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Baylor student takes it upon himself to restore a plaque vandalized by conspiracy theorists.

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’63 Lariat staff looks back on assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy

By Ada Zhang Staff Writer

Baylor Lariat staffers Ed DeLong and Ray Hubener hopped in DeLong’s car on Friday, Nov. 22 1963, and drove to the Dallas Trade Mart. The Lariat had been covering Kennedy’s entire trip through Texas. In fact, DeLong and Hubener had just covered Kennedy’s speech in San Antonio on Thursday, where they actually saw Kennedy and the first lady step off the plane.

They were in the Trade Mart, waiting for the president to arrive.

In the mean time, DeLong was looking for someone to release a copy of the President’s speech. He went into the press room on the fourth floor and heard the news that completely altered his assignment for The Lariat: “The President has been shot.”

From that point on, the story became much larger than just Kennedy’s tour of Texas.

“Ed came up to me, pulled me away and said, ‘I need to tell you something,’” said Hubener, currently in his 70’s and living in New York. “As soon as we were in a quiet place, he said, ‘Kennedy’s been shot.’”

Hubener was shocked to hear the news, but he understood that he and DeLong had a job to do.

“We said OK, let’s do the job,” Hubener said. “And we just did the job, which was start collecting facts and information and start talking

to people.”

Security was loose back then compared to how it is now. Their Kennedy-trip press tags looped DeLong and Hubener into the same category as the rest of the reporters present at the scene that day. No one could tell they were student reporters.

“The aftermath of the events in Dallas was the end of a time when you could just stroll in pretty much anywhere — the end of one era and the beginning of another when you had to get identification or be escorted to get in many places,” DeLong said. DeLong, who is now in his 70’s and lives in Australia, described his memories of covering the assassination by way of email to the Lariat.

A policeman, who took notice of their press tags, hailed a car for them to take to Parkland Hospital where Kennedy had been taken.

Outside the hospital, DeLong jotted down Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough’s description of Kennedy’s shooting. Yarborough was weeping as he retold what he saw.

Professor David McHam, a journalism professor at the University of Houston who was the Lariat faculty advisor for DeLong and Hubener, said portable recorders were not around at that time, so taking notes on a notepad was the only way to record the quotes.

“He had a notebook,” McHam said. “He practiced taking notes in

class. That was one of the skills you learned in those days.”

DeLong and Hubener worked independently — Hubener outside the hospital and DeLong inside.

DeLong observed the scene in the hospital, but he did not feel emotional as he covered the assassination. He was too busy working.

“A woman on a stretcher in the hall watched puzzled as nurses and interns gathered in hushed groups and newsmen scurried around searching for telephones,” Delong wrote in his original report.

Later, Delong heard the Assistant Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff announce Kennedy’s death.

“The several hundred newsmen — tough veterans who are not usually affected by the stories they cover — let out a gasp even though they already knew unofficially that the President was dead,” DeLong wrote.

A nurse had secured a telephone for DeLong to use to the Lariat office. Once DeLong heard the news, he bolted for the telephone.

“She fought off all others who tried to use the phone while I went in search of more info and attended the briefing where Malcolm Kilduff announced to a teary-eyed press corps that the president was dead,” DeLong said, thankful for her help.

The closest equivalent to today’s cell phone in 1963 were radio

phones. These large radio phones were rare, DeLong said.

“On a breaking story, locating a pay phone booth or a pay phone on the wall in a building was often the first thing a good reporter tried to do,” DeLong said.

He said McHam had taught him to always have at least one dime on him in case he needed to make a call.

DeLong was calling the story in, which meant he was reading his reports over the phone to a Lariat staff member in Waco.

“There were no such things as computers,” Hubener said. “He called it in and someone was there typing it up on a typewriter.”

A special one-page issue of the Lariat was planned to run that afternoon to relay the breaking news of America’s fallen leader.

After spending a few more hours in the hospital gathering information and relaying it to Waco, DeLong and Hubener headed to the Dallas Police Station.

Because of their press tags, they were granted immediate access to suite 317, where the Homicide and Robbery office was located.

DeLong said a policewoman had directed them to the suite without batting an eye.

Amidst a mob of reporters, they could see Kennedy’s alleged shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald.

“Oswald was a little man,” Hubener said. “I remember seeing

him behind bars.”

In his original report, DeLong wrote that Oswald kept screaming, “I didn’t shoot anybody. I don’t know anything about it.”

DeLong worked diligently straight through the night, constantly listening for updates. Reporters came in and out. Witnesses were brought in. Rumors spread as police continued their investigation.

DeLong said he still remembers “the way the police paraded Oswald’s rifle through a hallway choked with reporters.”

At some point during the night, Jack Ruby came into the police station and offered DeLong a couple of White Castle burgers and a coke.

DeLong said he was well acquainted with Ruby. When DeLong had time during the school year, he would drive from Waco to Dallas to visit Ruby’s Carousel Club, which is a bar in Dallas, and drive back to Waco in the same night. DeLong had been visiting Ruby’s club for two years, a secret he said he kept from his strict Baptist parents.

“He brought me back a couple of White Castle burgers and took a bag of others into a room where police officers were carrying out their investigations,” DeLong said.

At midnight, District Attorney Henry Wade announced that Oswald had been charged with Kennedy’s murder.

Reporters made another rush to the telephones. However, the intensity of the President’s death waned with time.

“By Saturday the immediate shock had passed,” DeLong wrote in his original report.

DeLong and Hubener checked into a hotel at 3 a.m. Sunday and slept until noon. They learned through the television that they had missed Ruby shooting Oswald.

“All I can say is that it’s a small world — a fact that I’ve experienced many times since,” DeLong said.

DeLong and Hubener drove back to Waco Sunday afternoon.

“The real world came crashing in when I got back to Waco on Sunday evening and had to start cramming for a Constitution Law examination that was coming up on Monday or Tuesday, as well as attending Monday classes and work at the Lariat,” DeLong said.

For its superb coverage of the Kennedy assassination, the Lariat won a national award from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Looking back on that experience 50 years later, Hubener said it was both traumatic and fantastic.

It was traumatic for him personally because he was a supporter of Kennedy.

“It was a fantastic experience from a reporter’s point of view,” Hubener said.

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FRIDAY | NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Kennedy’s surgeon talks about fateful day

By Claire Cameron Reporter

Dr. Robert McClelland was in the operating room at Parkland Hospital in Dallas 50 years ago, the day former President John F. Kennedy died. Two days later, he was one of the surgeons who tried to save Lee Harvey Oswald’s life.

T h e 84-year-old retired doctor is the last living doctor to have McClelland operated on Kennedy. He recalls what that day was like when the president was shot, and the events following his death.

McClelland, who was a general surgeon at Parkland Memorial Hospital, spoke at Baylor on Oct. 24 about his experience of caring for Kennedy, operating on Oswald and then testifying before the Warren Commission.

Q: Can you describe what that day, Nov. 22, 1963, was like when the president was shot?

A: It started out like any other day. I was showing a film at the hospital to some residents and medical students on how to do a certain surgery when I heard a tap on the door and I saw Dr. Charles Crenshaw, one of my colleagues, in the hallway. I stepped outside and he said, “I have something very important I need to tell you.” I said OK, went back into the room, turned off the movie and then went back into the hallway and Dr. Crenshaw said, “The

president’s been shot and he is on for a way to get an airway so the his way to the hospital right now. president could breathe. There was We need you down in surgery.” already a wound on the president’s The first time I really absorbed the neck that they cut into to search for news about Kennedy, I was in the an airway. I was helping them with elevator with Dr. Crenshaw on my that surgery. way down to surgery. I was still in I stood at the president’s head my suit; I didn’t even have time to ,and I was horrified again to see change. the back of his head. I was staring Q: What happened when the down at his bloody head and that president was brought into the hos- image still sticks in my head to this pital? day. I still have the shirt with the A: Well all the way down to the president’s blood on it. Like I said, emergency room, Dr. Crenshaw I didn’t have time to change before and I were trying to cheer our- we went in to operate, and I was selves up, but when we got down standing at his head where he was to the first floor, it was chaos. They bleeding the most and got it on my had news reporters everywhere suit. My wife took the suit to the trying to take pictures and shout- cleaners, but I kept the shirt and ing questions. I saw Mrs. Kennedy still have it. near a corner sitting down outside We tried to get him breaththe entrance to Trauma Room ing again and a doctor brought in One, where the president was, and a machine to measure his heart I had to force myself over to where rate. We tried all we could, but his she was and through the door. head was blown open; I could see When I walked in, I was horrified. his cerebellum. We operated on It was obvious that he had a fatal the president for about 20 minutes wound and there but the heart was nothing we monitor he “She walked around could do, but was hooked to the other side of the nonetheless, we up to showed tried to do all we his heart table where his right could. had stopped foot was sticking out Q: Can you beating and from under the sheet describe what it around 1 p.m. was like operatDr. Kemp he was covered with, ing on the presiClark called bent down, kissed his dent? it. “He’s gone. toe and left.”

A: I walked The president in and put on is gone,” he Dr. Robert McClelland | Former some gloves. A said. surgeon at Parkland Hospital few doctors were Q: What already in the happened afroom trying to ter the presiget chest tubes in the president and dent was pronounced dead?

Dr. Malcolm Perry and Dr. Charles A: All the reporters and the Baxter, two other surgeons, were news people that had crowded already there performing a trache- around the room left in a hurry otomy. They basically were looking and we, all the doctors in the room,

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The limousine carrying mortally wounded President John F. Kennedy races toward the hospital seconds after he was shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Secret Service agent Clinton Hill is riding on the back of the car, Nellie Connally, wife of Texas Gov. John Connally, bends over her wounded husband, and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy leans over the president.

started filing out. Before Dr. Clark and I could exit the room, a priest came in to deliver the president’s last rites, and we couldn’t leave the room because the room was so small. We waited. After that, again, before we could leave, Mrs. Kennedy came in and she looked at him, the president, then walked over and took off her wedding ring and placed it on his hand then took off the president’s wedding ring and tucked it in her pocket. After she exchanged their rings, she walked around to the other side of the table where his right foot was sticking out from under the sheet he was covered with, bent down, kissed his toe and left.

Q: What was it like being in the room at such an emotional moment? What were you feeling?

A: I want to say that Mrs. Kennedy was one of the most dignified ladies I have ever seen. She was obviously grief stricken, but she was very self-contained. She didn’t scream and cry. You could tell she was upset but she was very dignified and poised. It was terrible and unimaginable but it was something I had to do — it was my job. I can’t describe how I felt; it was a tense moment.

Q: You also operated on Lee Harvey Oswald — what was that

like?

A: Well two days after the president’s death, it was a Sunday and my family and I had gone to church and afterwards, my wife was getting our two small children ready for lunch and I turned on the television and I could hear the report before the picture came on, but I heard, “He’s been shot, Oswald’s been shot.” Then I saw a picture of Oswald on the ground and bloody.

I ran to the stairs and told my wife, “I have to go, Oswald’s been shot.”

