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First offense DWI stresses bankrolls

By Madison Ferril Reporter

You’ve had a few too many drinks and decided to drive home.

You feel fine and your apartment’s only a few miles away.

As you make your way down the road, you see the red and blue lights in your rear view mirror.

You pull over, and after failing a Breathalyzer test, you’re charged with Driving While Under the Influence (DWI).

So what does this mean for you or your parent’s bank account?

Baylor Police Department chief Jim Doak said by the end of the process, a DWI charge will end up costing more than $10,000.

“It’s a high cost for one night of foolishness,” Doak said. “It takes a long time to undo.”

Doak said he has given many students DWIs and it’s not an uncommon occurrence. Eight students have received DWIs this semester from Baylor Police Department.

In Texas, DWI is classified as a Class B misdemeanor on first offense if Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) is 0.08 percent or lower, and a Class A misdemeanor if BAC is 0.15 percent or above.

These standards became effective in 2011.

Texas also has an Admin-

istrative License Revocation (ALR) program. If someone fails a breath test, his or her license is automatically suspended for 90 days. Someone can refuse to take a breath test, but if they do, their license is suspended for 180 days. A $125 reinstatement fee is required before someone can get their license back.

Waco Police Department Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said there is no set sentence for someone who receives a DWI. “There’s a variety of factors that go into deciding a charge,” Swanton said.

Swanton said someone could receive jail time, a fine or jail time and a fine.

Someone who receives a DWI must appear in court, and therefore have to hire a criminal defense lawyer.

Attorney Russell Hunt Sr. said attorneys can charge anywhere from hundreds of dollars to thousands of dollars.

“My typical fee for a first-time adult DWI is $5,000,” Hunt said.

Hunt said once he receives a DWI case, he goes to the district attorney and tries to get the charges refused or dismissed. A refusal means the prosecutor decides not to try a case before the case is filed. A dismissal means the prosecutor can dismiss a case with the signature of a judge.

“If there’s no way to get the charges refused or dismissed, we try to get a plea bargain,” Hunt said.

A plea bargain means someone pleads guilty or no contest to a charge in exchange for a lighter sentence. No contest means the person did not dispute or admit to the charges against them.

“An average plea bargain is about 18 months probation and a $2,000 fine, of which our client will pay $1,000,” Hunt said.

“They’ll also have to pay court fees, which are around $300.”

In addition to the fines and court costs, the state of Texas requires an annual fee of $1,000 for three years after the case is over.

If the case goes to trial, Hunt said he charges an extra $5,000.

If a student lives outside of Waco or McLennan County, they and their parents may have to consider cost of travel to and from Waco.

Peter Miller, the deputy director of McLennan County Community Supervision and Corrections Department, said the court can charge fees such as restitution for an accident or damages in addition to the fine and monthly probation fee. He said auto insurance rates also increase due to a DWI charge.

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Grillin’ some grub Brentwood, Tenn., senior Brandon Seibert roasts a marshmallow Thursday at Vitek’s BBQ Restaurant.

Vitek’s gave out free Gut-Paks in celebration of winning the College Eats National Championship.

Rhode Island 10th state to pass gay marriage bill

By David Klepper Associated Press

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island on Thursday became the nation’s 10th state to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed, as a 16-year effort to extend marriage rights in this heavily Roman Catholic state ended with the triumphant cheers of hundreds of gays, lesbians, their families and friends.

Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed the bill into law on the Statehouse steps Thursday evening following a final 56-15 vote in the House. The first weddings will take place Aug. 1, when the law takes effect.

“I’ve been waiting 32 years for Charles Krupa | Associated Press this day, and I never thought it would Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee holds up a gay marriage bill after signing it into law outside the State House come in my lifetime,” said Raymond Beausejour, a 66-year-old gay North Thursday in Providence, R.I.

Providence man who has been with his partner for 32 years. “For the first time in my life, I feel welcome in my own state.”

After Chafee signed the bill, the hundreds of people who gathered on the Statehouse grounds erupted into cheers as a chorus sang “Chapel of Love.”

“Now, at long last, you are free to marry the person that you love,” Chafee told the crowd.

The day was bittersweet for Deborah Tevyaw, whose wife, state corrections officer Pat Baker, succumbed to lung cancer two years ago. Months before she died, Baker, relying on an oxygen tank, angrily told lawmakers it was unfair that Tevyaw wasn’t considered her wife in Rhode Island despite their marriage in Massachusetts.

“I’m ecstatic, but sad she’s not here

to see this,” Tevyaw said. “I’m sure she’s watching, but she’s not here next to me. Before she died, she told me, ‘I started this, and now I’m leaving it in your hands.’ We worked hard for this.

There were petitions, door knocking, phone calls. I think people decided, ‘just let people be happy.’”

Once consigned to the political fringe, gay marriage advocates succeeded this year thanks to a sprawling lobbying effort that included support from organized labor leaders, religious clergy, leaders including Chafee and Providence Mayor Angel Taveras and hundreds of volunteers. Their efforts overcame the opposition of the Catholic church and lawmakers including Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed, who voted no but allowed the issue to come to a vote anyway.

Supporters framed the issue as

one of civil rights, arguing in daylong legislative hearings that gay and lesbian couples deserve the same rights and protections given to opposite-sex married couples. The Catholic church was the most significant opponent, with Bishop Thomas Tobin urging lawmakers to defeat what he called an “immoral and unnecessary” change to traditional marriage law.

On Thursday, Tobin repeated his opposition, writing in a letter to the state’s Catholics that “homosexual acts are ... always sinful.”

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Benefits of FAFSA hampered by delays in filing tax forms

By Sanmai Gbandi and Ashley Pereyra Reporters

Completing the Free Application of Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is an integral part of helping to pay for college for most students. However, not many of them actually do it themselves.

Houston senior Amanda Padilla said her parents have completed her FAFSA application every year that she has gone to Baylor.

“I started to do it sometimes, but for the most part I just know it’s going to be a hassle,” Padilla said. “So I let my parents do it.”

New Orleans junior Taylor Jones works on the FAFSA application with her parents, and she said she understands the need students have for financial aid to be able to pay for college.

“College education is expensive,” Jones said. “I feel like it’s one of the fastest increasing sectors of our economy, so if you qualify

for government aid, why wouldn’t you take it?”

In order to begin a FAFSA form, students and/or their parents need two sets of completed tax return information—their parents’ and their own from the current year. If that is not available, then use the information from the taxes that have submitted or will be submitted. The correct information can be updated on the FAFSA website using a pin number once the parent’s current tax information becomes available.

A pin number can be an important tool as it is the fastest way to sign the application. Students and parents apply for their own pin numbers on the Federal Student Aid Website. The pin not only works as an identifier, but it allows access to the online student aid report and corrections can be made if needed.

Once pin numbers have been acquired, completing the application online becomes a simple

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process.

For Baylor students, the application for the 2013-2014 school year was available to submit after January 1.

The priority deadline to submit the FAFSA to Baylor was March 1. Students who file for aid before the FAFSA deadline are given priority in considerations for financial aid. After the March 1 deadline, funds will be distributed based on availability.

Although completing the FAFSA application can be simple, things like late tax returns can lead to a more complicated and sometimes frustrating process.

According to the Department of Education, this year there was a major delay on processing tax returns. Jeff Baker, director of policy liaison and implementation with the U.S. Department of Education, issued a statement on March 13 and said the delays had the potential to impact students SEE

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Miami, Fla., sophomore Julian LeFort works in the Starbuck’s located in Moody Library as part of the workstudy program to help pay for his tuition.

Work-study helps cost of college

By Madison Ferril Reporter

For students who are a part of the work-study program, the added element of work can provide help with bills and give students extra spending money for a few hours outside of class per week.

Federal work-study requires the college to pay students federal

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minimum wage, which is currently $7.25 an hour. Students cannot earn more than their work-study award in a semester. Baylor also offers jobs to students who do not receive federal work-study, but they must wait three weeks after the school year begins to apply for student worker positions.

Houston senior Sabrina Bosiacki, the student manager at Pen-

land Dining Hall, said she does a little bit of everything at her job, from supervising student workers to creating schedules and filling out paperwork. She makes $8.05 an hour. She said students who work for Baylor Dining Services receive a 10 cent raise for each year they work and a 25 cent raise SEE

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Editorial This year, Baylor moved from a paper-based system to an online system of teacher evaluations.

Normally, we would applaud this move. However, we have reservations about the current system.

For one thing, the paper evaluations were required to be completed in class, meaning that every student who showed up on evaluation day would fill one out. Unless class time is given to complete the online version, what would motivate students to do them? Fewer students participating may mean less accurate evaluations.

That pales in comparison to the main reason why we are opposed to online evaluations, though.

Anonymity.

Baylor University has contracted with EvaluationKIT to perform these online evaluations. However, there is one fundamental flaw with the whole process. A student is required to log in to Blackboard to be able to access the online evaluations.

Anyone who thinks their responses at that point are anonymous are unaware of the types of logging that take place across the Internet on a daily basis.

Let’s say Joe Baylor logs in to a computer in Moody Library. Immediately in Baylor’s system there

is a record of him logging in and which computer he logged in at.

He browses to Blackboard, where he logs in.

Baylor has an Internet filter in place to prevent students from going to illegal or illicit sites through Baylor’s servers. This means Baylor has a log of every website that every person that uses Baylor’s computers visits.

Since Joe Baylor logged in to the computer, Baylor knows every website he visited while he was logged in at the library, and at what date and time.

Say he then completes an online evaluation. While the website used for the online evaluations uses https secure browsing, meaning that the data transmitted from the computer to server is encrypted, that does not prevent Baylor from having a log of when the user submitted an evaluation because of the time stamps. Nor can we as students be assured that they do not have access to data transmitted via Blackboard.

Furthermore, there is no way to evaluate what information gets passed to EvaluationKIT, meaning they may have your Baylor ID, which they would then attach to your response in their system. The likelihood of this occurring is high, because if Baylor decided to pursue pressing charges against a student for their responses on an evaluation (in the event of a threat), the attorneys involved would be able to subpoena the records from Evalu-

ationKIT to find out what student submitted that evaluation.

EvaluationKIT provides the data back to Baylor. However, there are ways they can provide “anonymous” data that would still allow Baylor to determine who gave what responses.

For example, if you fill out evaluations for multiple professors, your Baylor ID, which has been encrypted in a process called hashing, will be entered multiple times and could point to your class schedule. You could then be identified by your schedule, unless there are other students in the same semester with your schedule.

It’s not likely.

Even if EvaluationKIT didn’t provide that encrypted ID, if they were to provide a date/time stamp, that would allow Baylor to compare the data with their logs and determine who provided the evaluation.

There are a couple of solutions Baylor should choose from to ensure that responses are truly anonymous.

The preferred method, and the one we strongly propose, is that Baylor needs to move back to the truly anonymous paper evaluations. We think online evaluations will never accomplish the response rate that the paper-based system achieved unless class time is given to complete them.

Barring that, online evaluations should be detached from Blackboard. If Baylor decides to con-

tinue with online evaluations, we propose that EvaluationKIT generate randomly generated access codes for each section and class being evaluated and those access codes are distributed to the appropriate professor without Baylor involvement (meaning Baylor of-

ficials never have access to the access codes). That professor would then distribute that section’s access codes randomly to the students.

EvaluationKIT would need a website completely under its control where students can go. Here the student would enter the random

access code and be taken to a page on EvaluationKIT’s website to do the evaluation for that course.

Baylor also needs to allow guest access on computers so a student doesn’t have to log in on the Baylor network to perform these evaluations.

Review misses humanity in book; people both good and bad The epigraph of E.M. Forster’s “Howards End,” which reads “Only connect...” could serve as a statement of purpose for many a writer.

This may hold especially true for writers of personal narrative.

As one such writer, it was my privilege and pleasure to spend a day and a half with Baylor journalism students discussing the subset of creative nonfiction called memoir.

The spirited dialogue we had remains with me and indeed grew louder when I read editor-in-chief Caroline Brewton’s recent review of my memoir “Holy Ghost Girl,” published on April 11. The book has been favorably reviewed in a number newspapers, including The New York Times, but I particularly enjoyed the Lariat review.

Brewton was the only reviewer to attempt to evaluate the tone and shape of my story. I applaud her critical thinking, though I do not agree with all of her conclusions.

“Holy Ghost Girl” tells the story of my family’s association with one of the last of the sawdust trail tent preachers named David Terrell.

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Terrell when I was 3 years old. Despite Terrell’s marriage, she began a secret affair with him that lasted for more than 20 years. She abandoned my brother and me for a time to travel with him.

Terrell was a gifted and dedicated preacher during the early days. Like others before and after him, he was seduced by sex, power and money, though it could be argued the first two vices are one and same.

Over time, Terrell became a

sort of stepfather to my brother and me.

The book recounts a spectacular fall from grace, and I do not brag when I say it does so without bitterness. Brewton thinks so, too.

She writes in her review that I forgive Terrell and my mother again and again, that I refuse to hold them to scrutiny and that by doing so I allow them to achieve a kind of (unearned?) redemption.

In my address to the journalism class, I stated that as a trained journalist I opted to err on the side of fairness. The characters in my book cannot present their side of the story to readers, and so I felt bound to try to understand their actions from their point of view. Since these characters are also members of my family whose backstories and limitations are known to me, I erred also on the side of kindness, reporting only what concerned my immediate story.

