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FOOD PANTRY President Linda Livingstone speaks after the Board of Regents agreed to fund a free student food pantry. The decision was made after hearng a student presentation on food insecurity.

Board of Regents commits to fund free student food pantry MADALYN WATSON Staff Writer The Board of Regents committed to funding The Store after they heard a presentation on food insecurity from Baylor students on Friday in their official board meeting. The Student Success Initiatives started The Store, a free food pantry for students located in the basement of the Sid Richardson Building, in Dec. 2017 to combat food insecurity. The other topics discussed were the first pillar of Baylor’s academic strategic plan, “Illuminate,” the approval of the new student regent and the closure of two Baylor-owned apartments.

Undergraduate and graduate student leaders spoke to the Regents’ Student Life committee about student financial well-being and food security. This led to the topic of The Store, which has an average of 123 student visitors each week according to the director of Student Success Initiatives, Michelle Cohenour. “The student panel discussion led the full Board to commit personally to funding The Store for the next year,” Baylor spokesperson Lori Fogleman said, in a press release on the decision. Cohenour found out about the decision made at the Board of Regents meeting while watching a movie with her family on Friday.

“It’s amazing. I may have teared a little bit when I got the news on Friday. It breathed life into the project,” Cohenour said. Cohenour said The Store is donation based, receiving donations from Baylor staff, students, parents and alumni and that they could change the future for The Store. “We have heard from many of the Board of Regents that have already given. There’s an online giving site and what happens when people give online, our team finds out a few days later so that we can right thank you [cards] and follow up with those people,” Cohenour

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Creations exhibit features work by faculty and staff MATTHEW MUIR Staff Writer Baylor University President Linda Livingstone gave a short speech at the reception for Baylor Libraries’ 2019 Creations exhibit. The reception honors the faculty, staff and graduate students whose work is featured in the exhibit. Creations began in the fall of 1996 as Baylor Authors and Artists at Work. The yearly exhibit expanded eligibility to include all scholarly works from faculty and staff in 2002, and rebranded to Creations in 2004. The 2019 exhibit also features work from graduate students and the addition of a brand-new touchscreen TV on the wall behind the displays, adding a new level of depth and flexibility to the works on display. This year’s Creations exhibit features more than 200 items from a myriad of Baylor’s schools and departments, and includes books, articles, artwork, music, documentaries, theater works and more. Dr. Livingstone highlighted the broad diversity of the display. “[These items] represent a diverse, broad form of scholarship,” Livingstone said. “You will see much, much diversity here from representatives across the broad spectrum of what we do here at Baylor.” Livingstone also shared how Creations ties into Baylor’s Illuminate initiative, describing Creations as part of the “journey” towards making Baylor one of the top research universities in the country. “We spent a lot of time at [last Vol.118 No. 40

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CREATIONS Baylor Libraries’ 2019 Creations exhibit held a reception on Monday to honor the faculty, staff and graduate students whose work is featured.

week’s Board of Regents] meeting talking about both the scholarly and research work we have to do to become an R1 institution,” Livingstone said. “It’s this kind of work that helps us get there.” Livingstone ended her speech by thanking the contributors and library staff who made Creations possible. Faculty in attendance shared Livingstone’s enthusiasm for the exhibit. Melvin Schuetz, co-producer of the featured documentary “Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future” and assistant to the curators at Armstrong Browning Library and Museum, shared

his praise. “It’s a wonderful example for us to see the creative works, books, papers, films and so on that our Baylor students, faculty and staff have produced,” Schuetz said. 2019 isn’t Schuetz’s first time having his work featured. His prior works about Chesley Bonestell have been featured in 1999 and 2001. While the scope of the 2019 Creations exhibit is undoubtedly far-reaching, there’s still room for improvement. Christina Chan-Park, Baylor’s science librarian, notes a lack of representation from some fields.

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OAKMAN 19th District Judge Ralph Strother recused himself from overseeing the Shawn Oakman trial on Mon., shortly before the selection of jurors.