She said, “Who’s that?” I told her the man they think shot the president. She said, “See you later.”

So I drove to the hospital and when I got there he was in Trauma Room Two and he had been shot in the abdomen and was as white as a sheet from all the blood he lost.

We had to get blood into him and we massaged his heart two or three times to try and revive him but we failed and he was declared dead.

Q: The Warren Commisson was a committee set up by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the death of President Kennedy and examine whether Oswald was part of a large group that plotted the president’s death or simply a lone gunman. Were you called before the Warren Commission?

A: Well it was a few months

after the president’s death. But going before the commission is something I knew I had to do. The commission was set up by President Johnson and it was decided eventually that Oswald was a lone gunman, but you know the thing about it is that over the years all this information has been found that Oswald used to work in the CIA and about 80 percent of people thought that Kennedy’s death was a conspiracy after it happened.

Another secret commission was set up after the Warren Commission to go into further detail about Kennedy’s death and whether Oswald was a lone gunman and in 1979 the men on the commission publically announced that they couldn’t release what they had found out for 50 years so in 2029 they will report what they find.

Q: What kind of mark do you think Kennedy left on America besides his assassination?

A: Well his death is most certainly and unfortunately is what he is most well known for, but he had a lot of good plans about civil rights and I think he was a very forward-thinking man who was cut down before he had the chance to do those things.

Professors share vivid accounts of 50 years ago

‘Presidents don’t die like that’

By Mike Blackman Baylor Alumnus

Looking out the window Friday, looking at the chilly gray noontime crowd heading off to lunch, thinking about another noontime 33 years ago.

We were coming back from Snappy Lunch, a little eatery in south Waco near the Baylor campus. You could get a chicken-fried steak for a buck and a quarter, and they would hold the check until your weekly allowance from Mama came.

We were walking toward the dorm, Brooks Hall - at $75 a semester the cheapest on campus. It was there, in the middle of the courtyard, that we encountered A.J., often known as Applejack. He was running south.

It was a little after 12:30.

“They’ve shot the president — they’ve shot the president,” he said. We laughed at Applejack. He always was a prankster, the craziest rush and wildest kid we knew. Smartest on camr, the pus, probably if not surely. He was going to be death a doctor, although most of that scholarly brilliance he devoted to testing professors, naive ediate coeds and his souped-up ‘56 Chevy, which he wrote tinkered with endlessly and indelicately raced through narrow campus streets, all hours. ecked “No, no,” he insisted, “I’m not kidding. y and They’ve shot Kennedy.” This from a guy that arned stayed up all night and built a cast for his oththey erwise healthy arm so he could elude a biolwald. ogy test, which he would ace in a couple of small days anyway, no studying. This from a guy xperiwho didn’t like his stairwell monitor, and so Long he torched the guy’s tie rack - in a flamboyant “Z” like Zorro - with a flaming stream of drove charcoal fluid. He was just a young pre-med on. who liked to have a good time. rash“Get off it,” we told Applejack. “It’s not co on funny.” start “Not being funny,” he said. That’s when Law we notice the tears running down his cheeks. ng up Good God, maybe he was serious for once. well Suddenly we were scared, sick in the stomach. s and A.J. started running toward the administraaid. tion building, past Minglewood Bowl where of the we played touch football and over Waco Lariat Creek where we deposited our empty Coke e Socups. Never did know where he was running ts. to. xperiWe hastened to the TV room in the first aid it floor of the dorm. Mr. Cronkite was right astic. there, in flickering black and white, trying to rsoncomfort, having a hard time. No word on the ter of president yet. Nothing about being dead yet.

There was great relief all around. ience It was quiet in the little room; about three view,” or four guys were there, watching, all very quiet. The old TV made it hard to see clear, but you could make every word out. They

were sorrowful words, mostly, about a young president, and no details on what really happened or who the gunman was, but everybody was hoping for the best. It didn’t seem real. Presidents don’t die like that - not like that, not in Texas, for God’s sake.

Fifteen, 20 minutes later, Mr. Cronkite, he really did seem like an Uncle Walter, made the announcement. The president was dead. Died at 1 p.m. at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Mr. Cronkite was choking up a little. So was everybody in the TV room with the lumpy vinyl chairs that nobody was sitting in. Somebody said oh damn and somebody else stormed out of the room, but mostly we just stood, sad, befuddled, lost 18- and 19-year-olds transfixed by the flickering TV, hoping for a bad dream.

“Damn that Dallas,” somebody said, and everybody seemed to agree, for there had been a lot of anger in Dallas lately. Kennedy wasn’t all that popular right then in Texas, especially Dallas.

It turned cloudy and chilly later that longago Friday, and everybody looked for something to do, those who didn’t stick by the TV all afternoon.

There was a pool hall across the street, behind a chili and burger joint. It was a good deal at a dime a game, because house rules allowed the retrieval of your scratch shots in eight ball. Made for long games, got your money’s worth.

We were frequent visitors to this popular establishment. Why, A.J. practically took his meals there. He was very good, too - could even do trick shots like jumping balls and banking them three or four times before making the right one disappear into the appropriate leather pocket. We expected A.J. to show up any time that afternoon, as it would clearly be an Applejack thing to do. Then again, we thought, maybe he was still running across campus, still running south - all the way to Austin, for all we knew.

Nobody was in the pool hall but the old one-armed man who ran it. We played all afternoon, just the two of us. He played by holding the end of the bridge cue high under his stubby arm. Real good, too. Only words said the whole time were “rack’em” a couple of times. We kept playing till nearly dark, and I kept thinking A.J. would stop by, but he never did. The one-armed manager never charged a dime either, all those games, not the whole afternoon.

Mike Blackman is the former Fred Hartman Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Baylor, a veteran reporter and editor, and a Baylor alumnus This article originally ran Nov. 24, 1996 in The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. This has been reprinted with permission.

‘Those images are fixed. They won’t go away.’

By Ada Zhang Staff Writer

Photographs reveal a glamorous president with wispy hair and a cool composure. Young Americans gather from family photos of his beautiful wife and two young children that this president brought energy into the White House.

Many young Americans think of President John F. Kennedy as a charismatic and handsome historical figure. But those who were alive during Kennedy’s presidency remember his life and death as an integral part of America’s grand narrative, a narrative too complex to encapsulate in pictures. Fifty years later, they have not forgotten Nov. 22, 1963.

Dr. J. Mark Long, professor in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core, was in a seventh grade Social Studies class when he heard the news that the president had been assassinated.

He recalls his teacher’s reaction vividly.

“She was laughing and crying at the same time,” Long said. “She asked, ‘I know that you’re not allowed to have gum here at school, but if one of you has a piece of gum, can I have some?’ Almost every hand in the class room went up.

She stood there chewing gum, and she could hardly speak.”

Dr. David Hendon, professor of history, heard the news when he was a junior in high school. He was in an advanced geometry class when word got around, he said.

“I went across the hall and told my young English teacher what happened, and she said, ‘I just knew they were going to get him,’” Hendon said.

His teacher’s response, Hendon said, was due to her awareness that parts of Dallas venomously disliked the liberal president.

“Everybody was shocked and depressed,” Hendon said.

He said he heard of some cases where people expressed joy at Kennedy’s death, but sentiments of such nature were not apparent at his school.

Only a fourth-grader at the time, Dr. Michael Parrish, professor of history, still recalls what the weather was like that fateful Friday.

“It was a cold but very sunny day in late November,” he said. “Of course, fourth graders were excited about Friday and getting out of school and going home for the weekend.”

Parrish said class was interrupted by the principal, who called the teacher into the hallway and told her what had happened. The teacher came back into the room crying and delivered the news to the class.

“Most of us just sat in shock trying to understand what our teacher had said,” Parrish said. “One of my classmates, a boy, screamed out, ‘I’m glad they shot him!’”

Parrish said the whole class, including the teacher, was horrified at this student’s proclamation. He didn’t understand why anyone would be glad that a young, energetic and inspirational president had been shot, he said.

Long, Hendon and Parrish all remember being glued to the television for several days after Kennedy’s assassination.

Hendon said part of reason everyone remembers Kennedy’s death today is because it was the first big national tragedy to be televised.

“When the funeral came, I was watching,” Long said.

“The solute that little John-John rendered to his father, and the funeral procession — this montage of images comes back to me. Those images are fixed. They won’t go away.”

The turbulent decade that followed Kennedy’s death was

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Jacqueline Kennedy walks down the Capitol steps with her daughter Caroline and son John Jr. on Nov. 24, 1963 after President John. F. Kennedy’s casket was placed in the rotunda in Washington.

rife with conflict. In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were both assassinated.

“I had such a sense of chaos,” Long said. “The backdrop of the ’60s — the race riots that occurred across nation, the larger social upheaval that involved women’s rights and the agony of the Vietnam War — for those of us who were younger, the prophets we turned to were our rock musicians. There was a doors song, ‘This is the End,’ and it seemed to capture what we were experiencing in the ’60s.”

Parrish said Kennedy was a casualty of the Cold War, the rivalry between the U.S and the Soviet Union. Tensions from the Cold War continued to affect the landscape of American politics, Parrish said, until the 80s. Kennedy’s assassination signified the beginning of that process.

Good also came out of that era, Hendon said, which is important for Americans to remember.

“Appreciate the good things that came out of that era for black people, for women, for young people,” Hendon said.

“People don’t realize how much things change. It’s a good thing to know — because we can do it again some time.”

Parrish said people should consider Kennedy’s death within a broader context. Thinking about the bigger picture, Parrish said, sheds light on what Kennedy’s death means for Americans today.

“As a result, students are better able to put themselves in the broad scheme of life, to put themselves in a place, in a time that includes the past, the present and the future,” Parrish said.

Testaments from these three professors are univocal: Kennedy’s assassination was a devastating event in American history. America’s leader had fallen, his life cut short at 42. Despite the hollowness that he said he initially felt, Long later found a hopeful ending to Kennedy’s story.

“I recall so well in 1962 when he gave his address at Rice stadium,” Long said. “He said by the end of decade, we’ll put a man on the moon. Almost seven years later, I watched the television as we landed on the moon and Armstrong spoke those memorable words. I went out into the backyard. I looked up, I could see the moon. I stood there transfixed, thinking, ‘We’re there. We are there right now.’”

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FRIDAY | NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Student revives defaced Kennedy plaque in Dallas

By Paula Ann Solis Staff Writer

In preparation for the spotlight that will shine on the city of Dallas where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago, one Baylor student did his part to make sure conspiracy theories would be muted and the day honored appropriately.

Rowlett senior Charles Stokes, apart from his studies as a computer science major, is also the youngest member of the Dallas County Historical Commission and has been since his freshman year at Baylor. Now in his second two-year term as member for the commission, he took it upon himself to restore a defaced historical plaque on the Dallas County Administration Building where Kennedy’s believed assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, planned and executed his attack on the sixth floor.

“The restoration needed to be done,” Stokes said. “I just thought it was really important that it be in good condition and easy to read, especially with the 50th coming up.”