The book circles around an implied set of questions: Why did my mother and Terrell behave as they did, and what was the cost of their behavior?

The story is a reckoning of Ter-

rell and his brand of revivalism.

It is recounted without additional vitriol for many reasons, the foremost being that as I understand it, literature works better as a venue for exploration than score settling. The injunction of creative writing to show rather than tell is also at work here.

Brewton states my lack of bitterness left her wondering what thoughts and feelings I experienced in evaluating my childhood.

I recount the cruel and humiliating treatment my brother and I received at the hands of caregivers. I write that I prayed for my mother’s return, that I thought her absence meant God hated me. I state that I left home first at 15, then again for good at 17, that my mother and I argued about Terrell for years.

In short, I felt wretched and that wretchedness is on the page.

It is not, however, the point of the book.

The disparity between my mother’s and Terrell’s professed beliefs and their behavior is an old story.

The strange and I hope fascinating aspect of the story is how they

embodied so much of the spirit of Christianity. I refer to their treatment of the poor and marginalized and their stand for integration, despite being hounded and beaten by the Ku Klux Klan.

My mother and stepfather broke the commandments regularly, yet they loved God wholeheartedly. As one fellow writer put it, the Bible is filled with stories of people just like them. I do not mean to justify bad behavior. I’m simply saying that good and bad are intertwined in an individual in the same way that faith and doubt often coexist in believers. It is simplistic to think otherwise.

Finally, there is the reviewer’s mention of “absolute truth” and my unwillingness to sacrifice my mother and Terrell to that glittering ideal.

Given that my book focuses on what happens when people think they know the absolute truth, I find the reference astonishing.

As a freelance religion writer, I’ve learned the only way to report on faith is by entering into the framework of believers. In the book I recount fantastic occur-

rences such as miracles and exorcisms as real events.

I am trying to immerse the reader in a mystical world where anything is possible. This may strain credulity for some, but it is crucial to understanding the world from which I came.

Perhaps the real quarrel with “Holy Ghost Girl” is that I tell my family’s story without wholly repudiating or endorsing their belief system. This is hard for readers on both sides of the faith question to accept.

As a writer, I try to navigate the confluence of faith and human frailty, which is the murkier, and I think the deeper water. Here there are no absolutes.

Once that is accepted, a truer story may surface, flawed but rich with connection.

Donna M. Johnson is the author of “Holy Ghost Girl,” an award-winning memoir critically acclaimed by the New York Times, O Magazine and others. Her work has appeared in the Shambhala Sun, the Huffington Post and the Austin AmericanStatesman. She is currently at work on a second memoir.

I liked the convenience of using BearBucks off-campus. Why no more?

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This morning, I received an email from the Cashier’s Office.

After the normal, mini panic attack I had, featuring questions like “Oh gosh, did I miss a payment?” and “Are they about to kick me out of school?!” I actually read the email.

The email informed me I was no longer allowed to use BearBucks off-campus. I disregarded it and tossed it in the trash, going on with my daily routine.

But then —about 10 minutes later — it hit me. This does affect me, because I use BearBucks.

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This is really annoying, actually.

The reasoning stated in the email is as follows: “The decision to terminate the off-campus program is a joint one between Baylor and Wells Fargo Bank, our program administrator. This decision is also driven by the fact that the existing merchant equipment is obsolete and no longer repairable and the Bank can no longer provide staffing for a program that is now the only one of its kind.”

The email gave the additional reason of declining student

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participation for canceling the offcampus part of the program.

Now don’t get me wrong—I use my debit card when I go out to places that require me to go off campus that don’t use BearBucks.

However, I also have BearBucks for a particular reason: I feel safer.

If I lose my debit card, it’s a huge ordeal to cancel and figure out all the paperwork.

If I lose my Baylor ID, on the other hand, all I have to do is just call the office or cancel the old card online and go pick up a new one at Clifton Robinson Tower.

Now that I can’t go off campus for some Taco Bell with my BearBucks, I would have to go home and get my debit card first.

This move means I’ll probably be less likely to go off-campus.

Aren’t we supposed to be trying to burst the Baylor Bubble?

Aren’t we, as students, encouraged to do more things for the Waco community?

I enjoy going out with friends and I like to use my BearBucks to do them.

There’s not a lot I can do about the rest of the student population

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going and using the machines that are currently “obsolete” or the fact that Wells Fargo Bank can’t provide staffing or anything like that— but I can definitely say that this is not helping the whole “getting out of the Baylor Bubble” thing.

Maybe there should be a new program, or maybe I’m the only one thinking all this—but hey, I’m a bit peeved for having to carry my debit card around for a drink at Common Grounds.

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Religion, public health come together for BU researcher

By Linda Nguyen A&E Editor

Baylor is home to renowned researchers and scholars. Scattered around the university, they produce research and papers, many of which define their fields.

One such scholar is Dr. Jeff Levin, professor of epidemiology and population health. His research looks at how religion affects public health and he is considered by some as the “Father of Epidemiology and Religion.”

Levin came to Baylor in 2009 with an appointment at the Institute for the Studies of Religion.

“What’s unique about my position here, I’m trained in biomedical sciences and in health,” Levin said. “I function as a social scientist but my background is in the humanities. What’s unique about here, I do medical research but I work in an institute with sociologists.”

He said being at Baylor has been a great fit for him and his research.

“I appreciate there are few places, maybe Baylor is it, where I can conduct with the research I do with the colleagues I do, focused on religion,” Levin said.

Research Levin said his current research has three main foci: analyzing data from global health surveys to identify religious determinants of physical and mental health, studying healing and the work of healers and outlining the public policy implications of faith-based resources for the public health sector.

He said part of his research involves working with larger data sets.

“I’ve been working on these huge data sets,” Levin said. “I haven’t done real data collection. Especially the last couple years.

I’ve done a number of analyses of data.”

His research with healers is something he said has always been one of his interests.

“I’ve known a lot of these folks, interviewed a lot of these folks,” Levin said.

“Maybe they are healers, maybe they aren’t but it’s been really fascinating. I’ve written some historical pieces on healing.”

His third main area of focus looks at the more political, policy-oriented side of research. He looks at the public policy implications for faith in public health.

“I’ve written some public policy-oriented pieces trying to promote the idea that religious organizations, religious institu-

tions have something to offer to strength the public health infrastructure of health,” Levin said.

In his time at Baylor, Levin has published several scientific articles as well as two books.

Dr. Larry Dossey, internal medicine doctor and New York Times bestselling author, said he has worked with Levin throughout his career.

“We go back about 20 years,” Dossey said. “I have written several books of the role of spirituality and health. One of my books was about healing which wound up in the New York Times bestseller list. That book brought me and Jeff together. It was almost an automatic friendship as far as professional and personal interests are concerned.”

Dossey said he has tremendous respect for Levin.

“He is one of those rare individuals who has almost single-handedly created a field of interest in academia,” Dossey said.

Medical Humanities Levin is also a professor of medical humanities. Dr. Lauren Barron, clinical professor and associated director of medical humanities, has worked with Levin through the department.

“He writes prolifically on the intersection of faith and health,” Barron said. “The fact that we have this renowned scholar right in the middle of Baylor who is Dr. Jeff Levin doing extremely influential work in the field of religion and health; it’s extraordinary to have a scholar of his caliber at Baylor.”

She described him as charming and intelligent. She said he is a pioneer in the field of epidemiology and religion.

“I guess something that sums him up is his willingness to come speak to my class and share,” Barron said. “He’s generous with his experiences and expertise. And in a way that’s engaging and exciting. He’s very unique and I think his presence at Baylor is an amazing gift.”

Barron said unlike many other professors at Baylor, she does not hold a Ph.D.

but rather an MD and she said sometimes, scholars of his caliber aren’t the best communicators.

“He strikes me as someone who loves people and looks for ways to help share his experience and expertise,” Barron said.

Barron said the first time she had lunch with him, she was intimidated by his accomplishments and academic stature, but that was immediately gone when she met him.

“He was extraordinarily warm, engaging, chatty, relaxed, passionate,” she said.

“He was warm and kind and interested in the program and very generous in his willingness to share his work and expertise.”

Personal Life Along with his accomplishments in academia, he has also found a way to balance family life and work.

“That’s not a challenge,” Levin said. “My wife is also on staff here, Dr. Lea Steele.

We’re a two-epidemiologist-family. I think for both of us, our work is very important to us. The fact that we’re both epidemiologists, I don’t have to compartmentalize work and home. It’s not a challenge. I love being a professor.”

Steele, a research professor of biomedical studies, said Levin has eclectic interests inside and outside of academia.

“He is funny and he’s just so smart,” Steele said. “He’s very unique in the way he thinks about things. He’s definitely outside the box in how he approaches intellectual, personal challenges. He’s got a lot of interests. He’s a film buff. He just knows a lot about a lot of things. He’s knows a lot about country music. I think of him as mostly an intellectual but he has great instincts in a lot of areas.”

She said she hopes Levin’s unique career path will inspire students.

“I think it will help students,” Steele said. “Because students don’t really know there are fields you go into that can reconcile and allow you to pursue how science and faith are connected.”

She said being at Baylor has been a great opportunity for Levin to pursue the kind of work he’s interested in.

“This is unique in the world,” Steele said. “It’s the only place where you get scholars in different disciplines look at their disciplines as it compares to faith. All kinds of great scholars. The Institute for the Studies of Religion is such a great place for his love.”

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Dr. Jeff Levin and his wife, Dr. Lea Steele, are both epidemiologists at Baylor. Levin is considered the “Father of the Epidemiology of Religion.”

Academic Background Levin graduated from Duke University and went to University of North Carolina Chapel Hill to study epidemiology in graduate school. He said the origins of his research over religion and public health stemmed from a term paper in a class on social and cultural factors in health.

“The professor said, ‘This is interesting, you ought to write it up as an article for a journal,’” Levin said.

Levin said he then went back to the library to search the literature again to ensure he hadn’t forgotten anything.

“I started searching the literature,” he said. “I found more and more studies. Over the next four to five years, I would go to the library. In 1987, I had discovered over 200 of these studies, wrote it all up and ended up sending it to a medical journal. This was the first literature review that suggested religion was related to health. That kind of got me started.”

He said he didn’t set out to find this field, but he is glad to have been able to contribute.

“There’s also a helpful and inspiring message,” Levin said. “The ideas you have and the research you do can potentially create a field that other people will gravi-

tate to. Decades down the road, there could be a new field of study. In a way, this is how science and biomedicine advance. It’s kind of been rewarding. That’s how it starts, as a graduate student who wrote up a term paper.”

Levin said for now, he’s focusing on his third focus of research. He said he would like to be involved in the public policy making process in Washington.

“I want my work to count for something other than a long list of publications,” Levin said. “I want to reach people with decision making authority.”

Levin said if he had a piece of advice to give to students he would say to “follow your heart.”

“This is a decision that will affect you for the rest of your life,” Levin said. “It should be something that energizes you so even if you weren’t a doctor, you’d what to read about. The same thing when it comes to research. Pick a topic that hasn’t been researched to death. It’s easy to pick a subject where there’s a huge infrastructure down.

Follow your heart. It’s your life.”

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Hearing wedding bells: The Ring by Spring tradition

By Sarah Forsman Reporter

It was a nice day in April. The sun shone down on an emerald green pasture spotted with goldenrods and oak trees. Guests followed a grassy trail that had been carved by golf carts giving the elderly and stiletto-clad women rides to their seats. The guests soon took their designated places to watch a Baylor woman get her Ring by Spring.

Leawood, Kan., senior Leigh Sunderland said she met her future husband in a lab at Baylor.

“I met Blake in summer school during Chemistry lab,” Sunderland said. “Blake was trying to finish his last year of school and it was the lab he only science could get into. I had been tr ying to g e t into

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that lab for two previous semesters.

He was across the lab bench and he had seen me at church, so he struck up a conversation.”

Despite the diamond ring on her finger, Sunderland said their romance took a while to get started.

“He asked me out at the end of that summer session, but I turned him down,” Sunderland said. “So we didn’t date until a year later.”

This chance encounter, then rejection, then acceptance, and finally engagement, all add up to the one thing that all Baylor women are presumed to desire: a Ring by Spring.

“I had heard if you go to school at Baylor, you’ll get your Ring by Spring,” Sunderland said. “People would always say to me, ‘I met my husband at Baylor.’ You’re always supposed to be watching. I always thought that was so dumb. My junior year, I really didn’t think I was going to meet my husband at Baylor, but then it happened to me.”

So what exactly is Ring

by Spring?

“Sounds like something a Mrs. Degree would come up with,” said John Ginn, a 1986 Baylor graduate.

There is no textbook definition of Ring

by Spring, or as some call it, a Mrs. Degree, but what is available is only word o f

mouth passed on from one lovesick college girl to another.

Ring by Spring is a saying for young college women who want to get engaged before they graduate from college, and in the opinions of some, solely go to college for this purpose.

“People always used to say to me, ‘I met my husband at Baylor.’

You’re always supposed to be watching.

I always thought that was so dumb. My junior year, I really didn’t think I’d meet my husband at Baylor, but then it happened to me.”

Leigh Sunderland |Leawood, Kan. senior

Many of these women believe that college is where they will find their future spouses — and marry them — before they graduate in the spring.