MORGAN HARLAN AND KALYN STORY Staff Writer and Print Managing Editor The sexual assault trial of former Baylor football player Shawn Oakman started Monday morning with defense attorneys filing a motion asking the judge to recuse himself, and 19th District Court Judge Ralph Strother agreed. On Tuesday morning a visiting judge will be called in to preside over the selection of jurors for Oakman’s trial. Oakman’s lawyers filed court documents on Monday that said the judge unsealed 11 sets of medical records for prosecutors on Feb. 20 and did not notify defense attorneys of the move. Consequently, they said Strother should be recused and at least two members of the prosecution team should be disqualified from the case. In addition, attorney Alan Bennet asked that the charges against his client Oakman, be dismissed. Later Monday afternoon McLennan County District Attorney Barry Johnson’s office responded to the motion to disqualify prosecutors, and a visiting judge may rule on that motion Tuesday morning. “Defenses [sic] request to disqualify the assigned

prosecutors is without merit. First, the State’s attorneys did not discuss any facts of the case with Judge Strother. Additionally, the State did not request any relief from Judge Strother, that was done after Judge Strother reviewed the file on his own,” the state’s response said. The response, submitted by Gabriel Price on behalf of Johnson’s office, said the defense was unable to provide any authority that would authorize the sealing of subpoenas gathering records in the case. “Judge Strother did comment that ‘If i did seal subpoenas that would have been a mistake and I must have signed the order without realizing what I was signing,’” the state’s response said. Strother originally sealed the 11 documents by request from the defense in August 2018. Some of the documents included personal medical information from Baylor Scott & White. After receiving a phone call from an attorney of Baylor Scott & White on Feb. 21, Bennet became aware of the unsealed documents. In addition to the motion to recuse, the defense filed another motion on Monday,

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What’s your number? Use Enneagram to inform your growth, not to define you Since the increased popularity of the Enneagram test, knowing someone’s number allows us to form assumptions about the personalities of people around us. The Enneagram can reduce complex, unique people to a simple personality type. While tools such as the Enneagram help us learn about ourselves and relate to those around us — especially since college is prime time for self-discovery — they should never be used in isolation or taken at face value. The Enneagram, a test that identifies nine personality types, has risen to popularity recently. It identifies people’s prime processing methods — thinking, feeling or instinctive — as well as responses to losing sense of self — anger, fear or shame. Through mixing and matching these features, nine personality types are created. The test identifies levels of development with predictions of what one may look like when moving toward growth versus under stress and pressure. Its insights have allowed The Enneagram to be adopted into job applications, Christian discipleship and life coaching practices. In more informal settings, the Enneagram has also been used for individuals to better understand themselves and their peers. By outlining response patterns, the Enneagram calls attention to subconscious tendencies within people. An increase in selfawareness can bring more controlled behavior. The Enneagram is arguably a good source for steps for development, because advice is personalized rather than generalized. The danger to applications of the Enneagram, and similar personality assessments, is basing judgments of self and others solely off given prescriptions. The Enneagram Institute admits its own limitations on its website: “Individuals are understandable only up to a certain point beyond which they remain mysterious and unpredictable.” Although the test does well recognizing the fluidity of personality, evident in its descriptions according to situation and maturity, it still constrains people to types.

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The complexities of an individual cannot be reduced to a number. Our editorial board is made up of 2, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8. Just given this information, you might be able to gather a deeper understanding of each of us, but there are intricacies within our personalities that cannot be contained within a simple one-digit number. The Enneagram Institute said on its website that its types are mainly determined by “inborn temperament and other pre-natal factors.” While genetic factors greatly contribute to personality, they are not the only influences to consider. A Journal of Personality and Social Psychology study on transitions of adulthood between ages 18 and 30 “links personality changes with contextual conditions such as

work and romantic relationships.” While genetic factors were found to account for traits, the expression of those traits — ultimately culminating in behavior — were an “important influence” over time. Because each test has its own aspect of the human character it seeks to describe, we should use a combination of tools to assess and grow in understanding of ourselves. Supplementing the Enneagram allows for exploration of other personality facets. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, for example, creates types based on behavior rather than internal responses like the Enneagram. The StrengthsFinder helps users identify their strengths, giving strategies for applying and building your natural talents. Finding

discrepancies between different test results can also help recognize the flaws within each system. Tests will inevitably miss the mark on certain things, and therefore shouldn’t be used to define a person but rather help a person define themselves. These assessments are guides to adapt to individuals, not for individuals to adapt to. We should be wary of the need to fit our personality type. It isn’t a number on the Enneagram or a four-letter Myers-Briggs combination that defines us. People are far too complex and capable of growth to be constrained to such a static variable. Make the effort to get to know yourself, not your type description.