Stokes said he learned about the sign’s vandalism from an online blog and decided to contact the Director of Planning and Development Rick Loessberg for permission to attempt the restoration. Stokes provided photos of previous restoration work and after review, the young historical commissioner was given the go-ahead to refurbish the plaque.

The main area of concern on the plaque was the last sentence that reads, “On November 22, 1963, the building gained national notoriety when Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot and killed president John F. Kennedy from a sixth floor window as the presidential motorcade passed the site.”

Vandals had created a deep gash in the plaque highlighting the word “allegedly.”

Stokes said while he worked on the plaque with his father Judge Charles Stokes who assisted on the Nov. 2 project, several conspiracy theorists approached them and warned they would only return later to repeat their vandalism.

“The guys that sold conspiracy pamphlets told me they were the ones that originally scratched it with a battery powered saw,” Stokes said. “They talked to us while we were out there for a while about possible conspiracy theories involving the CIA Military Industrial Complex. They said that they were the ones responsible for the assassination. I told them ‘I suppose we disagree.’”

Loessberg said he knew after giving Stokes permission to restore the plaque, it would likely be vandalized again and said, because his office is in the building where the plaque rest, he has already seen several lines etched under the word “allegedly” again.

“It’s a misdemeanor but to catch the person doing it is difficult when you have hundred

of people walking past it everyday,” Loessberg said. “That’s just a running battle, but we have a black marker to shade that part in. The rest of it looks great though.”

The sign is in much better shape and easy to read for the many viewers that will be in Dallas over the weekend for the event “The 50th: Honoring the Memory of President John F. Kennedy,” which will take place at Dealey Plaza Friday. Stokes is among those who will attend as a VIP guest.

Stokes said he would gladly return to repair the plaque if the county requested his services, even though he described the process as pain staking and said it takes at least four hours to complete. For this repair, Stokes paid out of pocket for the paint and tools needed.

“He’s probably one of the most active members that the board has ever seen,” said Dallas Commissioner Mike Cantrell.

He is also the commissioner who first appointed Stokes, the youngest member ever, to the historical society.

“He’s brought a lot of new insight and perspective to that committee,” Cantrell said. “We are very impressed with the work this young man has done.”

Because Stokes is not able to repair every sign in the Dallas area, he said he is putting together a workshop in the near future where he will teach other volunteers how to do a similar type of restoration following the method provided by the Texas

Legacy of JFK unique to blacks

Civil Rights support earned Kennedy favor of King Sr.

By Reubin Turner Assistant City Editor

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Rowlett senior Charles Stokes, member of the Dallas County Historical Commission, works to restore the plaque outside the Dallas County Administration Building, which was vandalized by conspiracy theorists.

State Historical Commission.

Though these activities cut into his school time, he said as a fan of history and as a thirdgeneration historical commission member it is something he greatly enjoys and allows him unique opportunities.

One such unique occasion includes seeing first hand death row inmate rooms in the Dallas County Jail, the same jail that housed Lee Harvey Oswald’s murderer Jack Ruby.

Stokes said while there he stumbled upon what he described as a “death row baptismal room,” where inmates where

baptized before their execution.

It is closed off to the public and not well known about.

This discovery is of great historical importance, Stokes said, because not only were inmates baptized there but they also created many religious murals.

Stokes is currently seeking funding and partners to help the city of Dallas extract the murals from the now-shutdown jail house so this piece of history can be shared with the world, much like the Sixth Floor Museum showcases the day Kennedy died.

Assassination shaped future of journalism

By Taylor Griffin A&E Editor

In modern day, discovering breaking news is as quick as swiping a text notification on a smartphone or as simple as stumbling upon a trending tweet. News now spreads so expediently and more concisely than any other time in history.

Undoubtedly, times have evolved since the primitive times of technology in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Families would gather around their television set to hear the latest news, mostly in 15-minute evening bulletins.

However, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy halted the world in reverence — many in mourning, others in curiosity. The television set became the hearth of the American family unit for four days from the time of the first gunshot announcement to the somber funeral procession that followed.

“I don’t think there was ever a time before that in history where people were in a position to witness simultaneously the same event as they were on that particular weekend,” said Rick Bradfield, senior lecturer in the department of journalism, public relations and new media.

In modern news gathering, broadcast journalism has become a direct documentation of the human narrative. In conjunction, associate professor of journalism Robert Darden said he believes history is news accounts with perspectives.

Though he credits the rise of broadcast news to the CBS coverage of McCarthyism in the 1950s, Darden said the assassination of Kennedy 50 years ago was the spark that ignited a new, matured medium of news.

“TV had just come of age before the assassination,” Darden said. “A series of incidents led people to believe that television could be a viable news option.”

Though the telling of his murder and thereafter were influenced by television reporting, no other president successfully managed a life in the public eye like kennedy did.

“Kennedy was a master communicator of television: handsome, photogenic, spoke in a way that television could use and cut,” Darden said.

According to a story by David Greenberg from The Slate magazine, approximately 90 percent of American homes had their own televisions by 1960, just in time for the Kennedy/Nixon debates. An estimated 70 million viewers tuned in for the first of four rounds.

The 1960 election ignited his charisma and charm, both of which were elevated far above his Republican opponent Richard Nixon. In particular, the presidential debate — televised and the first of its kind — virtually sealed Kennedy’s spot for the presidency. With a gaunt complexion and disheveled presence, Nixon paled standing next to his opponent on the television

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Three-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his fathers’ casket in Nov. 25, 1963, in Washington, just three days after the president was assassinated in Dallas.

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“Kennedy came across as a leader who intended to deal with the nation’s greatest problems; Nixon registered with voters as someone trying to gain an advantage over an adversary,” author Robert Dallek wrote in Kennedy’s biography “An Unfinished Life.”

His vice presidential running mate, Lyndon B. Johnson, also followed Kennedy’s style of oration and unity with the camera.

Beyond the images of television and photographs, the infamous Zapruder film, so named for the Dallas resident who captured the scene, still burns as fervently as it did 50 years ago. Though the 26.6 seconds of shocking footage was not widely distributed or even publicly seen for a dozen years after the shooting, it remains one of the few complete recorded vantage points and highly criticized pieces of history.

“What people remember from these sorts of events are the images, not the facts,” Bradfield said. “They remember that horrible Zapruder film and the shot that hits Kennedy’s head, the two young Kennedy children standing and watching the procession with John John saluting.”

Though the Zapruder film is the best footage from that day, Darden said TV coverage from then on is ubiquitous. Unlike Kennedy’s actual shooting, Oswald’s murder by Jack Ruby following his arrest was televised to the public. In retrospect, it foreshadowed the future of TV reporting, including the coverage of the moon landing, the Rodney King incident and the developing events of Sept. 11, 2001, according to a recent New York Times

story by A.O. Scott.

“Television…was a medium of instantaneous transmission and endless reiteration, a template (though this was not clear at the time) for the digital world we now inhabit,” Scott wrote.

The assassination directly affected the coverage of the impending Vietnam War of the late 1960s and 1970s, Darden said, and the coverage of the matured both broadcast stations and the viewers who received the footage.

“We go through an incredibly violent stage in this country where extremists and hate groups just pushed the democracy to the edge,” Darden said. “Television covers all of it.”

Bradfield said this maturity was mostly due to the advancement of technology in broadcast news. He described the assassination coverage as an underscoring of the importance of live coverage, a motion setter for a lot of technological development that produced the tools to cover live events and a movement of revenue for TV news.

The realization that TV was a powerful tool and that broadcast news could be a profitable medium led to a 20-year long expansion of network and local television news, Bradfield said. Out of the development of technologies grew an awareness of the importance of live coverage because very little was recorded the day of the assassination.

“That was almost the point in television history in which that whole axis began to turn away from the newspaper folks toward a new generation of folks who were interested in broadcast,” Bradfield said.

Though he was not the first to report the shootings, Walter Cronkite became synonymous with the day’s coverage and arguably the most remembered because of the way he handled the reports.

“Cronkite in particular occupied a position as a very direct consequence of the assassination that one in broadcast history will ever again occupy,” Bradfield said. “It was pretty remarkable. He was sort of the most trusted news person in the country for a couple of generations of people.”

The birth of the iconic anchorman image that followed stemmed from Cronkite’s influence on broadcast journalism and ignited the careers of Dan Rather, Jim Lehrer and Bob Shieffer.

However, Bradfield said he believes the true impact of the assassination lies in the purity of the coverage. Everyone at the time was hearing and watching virtually the same thing with hardly any discrepancy, he said. If something similar were to happen today, he said, many would turn to television, but it wouldn’t have anything approaching the power of the Kennedy coverage. Most stations would color the event with outside expert and commentator perceptions that would take away from the tragedy at hand.

“It wouldn’t be allowed to breathe,” Bradfield said. “It wouldn’t be something we would witness, but rather something we would be told or shown.”

Stephanie Parks, a student worker in the Poage Legislative Library who helped with the curration of the JFK exhibit, said every generation has its tragedy, and for society of the 1960s, Kennedy’s assassination was one of its defining moments.

“He was kind of a celebrity president,” she said. “I feel like people had a personal connection to him just because they had seen images of him and knew his family.”

Parks also said she saw a significant change historically in the delivery and diffusion of news. While reporting has always been about immediacy and accuracy, she said, news became more investigative and thoughtful following the assassination.

“It changed the way that news spread,” she said. “It’s still heartbreaking to see the newscasters’ faces on that day. I know it’s certainly hard to be professional in that kind of tragedy, and for them, it was the hardest story of their lives.”

Despite its ever-evolving nature in society, broadcast journalism has uniquely recorded history like no other medium, and specifically in the time of Kennedy’s final moments, television news became the glue that held the American public together in such a time of despair.

“It was a time when the technology was fairly primitive, but suddenly there was a realization that we have the power to really bring people together in a way that no medium has ever been able to do before,” Bradfield said. “That was the remarkable thing about it.”

He was the youngest elected president in the history of the United States.

Fate cared little, though, as it threw him the toughest issue any president had ever been confronted with — the possibility of nuclear war.

For some, it was his aversion of an imminent war with Russia that defined the administration of President John F. Kennedy and garnered him international respect.

But in the eyes of Dr. Joseph Brown, associate professor of political science, Kennedy’s legacy in the eyes of blacks across the nation was shaped unequivocally by his involvement in civil rights.

“Although Kennedy himself was not successful in getting the bill through Congress, he was the architect,” Brown said.

Kennedy was the first to go on record in support of passing legislation for civil rights on June 11, 1963, when in a national address he called civil rights a moral issue and urged the nation to “examine its conscience.”

It was during this speech that he introduced to Congress the Civil Rights Act, which would later go on to be passed during the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson.

Kennedy gave the speech the same day he sent the National Guard to ensure the peaceful integration of the University of Alabama, after Governor George Wallace and protestors attempted to block it.

Brown, who was 17 years old at the time of Kennedy’s assassination, reflected on the day Kennedy died, and said sadness and disappointment were the only things he remembers feeling on that day.