“It wasn’t a big deal,” said Cathy Gray, Baylor class of 1988.

Gray, now a resident of Sulphur Springs, transferred into Baylor after attending two years of school at Texas Tech University.

After transferring, she met her future husband at one of Baylor’s oldest traditions: Sing.

“It was my senior year, my last semester at Baylor,” Gray said. “My roommate was trying to talk me into trying out for Sing and I didn’t want to because I was an elementary education major. I was student teaching that semester plus I was taking a night class because I needed one more class to graduate. She just wouldn’t let up. She was like, ‘You really need to do this, it’ll be

so much fun’. So basically she drug me there to try out.”

Gray’s partner for the Sing practices and performances would later become her husband.

“So Darren supposedly said, ‘I want her to be my partner’ when I walked in,” Gray smiled. “I ended up being his partner.

It was Sing and you practiced a lot so we were together a lot.

We had our first date probably a week later.”

Gray insisted that she had never heard of Ring by Spring in her days at Baylor.

“We talked about getting married a lot but he never would officially ask me,” Gray laughed. “We knew we were going to get married, but he just wouldn’t give me a ring and it was driving me nuts.”

After graduating, Cathy and Darren Gray got engaged and were married in July of 1989.

It is possible that, like the Grays, Ring by Spring emerged from the large number of couples who seem to get married right out of college.

But according to data from the Pew Research Center, many college educated people are delaying marriage until they are close to age 30.

According to college students, the most widely held belief on the origin of Ring by Spring can be found in the roots of Christianity, and some may argue, the origin of man. In the book of Genesis, God creates a woman named Eve to be the help mate for the first man, Adam.

Genesis 2:24 states that, “a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.”

A large number of Christian women take from verses like this that getting married is a necessary part of their religion--as well as becoming an adult.

Due to the emphasis on marriage in at least some branches of

Ring by Spring a positive or negative tradition?

The opinions on Ring by Spring vary. On March 29, Susan A. Patton, a 1977 Princeton graduate, wrote a letter to The Daily Princetonian urging

Christianity, it makes sense that Ring by Spring is a popular saying in many Christian-based schools such as Notre Dame, Liberty University, Oklahoma Baptist University, and of course, Baylor.

“I had kind of heard of the tradition of Ring by Spring,” Cleburne freshman Allie Wheat said. “It’s always a joke of Ring by Spring, and girls trying to get it. It was never necessarily my goal to try and get a Ring by Spring.”

Wheat said she felt strongly that Christianity influences marriage.

“The way society has made it, it’s almost like you need to go to college and get established in a career before you can get married,” Wheat said. “They’ve also made it seem like some of the Christian morals that were so common back then aren’t so common today.”

Wheat has been dating Preston Hughes, also a freshman from Cleburne, Texas, for two and a half years. They are engaged to be married at 19 years old.

“We definitely have prayed about our relationship and we felt that this is the right thing for us to do,” Wheat said. “The way we got together was totally a God thing.”

With people like Wheat getting married so young, at least according to the national standard, is

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These feminists, and others who share the same view, believe that Ring by Spring interferes with women successfully completing their collegiate studies and becoming independent.

While those like Patton, who approve of Ring by Spring, believe that women will never have so many eligible and like-minded men from which to select a mate, and that it would be foolish to not take advantage of the opportunity.

Regardless of all of the opinions and statistics and what many may think of Ring by Spring, the words spoken by the bride-to-be, Sunderland, are an example of the thoughts of those who follow through with this unofficial Baylor tradition.

“I think we were just ready,” Sunderland said. “And maybe some people aren’t. If you really focus on maturing in Jesus and setting a foundation for the rest of your life, come senior year, you just might be ready to settle down.”

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War vets fire opinions on open carry bill, gun restrictions A patchwork of American gun laws

By Tori Hittner Guest Contributor

It’s a straight shot north on I-35 until you reach exit 343 toward Elm Mott. Hang a right at the corner Dairy Queen and drive half a mile until you see the old white sign. You can’t miss it.

Tucked away on a nondescript side road, the small building doesn’t look like much at first. Your initial reaction of indifference won’t last long.

The sloping parking lot gives way to a single door with a bold print sign reading “Bar Entrance.” A handful of glinting motorcycles rest under the awning, an intimidating concentration of streamlined metal and muscle.

Inside, smoky haze drifts around neon signs and simple tables and chairs. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers blare in the background, filling the room with assertions that they “won’t back down.”

This startling oasis of motorcycles and classic rock is the American Legion Post 121 of Waco. It may seem like an unlikely venue, but it’s home to elementary school programs, ice cream socials and oratorical scholarship contests. It’s also home to some very special people.

The American Legion Unit 121 consists of a diverse group of veterans from the Waco area who provide vital support for each other in life after combat. These men and women aim to make their community a better place and consistently offer their time and services to those in need. Underneath the tough exterior of denim and leather lies a bond of friendship and compassion that not only brings solidarity into their own lives, but joy into the community, as well.

The tough biker personas may be convincing, but they’re not meant to be. It is simply how these veterans cope with the calamities they have seen. In light of the recent tragedies that devastated the nation, it stands to reason that if we are looking for opinions on key issues such as gun control, we need look no further than our very own veterans.

They are the ones who have seen firsthand what firearms—and the people wielding them—can do. They’re the ones who fought so that we as Americans could even have this discussion and make new laws in order to enact change. They’re the ones we should turn to when faced with important issues regarding the handling of weapons.

It is no secret that Texas has been a historically pro-Second Amendment state.

Texas boasts some of the most lenient gun restrictions in the Union, yet is one of the few remaining states to restrict the open carry of firearms. Unsurprisingly, multiple open carry bills have been proposed in the past decade, but have had little success. The congressional session of 2013 seems likely to push another open carry bill through committee—perhaps all the way to the House floor.

Reps. George Lavender and Chris Paddie co-wrote and sponsor the 2013 bill, dubbed “HB 700.” Essentially, the bill seeks to modify existing Texas law that prohibits the unconcealed carry of a firearm in public. The proposed changes include the words “and unconcealed” after any law pertaining to “concealed” firearms, defining a legal unconcealed firearm as a “loaded or unloaded handgun carried upon the person in a shoulder or belt holster.” Holsters must have at

least two points of resistance and be either wholly or partially visible. Having recently been introduced to the House Committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety, the bill, if pushed through, must be put on the legislative calendar and then reach the floor for a full vote of the House.

Not all are in favor of the bill, however. In light of recent firearm-related national tragedies, many citizens question whether the expansion of gun rights is prudent. Like the state of Texas itself, the local veterans of Unit 121 were divided over the issue of open carry.

Billy Elkins, 64, the commander of Unit 121, would be the first to welcome you into the Post. His easy smile and affable personality could make anyone feel at home. His unwavering convictions would also make him a force to be reckoned with.

“The Second Amendment is there for a reason: to protect ourselves. I’ve got to protect my family too.”

Harold Shilling | Vietnam veteran

Elkins did not hesitate to support the idea of open carry. “The more visible the better. If you’re in a store and a thief walks in and sees a gun, they’re going to think twice before they rob the store.”

Having served 21 years in the Army and Reserves, Elkins finds the proposed bill to be a natural extension of the Second Amendment.

“That’s what we fought for,” Elkins said.

“That’s what we went to Vietnam, Korea, World War I, World War II, Desert Storm, Afghanistan, and Iraq for: for our rights, to keep America free.”

Fellow veteran Brent Dodd, 40, heartily agreed. “I fought for my rights. I fought for my kids’ rights. And I don’t like them infringed upon.”

Dodd served in both the Navy and Reserves and raised his sons to hold a healthy “respect” for firearms, teaching the boys proper care and handling. According to Dodd, open carry is not only practical but necessary for protection.

“The law-abiding citizens that actually go and take the courses and are legal to carry are not the ones committing the crimes,” Dodd said. “So it’s actually going to be a protection for them. If you can open carry, just the sight of it—you’d never have to pull it. If they can see it, they’re not going to mess with you.

They’re not going to mess with anyone around you.”

Vietnam veteran Harold Shilling echoed the sentiments of his fellow Legionnaires, supporting the idea of open carry in Texas. Shilling claimed that “at 64, I’ve seen a lot.” And seen a lot he has. After two years in the Army, Shilling returned to Waco where he worked for the Texas Department of Transportation.

Only a handful of years later, he witnessed another “gruesome” tragedy that remains “embedded” in his memory: the aftermath of the raid upon the Branch Davidian compound. It was traumatic events such as this that shaped Shilling’s opinion regarding open carry.

“You can’t stop a man with a gun with a knife. But if he knows that you have a gun and he has a gun, he’s not as apt,” Shilling said.

“The Second Amendment is there for a reason: to protect ourselves. I’ve got to protect my family, too.”

Not all the Legionnaires were so in favor of open carry. Both Chad Williams, 43, and Lee Mitchell, 57, urged caution when debating gun rights. Williams, who quipped he had been a “passer, not a catcher” of bullets as a Navy Seabee, believes that “any gun that has the capacity of over ten rounds needs to be off the market.” Military experience taught him that guns are dangerous tools made even more deadly in the hands of the wrong people.

“There are a lot of people out here who will be willing to shoot you over spilled milk,” Williams said. “We’ll have more murders.”

Mitchell, too, cited human error and unpredictability as reasons open carry may not be the safest option. After 20 years of service in the Army, “I know how people are with their tempers. I could see where it could be a deterrent, but I can also see that it could lead to bad things happening if people can’t control their tempers.”

The veterans at Post 121 may not all have agreed on the overall prudence of the open carry bill, but they seemed to unknowingly find something the public has yet to learn: compromise. Though spoken to separately, the Legionnaires found common ground in several key areas.

Nearly every contacted veteran asserted that our most concentrated efforts for reform should be focused on the people themselves, not their weapons.

“It’s the person, not the gun,” Elkins said.

“Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.

The guns don’t do it unless you have a person pulling the trigger. They could come and take every gun the honest person has and there are still going to be guns on the street. And they’re going to be with the bad guys.”

Williams and Mitchell, though opposed to open carry, voiced thoughts similar to their post commander.

“We need to increase background checks and try to catch people…before they get the gun,” Mitchell pointed out. “It seems like all of the problems we’ve had with guns have been people that never should have had the guns in the first place. If we would have had the background checks in place that were effective, these may not have happened.”

No matter what the ultimate decision in Texas, fellow Legionnaire Williams believes that the national gun debate will be “a neverending battle.”

Ana Martinez, 43, knows from personal experience that gun policy changes must be made.

A small arms specialist in the Army during Desert Storm, Martinez believes that “anyone who owns a weapon should have some kind of military background training more than just that for a CHL [concealed handgun license].”

Martinez said she understands that there will be those who “fall through the cracks” of any policy, but strongly suggests we try to make a difference by spreading gun safety education among the public.

“It’s a hard question, and I don’t think there’s a right answer,” Martinez said. “I’ve seen good things and bad things. There’s a lot of power in carrying a weapon, but there’s also a lot of responsibility.”

Shots fired in Houston area airport; suspect killed on site

By Michael Graczyk Associated Press

HOUSTON — A man who had fired a gun inside a ticketing area at Houston’s largest airport was killed after being confronted by a law enforcement official during an incident that sent people in the terminal scrambling and screaming, police said Thursday.

It’s unclear if the man fatally shot himself or was killed by a Homeland Security agent who had confronted him, said Houston police spokesman Kese Smith. The man’s name was not released by police, but they said he was about 30-years-old.

Police say the man walked into the ticketing area in Terminal B at Bush Intercontinental Airport around 1:35 p.m. and fired at least one shot into the air. The agent, who was in his office, came out and confronted the man, telling him to drop his weapon, but the man refused, police said.

“The suspect then turned toward the special agent. The special agent, fearing for his safety and all the passengers in the terminal, discharged his weapon at the same time it appears the suspect may have shot himself,” Smith said.

The man died at the scene. An autopsy will be conducted Friday.

Police would not say what kind of weapon the man had.

The terminal was closed immediately after the shooting. But later Thursday, parts of the terminal

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Airport security members divert traffic at Terminal B at Bush Intercontinental Airport on Thursday after shots were fired.

were reopened to passengers. The rest of the airport remained open after the shooting.

Darian Ward, a spokeswoman for the Houston Airport System, said some passengers who were scheduled to leave from Terminal B were rerouted to other terminals.

Dale Howard, of Tomball, was at the baggage handling area of the airport waiting for his sister to arrive on an incoming flight when he heard two shots fired from the floor above. A few seconds later, he said he heard three more shots.

“People were screaming. I knew exactly what it was — gunfire,” Howard said.

Police from an adjacent station rushed in, and Howard said he di-

rected them to the floor above.

Greg Newburn, who was in the terminal waiting for a flight to Oklahoma City, said he was sitting in a cafe area when he heard two gunshots and after a pause, several more.

“It seemed like quite a few shots.

Everyone was scrambling, running left and running right, turning tables up and hiding behind tables.

Nobody knew what was happening. I couldn’t tell where the shots were coming from,” he said.

Newburn, from Gainesville, Fla., said it took him a few seconds to realize that the shots had come from the ticketing area, near the security checkpoint.

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Blown away Students form various Waco elementary schools gather at the Dr Pepper Museum to commemorate the 60th anniversary of a tornado that devastated the city in 1953. The disaster killed 114 people and injured nearly 600 others. The tornado rated an F5 of the Fujita scale, damaging nearly 1,000 buildings and destroying 600 more.