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Bring hockey back to Baylor, Waco community SHAE KOHARSKI Multimedia Journalist Yes, there was hockey in Waco, and it’s time to bring it back. Coming from Massachusetts and a big Canadian family, I’ve been a hockey fan my entire life. My whole family works in hockey. My second home is hockey rinks. My teething ring as a child was a hockey puck. Players see me at games and call my family to let them know they’re keeping tabs on me. So when I made the move from Massachusetts to Texas, I don’t think I really contemplated how much I would go through hockey withdrawals. In Texas, there’s a National Hockey League team, Dallas Stars, as well as two American Hockey League teams, Texas Stars and San Antonio Rampage. Rumor has it that Houston may be getting a team as well after

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ON THE ICE Baylor’s club hockey team started practicing at the Cedar Park Center, located 85 miles from campus, after its former home, the Dr Pepper Star Center, closed down in 2009.

Seattle finishes its expansion in a few years. There are even NHL players who are from Texas. Seth Jones, one of the stars of the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets, is from Arlington. Tyler Meyers plays for the Winnipeg Jets and is from Houston. Blake Coleman

of the New Jersey Devils is from Plano. Also, some Texas schools have hockey teams as well. There is a league in Texas called the Texas Collegiate Hockey Conference. TCU and UT Austin are in the conference as well as

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Texas Tech, Texas A&M and several more. So did hockey skip right over Waco and Baylor? It turns out that Waco had a hockey team in the late ‘90s called the Waco Wizards and played at the Heart of Texas Coliseum. Their last season was in 2000. Shockingly, it looks like Baylor had a hockey team, too. I was looking through Lariat archives to see if Baylor had a team, and the last article written about Baylor’s hockey team was in 2009. From reading, it looks like Baylor had trouble finding ice in town. Their closest practice facility was 85 miles away. An article in September 2009 reports that Waco used to have two ice rinks, but both were turned into roller rinks. A lot can change in 10 years. Baylor’s campus is a hub of people from all over the country, and Waco has grown so much in the past few years. The town is now a huge tourist attraction. Even some Baylor students who have never even watched a hockey game could be interested in watching their first if it is in such close proximity. Getting a fan base now would be easier than in the 2000s.

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But I think one major thing that needs to happen in the town is getting an ice skating rink (other than the tiny one they bring in for Christmas on 5th). Isn’t basketball getting a new arena? Why not use the Ferrell Center for a rink? It’d be great for not only Baylor students and Waco residents to come to watch a local team, but to also use for public skating. A lot of arenas around the country are used for both basketball and hockey games. I truly believe Waco has everything it needs to bring a team back, and hockey should return to Waco. I know hockey in the South seems odd, but it is here and thriving. There are teams all around, and there are hockey fans on campus who are probably itching to see some ice. I see you all in your hockey jerseys around campus — I know there are some fans out there. If you need someone to start the team back up, I’ll have my skates sent down. Shae is a senior journalism major from Russell, Mass.

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said. Cohenour said she also received emails and phone calls asking about how they can donate. Baylor President Linda Livingstone said the board meeting, which began Thursday, was successful and was consolidated into two days instead of three. “We spent a lot of time talking about our mission and particularly how we live out our Christian mission embedded throughout the experience of the organization,” Livingstone said at a press conference Friday. The discussion was also focused on the first pillar of the university’s campaign, “Illuminate,” an unambiguously Christian educational environment. “We talked about how that mission plays out in terms of the academics and faculty hiring, in terms of our student experience, in terms of how we’re thinking about diversity on our campus,” Livingstone said. Livingstone said it’s important that Baylor does not lose this Christian distinction as it pursues higher levels of research. A Campus Climate update was also given during the Board of Regents meeting. Dr. Robyn Driskell, vice president for internal administration and compliance and chief of staff, was one of the presenters. “[Driskell] oversees our equity office, our diversity council and many of the functions on our campus that look at how we are creating a campus climate that really exhibits Christian hospitality to the folks on our campus, really helps create a climate where our students, faculty and staff of all backgrounds and experiences feel a part and included, helps us when thinking about recruitment