He attended Carver High in Lafayette, La., an all black, segregated school and recalls many were crying. He said almost everyone was in disbelief.

“During that time, we felt that the two major leaders of the movement were King and Kennedy,” Brown said. “When Kennedy was assassinated, it was as if half of our hopes were taken out with him.”

Despite the overwhelming black support for Kennedy during his tenure as president, some such as Dr. James SoRelle, professor of history, contend that many black voters were initially cautious of Kennedy because of his Catholicism.

Martin Luther King Sr., senior pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta who often spoke about national issues from the pulpit, said he could not in good conscience vote for a Catholic. King Sr. was also a life-long republican and had endorsed Nixon.

“Many southern blacks were both Protestant and staunch Republicans before the 1960s, as it was the party of Lincoln,” SoRelle said. He also said many southern blacks abhorred the Democratic Party because they included many famous racists such as George Wallace and, for a time, Lyndon Johnson.

SoRelle said, however, that King Sr.’s views on Kennedy changed when he and his brother Robert Kennedy helped get King Jr. released from prison after he was arrested in an Atlanta sit-in protest.

Upon King Jr.’s release from prison, his father was quoted as saying “I didn’t like Kennedy because he’s a Catholic, but now that he’s got my boy out of jail, I’ve got a whole suitcase full of votes and I’m going to go to Washington and dump them in his lap.”

SoRelle said he believes this was the turning point for the Kennedy campaign in regards to black support, as King Sr.’s message began to spread outside of Atlanta.

“At this point, what appeared to be a platform in favor of civil rights, really appealed to the black voters, especially in the South,” SoRelle said.

And this couldn’t have come a moment too soon, as the election was less than two weeks away.

According to an article published by the New York Times the day after the election, Kennedy was able to win the election due to strong support of both northern and southern blacks.

Kennedy won the popular vote by less than 1 percent, and the months ahead would prove challenging as many leaders of the Civil Rights Movement regularly criticized the Kennedy administration for their reluctance to move quickly on civil rights legislation.

Despite this, Brown said he believes the attitudes of most black Americans toward Kennedy from that era center around one idea — “he was a pioneer in the movement, and for that we are eternally grateful.”

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Baylor snuffs out tobacco use on campus

By Maleesa Johnson Staff Writer

Starting in fall 2014, Baylor will ban all tobacco products on campus in an effort to move forward in accordance with Baylor’s vision of progress.

The restriction of tobacco use has been an ongoing discussion, lasting more than 30 years.

In the mid-1980s, smoking was banned from the interior of every Baylor facility.

Later on, restrictions were made that prohibited people from smoking within a certain distance of entryways.

“It was a process and many folks had addressed this issue, feeling that Baylor should over the years,” said John Whelan, the associate vice president for human resources. “What

really got the ball rolling was the Student Senate passed a resolution and they asked the administration to create an environment that was safer for students.”

Now, with the backing of Student and Faculty senates and Staff Council, Baylor has created a policy in which any usage of tobacco, including smoke-free tobacco, is forbidden.

The support of these entities as well as the example set by other college campuses to go smoke-free has helped fuel the decision.

“There is an absolute trend where college campuses are headed in this direction,” Whelan said. “I would expect that probably in 10 years, we won’t see a university that has a policy allowing tobacco on campus.”

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One hundred forty-five lampposts on campus have a plaque with the name of an alumnus who died in service to their country. Behind each name is a story.

The stories of these deceased alumni are unknown to most except to the friends and family of the fallen heroes.

Frank Jasek, a book preservation specialist in Moody Memorial Library, spent 11 years researching and learning their stories. He wrote the book “Soldiers of the Wooden Cross” to make others aware of the lives and sacrifices of the fallen service members who once walked Baylor’s campus.

One hundred eighty-two Baylor alumni have died in military service.

Thirty-seven of these names from the Civil War and World War I can be found on plaques

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Baylor librarian Frank Jasek published a book called “Soldiers of the Wooden Cross,” a book that tells the story of alumni who died in military service.

in Baylor’s Texas Collection in the Carroll Library. The rest of the names from World War II through Operation Iraqi Freedom are on individual lamppost plaques located all over Baylor’s campus.

Jasek did not serve in the military, nor did any members of his immediate family. However, Jasek said his family raised him to respect military service and his family was always patriotic.

“My parents would drop us off at the fair when we were kids and, for some reason, I always made friends with the soldiers,” Jasek said.

Jasek earned a bachelor’s degree in aviation from Southeast State University in 1969.

“I was born the same year that Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier (1947),” Jasek said.

“I figure that’s why I have always been fascinated with aviation.”

Jasek’s family business, book binding,

brought him to Waco, where he attended Baylor and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1973.

“I say I went to Baylor to meet my wife,” Jasek said. “And I did. I met my wife Janet and we got married in 1978.”

Jasek continued to work for his family business until 1991 when he and his wife decided to become home parents at the Methodist Home Boys Ranch for troubled youths in Waco.

In 1999, Jasek left the boys ranch after taking a job repairing damaged books for Baylor’s Moody Library.

While walking the Baylor campus in the spring of 1999, Jasek noticed a plaque on a lamppost and his curiosity about the story behind that name started his 11-year project.

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BELTON — A Fort Hood soldier was fined after being convicted of a misdemeanor in a case where gun-rights advocates protested his arrest.

U.S. Army Master Sgt. Christopher Grisham did not get jail time after being convicted Tuesday by a Belton jury of interference with the duties of an officer, the Temple Daily Telegram reported. The jury gave him a $2,000 fine. Grisham has said he’ll appeal both the fine and the conviction.

Grisham was arrested in March while hiking with his 15-year-old son for a Boy Scouts merit badge and armed with an assault rifle he carried openly, which he’s allowed to do under state law.

Someone who spotted the rifle called police, and a resulting confrontation between the officer

and Grisham led to the soldier’s arrest. The confrontation was captured on video and posted on the Internet. His first trial ended last month with a deadlocked jury.

Blue Rannefeld, an attorney for the National Association of Legal Gun Defense, represented Grisham, who has said he fought the arrest and resulting charge to take a stand for gun rights.

The prosecution called a local Boy Scouts leader who testified that Grisham’s hike violated BSA policy requiring at least two adults for any youth activity. A district attorney’s investigator also testified that Grisham raised nearly $52,000 in donations by posting video of the arrest taken by his son.

Prosecutor John Gauntt Jr. told jurors that “we are all accountable for our actions,” arguing that the case wasn’t on gun rights.

Law professors offer legal advice on district alignment

By Paula Ann Solis Staff Writer

When the McLennan County Commissioners Board began planning to change district lines, they hired two lawyers they have trusted time and again with this significant task.

These two lawyers also happen to be Baylor Law School professors.

David Guinn, the Lyndon L. Olson and William A. Olson Pro-

fessor of Local Government and Constitutional Law and Master Teacher, is half of the two-man team.

His partner, Michael Morrison, law professor and Boswell Chair, knows more than his fair share about county matters considering he served as Waco’s mayor from 1996 to 2000.

“They’re known nationwide for their expertise in this field,” McLennan County Judge Scott Felton said. “If we do anything

with our precinct, we want to be sure we do it fairly and for the benefit of the taxpayers. That’s why we hired them.”

Felton said the county is considering reducing the number of justices of the peace and constable positions in the area due to an unequal distribution of services.

He said the current setup, composed of eight justices of the peace and constables, suffers from imbalanced service from elected officials.

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Several posts, possibly four, may be cut and salaries will rise for those remaining positions, Felton said.

Guinn and Morrison were called because the county wanted to be sure it does not violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Felton said.

Section 2 forbids voting measures that may discriminate on the basis of race, color or membership in a minority group, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

A violation by the county could result in costly lawsuits.

Felton said the reputations of Guinn and Morrison made choosing legal advisers an easy process.

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NCAA athletes shouldn’t get paid Editorial The Ed O’Bannon suit against the NCAA may create a means for student-athletes to receive payment in the future, and it could severely damage college athletics.

O’Bannon, on behalf of Division I football and men’s basketball players, is challenging the NCAA in a class action lawsuit because of its propensity for using images of former student-athletes for commercial purposes.

O’Bannon argues that once a student-athlete graduates, he should receive some sort of financial compensation for the NCAA’s commercial uses of a student-athlete’s image.

O’Bannon played college basketball at UCLA and played in the NBA for three seasons before playing professionally overseas until 2004.

U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken partially certified a class action suit against the NCAA. As a result, there’s been speculation that student-athletes might receive financial compensation in the future or be forced to join a trade association that would negotiate contracts for student-athletes.

The grassroots organization of associations like this began immediately after Wilken’s order to certify a class action against the NCAA.

There are still a lot of questions that need to be asked regarding the future of the NCAA and the ramifications of the O’Bannon lawsuit.

Many of those answers depend on the outcome of O’Bannon v.

NCAA. The NCAA has many faults, but its refusal to pay college athletes is not one of them.

Regardless of the class-action lawsuit, student-athletes receive free world-class educations and are provided with elite training and coaching in their respective sports.

The Baylor undergraduate cost for taking 12 or more hours (which all NCAA student-athletes must do in order to remain eligible) will be $49,028 for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Considering that a student-athlete receives five years of education to play four seasons, a studentathlete earns roughly a $200,000 to $250,000 education at Baylor without having to write a check.

Not to mention the countless other benefits student-athletes have. Student-athletes receive free books, a housing stipend, a meal plan and other benefits.

Also, student-athletes have their own academic center at Baylor with free tutoring and academic advising.

Baylor student-athletes also have an entire student-athlete services staff to lean on for support.

Student-athletes gain access to any class they need because of their sta-

tus as a student-athlete.

On top of all of that, why should student-athletes be paid? Granted, some exceptional student-athletes generate massive amounts of revenue for their respective schools, such as Tim Tebow at Florida, Robert Griffin III at Baylor or Johnny Manziel at Texas A&M, just to name a few. But Tebow, RG3 and Manziel are exceptions to the rule. Most student-athletes are not stars, and most do not generate any revenue for their universities.

If O’Bannon wins his suit against the NCAA, it would open up Pandora’s box for NCAA athletics.

Trade associations would become possible for student-athletes, much like professional sports have players unions. College athletes would have contracts that could be negotiated.

Contrary to popular belief, most college athletics programs, as a whole, lose money on athletics.

Football generates revenue but that revenue is often dispersed to nonrevenue generating sports like soccer, volleyball, track, cross country, baseball and softball.

Only 23 of 228 athletic departments at NCAA Division I public schools generated enough money on their own to cover their expenses in 2012, according to USA Today.

Considering that 203 out of 228 schools lose money on athletics, and considering that student-athletes already receive an education

and benefits valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars, studentathletes should not be paid.

With universities already los-

ing money to sustain athletics programs, paying athletes would only exacerbate the problem and is an unnecessary option. If colleges

paid athletes, it would inevitably raise the cost for students and burn an even larger hole in everyone’s checkbook.

Medical reporters need Take PEDs out of sports strong grasp of ethics “In order to write about life, first you must live it.”