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VISTA lets volunteers go back to college ­... kind of

By Kara Blomquist Reporter

Serve America while still staying at Baylor: AmeriCorps VISTA members placed on Baylor’s campus have the opportunity to do just that.

AmeriCorps VISTA, Volunteers in Service to America, is a national program created to fight poverty. VISTA members serve for one year at either a nonprofit organization or a government agency. There are two available VISTA positions at Baylor, and only college graduates are eligible for the program. Benefits of the position include a modest living allowance and health care.

The AmeriCorps VISTA members placed at Baylor will work with the Office of Community Engagement and Service. The contract for both jobs is from July 2013-July 2014. Current VISTA members say their time at Baylor serving the university and the Waco community through AmeriCorps VISTA has taught them a lot.

Poverty education AmeriCorps VISTA member Chloe Toohey graduated from Centre College, a small liberal arts university in Kentucky, in May 2012 and said she wasn’t sure what her next step should be.

“I was like, ‘Hmm, what am I doing with my life?’” she said. “I wanted

“What appealed to me was the fact that I could serve at Baylor and really make an impact on the community that I had grown fond of through four years at Baylor.”

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Chloe Toohey, poverty education AmeriCorps VISTA member, joined the program after graduating from Centre College, a small liberal

to take a year off before going back to school, and I wanted to have a meaningful experience during that year.”

Toohey said she was attracted to the VISTA position at Baylor because it incorporated many of her interests.

“I really like how it melded the passions I had for not only poverty and homelessness, but also my passion for student affairs and pursuing that professionalism,” she said. “This was an invaluable experience to have under my belt.”

AmeriCorps VISTA member for community development Randall Fowler, a Baylor alumnus, said the fact that the job was at Baylor is what initially attracted him to the position.

“Really what appealed to me was the fact that I could serve at Baylor and really make an impact on the community that I had grown fond of through four years at Baylor,” he said. “I learned to love Waco and really liked this place. So it was really a way for me to get plugged in here.”

Fowler said his work with both the community and student organizations on campus has helped him expand his worldview.

“It’s been really cool to be able to get the bigger picture, for me, and be able to learn more about Baylor and learn more about service and help connect student groups together,” he said.

Fowler will be taking his widened worldview to Amman, Jordan, where he will teach English as a part of the Fulbright program. He applied

arts university in Kentucky. She is currently serving at Baylor. to the program last year but was put on the alternate list.

“So I decided to do this and then reapplied this year and got in,” he said. “I joke that AmeriCorps made all the difference.”

Graduates who aren’t sure of their future plans should consider applying for an AmeriCorps position, Fowler said.

One of the open positions at Baylor involves working with the re-entry of ex-offenders into society and working with the Parent Resource Centers in Waco ISD, said Mary Katherine Leslie-Van Hook, project coordinator and office manager for the Office of Community Engagement and Service.

The other VISTA member will work with the Heart of Texas Urban Gardening Coalition, she said. This person will also help with the Campus Kitchens Project at Baylor.

Leslie-Van Hook said applicants should apply as soon as possible. The deadline is May 10.

“We are already looking at applicants right now,” she said.

Students can find more information at: https:// my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/search.do.

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for each promotion.

“I’m clocked in for 15 hours each week, but I also do a bit of work outside of hours answering emails and things like that,” Bosiacki said.

Bosiacki said her shift starts at 3:30 in the afternoon and she tries to get everyone out by 8:30 p.m.

The latest she has ever had to stay is 9:15.

“I live on campus, so the money I make at my job is just spending money, like if I need groceries or want to go shopping,” Bosiacki said.

Bosiacki said she would recommend a work-study job to students because of the convenience of oncampus jobs and the opportunities to move up.

“If you’re going to work, you may as well do it on campus,” Bosiacki said.

Baylor limits student hours to 20 hours per week while they are enrolled in classes to “protect the academic interests of the student.”

In an email, the Student Financial Aid Office said students are allowed to work more than 20 hours per week, but they must be paid for overtime, which is one and a half times their usual pay. Media communications director Lori Fogleman said students can work overtime in instances of single events or short-term need by a department.

Payroll alerts the financial aid office if a student works overtime, and the financial aid office contacts the department to make sure the student is receiving overtime pay.

They said they might recommend the department hire additional students if a student is regularly working over 20 hours per week.

According to the Student Financial Aid Office, students get paid every two weeks, though the federal requirements state students must only be paid once a month.

Students cannot receive their work-study amount before classes begin. The Student Financial Aid Office could not be reached for comment about why some student salaries are capped.

Fogleman said the recommended student wage is $7.25 per hour.

“Departments work with financial aid if there is a compelling need for a higher wage,” Fogleman said.

Garland senior Chloe Rose, a forensic anthropology major, works as a student supervisor for

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tionship with god.”

The Rhode Island legislation states that religious institutions may set their own rules regarding who is eligible to marry within the faith and specifies that no religious leader is obligated to officiate at any marriage ceremony and no religious group is required to provide facilities or services related to a gay marriage. While ministers already cannot be forced to marry anyone, the exemption helped assuage concerns from some lawmakers that clergy could face lawsuits for abiding by their religious convictions.

Under the new law, civil unions will no longer be available to samesex couples as of Aug. 1, though the state would continue to recognize existing civil unions. Lawmakers approved civil unions two years ago, though few couples have sought them.

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Grapevine freshman Austen Shearouse referees at an intramural softball game for his work study job.

Baylor Catering. She helps create student schedules, does paperwork at the Aramark office and helps train new employees.

She generally works 15-30 hours per week, depending on the number of events going on during a given week. If she works more than 20 hours in a week, she receives overtime pay.

She currently makes $7.80 per hour, and said students who work for the catering service receive a 15 cent raise each semester they work. She said she also received a raise when she became a student supervisor.

“The latest I’ve ever had to stay after an event during the school week was until about 11 or 11:30,” Rose said. “They’re good about letting students go early. They understand we have tests and classes and things like that.”

Rose said the latest she’s ever had to work is 2 a.m. after a football game.

“We started work late in the afternoon, and the football game starts at about 6 or 7, so it’s not like we work all day,” Rose said.

She said she generally makes enough per month to pay her rent, electricity and credit card bill. Her

parents help her pay for gas and groceries.

“Most people don’t know catering has seasons,” Rose said.

“From about December to February, there’s not a lot going on so my parents have to help me out more.”

Pickton junior Alyssa Miller said she works for the Executive office in the Sid Richardson building. She usually works 15 hours a week and receives minimum wage for her work. She said working as an office assistant does not provide opportunities for raises.

“I worked at Brookshire’s last semester in addition to my office job and school,” Miller said.

She said she did not return to her job at Brookshire’s this semester, so her parents help her pay bills.

“I usually make just enough to cover my rent,” Miller said. “I was supposed to have another person in my room at my apartment, but she ended up not being able to move in with me. So I pay half the rent myself.”

These experiences do not describe those of all students who participate in work-study, but they provide a snapshot of those students who choose to do so.

“Today a dream has come true. No more hiding in the shadows. No more being ashamed of who we are.”

Frank Ferri | Representative of R.I.

Delaware could be the next state to approve gay marriage.

Legislation legalizing same-sex marriage has narrowly passed the Delaware House and now awaits a vote in the state Senate.

Advocates in Rhode Island say that while they’re proud the state is the 10th to legalize gay marriage, they expect other states to follow quickly as support for same-sex marriage grows around the country. According to a November Gallup poll, 53 percent of Americans

support giving gay and lesbian couples the right to marry, up from 27 percent in 1996.

Rep. Frank Ferri, D-Warwick, who lobbied for gay marriage before becoming a lawmaker himself, recalled that years ago he asked a sitting lawmaker if he would consider supporting same-sex marriage. “He said, ‘I’ll pour gasoline on my head and light myself on fire before that bill passes,’” Ferri recalled. That has changed, said Ferri, who is gay. Ferri said he hopes House Speaker Gordon Fox — who is gay — can marry him and his partner on Aug. 1, the day the new law takes effect, which also happens to be the couple’s 32nd anniversary.

“Today a dream has come true,” he said. “No more hiding in the shadows. No more being ashamed of who we are.”

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of probation for a DWI is less than two years.

“The sentence lengths vary now,” Miller said. “But the average probation sentence for a DWI is 12-18 months.”

Miller said in addition to the monthly probation fees, a first offender must take a DWI class, which costs $75. Multiple offenders have to pay up to $300 for the class. A person on probation must notify a probation officer of all non-essential travel at least 48 hours before they intend to leave the county. All changes of residence, job, or employment must be reported to the probation officer within 72 hours.

Fees must be mailed in or taken directly to the McLennan County C.S.C.D. office, open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

There’s no online payment system and all mailed in payments must be cashier’s check or money order.

The state of Texas requires anyone convicted of a DWI to file a Financial Responsibility Insurance Certificate, also known as an SR-22, which costs about $70 per month. Lesser alcohol charges, such as minor in possession or minor consuming alcohol, are Class C misdemeanors and come with their own set of rules. Class C misdemeanors are finable-only offenses. If someone is charged, they could pay a fine up to $500.

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eight hours of community service on first offense. “Some students ask for more community service in lieu of the fine,” DeCluitt said.

Doak said a student could file for an expunction, or removal of a charge, if they receive a minor in possession or minor consuming alcohol charge, but they may have to hire a lawyer, which would be more expensive than the ticket itself. The court also requires filing fees. Ac-

cording to the McLennan County District Clerk Fees, the cost to file an expunction is $258, plus $18.50 for every agency the order is sent to. A charge could disqualify a student from certain jobs, such as federal law enforcement.

“It’s not devastating, but it’s costly and embarrassing,” Doak said. “I’ve never had a student come to me and tell me they’re proud of their charges.”

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and their college enrollment decisions.The IRS data retrieval form was rendered useless for the people this delay affected. The retrieval form simplifies the FAFSA application process as it takes information directly from the IRS. The retrieval form was implemented into the FAFSA process in January 2010.

The Department of Education realized that there was a need to simplify and streamline the FAFSA process in order to make it easier for families applying for aid.

The IRS issued a statement on the delays last month. They said that they were aware of a limited number of software company products that affected some taxpayers who filed form 8863, Education credits, between Feb. 14 and Feb. 22.

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This caused those tax returns to require more review by the IRS. The FAFSA website also acknowledged the delay.

In Baker’s statement, he listed what to do until the tax returns were in. The current federal deadline for the FAFSA is June 30.

However, in Texas, it depends on the school.

For example, Baylor has set a priority deadline of March 1.

As Baker said, a student can file an initial FAFSA with their copy of the tax return but without the processed return. After the tax return comes in, then the student can update their FAFSA with final, correct information.

If tax returns are late, the Department of Education said there are a number of ways

to approach this problem.

“We offer a tool online, and it’s called the FAFSA forecaster, “ Christine Isett, the Department of Education representative said. “And students are still able to apply the previous year’s tax information in there to get a better idea of an estimate of what they may be eligible for. Also, they can work with their financial aid office. The financial aid office can help them complete their FAFSA.” Isett said despite the delays, the correct information needs to be put onto the form.

“The FAFSA does require that you provide current year tax information,” she said.

“Although there are delays, we know eventually that information needs to be provided for verification purposes.”

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After 135 career wins, Baylor’s senior class moves on

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“Over the course of four years, you break down together and you pick each other back up. That is what makes us such a great unit.”

On Thursday, March 28, a few days before the Lady Bears’ upset by Louisville, senior center Brittney Griner did not realize the impact of her words.

As defending National Champions, the Lady Bears’ loss came as a surprise, but according to head coach Kim Mulkey, the loss should not define the six seniors’ collegiate careers.

“We were the most talented team this year,” Mulkey said. “The most talented teams don’t always win the championships.”

With 135 career wins, one National Championship, two Final Four visits, six Big 12 Championships, and a 40-0 record, among other achievements, no one can doubt the talent of the Lady Bears.

The six seniors – center Brittney Griner, guard Kimetria Hayden, guard Jordan Madden, forward Brooklyn Pope, student assistant Shanay Washington and forward Destiny Williams – have “led us in a golden age for Lady Bear basketball,” said athletic director Ian McCaw at the Lady Bear Appreciation Banquet on April 23.

However, Mulkey can recall the tough beginning of a young team full of All-Americans.

“When they were younger, it was a roller coaster,” Mulkey said.

“I’m thinking to myself, ‘This has to be what it is like to be married to this many women.’ I kept telling myself, ‘It is not going to be this bad when they grow up,’ and it evolved into a cohesive unit.”

This evolution required improvements from each teammate, such as Hayden’s guarding skills, Madden’s defense, and Griner’s control.

When Griner was a freshman, Mulkey warned her against missing a dunk that could have won a game, but by Griner’s senior year, Mulkey encouraged her to “go up and send a statement.”

“They have become so good together than sometimes it is OK to go up and intimidate,” Mulkey said. “It is good to coach them now as opposed to when they got here because Lord, that was stressful.”

Transformation is evident in the “quick-witted” Pope. Mulkey urged Pope to work on three things for her senior year – offensive rebounding, immediately “putting it back in,” and her defense – and Pope’s game statistics illustrate her effort towards improvement.

Shooting 55 percent from the field accompanied by 42 steals, the Most Improved Award winner earned a starting position on the lineup this year.

