fort Worth, joined Callaway and crew

early Saturday morning to docu-ment the day’s happenings. Dur-ing the musical performances, he filmed close-ups of the artists, cap-turing all acoustic delights for later use in the documentary.

Culminating a day of hard work and new acquaintances, Fe-dor, a saxophone player in the Bay-lor marching band, relished the opportunity to hear Glen Duncan perform a band favorite.

“At the end of every home game, we play ‘Tennessee Waltz,’” Fedor said. “During our last game of the season, the seniors will step out on the field and join hands during that song. It really brought it all together at the end of the day to hear [Duncan] sing that. I got to stand two yards away from Glen Duncan when he was singing!”

Duncan, few know, was the main voice behind Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. Callaway hopes this documentary will re-define public awareness of the star.

“We’re hoping Tommy will get recognized,” Callaway said. “We want to get Tommy Duncan into the Country Music Hall of Fame on his own right. We’re giving Tommy the recognition he deserves.”

Glen Duncan poses with his brother Tommy’s $3,400 boots that were auctioned off at the event.Courtesy: Jenna Willard, Baylor alumna

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J. Lo, Steven Tyler join ‘Idol’ tonight for season 10By Verne Gay

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“American Idol” — At least the name hasn’t changed. (Yet.)

Just about everything else has or will, as the 10th season gets un-der way tonight at 7 on Fox.

Sometimes change is good. Sometimes change is bad. And, sometimes change is necessary. Which will be which on the new edition?

For the first time, “Idol” will have three judges (Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler) who are professional musicians with significant bodies of work. They can walk the walk and get others to talk the talk — or at least sing the darn song in tune.

Good/bad? On paper, very good. Onscreen, we will all find out at the same time. This is an especially dramatic change, con-sidering Simon Cowell’s complete domination of everything “Idol” was or perhaps ever will be.

The new “Idol” will be about building talent, not demolishing it, or as co-producer Nigel Lythgoe

said during the recent TV press tour, the judges will say, “In order to stop you packing your suitcase to go home, this is what you should be looking at doing.”

Good/bad? Nice “Idol.” Kind “Idol.” Since when did “Idol” be-come a Sunday school picnic? Weren’t judges supposed to be as-sisting all along, Simon included?

And when did a little tough love —when warranted — hurt anyone?

This seems like a bad change. However, “Idol” clearly wants to get people proficient enough to

sell albums again, reversing a stun-ning and worsening drought. Last season’s winner Lee DeWyze sold a paltry 39,000 albums in the first week. If only Simon had been nicer to him.

This is a huge reboot, if “re-boots” could indeed be huge. Gone is the Top 24, when viewers got to vote for people they barely knew from the preceding Hollywood rounds (which is apparently why it’s gone); instead, 60 go to Las Ve-gas, then 20 are zapped after work-ing with the cast of the Cirque du Soleil Beatles’ show, “Love.”

Forty go back to Hollywood, then a sudden-death viewer vot-ing round will eliminate 20 more. Judges reveal the Top 20 on Feb. 24, and the Top 10 on March 3, when they’ll add their wild-card picks.

Good/bad? Definitely good. This feels interesting, dynamic, dramatic and unusual ... versus the tired same-old, same-old. And with the wild cards intact, this should protect the genuinely good singers from the tyranny of the masses.

Interscope Records chief and

“Idol” in-house mentor Jimmy Iovine will offer the aforemen-tioned tough love by whipping fi-nalists into shape with (reportedly) the help of producers such as Ron Fair and Timbaland.

Good/bad? This certainly seems good, if Iovine is a Simon Cowell replica in terms of style and bite.

Another change will allow contestants to stick with the genre they’re most comfortable with. That seems like a sensible adjust-ment that could play to the strength of the producers Iovine brings in over the course of the season.

There is a new goal this year, as well: to actually identify a “super-star.”

Good/bad? Good, in theory. But ask yourself — would Lady Gaga or Taylor Swift endure the “Idol” meat grinder? Hard to imag-ine why. Unless this new “remix” (Randy’s word) edition succeeds, others won’t, either. But produc-ers deserve credit for attacking the problems at their source.

The ninth season of “Idol” was deadly. Already the 10th seems better.

“American Idol” premieres at 7 p.m. when Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler join returning cast members, Ryan Seacrest and Randy Jackson.

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Shawn McDonald is back on the Christian music radar with his new album “Closer.” The album re-leases March 11 on EMI’s Sparrow Records. Though the songs are very personal for McDonald (he wrote or contributed to all of them), he shares songwriting credits with other award-winning writers such as Brandon Heath, Joy Williams, Ben Glover and Josh Garrels.

The whole album is fresh, but comfortable, starting with “Better Way.” The first track is TobyMac-esque and funky, perhaps an in-fluence of producer Christopher Stevens who has worked with both artists.

McDonald’s passion to go deep-er spiritually resounds throughout the album, but is summed up in “Closer.” McDonald’s radio hit single is catchy, even after much airplay. The keyboard and strings serve as solid foundations for poi-gnant harmonies.