for the court to disqualify assigned prosecutors for Oakman’s case. According to the motion, “The Court might as well have ordered defense counsel to open his file to the State.” Bennett argued in his motion that Moody and Price should be removed from prosecuting Oakman’s case because they compromised the discovery process and violated the defendant’s right to due process, as well as any witnesses who were privy to this information. “If this case is to proceed to trial, the Court must intervene and establish enforceable rules to protect Defendant’s rights,” the motion states. “The first step in this process is for this Court to reverse its order of unsealing sealed records. Secondly, the tainted

and retention, particularly in faculty and staff in under-represented groups,” Livingstone said. Livingstone said they also heard from leaders of the Black Faculty and Staff Association that began in Jan. 2019. The board also approved a new student regent. Colleyville junior Cassidy Parshall, a Baylor Business Fellow and finance major on the premedical track, will begin a two-year-term on the board on June 1. The Regents also approved the closure and demolition of two Baylor-owned apartment complexes, built in the 1970s. Cottonwood and Baylor Plaza will be closed following this semester because of expensive costs and the high maintenance of the buildings. Current residents of the apartment complexes have been told and will receive a $250 moving credit for moving into other Baylorowned properties. According to the press release, the properties will be demolished this summer and the land will be left open for more green space. At the press conference, Livingstone said that the decision of the new provost will be finished and they make announcements very soon. “One of things we really talked about as we went out and looked for candidates, is thinking we want somebody that is committed to our Christian mission, that understands where we’re going with Illuminate, but also as we look at diversity. There are elements of that that could be really important in terms of their background and experiences and so on, so certainly it was a factor in looking at the hiring process,” Livingstone said.

CLARISSA POMPA Reporter Dorms and apartments are filled with things or decorations that reflect the person who lives there. Whether it be intricate wall hangings or movie posters, making a room feel like home takes effort. For some students that effort is visible in large collections. Amanda Miles, a junior Business Fellows, finance and accounting major from Missouri, makes her home her own by collecting mugs. Miles’ personal collection was started with her family as they traveled. With a total of 20 mugs, her family travels almost twice a year, adding to their respective collections each time. “My mom will collect Christmas ornaments when we go on vacation to remember things by,” Miles said. “I think, around the time I started touring colleges, we got a few mugs at the different colleges we went to and then just from there it was like, why not just collect mugs. We try to get souvenirs on trips that we can actually use and not just have little trinkets all around the house.” While most of Miles’ collection is with her family, she continues to add to it even now. With seven mugs bought

Offense: Trespass, Damage, Etc. Date: 02/24/19 01:00 Location: McLane Stadium, Disposition: Cleared by arrest Offense: Burglary of Motor Vehicle Date: 2/23/2019 Location: 1700 block of S 11TH ST Disposition: Being handled by Waco Police Offense: Burglary of a Vehicle Date: 02/23/19 Location: Penland Dinning Disposition: Exceptionally Cleared Offenses: Theft of Property Date: 02/23/19 Location: Penland Dinning Disposition: Exceptionally cleared Offenses: Motor Vehicle Theft Date: 2/23/2019 Location: 1500 block of Bagby Ave Disposition: Being handled by Baylor Police Offenses: Possession of Drug Paraphernallia Date: 02/22/19 Location: Baylor Police Department Disposition: Active

since starting college, Miles’ trips have not slowed down. Over winter break, she added a mug from a trip to St. Lucia in the Caribbean with her family. However, her favorite mug so far is the one she bought in Budapest. “That’s when I was backpacking Europe after freshman year,” Miles said. “Budapest was towards the end of the trip… just made sure to be extra careful with that one.” Miles considers her collection to be a great way to remember where she has been while looking to the future. Her family is already planning a summer trip to Canada but Miles says she is the one that could have been a travel agent in another life. Where her collection is more functional and with a bit of fun, Andy Racoti’s collection of memorabilia is fun with a side of functional. Racoti is a senior from Robinson, studying film and digital media. He collects items and figurines from movies, video games and shows, such as “Lord of the Rings.” “Anything I have a connection to who I am or my childhood, I kind of display that throughout my room,” Racoti said. “I have a lot of Lord of the Rings and Star Wars stuff. Teen Titans was a big thing when I was kid … I love all of that stuff.”