“Brooklyn improved so much in one year that it put her in a position to be drafted,” Mulkey said. “It was her buying into the system and doing what she does best.”

Pope, who graduated in December, was a third-round WNBA draft pick by the Chicago Sky. She describes her time at Baylor as “surprising.”

“No one really expected much,” Pope said. “But we all got a lot.”

Not every player’s story has such a happy ending. Along with Griner, Washington started for the Bears as a freshman, but had to retire due to many knee injuries.

“I told her then, ‘We’ll take care of you,’” Mulkey said. “’You’ll travel with us. You’ll sit on the bench. … You are a part of this team.’”

Senior night was especially emotional for the tearful Washington as she hugged Mulkey’s neck.

“She kept saying, ‘Coach, it wasn’t supposed to end this way,’” Mulkey said. “Life dealt her a tough blow.”

Washington graduates in May and will go to Kenya for the student athlete mission trip. She received the Coaches Award at the senior banquet.

In a teasing, light-hearted poem to introduce Mulkey during the banquet, Madden claimed to be Mulkey’s favorite.

“Jordan was one of the best I have ever coached in assigning her to a player and telling her, ‘Go stop her,’” Mulkey said. “She shuts

down the best players in the conferences.”

Madden, who received the Defensive Award, was second in steals this year. However, Madden did not stop as just a great defense player, but worked on her offense.

She shot 40 percent for 3-pointers and 54 percent for field goals.

She was also third for assists. Madden will graduate this summer with an opportunity to play professional basketball overseas.

As for Hayden, or “Nae Nae,” Mulkey describes her as stubborn.

While she “didn’t guard squat as a freshman,” she improved and became a great offensive rebounder.

She was No. 6 in games started at Baylor, No. 8 in assists, No. 10 in 3-pointers and free throw percentage, and No. 25 in scores overall, with more than 1,100 points in her career.

The Melissa Jones Hustle and Courage Award recipient graduates in May and also has the opportunity to play overseas.

As for the legacy the seniors will leave behind, Hayden hopes they are remembered for every moment.

“We did it all,” Hayden said. “I want them to remember not just the great thing, not just the bad thing, but everything – not just the 40-0 or the loss.”

Williams, a transfer from Illinois, had to sit out a year, but being in the starting lineup for the Lady Bears’ 40-0 season was worth it.

The Big 12 Conference Sixth Man Award recipient appreciates the wins and the losses the team has experienced.

“No matter how many battles we had or how many people wanted us to lose … they can’t take away the joy and happiness that we did have on this team,” Williams said. “We were a hardworking bunch and did not take anything for granted, no matter what happened.”

Mulkey describes Williams as a “quiet producer” and “deceptively good at rebounding on the offensive end.” She was awarded the Lady Bear Award and is on track to graduate in May. Though Mulkey

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claims Williams should have been drafted, Williams’ future for basketball will be a WNBA camp or playing overseas.

As for the Co-MVP and Rebound Award winner, Griner, Mulkey was speechless.

“I don’t know what I could tell you tonight that has not been written, has not come out of my mouth, hasn’t been said by most of you about Brittney Griner,” Mulkey said at the banquet. “Brittney Griner changed the way I coached the game.”

The No. 1 WNBA draft pick, the holder of numerous records, and the standout-dunking center, Griner has been a game changer for women’s basketball.

Despite all of her impressive statistics and records, Mulkey highlighted Griner’s commitment to Baylor by playing all four years, despite opportunities to play overseas, while associate head coach Bill Brock spoke of her character.

“Two of the things I will always

remember about B.G. is this – one, she never back-talked me in any situation in coaching,” Brock said.

“Second thing, every day she gave effort in practice.”

Griner is on track to graduate in May. She has said that she will miss the Baylor fans, being on campus, and being friends with fellow classmates.

As for what Baylor will miss about Brittney?

“My smile and personality,” Griner said with a goofy grin.

“Her free spirit!” Mulkey interjected.

Griner was the WNBA’s No. 1 draft pick for the Phoenix Mercury, the first time in Baylor history.

As for the future relationship of these six seniors, they plan on staying connected.

“I came in not knowing anyone,” Williams said. “I had the chance to get to know a group of young ladies and got to become lifelong friends.”

Pope, Hayden and Williams

all agreed on the value of social media to stay in touch, as well as texting, phone calls, the occasional get-together, or even a basketball matchup.

“We [Chicago Sky] will play Brittney the first game of the season,” Pope said.

With such a well-rounded group of athletes led by a passionate coach, one cannot doubt they will all be successful, in whatever path they choose.

“Coach mentored us in the right way,” Williams said. “She got us to be successful on and off the court, by getting a degree and also winning a national championship.

You’ll always be thankful for having a woman so selfless.”

The 2012-2013 Lady Bears basketball team, led by six seniors, will leave behind a legacy far greater than the final buzzer.

“I think throughout the four years of their career here, they will be talked about long, long from now,” Mulkey said.

Lady Bears take down Texas Tech 8-2

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Junior catcher Clare Hosack prepares to round third base Thursday night against Texas Tech.

In an unusually cold evening, the No. 15 Baylor Lady Bears took care of business with an 8-2 win over Texas Tech on Thursday at Getterman Stadium. The chilly weather didn’t seem to faze the Lady Bears who came out of the dugout with energy.

The Lady Bears scored in four of the six innings of play with everyone in the starting lineup having at least one hit, with the exception of junior left-handed pitcher Whitney Canion. However, Canion made up for it through her solid pitching.

Despite allowing seven walks, Canion allowed four hits and two runs while striking out 12 batters.

With runners on bases on multiple occasions, Canion got critical strikeouts to prevent significant damage.

“We were mixing them up quite

a bit,” Canion said. “Once I got that change up going, that was pretty nice, but it was nice like that last inning I threw, you work ahead and get out of it quick. I thought my change up was key tonight.”

Junior catcher Clare Hosack made head coach Glenn Moore proud going 3-for-2 and scored two runs.

“I was really happy with Clare Hosack,” Moore said. “That was one of her better outings. Top of the order, bottom of the order, when you can score in any part of your order you feel pretty good about it.”

Baylor jumped out on top in the first inning capitalizing on the early mistakes made by Texas Tech.

Senior center fielder Kathy Shelton began the game by reaching on an error by the second baseman and stole second shortly after to become just one steal shy of Baylor’s single-season record for

stolen bases.

After a sacrifice bunt and a ground out, freshman third baseman Sarah Smith reached on an error by the shortstop, and Shelton advanced to third.

With two outs, freshman outfielder Linsey Hays hit a two-run double down the left field line giving Baylor an early lead.

“Coach came in the locker room and told us whoever wants to be out there least is going to lose,” Hays said. “So we made sure we were energized and ready and wanted to jump on them early and get them down.”

The Texas Tech pitching staff struggled and only managed one strikeout between the three pitchers that took the circle during the game.

The Lady Bears’ offense was consistent and continually scored runs. However, Baylor did strand runners on every base during the second inning after back-to-back

advances on fielder’s choice.

Texas Tech continued fighting.

The Lady Raiders ability to draw walks and get on bases haunted the Lady Bears in the fifth inning.

With a seven run lead, Texas Tech scored two runs, which resulted from two leadoff walks. With runners at first and second, Canion threw a critical strikeout to end the inning.

The Lady Raiders cut the lead down to five, but the Lady Bears responded.

Hosack singled to left field after a popped ball to shortstop. With Shelton on base after being hit by the pitch, junior first baseman Holly Holl singled to right field allowing Hosack to score.

After a ground ball, Baylor did it’s job on defense to silence the Lady Raiders.

Baylor will look to clinch the series win against Texas Tech at 6:30 p.m. tonight at Getterman Stadium.

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Bears to battle weather, Jayhawks in upcoming series

By Daniel Hill Sports Writer

The Baylor Bears have been on a hot streak recently, riding a fivegame winning streak and coming out as the victors in 14 of their last 19 contests.

The Bears look to continue the winning trend this weekend when they travel to Lawrence for a threegame series against the Kansas Jayhawks.

The Jayhawks are sitting in fifth place in the Big 12 with a 9-9 conference record and are 27-18 overall.

“Well, I’ve been following Kansas from afar all season and my thinking, long before today, has been that they looked like they were sizing up to be one of the better teams in our league because of the whole balance of their team,” head coach Steve Smith said.

“They’ve got all three starters coming back on the mound, which is always a good thing. They have got some experience in the lineup and they are always good defensively.”

Not only will the Bears be facing a challenging team in the Jayhawks, but they will also have to handle adverse conditions in Lawrence with cold weather. The forecast for Friday through Sunday in Lawrence calls for some chilly baseball weather with highs in

the 40s and lows in the 30s with a chance of rain and snow.

“We’ve had a few too many games so far this year in the cold,” senior first baseman Steve DalPorto said. “I’m looking forward to some warm weather but you know, we’re just going to take it one pitch at a time and the cold won’t affect us because they are going to be playing in it too.”

The Bears have played in cold weather before this season in Stillwater against Oklahoma State, so they know how to handle the cold.

Despite the experience, playing baseball in the cold is anything but ideal.

“Some people like it and some people don’t,” senior right-handed pitcher Max Garner said. “I usually don’t have a problem staying loose or anything like that, and hitters hate it so that’s good enough for me. It’s kind of just personal opinion or whatever. I don’t mind it and I know [sophomore right-handed pitcher Austin] Stone doesn’t care so we’re just going to go up there and try to throw the ball as well as we have thrown it these last couple of weeks.”

One of the reasons Baylor has been enjoying success on the diamond recently is because of the added production from the entire lineup.

Throughout Tuesday’s 6-4 win

against UT Arlington, the back end of the lineup played a major role. The six through nine hitters accounted for four RBIs. Sophomore designated hitter Duncan Wendel drove in two runs.

Sophomore center fielder Adam Toth was 3-4 with a run and an RBI. Toth is now hitting .252 on the season.

“It’s really good to see Toth start to get his game going,” Smith said.

“He’s playing with more confidence. I think you know, it’s amazing to me how much more confident he plays when he plays center field.”

Senior first baseman Steve DalPorto was 3-4 with an RBI and a run. DalPorto has a .250 batting average for the year.

“What DalPorto has done, really doesn’t surprise me just because I’ve seen it so many times from guys who were seniors,” Smith said.

“The game slows down for them and that’s what he’s doing. He’s having the best part of his game right now and he’s really been good at first base, which at the beginning of the year, was as big of a question mark as we had.”

Baylor is currently second to Oklahoma in the Big 12 standings.

The Sooners are 10-5 (.667) in Big 12 play and the Bears are 11-6 with a .647 winning percentage.

With only six Big 12 games left,

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Baylor swept the three-game series.

Baylor wants a back-to-back Big 12 title, but first they must take care of Kansas.

“We are going up there and expecting a lot of close games,” Gar-

ner said. “You can say whatever you want about the cold, but they don’t like it either, even though they are from there. We are probably going to expect some low scoring games

Football poised for another successful season

By Daniel Hill Sports Writer

Coming off of a third-straight bowl game appearance and second straight bowl win, Baylor football is still hungry for something more: a Big 12 Championship.

Sports TAke Baylor has never won a Big 12 Championship, but this season I think that will change. From top to bottom, this could be the best roster the Bears have ever fielded with head coach Art Briles at the helm.

Everyone knows Robert Griffin III, the program’s first Heisman Memorial Trophy winner.

Last year Balyor fans were skeptical about how Nick Florence could replace RG3, then Florence set a school-record for passing yards in a season with 4,309 yards through the air.

This season, junior quarterback Bryce Petty will be the next tal-

ented athlete to takeover behind center for the Bears.

Petty is wildly athletic and has a huge frame at 6 feet 3 inches tall and 230 pounds. He has a powerful arm and is mature after learning behind RG3 and Florence.

Petty has been patiently awaiting his turn to be the starting quarterback, and now that he is the big man on campus, I think he’ll blossom on the gridiron this fall. Nick Florence’s school record might not be safe for too long with Petty.

To help Petty out, the Bears have a strong and cohesive line of scrimmage.

Redshirt sophomore Spencer Drango returns to start at left tackle. Second-team All-American left guard Cyril Richardson is the anchor of the offensive line. Senior Kelvin Palmer is slated to start at center and senior Stefan Huber should step in at right guard. Junior Troy Baker injured his knee in spring practices, but once he is healthy he will return to solidify the right tackle position.

The left side of the offensive line

will be the stronghold of the unit.

Behind Drango and Richardson, junior running back Lache Seastrunk and senior running back Glasco Martin will shoulder the load of Baylor’s ground game.

Last season, Seastrunk broke the 1,000-yard rushing barrier, and Martin ran for 889 yards. The two backs were not featured in the Baylor offense until late in the season though.

Once Seastrunk and Martin started to become the unquestioned go-to backs for Baylor, the offense ignited. That’s why it’s no coincidence that the Bears won six of their last seven games.

Don’t forget the explosive group of Baylor receivers. Speedy senior receiver Tevin Reese returns after posting 957 yards receiving last season.

Talented junior receivers Levi Norwood and Antwan Goodley will both step up in the offense and make an impact in the passing game. Senior tight ends Jordan Najvar and Jerod Monk bring leadership, experience and toughness to

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Defensively, the Bears struggled mightily last season, but the Bears turned it around late in the season by dominating No. 1 Kansas State and by absolutely wrecking shop against UCLA in the Holiday Bowl with six sacks.