“I wrote this song, and a lot of these songs, when I was in a rough place,” McDonald wrote in the al-bum’s song-by-song descriptions. “This is just my own desperation bleeding out.”

“Something Real” expresses a desire that is being vocalized through the nation’s churches: to experience something life-giving and relationship-based besides dead traditions and passive reli-gion. McDonald declares through his raw and honest melody that the missing element is love.

“Don’t Give Up” is the album’s slower, but hope-giving, ballad. It is thematically powerful, but with a quiet determination. “I’ve come too far/I’ve seen so much/I’ve heard the call/I’ve felt the touch/I’ve tasted love” McDonald wit-nesses as he urges listeners not to give up on life.

“Eyes Forward” brings back the funky groove, but in a more toned-down way so it is less of a party song and more of a Mat Kearney-style understated coolness. Though the song is about spiritual warfare, McDonald approaches it with un-derstanding that though the dark-ness is present, the battle is not lost.

Musically and thematically, “Storms” is a bit cliché for CCM, but likely only MercyMe fans might find it noticeable. Otherwise it reflects the dark times McDonald has been experiencing since his last release. “It was like [God] allowed things to crumble just so He could rebuild it all,” McDonald said in a news release. “God has redeemed me, and He is healing my heart. So I hope this record can be a redemp-tion story for people; that God can use it to speak and bring hope. Be-cause that’s what He’s done for me.”

There is much repetition within the songs, which will make them memorable, create earworms and allow audiences to sing them. However, this is risky as it may also make them seem older, more tired and overplayed over time.

Though there are many musical references to other artists, there is an element that is distinctly Mc-Donald in each song that has been absent from the Christian music scene since his last recording in 2008. Welcome back, Shawn Mc-Donald. CCM has missed you.

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Regis retiring after 28 years of hosting showBy Verne Gay

Newsday

NEW YORK – For such a fa-mously excitable guy, Regis Phil-bin made a big announcement Tuesday with surprising calm. He’s announced his plans of retir-ing from his show.

Philbin delivered the news at the start of Tuesday’s “Live With Regis and Kelly,” a show he has hosted for more than a quarter-century, most recently sharing hosting duties with Kelly Ripa.

He said he would be stepping down from the show around the end of the summer, though he didn’t announce a specific depar-ture date.

“I don’t want to alarm any-

body,” he began, then said, “This will be my last year on the show.”

His brief remarks came during the show’s off-the-cuff “host chat,” after he and Ripa had batted the breeze about the Golden Globes, football and the icy weather out-side.

“It’s been a long time, it’s been 28 years,” Philbin said reflectively, speaking of his current Manhat-tan-based show.

“It was the biggest thrill of my life to come back to New York, where I grew up as a kid watching TV in the early days, you know, never even dreaming that I would one day have the ability, or what-ever it takes, to get in front of the camera and talk to it,” he said.

“There is a time that every-

thing must come to an end for certain people on camera – espe-cially certain old people!” cracked Philbin, who turns 80 in August.

“I wish I could do something to make you change your mind,” Ripa said.

“Now waaait a minute,” Philbin said slyly.

The show’s distributors, Dis-ney-ABC Domestic Television, said in a statement the “Live” franchise will continue, adding that a new co-host will eventually be named to join Ripa, who marks her 10 year anniversary with the show next month.

But Philbin, referring to his time left on the show, assured viewers, “We’ll have a lot of fun between now and then.”

Philbin’s leave-taking will hap-pen not long after another giant of daytime television, Oprah Win-frey, ends her syndicated show to concentrate on her new cable network.

A Philbin contemporary in the broadcasting world, 77-year-old Larry King, retired from his prime-time CNN talk show last month. His successor, Piers Mor-gan, debuted Monday.

Since the 1950s, Philbin has been a television fixture, though for years he worked mostly for lo-cal stations.

In 1967, he won national ex-posure as the announcer and side-kick on comic Joey Bishop’s short-lived ABC late-night show.

Later on, Philbin became a star

in local morning television – first in Los Angeles, then, in 1983, in New York.

In 1985, he teamed with Ka-thie Lee Johnson, a year before she married former football star Frank Gifford, and their show went into national syndication in 1988.

Philbin clicked with daytime audiences as a common man who loved to sound off about familiar frustrations, even as he lived a life rubbing elbows with fellow celeb-rities.

Gifford left the show in 2000. After a tryout period for a replace-ment, soap star Ripa (“All My Children”) filled the slot.

One of daytime syndication’s most enduring hits, “Live With

Regis and Kelly” was seen daily by an average of roughly 4 mil-lion viewers according to a recent Nielsen Co. report.

Typically the show airs live from its Manhattan studio at 9 a.m. Eastern time, though it is broadcast by some stations later in the day.

A decade ago, Philbin con-quered prime time as host of the game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” which quickly be-came a ratings phenomenon for ABC.

A three-time Emmy Award winner, Philbin was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at the Daytime Emmy Awards in 2008.

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