This statement by Ernest Hemingway rings true and is especially applicable to health and wellness writing.

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This beat requires a special kind of ethics. I would even argue that it requires a higher standard of ethics than standard journalism.

I’ve written about rape, suicide and, most recently, miscarriage and infant death. During the interviewing process, sources recounted very personal stories to me, and often questioned at what point including these personal stories would be crossing a line.

To answer this question I

put myself into the shoes of my sources and fell back on ethics and medical ethics lectures from the days when I was a nursing major.

The key is to give enough information to tell the story while at the same time protecting a patient’s privacy.

How would I feel if that was my story and suddenly it was blasted out for potentially anyone in the world to read? How would I want my story to be told?

I think the standard for health and wellness reporting needs to be raised in several ways for this very reason.

First, as a health care writer I can say that my colleagues and myself are the middlemen. We’re the gatekeepers for information.

We research and ask questions.

Our responsibility is to ask the tough questions and find the answers and provide that information in a factual and functional way that allows our readers to easily access and understand that information.

As such, we have a basic responsibility to have some kind of previous health knowledge.

Just as doctors go to medical school, health writers should have some kind of basic education on anatomy, medical terminology and health care ethics.

I’m not saying we should have

some kind of advanced medical degree, but having an anatomy class or two in college wouldn’t hurt. Actually, anatomy was a very painful class when I took it, but the knowledge now is worth it.

We deal with this information every single day, and it would be a good idea to have a basic knowledge of health and wellness before we ever start writing. We owe it to you to know what we’re talking about, and to make sure that it is factual.

Second, I think a responsibility falls on editors to know their reporters.

They need to know which reporter is going to best serve on this beat.

It takes a special person to be able to handle the topics we cover.

You have to remain objective, but you still should feel. Then channel those feelings into the article you’re writing.

If you’re a health wellness writer and you aren’t feeling, you need to stop writing about this topic.

Maybe even stop writing in general because the ethics of health and wellness writing starts with being a human.

Rebecca Jung is a senior journalism major from Waco. She is a reporter for The Lariat.

Competition helps breed greatness. This is hard to dispute. iron-sharpening-iron transforms complacency into innovation, weaknesses into strengths and mediocrity into greatness. However, there is a darker side to competition that has received a lot of attention from the sports media lately.

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for a quicker way to become bigger, faster or stronger. I’m talking about performance-enhancing drugs, and I am sad to say that, after watching the Texas Tech game, I believe some on the field are using these banned substances.

I arrived home from work late in the first quarter. I joined a group of family and friends who were already watching the game in my living room. I was home and could finally relax. But then I turned my attention to the game and gasped in horror. I was not alarmed that Baylor was down by two touchdowns. I never lose

faith in the Bears. I was alarmed because I saw Thor, Iron Man, Captain America and The Hulk running across the field in black and white striped shirts throwing yellow flags on a whim and flexing their biceps while saying the words like “first down.” I soon realized that these men were not actual Marvel’s Avengers but the officiating crew in charge of calling the game. It was obvious from that point on that the dark influence of performance-enhancing drugs had clawed its way into the world of professional officiating.

These officials were no doubt flunkies from the failed NFL replacement referees. My theory is that Ed Hochuli crushed their hopes and dreams of being NFL referees with his 58-inch biceps after the famous Fail Mary call in Seattle.

How could these men with inferior physiques compete with Hochuli and his regular dose of human growth hormone? The replacement referees’ dreams were shattered, so they turned to the needle to improve their game.

Some say this isn’t important.

But I am here taking a bold stand against performance enhancing drugs in officiating. Why? Think about it. RG3 is delicate enough without me having to worry about him falling head first into the abdomen of a referee whose abs resemble Mt. Rushmore more than a nice soft pillow. RG3 could get a concussion on these herculean specimens of referees. I prefer my referees to stand about 5-feet9-inches and weigh a soft 230 pounds.

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been part of a balance of power in football. Sometimes referees can get a little flag happy. But they are less likely to paint the field yellow if they know a Ray Lewis or Brian Urlacher-type might rip their head off. But if these officials are just as big as the players, there’s no wondering what kind of calls might come about. They might even start to call pass interference when Luke Kuechly bearhugs Rob Gronkowsi in the end zone on the final passing play of a game. We just don’t know what kind of bold new calls might come from these empowered officials.

And what about the children?

Who do they have to look up to?

Poor Timmy just wanted a chance to be on the field with all the athletic kids, so he suited up in black and white and bought a whistle so that he too could share in the peewee game day glory. Shouldn’t Timmy have a role model? Or should the message to Timmy be that he must shoot synthetic testosterone into his veins if he ever wants to referee a Big 12 game?

We need to stop these macho men before they have a metaphorical heart attack and fatally crash their life into a tree. The NCAA and NFL do not need a Lance Armstrong-type scandal.

What other sideline icons might also start bulking up in order to compete for a spot? Think about the future water and towel boys, cheerleaders and athletic trainers. Lets save them from the pressures of performance enhancing drugs before it’s too late.

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Saturday’s Turkey Trot to benefit West libraries

By Paula Ann Solis Staff Writer

With turkey on the mind, runners are lacing up for the eighth Annual Central Texas Turkey Trot, which will benefit West Independent School District libraries destroyed during the April 17 West Fertilizer Plant explosion that leveled hundreds of buildings.

Registration for the event will begin at 7:30 a.m. Saturday at Redwood Shelter in Cameron Park.

The race will start at 9 a.m. It will include a 5K and 1K, 3.1 and 0.62 miles, respectively.

The races will be timed or untimed depending on the participants’ desire.

Registration is $20 for participants younger than 12, $25 for 1K participants and $30 for 5K participants.

Prizes include $150 and a frozen turkey for first place, a pump-

kin pie for second place and a meal coupon for third place.

Ac c o r d i n g to the registration website, the race does not contain a difficult trail.

The cost to enter will increase by $5 for all participants the day of the race, said Susan Duecy, president-elect of Altrusa International of the Brazos, the group co-sponsoring the race along with Altrusa International of Waco.

“Altrusa internationally is primarily focused on literacy, disaster relief and HIV/AIDS,” Duecy said. “With the West disaster being right here in our community and with the libraries destroyed, the

community n e e d seemed very relative to the mission of Altrusa.”

Duecy said the word Altrusa is a combination of the word altruism and the abbreviation USA. The net income of the past seven Turkey Trots is near $35,000, with an average near $4,500 each year.

However, Duecy said this year the average has already been exceeded based on sponsorship and the 130 runners currently registered.

“It seems like the community really has a lot of interest this year,” Deucy said. “This is my first time to co-chair the event. I don’t know if this response is typical or if it is because benefits are for West, but it’s been exciting to me to see the support for the cause.”

Dr. Jan Hungate, the chief administrative officer at West ISD, said support for West from these two Altrusa groups and around the nation has been unbelievable during their time of rebuilding and recovery.

Hungate said books have poured in from around the country to help rebuild the libraries in West ISD after three of the four schools were destroyed and one library completely burned.

The other damaged schools were in a condition reasonable enough for employees to walk through and salvage what they could from the former libraries.

“We have two temporary libraries, one at the junior high and one at the high school probably a quarter of what the previous ones were in a modular building a little bigger than a classroom,” Hungate said.

“We really had to pick and choose the most important English, social studies and science books to keep, and we have wireless-internet so devices in there can look online and view database subscriptions.”

This online database is the vision for the future of West ISD libraries, Hungate said.

The money that has been donated so far for West libraries is being saved to rebuild a library centered on eBooks and other technologies that will provide what Hungate described as a state-of-the-art facility with a quality learning space for students.

“We cannot express our gratitude for the outpouring of support from around the state and

our country,” Hungate said. “I got two calls from Boston after all they went through with the bombing and they just wanted to say, ‘We want you to know we’re thinking of you.’ It makes me cry just talking about it.”

The Boston bombing occurred April 15, only two days before the West fertilizer explosion. Students at West Elementary School have spent the past week preparing signs to encourage racers, Hungate said.

The West High School track team will also participate in the race and members of both Altrusa groups have covered all their entry fees. The West High School drumline will kick things off with a performance, and the post-race entertainment will include a dance

by West dancers demonstrating the town’s Czech roots.

To learn more about the event and registration, visit signmeup. com/94893.

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CAMP GEIGER, N.C. — Three Marines have become the first women to graduate from the Corps' tough-as-nails enlisted infantry training school in North Carolina, officials said Thursday.

The three completed the 59day course and met the same test standards as the men, said Marine Corps spokeswoman Capt. Geraldine Carey.

The course includes a grueling 12-mile march with an 80-pound pack and a variety of combat fitness tests such as timed combat shuttle runs, timed ammunition container lifts and tests that simulate running under combat fire.

The step comes as the Marine Corps continues to evaluate where women might serve in combat.

Earlier this year, the Pentagon lifted the ban on women serving

in combat jobs, but each of the service branches is developing how this might be accomplished.

The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps are looking at the standards required for serving in battlefront jobs such as infantry, armor and elite commando positions.

They have until Jan. 1, 2016, to open as many jobs as possible to women, and to explain why if they decide to keep some closed.

The common requirements for men and women for each job would be based on specific tasks.

Military officials have said the standards will not be lowered in order to bring women into any combat posts.

Carey identified the women as Pvt. 1st Class Julia Carroll, 18, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, who is entering a school for signal intelligence training; Pvt. 1st Class Cristina

Fuentes Monternegro, 25, of Coral Springs, Fla., who will study to become an aviation mechanic; and Pvt. 1st Class Katie Gorz, 19, of St. Paul, Minn., who is going to study logistics.

On its website, the Marine Corps said the Camp Geiger course is the follow-on training for Marines who graduate from basic training at Parris Island, S.C., and about 20,000 Marines train there every year. Marines who complete recruit training at the post near San Diego move on to the infantry school at Camp Pendleton in California.

Parris Island is the only site where female Marines go through basic training.

Carey said 15 women began the enlisted course with 254 men in September. It wasn't immediately clear exactly how many male Marines completed the course to

graduation on Thursday.

She said the course is separate from one that trains Marine infantry officers for leadership positions at Quantico, Va. Several women lieutenants have attempted to complete that course, but so far none has passed.

A new group of enlisted Marines enters the infantry course every two weeks, and each of the units currently in training has women in them, Carey said.

Under a 1994 Pentagon policy, women were prohibited from being assigned to ground combat units below the brigade level. A brigade is roughly 3,500 troops split into several battalions of about 800 soldiers each.

Historically, brigades were based farther from the front lines, and they often included top command and support staff.

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Private First Class Cristina Fuentes Montenegro, left and Pfc. Julia Carroll, right, share a moment with Shirley John, president of the Women Marines Association, NC-1, Tarheel Chapter, Jacksonville following graduation ceremony, Thursday, held in Camp Geiger, Jacksonville.