The Bears’ defense should continue to build upon its late-season 2012 successes to lead into 2013.

Key returning defensive members are senior safety Ahmad Dixon, senior safety Sam Holl, senior defensive end Chris McAllister, senior defensive end Terrence Lloyd, junior linebacker Bryce Hager and senior linebacker Eddie Lackey.

The Bears return seven starters to a defense that should be one of the better units in the Big 12.

Baylor football has been on an upward trajectory for the last three years. This is the season where it all comes together and Baylor wins the Big 12. Not only is Baylor rising, but the Big 12 has no clear-cut favorite this season. The title is open for a team like Baylor.

Texas is not what it once was.

The Longhorns haven’t been a relevant Big 12 contender in years. Oklahoma is losing starting quarterback Landry Jones and the Sooners got crushed by Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl, 41-13.

Kansas State loses the face of its team in quarterback Collin Klein.

West Virginia no longer has Geno Smith at quarterback or electrifying receivers Stedman Bailey and Tavon Austin.

With talent at quarterback, studs at runningback, electric receivers, a rock solid offensive line and an improved defense, 2013 will be Baylor’s year on the gridiron in the Big 12.

With head coach Art Briles, Baylor won four games in 2009, seven in 2010, ten in 2011 and eight in 2012.

This coming season is where Baylor will make it to the mountaintop and take the Big 12 throne.

With the rest of the Big 12 taking a step down, it’s time for the Bears to step up, seize the moment and win the first ever Big 12 championship in Baylor football history.

and just try to pullout a couple of wins. It’s not going to be pretty up there when it’s thirty-something degrees so we just have to find a way.”

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Texas Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus fields a ground ball hit by Chicago White Sox’s Paul Konerko Wednesday night in the eight inning of a baseball game in Arlington. Andrus threw to first for the out. The White Sox won 5-2.

Rangers fall to White Sox 3-1

By Schuyler Dixon Associated Press ARLINGTON — Hector Santiago allowed two in five-plus innings filling in for Jake Peavy on Thursday night, Tyler Flowers hit a three-run homer and the Chicago White Sox beat Texas 3-1, handing the Rangers their first series loss of the season.

Flowers’ drive just inside the foul pole in left field was the third straight hit after Texas right-hander Justin Grimm (2-1) retired 10 in a row on the day he was named AL rookie of the month.

Adrian Beltre’s homer in the second was the only hit through five innings against Santiago (1-1), who had six strikeouts and two walks in 5 1-3 innings. The left-hander made his first start of the season and fifth of his career after Peavy was scratched because of back spasms.

Addison Reed pitched around two of Chicago’s eight walks, striking out the side in the ninth for his 10th

save and second in two nights.

The coldest May game at Rangers Ballpark came just three weeks after the coldest day game there — and the Rangers lost both.

The game-time temperature of 44 was 37 degrees cooler than the previous night. It was a 40-degree difference on April 10, when the temperature at first pitch was 39 degrees for 2-0 loss to Tampa Bay in a day game after it had been 79 the night before.

The Rangers were the last team in the majors without a series loss, but now they’ve gone two series without winning after splitting four games with Minnesota last weekend. The White Sox won two straight after Texas took the opener.

Grimm, who had a 1.59 ERA in three April starts to earn rookie of the month honors, was cruising with two outs in the sixth when Conor Gillaspie and Alexei Ramirez singled before Flowers drove a hanging breaking ball for his fourth homer of the season.

After walking three in the first 2 1-3 innings, Grimm didn’t give up another free pass and tied his career high of nine strikeouts set last month against Seattle. He allowed six hits in 6 2-3 innings.

Santiago, whose first seven appearances this season were in relief, gave up his second hit when Ian Kinsler doubled with one out in the sixth, and he was replaced by Matt Lindstrom after walking Elvis Andrus. Lindstrom threw a wild pitch and walked Lance Berkman to load the bases, but got Beltre to ground into an inning-ending double play.

Beltre had another chance to do some damage in the eighth but struck out on a slow breaking ball from Jesse Crain.

The White Sox trailed 1-0 in the third when they loaded the bases with one out on singles by Alejandro De Aza and Adam Dunn and a walk to Alex Rios. But Grimm struck out Paul Konerko and Gillaspie on six strikes in seven pitches.

NEW ORLEANS — Johnny Manziel has decided he’s not going to allow the pitfalls of fame stop him from having a good time, forging friendships with rival quarterbacks or even going back to class — in person.

As for the pressure inherent in living up to the Heisman Trophy standard he set for himself in only his first season as quarterback at Texas A&M, isn’t concerned about that, either.

“I’m not thinking about it. I’m just going out and playing football and doing the things I’ve always done,” Manziel said Thursday, when he visited New Orleans to accept the Manning Award, which recognizes the nation’s top college quarterback. “The success that we had last year — I wasn’t worried about my own individual success.

I was just worried about going out and playing football and trying to learn the system and get better.”

Following a memorable, highlight-filled regular season in which he accounted for 4,600 total yards, Manziel became the first freshman ever to win the Heisman Trophy — then racked up an additional 516 total yards in a 41-13 Cotton Bowl victory over Oklahoma.

And then the player sometimes called Johnny Football found out how public his private life could really be.

He was famously photographed partying in a Dallas nightclub with a sparkler in his mouth as if it were a cigar while flexing both biceps.

Other photos showed him holding what looked like a bottle of Champagne, raising questions about whether Manziel, now 20, was partaking in under-age drinking.

Another showed him triumphantly fanning out a wad of cash at a casino; he later noted on his Twitter page is legal for someone 18 or older to gamble at a casino.

Even his decision to take classes online last semester became controversial . Manziel has said his decision to limit himself exclusively to the virtual classroom was a reaction to the attention he was receiving on campus while simply walking to class, and he added Thursday that he expects to return to regular classes this summer and next fall.

“It was just one semester — something that I needed and wanted to do,” he said.

Manziel said he’s adjusting better to life as a celebrity, and is trying not to let it change him much.

“I continue to slip up every now and then with people that you think you can trust and you really can’t, so I’m continuing to learn things every day,” he said.

“I’m still having a good time. I know that. I’m not letting any of that factor into my life and what I want to do,” he continued. “There might be some cameras here and there and some things like that, but I’m going to continue to still go to some basketball games, continue to still do things I want to do, just be smart while I’m doing it.”

That includes making friends with Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron, who during the season will be among the players standing between Texas A&M and a chance at a Southeastern Conference championship or more.

“Once football season comes around, that’s when it becomes rivals,” Manziel said. “Off the field, we’re all 20, 21-year-old kids just enjoying going to school, playing football and like doing the same things. Me and him have talked on Twitter, exchanged numbers and still continue to talk every couple weeks. So I’m maybe building a little bit of a friendship there, maybe going on a trip together this summer some time or just trying to be friends and hang out and have fun.”

This July, Manziel plans to serve as a counselor at the Manning Passing Academy in Thibodaux,

La., where he was a camper while in high school.

Manning said he looks forward to having Manziel back in a new role.

In introducing Manziel to a luncheon crowd gathered for the Manning Award trophy presentation at the Manning family’s downtown restaurant, Archie Manning talked of how extraordinary he thought it was for Manziel to do what he did in his first season in the SEC, a conference renowned not only for its string of national champions, but also for defenses loaded with NFL prospects.

Manning highlighted Manziel’s performance against Arkansas, in which the Aggie QB compiled 557 total yards.

“That day he broke a 43-yearold Southeastern Conference record set by an Ole Miss quarterback in 1969 vs. Alabama,” Manning said, referring to his own 540-yard performance against the Crimson Tide. “Thanks a hell of a lot, Johnny.”

Manning and Manziel both said they were aware of comparisons made of their free-wheeling, scrambling style of play.

Manning said Manziel’s 2012 season was among the best he’d ever seen for a college quarterback and was flattered to hear people say Manziel reminded them of his days at Ole Miss. Manziel, meanwhile, said being compared to Archie Manning is “awesome,” and an honor.

Manziel will be eligible to enter the NFL draft after his next season.

He said he’ll make that decision with family and his Texas A&M coaches when the time is right.

Manning, who is routinely asked for advice by top college players’ said his only advice would be that if a quarterback in the SEC is not a lock as a top-10 pick, he should consider how an extra year in the conference might help.

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McIlroy opens with 67 at Wells Fargo Championship

By Doug Ferguson Associated Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — For all the talk about the greens, Rory McIlroy’s most important club was his driver Thursday in the Wells Fargo Championship.

McIlroy kept the ball in play at Quail Hollow and gave himself plenty of birdie chances on a cloudy, soft afternoon. He ran off six birdies in a seven-hole stretch around the turn and finished with an 8-foot birdie putt for a 5-under 67 to share the lead with six other players.

It was the first time this year McIlroy has been atop the leaderboard after any round, and the first time he broke par in the opening round.

“Now that I feel like I’m swinging it well, this is the sort of golf I expect to play,” McIlroy said.

Nick Watney, Ryan Moore, Robert Garrigus and PGA Tour rookie Derek Ernst shot 67 in the morning. Daniel Summerhays and Nate Smith, a Monday qualifier, joined McIlroy by posting their 67s in the afternoon.

Phil Mickelson and Lucas Glover were in a large group at 68, with 19-year-old Jordan Spieth in another big group at 69.

The talk going into the Wells Fargo Championship was the shape of the greens.

Two of the putting surfaces had to be entirely replaced by sod just a week ago — the 10th green had to be sodded twice — and the other greens were ragged. Some had ugly patches of brown where there was no grass.

But they weren’t as bad as players feared, and there wasn’t much public grumbling, mainly because Quail Hollow has a history of being in pristine shape and

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Phil Mickelson, left, talks with Tim Jennings, center, and Donnell Baker, right, on the second green during the pro-am of the Wells Fargo Championship golf tournament Wednesday at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C.

players seemed willing to accept this is an exceptionally bad year.

“It was fine,” Boo Weekley said after his 68. “First off, they were pretty smooth. It ain’t 100 percent, but I mean they’re good enough to play golf on.”

The bigger problem was cool, soft conditions that made Quail Hollow seem longer than usual. That’s why McIlroy was so pleased with missing only three fairways.

The greens weren’t smooth, but they were soft enough that getting into position off the tee was pivotal in setting up birdie chances.

“They’re not the best greens that we’ve ever putted on, but they’re certainly not the worst, either,” McIlroy said. “The ball still rolls pretty well on them. As long as you give yourself chances for birdies, that’s all you can ask. ... If you drive the ball well, you can really take advantage of that. And for the most part today, I did drive the ball well.”

McIlroy got into the mix quickly with four straight birdies — two of them on the par 5s, a 7-iron to 3 feet on the par-3 sixth hole, and a big drive on the short, par-4 eighth that left him a flip wedge into about 3 feet. A tee shot that found the rough on the ninth led to bogey, but the world’s No. 2 player bounced back with an up-anddown birdie on the par-5 10th and an approach into 8 feet on the 11th for another birdie.

His biggest scare came on the 18th, when McIlroy looked nervously down the left side of the fairway as the ball flirted with the winding creek, barely clearing the water. From there, he hit 8-iron that stopped close to where it landed, and he made an 8-foot putt that bounced more than it rolled.

It’s just one round, though it feels like a long way from a few months ago. The start to the season for McIlroy was marked by a missed cut, a first-round loss in the Match Play Championship, walking out of the Honda Classic from frustration after 27 holes and loads of speculation about his decision to change equipment after last year.

Thursday was another step in the right direction.

“It’s big strides because my game wasn’t where it should have been at all at the start of the year,” McIlroy said. “Got into a couple of bad habits on my swing, and it just took me a little bit of time to get out of them.”

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Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, watches his tee shot on the fourth hole during the first round of the Wells Fargo Championship golf tournament Thursday at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C.

One tweak he made after the Masters with swing coach Michael Bannon was to keep his hips more stable.

Garrigus missed only two greens and figures he should be have been twice as much under par as he was.

“I absolutely striped it all day,” Garrigus said. “I could have shot 10 or 11 under today if I had made some putts. I was hitting it really close all day. I didn’t get frustrated.

I just kept hitting it. I’m very confident right now and hitting it really well.”

Summerhays and Smith each reached 6 under until bogeys on the 17th hole. Smith missed a 5-foot par putt, and immediately tapped down a section of the green on the line of his putt. That was a typical reaction on this day, and probably won’t change much during the week.

The hole locations were in different spots than players typically see, as officials looked for sections of the green that had the lushest grass to cut the holes. The idea was to at least keep the bumps to a minimum in a 4-foot radius around the hole.

Smith was the biggest surprise, mainly because he had to qualify for the tournament on Monday. He also had the most unusual golf bag. Smith played a prank earlier in the week on James Hahn, who returned the favor. Hahn posted a message on the bag in the locker room asking players to sign it for charity. They do that all the time, though it’s not usually the bag a player uses in the tournament.

There were some 60 autographs on the bag.

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Oversized T-shirt?

Check.

Nike shorts?

Check.

High socks?

Check.

The Baylor girls I’m thinking of may not participate in any sports, but they sure pull off the “slaving in the gym look” like a champ, even in full make-up.

Baylor fashion stereotypes exist as an irrefutable campus characteristic, prominent to anyone walking around campus for the day. Not all students fall into the Nike short trap, though.