Racoti’s collection began as a child when his father bought him kids meals from Burger King. Since then, his collection has expanded to include Funko Pop figures, with Miles claiming that as one of the larger parts of collection. Starting with a childhood interest in movies, such as “Toy Story,” to an in-depth interest beginning with the Star Wars prequels, Racoti has used his interests to lead him to film and digital media where he now collects items from his own short films. “Now that I’m making movies, my own shorts, I tend to keep my props,” Racoti said. “When I’m writing something, I’m always in the back of of my mind, ‘Well, I’d like to have that prop in my collection.’” Many of these props are those that Racoti makes himself. He continues to add to his memorabilia collection with these as well as with art he makes. His pieces are visible throughout his family’s home, with his more niche pieces accompanying his collection. “I do a lot of art, a lot of paintings, so I kind of have a lot of my pieces around the collectibles to complement them,” Racoti said. “Basically everything that I have is supposed to represent me and my interests.”

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Such reports are investigated but not all confirmed.

Offense: Alcohol: Minor Consuming Alcohol Date: 02/24/19 Location: Martin Residence Hall Disposition: Cleared by arrest

order unsealing the records after his personal review of the clerk’s file. The motion said the State merely brought the irregularity to the court’s attention and the decision unsealing the records was made solely by the judge. The third motion filed by Bennett on Feb. 25, was to dismiss with prejudice. In the motion, Bennett argued the unsealing of the documents created an unfair disadvantage for Oakman’s right to a fair trial. Bennett motioned that it should be thrown out of court. Oakman was charged with sexual assault in April 2016 and was indicted by a grand jury in July 2016. His trial has been pending for the last two and a half years.

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BAYLOR DAILY CRIME LOG Offense: Theft of Property Date: 02/22/19 17:30 to: 02/24/19 14:15 Location:700 block of MP Daniel Esplanade Disposition: Active

prosecutor should be placed under protective order, requiring that they do not speak to or otherwise indicate in any fashion the contents of the unsealed materials and any thought processes of defense counsel gained by a review of said materials. Third, any witnesses who have been prepared to testify against Mr. Oakman after the intrusion should be excluded.” The prosecution filed a motion titled “State’s Response to the Defendant’s Motion to Disqualify Assigned Prosecutors” late Monday. The motion stated that the judge looked at the file and determined that the sealed orders were done in error because he didn’t think a subpoena should be sealed. It said the state never requested they be unsealed, but the Judge drafted an

Offenses: Criminal Tress-pass Warning Date: 02/22/19 Location: 1700 block of S 8th St. Disposition: Closed Offenses: Burglary of Motor Vehicle Date: 2/22/2019 Location:7 00 block of S 15th St. Disposition: Being handled by Waco Police Offenses: Accident Failure to Stop and Identify Date: 2/21/2019 Location: 900 block of Daughtery Ave. Disposition: Being handled by Waco Police Offenses: Fraud Date: 2/21/2019 Location: 800 block of S 8th St. Disposition: Being handled by Waco Police Offenses: Assault Date: 2/21/2019 Location: 1100 block of Speight Ave. Disposition: Being handled by Waco Police

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Offenses: Accident Failure to Stop and Identify Date occurred from: 02/21/19 Location: Speight Parking Facility Disposition: Closed Offenses: Criminal Trespassing Date occurred from: 02/21/19 Location: 1100 block of S 5th St. Disposition: Closed

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Arrest Date: 02/24/2019 Disposition: Released Name: Stat Code: Citation Issued Name: Gomez, Andrew William

Arrest Date: 02/24/2019 Disposition: Released Stat Code: Citation Issued Name: Welsh, John Terzich

Arrest Date: 02/24/2019 Disposition: Released Name: Stat Code: Citation Issued Name: Hinch, John Emerson W

Arrest Date: 02/24/2019 Disposition: Released Stat Code: Citation Issued Name: Clorina, Miguel A

*All individuals were issued citations and not arrested, according to the arrest log.