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Jury orders Samsung to pay Apple $290 million

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Wacoans fight against hunger, homelessness

By Rebecca Fiedler Staff Writer

As part of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, today the McLennan County Hunger Coalition and the Heart of Texas Homeless Coalition are asking people to donate to an all-day food drive that will take place at multiple locations, such as H-E-B, WalMart and Sam’s Club locations.

The food will go to local food pantries.

Also, as part of the weeklong event, the organization Kids Against Hunger, along with the Rev. Tim Jarrell of Austin Avenue United Methodist Church, will invite volunteers to package meals for those in need between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday at Austin Avenue United Methodist Church.

Volunteers can sign up for a shift to package food by searching “Kids Against Hunger” at www. signupgenius.com.

“We’ve had different programs each day and we’ve had really pretty good participation.”

Kenneth Moerbe | NHHA week planning committee

“Basically what these volunteers will do is pack these food packets up and seal them,” said Kenneth Moerbe, co-chairman of the local National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week planning committee. “Rev. Jarrell’s goal is 30,000 packets.”

The coalitions are attempting

this week to make Wacoans and Baylor students more aware of the issues of homelessness and hunger.

A press release from the coalitions states that during the course of a year 1,000 Waco Independent School District students are homeless, and 25 percent of children in Texas experience food insecurity.

The coalitions work to encourage people to increase access to food for senior citizens by asking the Waco community to send letters to national, state and local leaders.

Monday, they asked Wacoans to gather together at local businesses and institutions, including places like Common Grounds and the World Cup Café, to write these letters.

There was a Baylor class presentation at a town hall meeting at the Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday.

Dr. Andrew Hogue, director of the Civic Education and Community Service Program of the political science department, and students from his African American Politics Class shared some of the information gathered in their study of food deserts in the South Waco area.

Thursday the coalitions provided a free showing of film “A Place at the Table” on campus at the Bennett Auditorium.

“We’ve had different programs each day and we’ve had really pretty good participation, I think,” Moerbe said.

He said this year’s Awareness Week events have been the most successful in Waco he’s seen.

He said if people attend the week’s activities, they gain an awareness of the issues discussed and be willing to take action against them in the future.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — A Silicon Valley jury on Thursday added $290 million more to the damages Samsung Electronics owes Apple for copying vital iPhone and iPad features, bringing the total amount the South Korean technology titan is on the hook for to $930 million.

The verdict covers 13 older Samsung devices that a previous jury found were among 26 Samsung products that infringed Apple patents.

The previous jury awarded Apple $1.05 billion. But U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh reduced the damages to $640 million after ruling that jury miscalculated the amount owed on 13 devices and ordered a new trial.

Apple had asked for $380 million, arguing Samsung’s copying cost it a significant amount of sales.

Samsung countered that it owed only $52 million because the features at issue weren’t the reasons most consumers chose to buy Samsung’s devices instead of Apple’s.

Samsung said it would appeal both verdicts.

“For Apple, this case has always been about more than patents and money,” Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said.

“While it’s impossible to put a price tag on those values, we are grateful to the jury for showing Samsung that copying has a cost.”

A third trial is scheduled for March to consider Apple’s claims that Samsung’s newest devices such as the popular Galaxy S III on the market also copied Apple’s technology.

Apple and Samsung are the world’s two biggest smartphone makers. The bitter rivals have been waging a global battle for supremacy of the $300 billion worldwide market.

The size of the award didn’t faze Wall Street or harm or help either company’s financial fortunes in any significant way.

Samsung reported it had $47 billion in cash at the end of September and racked up $247.5 billion in revenue last year.

Apple has $147 billion of cash

Ben Margot | Associated Press

Harold McIlhenny, center, an attorney representing Apple Computer in the Apple Samsung trial, exits a federal courthouse Wednesday, in San Jose, Calif. How much does Samsung Electronics owe Apple for copying vital features of the iPhone and iPad, such as scrolling and the “bounce-back” function at the end of documents?

on hand and took in $170.9 billion in revenue last year.

“We understood that the money wasn’t really an issue,” said juror Barry Goldman-Hall.

“This was about the integrity of the patent process.”

Goldman-Hall, 60, of San Jose was one of two men and six women on the jury, which was tasked only with determining damages.

Apple has argued in courts, government tribunals and regulatory agencies around the world that Samsung’s Android-based phones copy vital iPhone features.

Samsung is fighting back with its own complaints that some key Apple patents are invalid and Apple has copied Samsung’s technology.

Samsung lawyer William Price argued Apple is misconstruing the breadth of its patents to include such things as basic rectangle shape of most smartphones.

“Apple doesn’t own beautiful and sexy,” Price told the San Jose jury.

Apple attorney William Lee told the jury that Samsung used Apple’s technology to lift it from an also-ran in the smartphone market three years ago to the world’s biggest seller of them today.

“Apple can never get back to where it should have been in 2010,” Lee told the jury Tuesday at the conclusion of the weeklong trial.

The fight in San Jose is particularly contentious. The courtroom is a 15-minute drive from Apple’s Cupertino headquarters, and several prospective jurors were dismissed because of their ties to the company.

The three jurors who discussed the verdict outside court said Apple’s proximity made no difference in their deliberations.

“Although Apple is down the street, it’s a global company just like Samsung,” jury forewoman Colleen Allen said. “I have a Samsung television and refrigerator and an Apple computer. I like both companies.”

Allen, 36, of Aromas, is an

emergency room nurse who served nearly eight years in the Navy, including a posting in Afghanistan.

“If we didn’t award Apple much, we’re saying it’s OK to infringe patents,” Allen said.

The South Korea-based Samsung has twice sought to stop the trial, accusing Apple on Tuesday of unfairly trying to inflame patriotic passions by urging jurors to help protect American companies from overseas competitors.

The judge denied Samsung’s request for a mistrial, but did reread an instruction ordering jurors to put aside their dislikes and biases in deciding the case.

On Wednesday, Samsung again demanded a halt to the trial after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office told Apple it was planning to invalidate a patent protecting the “pinch-to-zoom” feature at issue in the jury’s deliberation.

The judge ordered more briefing while declining to stop the trial.

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Pumpkin-flavored everything represents autumn season

By Haley Davis Reporter

With Thanksgiving rapidly approaching, there is one thing that really puts people into the autumn spirit: pumpkin.

Pumpkins are no longer just for decorations and pie. It seems like during the fall season, pumpkin-flavored things are everywhere, and people are loving it.

“Pumpkin spice candles are my favorite because I love it when I walk into my room and it smells like fall,” Cypress sophomore Macy Dye said.

Many companies such as Yankee Candle make pumpkin-scented concoctions during the fall to heighten

the mood for the season.

Companies such as Bath and Body Works also carry lotions and soaps that smell like this seasonal favorite, so people can smell like this autumn scent all season long.

Want something other than the traditional pie or pumpkin spice latte?

Pumpkin muffins and bread are popular pumpkin choices as well.

“Pumpkin muffins are my favorite,” Houston senior Beka Hanawalt said. “My friend Katie makes the best homemade ones, and they also make it feel like fall.”

Fort Worth sophomore Amanda Cawood said her favorite pumpkin sweet is pumpkin frozen yogurt.

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food group in the first place, so add pumpkin in the mix, and it’s as close to perfect as food can get,” Cawood said.

Pumpkin spice candy corn is a traditional fall treat. During the fall months, pumpkin-shaped candy corn is sold.

“It’s the perfect combination of fall and sugar, and everything that is bad for you, but yet so yummy,” Austin sophomore Mackenzie Mayo said.

Want a pumpkin drink that is a little healthier? Northridge, Calif., senior Hilary McFall loves the Pumpkin Smash smoothie at Jamba Juice.

“It’s healthy and delicious,” McFall said. “I can still get my pumpkin fix without drinking a ton of calories.”

Many other coffee shops have their own version of the pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks. Waco’s local coffee shop Common Grounds has a whole fall coffee menu.

“Pumpkin Patch is my favorite coffee drink because it’s delicious and makes me feel warm and cozy and totally hip carrying it around in the fall,” Plano junior Alexa Curry said.

There are even pumpkin-flavored things that are outrageous, but many companies want to fuel the love of pumpkin. Some of these things include pumpkin pasta and pumpkin potato chips.

It’s true. In America it’s not fall until the pumpkins are out and everything is pumpkin flavored.

Burger shop offers free meal on Thanksgiving

By Rebecca Jung Reporter

For some, Thanksgiving means turkey and stretch pants, but for others, it means despair and hunger.

Dave’s Burger Barn, located on 600 N Patricia St. is working to help those families. “We will be opening the restaurant doors to anyone in need who would like a free traditional Thanksgiving meal,” Tim Quiroz, owner and operator of Dave’s Burger Barn, said. “Food will be offered from 11 to 2 p.m.”

Dave’s Burger Barn was opened in September 2009 by Quiroz’s mother and stepfather. Quiroz purchased the restaurant from them a few years back and since has been growing the business to what it is today. “This is the first year for the ‘feast of thanksgiving’,” Quiroz said. “I just opened my new restaurant in February, so this is the first time to have the new seating capacity to fit large groups of people.”

Quiroz has large plans for this event. “Since this is my first year doing it, my goal is to help feed at least 500 people,” Quiroz said. “ I hope that this event can only get bigger and become an annual thing for the city of Waco.”

Recent numbers indicate that this is a needed

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service. The North Texas Food Bank that serves Dallas and surrounding areas services 1,000 feeding programs and 262 partner agencies. “Our newest numbers indicate that nearly 800,000 people

“This means one in five adults and one in four children are hungry or food insecure in our 13-county service area.”

Jeffrey Clapper | Communications manager for the NTFB

in a 13-county area of North Texas are unsure of where their next meal will come from” Jeffrey Clapper, Communications manager for the NTFB, said.

“This means one in five adults and one in four children are hungry or food insecure in our 13-county service area.”

Recently, food banks have seen a spike in service needs. “The SNAP cuts that happened on November 1st, which average $36 for a family of four, have driven up our demand for food,” Clapper said.

“Most food banks will see a spike in demand dur-

ing the holiday season. In addition to these spikes in demand, any time a child is out of school, we see an increase in demand for food. Why? Most school districts provide free or reduced breakfast and lunch, and for many of these children, those are the only two meals they get per day. Thus, families out of school tend to go to their local pantry to make up for the lost meals.”

Data provided by Adele Brady at the Houston food bank indicates similar needs in its service area.

Zavala County, located only four hours away from Waco, has the highest rates of food insecurity in the nation and several other counties in Texas rank among the highest in the nation, Brady said.

Dave’s is partnering with other companies to make this feast possible. In addition to members of the community who are volunteering time and money, Quiroz said that Dave’s is partnering with several businesses in Waco, such as Hornet Signs, T&M Contracting, US Foods, Mrs. Bairds, and Hillcrest Hospital. Quiroz said any Baylor students interested in helping could donate items such as three-compartment plates, plastic silverware, napkins and similar items. Dave’s is also welcoming volunteers to help serve, clean and deliver meals.

He attended Baylor in 2004, and is responsible for creating the “Zipper Ripper” at Dave’s in 2010.