“I think the Nike shorts and XXL t-shirt trend is for girls seeking an easy comfortable look for the day-to-day grind,” said Fort Worth senior Julie Rowlands.

“I personally don’t deviate to that look because I enjoy expressing myself through the clothes I wear. Also, it just doesn’t really match my personality or lifestyle.”

Here’s the thing about Baylor trends, though: they’re not for everyone. Pearl earrings may look good on any girl, but we all know the same cannot be said about LuLulemon yoga

pants.

Whether you are dressing for comfort or to express individuality; every girl loves a compliment and that will never go out of style.

However, be careful what fashion advice you give your friends.

“I think it is pathetic. It is funny that look has become so popular when that is not classified as attractive anywhere else except the Baylor campus,” said Palestine junior Rachel Dean.

Appearance is a communication tool, revealing one’s personality through style.

Light travels faster than sound, so you see sooner than you hear.

The same can be said for first impressions.

Often, you see someone before you talk to them. The first impression you make is likely to be visual, and one would be a fool to think appearance does not matter, especially in the transition from college to the business world.

It makes you wonder where college trends come from.

One Baylor apparel professor explained that students’ fashion choices may be based on more than just a desire to impress.

“As your life stage changes, your priorities change,” said associate apparel merchandising professor Dr. Lorynn Divita.

“As of right now, it is more important to feel good in your 9 a.m. class than it is to look

good.”

Well, I say thank goodness for spring-cleaning, because it gives you an excuse to throw away last year’s trends.

I am sorry to say printed pants and boyfriend blazers have to go.

Instead, for this season, ‘80s fashion has come back in full force with crop tops and high-waisted shorts. The exposed midriff is big for spring, as proved by a bevy of designers in their spring collections. Peplum tops have also been making an appearance for those hoping to achieve the hourglass silhouette.

As an added bonus, it looks like the leather-pant-or-skirt trend from the fall has made its way to spring with some ultra-sexy new twists: pairing leather with a lightweight material is all the rage, like a cute sheer top and a bandeau.

Cutouts are also in vogue for this upcoming summer.

The pantone color of the year is emerald green, and you can see it everywhere from nail polish to handbags and shoes.

It is very timely because it makes us think of the environment. It is a relaxing color and it looks good on a lot of people, said Divita.

A bold few that dare to be individuals in what seems like a very conformist student population have expressed their excitement for this year’s spring trends.

“This year I have really enjoyed the colored jean spree, colored high-waisted shorts with types of button-up shirts tucked in, the return of chunky jewelry and high -low skirts,” Rowlands said.

Spring trends have hit. Some will enjoy wearing them, others watching. But some looks, are, unfortunately, eternal. Baylor’s Nikeshort and t-shirt obsession seems to be one of those.

Why do the good trends die young?

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The family and consumer sciences senior fashion show will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday on the fifth floor of the Cashion Academic Center. It will feature 16 female models wearing a total of 87 garments.

With fewer than three days until the family and consumer sciences fashion show, McKinney junior Taylor Allen, a volunteer, along with a team of students is working on the final details. The race to the end is here.

This year’s show is at 3 p.m.

Sunday on the fifth floor of Cashion Academic Center.

Thursday was a final garment fitting for the show’s 16 female models. The show is to feature a total of 87 garments.

“We have all the preparations for the entertainment, runway, seating, tickets,” Allen said. “Right now it’s just crunch time on the designers—the senior designers and finishing up their collections.”

Longview senior Lauren Dulweber is one of those nine senior designers to showcase their final collections at the fashion show.

“All of us are spending time doing corrections on our garments, making everything look its best for the show and just finishing up last minute projects,” Dulweber said.

Dr. Lorynn Divita, associate professor of family consumer sciences, is one of three professors in

charge of the event.

According to Divita, the show will include Baylor students, faculty and staff volunteers across many different departments. Some of them include: Jonatan Lenells, assistant professor in the mathematics department, as a juggler; Lewisville senior Richard Ross as ring master; Lori Fogleman, the director of media relations at Baylor, as announcer and commentator; Saint Louis, Mo., senior Jake Brown as the disc jockey; and Sandy, Utah, junior Christine Strangl as a tight rope walker. There will also be a musical performance by Uproar artist Layne Lynch.

Outside businesses have also joined to put on the event. After the show, fashion show-goers can attend a dessert reception that will be catered by Waco’s Best Yet catering and sponsored by Cotton Incorporated.

Divita said that she feels confident about where the show is at currently.

“It’s a good feeling to know that even if I couldn’t send one more email, the fashion show could go on at this point,” Divita said.

“We’ve got it all under control.

Little crises may pop up but by and

large we’ve got it together.”

While most of the final preparations for the show are set, the show has not been without its crises. As of one week ago, the department didn’t have a runway because of their new location in Cashion, Divita said. The runway in their old location, Barfield Drawing Room in the Bill Daniel Student Center, could not be moved. They had to look for a new runway, but even that had its difficulties.

“Because of our new location, the standard runways, 8 feet by 4 feet, don’t fit into the elevators of Cashion,” Divita said. “So that was a problem and we had to scramble to find a vendor that had four foot by four foot staging for the runway.”

A runway was found for the show. Divita said that the floor could have been used if they had been unable to find a vendor but that wouldn’t have been preferable.

Tickets to the fashion show are still on sale. They can be bought at the ticket office in the Student Union Building from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. through Friday.

Next year’s fashion show date has already been set for May 4, 2014.

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Over the last four years, musicians such as above, Colbie Caillat, Parachute, Jack Ingram and Five For Fighting have performed for Baylor’s Diadeloso. While this event is usually in Fountain Mall, this year’s Diadeloso headliner event was in the Ferrell Center and was treated as a benefit concert for the West plant fertilizer explosion victims the night beforehand.

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Good music is defined by an individual’s taste. That being said, popular music is measured by the charts and according to the charts, Baylor has not recently booked any currently popular artists.

“In comparison with schools like UT [University of Texas at Austin], our campus is not smaller and not in a major city like Dallas or Austin,” said Dr. Kirk Wakefield, professor of retail marketing and holder of the Edwin W. Streetman Professorship in Retail Management. “Here in Waco we don’t have the draw to bands that bigger colleges near bigger cities have.”

In contrast, country music powerhouse Lady Antebellum performed at Texas Christian University in October of 2010. This performance was also at an extremely successful point in their career.

They won a Grammy, as well as a Country Music Award for Vocal Group of the Year and Single of the Year. The Fray performed on campus the next year, just prior to the release of their third studio album.

In May of 2012, Blake Shelton visited Texas Christian University.

This was fresh off of his Country

Music Awards success, including Entertainer of the Year, Best Male Vocalist and Best Song.

University of West Virginia, another recent Big 12 addition, has seen an even more varied group of musicians. Within the past year, rappers Kendrick Lamar and Wiz Khalifa have performed on campus, as well as country star Luke Bryan.

Other artists who have performed there include Ludacris, Maroon 5, Miranda Lambert, Snoop Dogg, 30 Seconds to Mars and Cee Lo Green. In 2007, Maroon 5 peaked at #1 on the Billboard Top 200, and every album since included #1 hit singles. Ludacris also topped the charts in 2010.

University of Oklahoma has hosted a more alternative-based genre of artists, such as Matt and Kim, Ben Kweller and Iron and Wine. Ben Rector has also performed there, but he has visited Waco’s own Common Grounds in recent years.

In a sense of currently popular musicians, Baylor’s biggest performing artist at the time she performed was Colbie Caillat at Diadeloso in 2010. That year she was awarded a Grammy for Album

of the Year.

“We had Colbie Caillat the year before my freshman year,” said Round Rock sophomore Elizabeth Meszaros. “That would have been more interesting to me. I mean, I had heard of Parachute, but we do seem to have less popular bands.”

The following year, Chamber invited Jack Ingram to perform.

He had a history of chart-topping singles and albums, but, after 2010 he quit producing new hits.

Similarly, in 2012, Parachute came to Baylor. Their highest -ranked album came out the year before, but failed to make it beyond number 19.

Most recently, this Dia featured the band Five for Fighting. In 2006, the album “Two Lights” reached number eight. Aside from a “best of ” album released in 2011, the artist had not produced anything in the last three years.

“I’m not really a fan of any of the bands they’ve had for Dia in the four years I’ve been here,” said Sunnydale senior Garrett Smith. “I would never pay money to go see any of them.”

The director of Student Activities, Matt Burchett, is on the forefront of booking bands. He said the selection of performing artists

for a Baylor event is a partnership between the student organization that sponsors the event and Baylor.

The process includes a review with the university in order to guarantee that the organization’s event will be successful.

The first step is reliant upon the organization that wishes to invite an artist. This step is simply selecting whom they want to perform at the event.

The genre of music is determinate upon where the event is and what it is. After choosing the artist that Chamber wants, the organization submits a request online to the desired artist.

“The organizations sponsoring concerts on campus work diligently to book artists that their peers will enjoy and are consistent with the values of the university,” Burchett said. “This is a delicate balance but organizations do an exceptional job.”

Other organizations that bring live music artists to their events include Kappa Omega Tau, who partners with the Baylor Activities Council for the Christmas tree lighting concert, Baylor Activities Council for Traditions Rally, Uproar Concert Promotions, and Pi Beta Phi for Howdy.

It becomes apparent that according to the awards and rankings on music charts, Baylor has booked significantly less popular bands than other schools within the Big 12. Wakefield said location is primarily to blame. He said bigger name bands may feel less inclined to come based on the smaller audience present.

Although TCU is a smaller campus than Baylor, it has booked more prominent bands.

Baylor is required to guarantee a certain number of tickets will be sold, or in the case of free concerts, which are the majority of concerts at Baylor, the band has to receive as much money as if individual tickets were being paid for. Organizations that invite performing artists budget for this.

“Price is certainly a consideration when planning any program on campus,” Burchett said. “We work to be judicious stewards of our resources while striving to make our campus programs exciting and relevant for Baylor students.”

Another possible reason that Baylor hasn’t booked artists such as Snoop Dogg or Cee Lo Green references Burchett’s statement above.

The university’s values cannot be

compromised in this entertainment process. As a Baptist university, it would not be appropriate for Baylor to book artists that use profanity or other risque innuendos.

Wakefield mentioned that notable “less popular” bands frequent Common Grounds. These include Mutemath, Quiet Company and the Civil Wars. He said the reason bands like these are not booked regularly at Baylor is due to venue size.

According to both venues’ official websites, Common Grounds can fit 600 people whereas Waco Hall can fit 2,200. Wakefield said that were Baylor to have a more mid-sized venue, bands like those that play at Common Grounds would be more likely to be booked.

When it comes to big venues, Wakefield compared the Ferrell Center to the Frank Erwin Center in Austin.

Once again, due to location, it is not likely that a big performing artist would feel obligated to book a show at the Ferrell Center. However, big shows take place regularly at the Erwin Center.

“When we get our new stadium, there is a possibility that we might book bigger bands,” Wakefield said. “It will be a larger venue.”

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“When I first came here, hamburgers were 25 cents, and for a nickel extra you could get an order of fries in a basket, and 15 cents extra was a Coke.”

Longtime Cupp’s Drive Inn customer Fred Winslow, who has been a regular since the 1960s, said he remembers a simpler time at this locally owned diner.

With its old-fashioned barstools and its counter in front of the flat grill, Cupp’s Drive Inn provides locals with a dining experience they will find nowhere but this small family-owned restaurant. Tucked behind a fast food chain at 15th Street and Speight Avenue, just off Interstate 35, this small all-American diner proves it has stood the test of time as generations of families continue to visit Cupp’s.

“Not many people know about it,” Dallas senior Christopher Hillman said, “which might be one of the reasons we like it so much.”

Juicy hamburgers, fresh French fries, hand-filled onion rings, even classic breakfast foods such as eggs, bacon and omelets.

These are just a few of the items that Cupp’s has served its customers for more than 50 years.

Founded in 1929 as Heating’s Eatings, Cupp’s adopted its current name in 1947.

The building itself has remained in the same location through the years, making some small renovations along the way.

“The windows are all the same, the ductwork is all the same,” Winslow said.

In 1947, Charlie Cupp and his wife bought the restaurant and transformed it into the classic diner it is known as today.

As its name suggests, Cupp’s Drive Inn offered a drive-in option for customers until around 15 years ago, but now it offers only the vintage barstools and cozy booths inside the restaurant, as well as a picnic area outside. Winslow said he remembers sitting at the same counter ordering a burger while on a lunch break from working at a coin laundry with his father 50 years ago.

Winslow, a burger enthusiast and a regular at the restaurant, said he believes Cupp’s is “the best burger place in all of Texas and all of the United States.”

Even through the changes in the world and the community surrounding the restaurant, Cupp’s Drive Inn has remained largely the same. The same food, the same

service and the same building continue to welcome customers year after year, decade after decade.

Cupp’s has been operated by siblings Freddie Johnson Jr. and Sherry Caughenbaugh since 1988 when their mother Betty bought the diner. It is run full time by the brother and sister duo, and a few other employees.

As Hillman sat in a booth with classmate Brian Kelly eating his greasy, oldfashioned burger and fries, he recalled his freshman year, when he first discovered the burger joint. Through the years, Cupp’s has remained a staple for Hillman because it is a “fun place, good food, close, simple and often overlooked,” he said.