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Presented by the Historic Waco Foundation, this traveling exhibit of seven stained glass windows was created by acclaimed artist Louis C. Tiffany. For more information on special events, hours and admission prices, see www.historicwaco.org/angels.

>> Shipwrecked 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday Mabee Theatre in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center Baylor Theatre presents “Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as told by himself).” “Shipwrecked” is a tale about a Victorian showman and his travels written by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Donald Marguiles.

Although the show is sold out, standing room only tickets are available one hour before showings for $15.

>> Wind Ensemble 7:30 p.m. Monday Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building J. Eric Wilson, director of bands, will conduct his 76-member group of wind, brass and percussion players. The event is free and open to the public.

>> Homestead Fair 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Nov. 29-30 Noon-5 p.m. Dec. 1 Homestead Craft Village at Brazos de Dios An educational weekend festival with food, shopping, arts and crafts, music, hayrides and more. Go to homesteadfair.com for more information.

>> Waco Wonderland Nov. 30-Dec. 7 Downtown Waco For eight days of holiday fun, Downtown Waco will have an ice skating rink, Santa visits, fireworks and thousands of lights. Events include tree lighting ceremony, movie in the park and a parade. See www. wacowonderland.com for more details.

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Bears face No. 10 OSU in hostile road test

By Shehan Jeyarajah Sports Writer

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Junior quarterback Bryce Petty rushes the ball in Baylor’s 63-34 win over Texas Tech on Saturday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. The Bears take on No. 10 Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Okla., on Saturday.

The games just keep on keep on getting bigger for Baylor. Only two weeks ago, fans were hoping Baylor could get some legitimacy as a program with a test against No. 10 Oklahoma. After passing that test with flying colors, Baylor destroyed Texas Tech. Every test that Baylor has been given, it has aced.

The eyes of the nation will be on Stillwater this Saturday night as No. 4 Baylor (9-0, 6-0) puts everything on the line in a program-altering matchup with No. 10 Oklahoma State (9-1, 6-1). Baylor has not won a game in Stillwater since 1939.

Baylor comes into this game with the highest-powered offense in the history of college football up to this point in the season. The Bears are on pace to be the only team in FBS history to average both 300 yards through the air and on the ground.

Baylor leads the nation in total offense with 684.8 yards per game, more than 100 yards better than second-place Oregon. The Bears also average 61.2 points per game.

Florida State is second in scoring at 52.7 points per game.

Junior quarterback Bryce Petty is top five in the country in passing yards with 332.4 yards per game on 25.9 passing attempts per game.

Petty has also added 34 all-purpose touchdowns to go along with only one interception on the season so far.

Baylor has relied on a running back by committee with senior running back Glasco Martin and junior running back Lache Seastrunk limited with injuries.

With more opportunity, freshman running back Shock Linwood has exploded.

In his last three games, Linwood has rushed for 475 yards and

three touchdowns on 7.8 yards per carry.

With the huge performances, Linwood has moved to 11th in yards per rush and 27th in yards per game list. No team in the nation has multiple players who average more than 100 yards on the ground per game. Linwood and Seastrunk have been essential to Baylor staying in the top 10 in rushing yards.

Senior wide receiver Tevin Reese was lost for the season with a dislocated wrist against Oklahoma, but there have been multiple players to step up in his absence. Junior wide receiver Antwan Goodley is top-five in the nation with 119.4 yards per game. With Reese gone, junior inside receiver Levi Norwood has posted 234 yards and three touchdowns in his last two games. Norwood also added a 58yard punt return for a touchdown against Tech.

Baylor’s defense has been the biggest surprise of the season in the Big 12. The defense ranks 11th overall in the nation and first in the Big 12. Baylor only allows 323.0 yards per game and 17.4 yards per game.

Baylor will have its work cut out for it against an Oklahoma State team that is dynamic on both sides of the ball. The Cowboys put forth a balanced offense that averages 429.2 yards per game. The Bears also rank top 15 in the country with 40.4 points per game.

The quarterback platoon of senior Clint Chelf and sophomore J.W Walsh has combined for 258.2 yards per game, which ranks 38th in passing offense in the FBS. The Cowboys also boast a balanced rushing attack behind senior running back Desmond Roland’s 565 yards and 10 touchdowns this season.

Oklahoma State’s defense ranks

in the top 50 in the FBS and holds opponents to an average of 373.1 yards per game and merely 19.0 points per game. Despite the modest offensive and defensive rankings, the Cowboys are outscoring teams by more than 20 points per game.

Seastrunk and Martin are questionable to play this Saturday for Baylor with groin and knee injuries respectively. Junior linebacker Bryce Hager will miss the game with a groin injury, and sophomore left tackle Spencer Drango will be out after undergoing back surgery.

Oklahoma State wide receiver Josh Stewart is questionable for the game with a foot injury.

Baylor dismantled in-state rival Texas Tech 63-34 on Saturday.

Oklahoma State went into Austin last week and embarrassed No. 24 Texas 38-13. Both teams come into this game with huge momentum.

Oklahoma State is one of the most consistent scoring teams in the Big 12 this season, behind only Baylor. To ensure victory, it’s vital for Baylor’s defense to force takeaways. The Cowboys also lead the Big 12 in interceptions, so Petty will have his work cut out for him making sure he doesn’t turn the ball over.

Baylor has more talent than Oklahoma State, but it will come down to execution in a hostile road environment.

The Bears have never won in Stillwater, including a humbling 59-24 loss during Robert Griffin III’s Heisman season in 2011. For the Bears to stay in the national championship picture, that will have to change.

No. 4 Baylor football will travel to Stillwater to play No. 10 Oklahoma State at 7 p.m. Saturday. The matchup will be broadcast live on ABC nationwide. ESPN’s College Gameday will also be at OSU.

BIG 12 FOOTBALL WEEKEND PREVIEW

By Shehan Jeyarajah Sports Writer

No. 20 Oklahoma (8-2, 5-2) at Kansas State (6-4, 4-3) Oklahoma was largely eliminated from the Big 12 title discussion on Nov. 7 after getting embarrassed

by No. 5 Baylor in Waco. Since then, Oklahoma is coming off of a 48-10 dismantling of the Iowa State Cyclones last Saturday in Norman, Okla. Freshman quarterback Trevor Knight accumulated 184 all-purpose yards and a rushing touchdown.

The Sooners are led by a strong rushing game that ranks top 20 in the country and second in the Big 12 with 236.4 yards on the ground per game.

The Sooner defense has also been one of the stingiest in the country, giving up 326.4 yards per game and 20.1 points per game.

Junior starting quarterback Blake Bell was taken out of the Iowa State game with a concussion, so Knight will start his first game since Sept. 7 against West Virginia.

After losing three straight games to start Big 12 play, Kansas State has looked like a completely different team.

Last week against TCU, sophomore kicker Jack Cantele kicked KState to a 33-31 win. The win was Kansas State’s fourth straight.

Sophomore quarterback Daniel Sams and junior quarterback Jake Waters have combined for 2,142 passing yards, 1,080 rushing yards and 29 all-purpose touchdowns while splitting time at quarterback.

The duo of quarterbacks has led K-State to 407.5 yards per game offensively. K-State also has a top 40 defense in the FBS. The Wildcats hold opponents to 370.9 yards per game and 23.3 points per game.

The Kansas State defense will be hindered without safety Ty Zimmerman, out with an ankle injury.

In their last matchup, No. 15 Kansas State beat No. 6 Oklahoma 24-19 in Norman behind 130 rushing yards from senior running back John Hubert.

With a win, Kansas State could pull into a tie with Oklahoma for fourth in the conference. These two teams match up against each other well, so it should be a tight game up in Manhattan, Kan. Kansas (3-7, 1-6) at Iowa State (1-9, 0-7) Kansas finally broke through with its first conference win since 2010 with a 31-19 victory against West Virginia last Saturday. After the win, Kansas fans tore down the goalposts and threw them into a nearby lake for some reason.

Before that victory, Kansas had been outscored 251-85 in confer-

ence play this season. The offense has mustered 303.2 yards per game on the season, which ranks bottom 10 in college football.

The defense gives up an average of 431.8 yards per game and 31.7 points per game.

Iowa State is still searching for its first Big 12 conference win of the season after getting destroyed 48-10 by No. 18 Oklahoma last week in Norman.

The Cyclone offense is averaging 327.9 yards per game, which is second to worst in the Big 12 behind only their opponent for this weekend, Kansas.

The Cyclone defense has allowed 40 or more points in five of its last six games. Iowa State’s defense gives up an average of 471.0 yards per game. That mark is worst in the entire Big 12.

Without a doubt, this is the matchup of the two worst teams in the Big 12, and two of the worst teams in automatic qualifying conferences this year.

In their last matchup, sophomore quarterback Sam Richardson broke out for 293 yards of total offense and five all-purpose touchdowns in a win.

It would be difficult to imagine that the Kansas Jayhawks would finish with more conference wins than Iowa State, so expect the Cyclones to have their biggest output of the season at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa, on Saturday.

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Oklahoma senior running back Brennan Clay runs past a diving tackle attempt from Iowa State freshman defensive end Mitchell Meyers in Oklahoma’s 48-10 victory on Saturday in Norman, Okla.

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No. 9 Baylor Lady Bears roll past Savannah State 99-31

By Parmida Schahhosseini Sports Writer

The No. 9 Baylor Lady Bears defended home court with a decisive 99-31 victory over Savannah State Thursday in the first game of the Athletes in Action Classic.

Senior guard Odyssey Sims led the team in scoring with 22 points. Sims and the other guards opened up the floor allowing Baylor’s post players to have strong outings. Sophomore post Kristina Higgins scored 14 points while adding 11 rebounds for her first career double-double. Junior post Sune Agbuke added 10 points and 10 rebounds for her second career double-double.

“The guards always get it inside, but we never really finish,” Higgins said. “If you get the ball, finish and score. That’s what we were trying to do tonight, and I think we did pretty well with that.”

Baylor came out strong jumping to a 10-1 lead by running the floor and staying aggressive on defense. Savannah State got its first field goal of the night with 15:47 left in the first half. Freshman forward Nina Davis responded with back-to-back field goals.

With 11 minutes left in the half, Savannah State switched to a zone defense. The Lady Bears struggled against the zone and had a six minute field goal drought until Davis’ layup put Baylor back on the board.

“They had switched to the zone, and we missed some shots and let it affect us,” Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey said. “You expect those things to happen. This team is so young that there are going to be stretches where we look really good and energized and we do some good stuff. There are going to be stretches where we’re going to look bad. We just have to stay

patient, and we just have to keep teaching.”

After that stretch, Agbuke tipped in a rebound for another score with Sims and freshman guard Imani Wright exchanging trips to the free-throw line. Baylor had a rough night from the charity stripe shooting 67.6 percent. Savannah State shot 35 percent from the free-throw line.

When Savannah State switched to the zone, it went on a 6-0 to put the game within 11 points. Baylor was able to take control late in the half by allowing four points in the last six minutes.

“In the first half, I was pleased with the physical presence that we brought to the floor against Baylor and the mental toughness of a young team,” Savannah State head coach Cedric W. Baker said. “I thought we lost it emotionally adjusting to the new rules. We could have played a little better in terms

of that aspect of the game, but I was really pleased with us getting a little close with 12 and 13 points in the first half and in the second half we were just out of rhythm.”

In the second half, Baylor held Savannah State to three points in the first 10 minutes. After struggling against Rice, freshman guard Ieshia Small led the team with five assists. During one play, Small had possession of the ball, but had some early pressure from the defense, so she spun around the defender and lofted a backwards pass to Higgins for the score.

Savannah State did not reach 10 points in the second half until 3:57 left in the game and shot 0-15 from beyond the arc, making it the first time since 2007 that Baylor did not allow a 3-point basket.

Baylor extended its home winning streak to 61 games and faces Northwestern State at 7 p.m. Friday at the Ferrell Center.

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Senior guard Makenzie Robertson fires a jumper in Baylor’s 99-31 win over Savannah State Thursday at the Ferrell Center.

Bears defense boosted with infusion of young talent

By Parmida Schahhosseini Sports Writer

No. 4 Baylor football’s defense has gone through a transformation in the last year, going from worst to first. After being ranked 119 out of 120 in the FBS at one point last year, Baylor is now 11th in total defense and first in the Big 12, in part because of the depth of the defense.

As Baylor continues to play tougher opponents with more potent offenses, having talented players on defense to back up the starters is an advantage because it allows players to keep their energy for longer periods of time.

“Against a team like [Texas] Tech, a fast-paced team, you’ve got

to keep guys fresh as they try to snap the ball at a quick pace,” head coach Art Briles said. “The object is to keep guys fresh, so that’s the main thing. A fresh body is a good one because they’ll be there playing fast.”

The statistics the Baylor defense is putting up has defensive coordinator Phil Bennett and fans smiling.

Baylor’s defense has 12 interceptions, but has only allowed 13 passing touchdowns. The Bears are fifth in the nation in red zone defense, allowing a touchdown 64.3 percent of the time. Opponents are 21.7 percent on fourth down against Baylor, which is second in the Big 12.

The defense has forced two

or more turnovers in 12 of the last 16 games. Despite the mixing and matching of players, the team chemistry is still high as defenders communicate on the field and trust each other to make the necessary plays.

The seniors continue to be productive on the field as they lead the team with their play setting an example for the younger players as they develop in Bennett’s system.

“It helps them because they get to sit back and watch how it’s done and learn,” senior cornerback K.J. Morton said. “Other than the coaches, they also have the seniors to get feedback from. They’re working and they’re going to be something special.”

Morton had a big game against

the Red Raiders, getting his sixth career interception, forcing a fumble and four pass breakups.

Senior linebacker Eddie Lackey has 42 solo tackles, three sacks and an interception. Senior safety Ahmad Dixon has 40 solo tackles and an interception. Senior cornerbacks Demetri Goodson and Joe Williams have played well in the secondary, but the depth in that position as well as other positions has not gone unnoticed to the upperclassmen.

“We have a lot of depth, especially in the secondary,” Morton said. “We have a lot of seniors and a lot of younger guys like Xavien Howard and Ryan Reid who are ready to step up. We practice real hard and every guy knows that at

any play, you can be up next. As a senior, I tell those guys to always be engaged on the sideline and to stay focused because you never know when it’s your turn.”

The underclassmen have made contributions to help this team become 9-0 for the first time in school history.

With junior linebacker Bryce Hager out with an injury during the Texas Tech game, other linebackers such as freshman linebacker Aiavion Edwards are stepping up to make plays. In his eight games, he has 11 solo tackles and 1.5 sacks with 3.5 tackles for a loss.

Getting these repetitions will be beneficial, as injuries begin to take a toll on the team.

“It helps us have fresh legs,”

freshman defensive lineman Byron Bonds said. “If coach has to take you out, the guy in there will go and fill in just as well as you can, so when you go back out there you have fresh legs.”

Sophomore defensive end Shawn Oakman has added the extra production Baylor is looking for in the rotation. He has 18 solo tackles and leads the team with 12 tackles for a loss. Oakman also has two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery. Bonds also has a forced fumble to his credit and 11 solo tackles.

With the season winding down and teams beginning to grind for greatness, this depth is what gives Baylor’s defense a critical advantage against the competition.

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the end result or effect of diluting minority-voting strength.

We are determined that that does not take place.”

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, McLennan County is comprised of 14.8 percent African-Americans, 23.6 percent Hispanics and 1.4 percent Asians.

Guinn said the important thing he has to keep in mind during all of this is that Section 2 does not require intent to discriminate, merely that it is the end result.

The legal duo has worked on redistricting projects like this one for 34 years and Guinn said Morrison has done more redistricting plans than any other lawyer in Texas.

The duo has advised counties, cities, the state of Texas and the state of Arkansas on several occasions.

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Guinn, known at Baylor Law School as “the Godfather,” said the workload he is experiencing right now with advising McLennan County and teaching pales in comparison to three years ago when the duo represented 38 political subdivisions in Texas and traveled the state regularly while working full days.

But that is where working as a team comes into play.

Guinn said his responsibilities for the team include keeping up-to-date on the law while Morrison is what he calls a genius with statistical analysis.

“No genius is involved,” Morrison said. “After a couple thousand, you just get real good at it.”

Morrison uses census data prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau to racially and ethnically break down the population

of a given area to determine if district lines have departed from legal requirements.

Morrison said the current precinct lines do not violate any laws.

The changes are being made solely to balance workloads and to save the county money without sacrificing services to tax payers.

As far as any impediment this work may have on teaching, Morrison said it is countered by what the legal team has to offer their students in terms of experience.

“Most law students appreciate having faculty that are successfully practicing and that are in demand,” Morrison said.

“I think they like knowing the people that teach them law aren’t just doing it because they don’t know how to practice law.

When we get hired by the state

legislature instead of UT Law across the street, I think our students like seeing that.”

Morrison said in all the years Guinn and he have advised on redistricting, they have never been challenged by the justice department if the client took the pair’s advice.

Guinn said the McLennan County court system has remained very open about the changes being made.

Before any final decision is reached, the public will have a chance to speak on the matter.

Morrison said he suspects the project to reach its final stages in three to four weeks.

The county is estimated to pay the legal duo up to $25,000 for their services.

“To be sure we do this with limited risk of a lawsuit, it’s well worth that,” Felton said.

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if I could find anybody,” Jasek said.

Many families and friends of the fallen service members answered Jasek’s phone calls and were happy to tell the tales of their loved ones.

However, Jasek still could not account for every story behind every lamppost, so he had more research to do.

“You can’t get personal military files because they have private information,” Jasek said.

“But you can get Individual Deceased Personnel Files.”

Individual Deceased Personnel Files usually provide information on a deceased military personnel’s unit, their burial and information on when and where they died.

Through these personnel files and the help of Baylor historians, Jasek slowly put the pieces together that created the many stories in his book.

“This book is sobering before you even open it,” said Katherine Ybarra, a Riverside, Calif. sophomore and Army

veteran. “It is a very large book with quite a few pages. You know each of those pages has a picture or a story of someone who died serving in the military.”

Jasek found pictures of most of the fallen alumni, but he was unable to find pictures for a few. To supplement an actual picture, Jasek began to create oil paintings of the service members based on their stories.

“Art is my hobby, so I started working on the oil paintings,” Jasek said. “I thought I would tell the story through a painting.”

When Jasek completed his book, he could not find any company to publish it. He could, however, pay to print the book.

Baylor’s Air Force and Army ROTC department bought nine of the oil paintings Jasek used in his book, which raised enough money for Jasek to print 1,000 copies of his book. The paintings are still on display in Baylor’s AFROTC building.

In addition to the help of the ROTC department, Jasek said Dr. T. Michael Parrish, Linden G. Bowers professor of American history, helped him write the Civil War sections and Ben Rogers, director of the W. R. Poage Legislative Library, helped him with his bibliography and endnotes.

“I couldn’t have made this book without Virginia Green,” Jasek said. Green, associate professor in the art department, spent four years helping Jasek design the pages of his book.

Jasek has occasional book signings during events such as Family Weekend.

Recently, Jasek spoke about his book and scholarship to the Veteran Educational and Transition Services class taught by Dr. Janet Bagby senior lecturer in the educational psychology department.

“When listening to Frank describe the profiles of these fallen heroes, it is evident this book was truly a labor of love and commitment,” Bagby said.

The book is available for $50 online or in person through Jasek.

With the proceeds from the book, Jasek started the Soldiers of the Wooden Cross Scholarship Fund for veterans, family members of veterans, ROTC cadets and active duty military.

The scholarship will be available to these students in 2014 and will pay for tuition and books.

“Community service will probably be the most important criteria to earn the scholarship,” Jasek said.

The Waco Foundation established the scholarship and donations can be made directly to the Soldiers of the Wooden Cross Scholarship Fund.

“Winston Churchill said to never give up,” Jasek said. “I wanted to tell their story. How could I tell their story if I quit?

They didn’t quit.”

More information about “The Soldiers of the Wooden Cross” can be found at www. soldierswoodencross.info.

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The use of tobacco products on campus will be prohibited starting next fall. The new policy not only works to keep students from picking up “deadly habits,” but it will allow Baylor to receive grant money for research from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas.

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This policy also allows Baylor to receive grant money for research from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). If Baylor were not at least considering the policy, any chance for research funding through CPRIT would be gone.

“The requirement in that grant is that any recipient of it has to be at least reviewing to make plans to have a tobaccofree campus policy,” Whelan said. “When we received those grants, it was a commitment that we were reviewing it. We ultimately came to the decision that if we were not going to do it, we would be closing the door for any future grants from that organization.”

Whelan said though the money received from the grant was not the driving reason, it did play a big part in the decision.

“The driving reason was that our students requested a healthier campus,” Whelan said. “They wanted an environment that didn’t create as many temptations and didn’t create the smoke and the other secondary effects as well, but primarily creating an environment that didn’t have the temptations that come with having tobacco products on campus.”

In light of the tobacco temptations Whelan mentioned, he said studies have

shown that 90 percent of college students that smoke did not smoke before college.

“We don’t want to create an environment where we are making it easy for people to pick up the deadly habit,” Whelan said.

Student Senate’s role was heavily weighted in the decision, Whelan said.

Arlington junior Dominic Edwards, the internal vice president, said Student Senate discussed the issue in an effort to move Baylor forward in research.

“It really was two things,” Edwards said. “One thing really was the health concern, but the other part of it was really pushing the university forward in terms of initiative.”

Edward said he hopes it is clear they are not trying to alienate smokers. The policy does not require tobacco users to quit.

Rather the policy only forbids them from using it on campus.

The official Tobacco-Free, Smoke free website for Baylor has information to help users who want to quit using tobacco products. For more information, visit baylor.edu/tobaccofree.

The policy will be enforced in a nonthreatening manner. It also encourages readers to inform anyone they may see smoking next fall to extinguish their cigarettes.