“Our hamburgers are what we’re known for,” Cupp’s co-operator Johnson said. The restaurant is famous for its classic, freshmade American fare. The recently introduced breakfast specials, including bacon, omelets, pancakes, eggs, hash browns and more, have also been a hit with customers, Johnson said.

Recently, Cupp’s has also had customers requesting less common things with their food, such as eggs or ham on their hamburger, or ordering a chili cheeseburger. The diner staff accommodates even the strangest requests, Johnson said, in order to keep customers happy and returning.

Hamburgers and buns are grilled and toasted atop the flat grill before they are served to customers. Hillman said he prefers Cupp’s hamburger buns over other burger joints’ because “they’re the right amount of crispy and the right amount of soft.” He said he also likes the thin patties in Cupps’ hamburgers. The French fries and onion rings are all hand cut and fried next to the counter as well.

For generations, customers have enjoyed the hand-cooked, made-to-order food at Cupp’s.

“We do our own fresh meat, we peel potatoes every day, and the onion rings, we hand cook and fill them,” co-operator Sherry Caughenbaugh said.

Customers have the option of sitting at one of the eight barstools at the counter in front of the flat grill to watch their order being made. While they watch their burgers simmer on the grill, it is not uncommon to find the staff engaging in friendly conversation with them. Even as the newest employee of Cupp’s, Julia Gomez said she has already begun recognizing the

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Cupp’s Drive Inn is a small family-owned restaurant located at 15th Street and Speight Avenue. Many of the customers are longtime regulars of the small diner and families continue to visit Cupp’s through generations.

regular customers. “You learn their names fast,” Gomez said.

Regular customers have the opportunity to see the same four friendly faces each time they visit the diner, and the staff is able to get to know the longtime customers.

“It’s like the customers are your family,” Caughenbaugh said. “You just kind of watch everybody grow up.”

Customers develop relationships and get to know the staff at Cupp’s, as well.

“You know who it’s going to be when you get here,” Hillman said. “Even if they don’t know you, they treat you like they do.”

In many customers’ cases, their family has been visiting Cupp’s for generations.

It is a tradition for these people and these families to continue dining here. “We have so many customers, a lot of families, like I said— generations, where your parents or your grandparents came here,” Caughenbaugh said. Part of the excitement of

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working at a restaurant like Cupp’s is the opportunity to get to know all the customers, hear their stories, and keep up with them, she said.

Though many of Cupp’s customers are regulars or have been visiting the restaurant for years, it still receives first-time customers like friends of the family. Columbia, Mo., senior Brian Kelly, who said he first came to Cupp’s his sophomore year, said he often chooses Cupp’s for his lunch break not only for the tasty burgers and fries, but also because it is “somewhere we don’t normally think about for the normal lunch places,” he said.

A first-time customer of Cupp’s, Sugar Land freshman Alicia Boczar, said she experienced a similar situation with the friendly, chatty staff and enjoyable service.

After ordering a cheeseburger with fries and a Dr Pepper from her barstool at the counter, she said she could already tell she had discovered one of Waco’s best hidden

treasures. “I just want to keep going back there,” Boczar said.

Since it is only open for business during breakfast and lunchtime, customers of Cupp’s fill the restaurant during these hours.

“We get filled up real quick, since it’s such a small restaurant, but the tables move real fast, people are real courteous, and everybody knows each other,” Johnson said. “If you don’t know each other, you’ll know each other by the time you leave.”

In its early days, Cupp’s accepted only cash as payment from customers. But soon, with advances in technology, Cupp’s was able to begin accepting credit and debit cards in order to provide more options for payment for all customers.

Cupp’s Drive Inn, located at 1424 Speight Avenue in Waco., is open for business 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, with breakfast served from 8:30 to 11 a.m.

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Every story has a beginning, and for many aspiring students of film and digital media, the journey starts when they enter the classrooms of the Castellaw Communications Center.

Each professor has his specialty; for senior lecturer Brian Elliott, it is television and screenwriting.

Elliott said his desire is to guide those who are trying to achieve their dreams of making it in the entertainment industry.

“My greatest joy is to sit down with people who kind of go, ‘I think I want to do this but that seems kind of crazy. Who does this?’ and I go, ‘There is sort of a path. It’s not necessarily an easy path, but there’s a path and I can help you think it through,’” Elliott said.

Elliott, who has been teaching at Baylor for 22 years, said he loves to watch students thrive in the classroom through collaborative work and projects.

“I enjoy being in creative environments with students who have some creative ideas and trying to help them figure out how to shape those ideas into something that actually tells a story,” Elliott said.

One way some of the professors in the film and digital media department relate to students is that their own journeys also began at Baylor. Dr. Jim Kendrick, associate professor, started off his freshman year at Baylor as an English major but soon realized he had a passion for something more.

“I started doing film criticism for The Lariat when I was an undergrad, and I really enjoyed doing

it,” Kendrick said. “I did a master’s degree here in journalism, but literally every paper that I wrote, I wrote about film somehow or another.”

As a film critic, Kendrick appreciates the intimate settings of his classes because not only do the students get to learn from him, but he also gets to have different outlooks on films he may have seen multiple times before.

“The classes I enjoy teaching the most are my smaller, seminarstyle classes where there is a lot of back and forth between me and the students, where it’s not so much as me lecturing but us discussing the films,” Kendrick said. “I learn amazing things from them because they always come at it with a different perspective than I do.”

The experiences of the professors go beyond teaching within the classroom. Chris Hansen, associate professor and director of film and digital media, is not only a professor but also a filmmaker.

“I love the fact that I get to do what I am passionate about and that is make films and write films, while also working with students to improve their ability to do what they want to do,” Hansen said.

Hansen began his journey at Baylor after receiving his Masters of Fine Arts in Script and Screenwriting at Regent University. With three independent feature films to his credit as writer and as producer, Hansen can relate to student experiences in the process of making films.

“I have the same successes and failures that our students have creatively as I’m trying to get my work out there,” Hansen said. “I know

they appreciated knowing that I have those moments, too, where it is just so hard and you want to give up.”

It is these experiences that professors have gone through that help encourage students in knowing they are not alone. Although they are still learning, students may find assurance in knowing they do not have to know everything because they are still honing their skills.

“I have so much respect for my professors because they didn’t just read a book and then come and teach it. They went out in the real world and did it,” Farmers Branch junior Brittney DeVine said. “They know what they are talking about and they know how to get you ready to go out into the real world.”

The film and digital media program offers a variety of classes such as television writing, HD studio, field production and media and society. By having a variety of choices, students can choose which classes best suit their interest in the field of television or film.

“Whatever you want to do in the film world, Baylor gives you the options to get there,” St. Louis, Mo., senior Jake Brown said. “They cover everything you need to know, at least the basics.”

The film and digital media department has produced wellknown alumni such as John Lee Hancock, director of “The Blind Side”, and Derek Haas and Michael Brandt, creators of NBC’s hit show “Chicago Fire.” Haas and Brandt have also written screenplays for several hit movies, including “Wanted” and “3:10 to Yuma.”

Although some names are not as recognizable as others, it does not

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mean their work goes unnoticed.

Success is defined by hard work.

“Being a working filmmaker who is certainly not a Steven Spielberg or not somebody who is a household name makes me connected to the students and connected to the industry,” Hansen said. “I’m doing this work that I want to do, but it also helps me to better understand and relate to the students who are having the same challenges and frustrations.”

In order to train students to achieve their end goal of creating what they love, they need some support along the way. Elliott relates being a professor to being a hitting coach of a baseball team as an encourager — and to leading the students on the course to where they desire to go.

“I know one of my strengths is being the hitting coach, knowing that I can hopefully hear what you want to do, listen to your questions, listen to your fears, listen to

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your concerns and try to help you see a little farther down the road,” Elliott said. “I get equal pleasure out of doing that as I do finishing a project because that investment is going to have a life after me sitting in a room with that person.”

One piece of advice Kendrick said he feels is most important for students is that they should be passionate about what they are doing and going into.

“They have to be willing to dive in completely and swim against the tide,” Kendrick said. “Do what you love. It’s much better to get a small paycheck and doing what you love than to make bank but hate going to work every day.”

Through the courses students are taking and the guidance of their professors, students feel prepared for any adventure or opportunity that may come their way, including the connections they make at Baylor.

“The most exciting opportunity

is the Baylor in New York program, which I will be participating in this fall,” Seattle junior Nina Cates said.

“I will be living in New York from August to December, working at an internship and being a full time student. It is going to be the experience of a lifetime and it would not be possible if I wasn’t at Baylor.”

Students say they understand that their journey is only beginning once they graduate from Baylor. None of what they have done means anything unless they are willing to take what they learn from class and take that beyond the Baylor community.

“Nobody wants a 22-year-old to come on set and think that they know everything.” DeVine said.

“They want somebody that is eager to learn, wants to learn and is ready to learn. Baylor teaches the film students to just thrive and be ready to take opportunities as they come and always be purposeful with what you do.”

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Coffee not just quick caffeine fix; culture, variety growing

By Rebecca Fiedler Reporter

Many people will pull up to a drive-through window at McDonald’s and order a McCafe Frappe Mocha in order to treat themselves or a get a caffeine boost. Coffee shops in Waco, however, believe that they’re offering something more than a quick fix –they say that with their coffee and service they’re offering an experience.

Jessie Harris, store manager of Trailhead Coffee Shop on the corner of University Parks Drive and Franklin Avenue, said there is a difference between the “coffee culture” and the coffee industry. Coffee culture, he said, is more about the attitude behind making coffee, whereas the industry of coffee is more about making profits.

“I think of enjoying relationships over coffee and enjoying the uniqueness that every cup of coffee can bring,” Harris said.

Harris said preparing a good

cup of coffee is an art form. There are even barista world championships, he said.

“I think that what is great about coffee is that it is what it is — it is what you make of it,” Harris said.

“It’s like any fine drink. You can have people that are addicted and then you can have those who enjoy the social aspect of it, and that can bring all sorts of varieties of people, and then you’ve got those who appreciate the art of it — and I think that alone draws in many different realms of people.”

Cody Fergusson, barista at Dichotomy Coffee at 712 Austin Ave., described brewing coffee as a kind of theater, since baristas can put on a show for their customers and experiment in a form of artwork called “latte art,” where images are created on the surface of coffee with steamed milk.

“Coffee is something you can be extremely passionate about, and that goes to the growers, to the science that goes into roasting

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Dichotomy Coffee baristas try to include variety in their coffee through different roasters so Wacoans can experience different types.

and to extraction and brewing,” Fergusson said. “I mean, we have this fancy gadget over there that tells us the total dissolved solids in the coffee, so that we can possibly recreate the same perfect cup time and time again based on dissolved molecules.”

Rob McNeil, a barista at Common Grounds, said he finds coffee fascinating, as there are many ways to affect the dynamic of a cup of coffee, from the growing of the plant, to the washing and drying of the product, to the grinding of the bean, to the measuring of the water. He said as a barista prepares coffee, they can explain what they’re doing to the customer and how that makes a difference in the drink.

“Here we want to teach the customer about what they’re getting, and it’s not just a cup of coffee, like a crappy cup of coffee,” he said. “It’s a good quality product.”

Fergusson said Dichotomy chooses to use multiple different roasters to supply its coffee so Wacoans can gain a new and different kind of coffee experience.

“All specialty coffee is mostly what you call selectively picked, so you have the ripe cherries that are picked, and then that is hand-sorted, so it goes through a rigorous sorting process to make sure each bean is of the same quality and high quality,” Fergusson said. “And then with specialty roasters, that’s roasted to a profile that brings out the natural flavors, so you get a lot more quality coffee that has natural flavors. And then it comes to my hands, which, I put in hours of training to make sure I can prepare it in a way that is delicious.”

Harris said that the coffee culture has a cultish following, elaborating that each customer in the culture

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A Dichotomy employee makes a latte on Thursday in the Croft Art Gallery. Baristas also experiment with a form of artwork called “latte art” (below).

will know what kind of coffee they prefer. Waco doesn’t have a lot of that culture yet, Harris s aid,

but Wa c o’s coffee scene i s growing.

“Most people still

desire the sweet, flavored drinks,” Harris said. “If you were to go to Morocco, which is a nation centered around coffee and tea, you would find at 5 p.m., literally, hundreds of men at cafes just enjoying the flavor and the richness of a coffee and enjoying the camaraderie that came with it. And we’re not there yet.”

Harris doesn’t consider himself a coffee ‘purist.’ He doesn’t want to look down on customers just wanting a caffeine buzz as they study for final exams, he said. He does want to raise the awareness, however, of slowing down and enjoying life and a cup of coffee.

“I think there’s a need for both,” Harri said. “If you become an extremist, then you lose one side of the coin.”

What a customer can expect

from Trailhead Coffee, Harris said, is if that customer visits the shop more than three times, baristas should know that customer’s name.

They aim to value people foremost, Harris said.

McNeil spoke of how he valued the interaction he has with customers as a barista.

“I know that my personal goal is just to make someone’s day just a little bit better by smiling at them and being friendly and taking their order, and doing anything I can to make someone else feel better,” McNeil said.

Customer service was a common theme in coffee culture that Harris, Fergusson and McNeil all expressed as being important.

“People need someone to talk to,” McNeil said. “Why can’t it be a barista?”