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I’m a survivor, I’m gonna make it Baylor alumna competes on 38th season of ‘Survivor’

LINDSEY REYNOLDS Reporter Season 38 of “Survivor: Edge of Extinction” premiered Wednesday night, and with it came a few surprises and a very familiar face. Baylor alumna Lauren O’Connell is competing as one of the 18 contestants. The competition took place on the hot beaches and in the humid rainforests of Fiji. O’Connell grew up watching “Survivor” and even named her toys after well-known players of the show. “When I was little, I used to have Barbies that I named Tina and Colby because I had watched the show since I was so little,” O’Connell said. O’Connell, former Baylor soccer center back and December 2018 graduate, is also an alumna of Baylor’s chapter of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Between a full course

load, the demands of Baylor athletics and sorority member obligations, O’Connell had no time to spare. “I knew that I just wanted to be on the show, but with soccer I never had the time,” O’Connell said. Watching the show became a family event for O’Connell. When she was younger, she could guarantee her family would be watching “Survivor” together on Wednesday nights at 5 p.m. She explained that while she was at Baylor, away from her family in Bakersfield, Calif., her mom would record the episodes. When she came home for Christmas break, she and her family would binge-watch the season. One could imagine her surprise when she was chosen to compete on season 38 in Fiji. “I was driving when I got the call. I had to pull over because I was crying and screaming,” O’Connell said. “I called my parents right away and told them ‘Oh my gosh, I am going to be on ‘Survivor!’” O’Connell said her initial feelings were gratitude and luck for being chosen to be on the show. As the competition grew closer, those feelings gave way to her tenacity and determination — traits that were promoted during her time as a Baylor soccer player. O’Connell’s former teammate, junior forward Camryn Wendlandt, explained how the team is mentally and physically tested every day. The motivation that fuels the team’s hard work is cultivated through the passion for the game and the people who doubt their success.

“The Baylor soccer mentality is fighting with everything you have,” Wendlandt said. “In college soccer you learn how to be mentally tough, how to be gritty, and you learn how to train your body past its limits.” When asked how she felt O’Connell would perform, she responded undoubtingly that her teammate would perform well. With 14 contestants, four returnees and one big twist, the whole game was changed. In this season of “Survivor,” eliminated players will get the option to leave the game or survive on their own limited resources for a chance to get back in. Mentality mattered in these games now more than ever for O’Connell. “It didn’t even feel real until I was on the boat at the marooning,” O’Connell said. “I had that Baylor soccer mentality of ‘I’m going out there and I am going to do whatever I can to win.’” O’Connell recalled Tuesday afternoons of rigorous training and unrelenting competition during soccer practice. It was during those grueling moments in the ferocious Texas heat that she said she developed the mental strength needed to excel in testing situations. Houston senior James Iler started watching the show as a senior in high school and was so hooked that he watched every season. “I binged every season that was available at that point,” Iler said. “It was over 30 seasons. I’ve always been a fan of reality competitions and “Survivor” is the one that started it all.” As a seasoned “Survivor” fan, Iler thinks O’Connell is a strong competitor with tremendous potential for success on the show. “We’ve only had the premiere come out so far, and so far I think she is in a really good position aligning herself with one of the returning players, a Miss Kelley Wentworth.” Iler said O’Connell’s athleticism has already been a

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SURVIVOR Baylor alumna and former Baylor soccer player Lauren O’Connell is competing on season 38 of hit TV show “Survivor.”

helpful asset on the show. “Lauren has also proven to be quite a great asset for her team in challenges, seeing as she proved to be quite the athlete during the first immunity challenge,” Iler said. “Her social game is really on point so far ... She definitely seems like a go-get-her athlete.” “I’m going to go in there and no matter what is thrown at me, no matter what happens, never say die,” O’Connell said. “Survivor” airs Wednesdays at 7 p.m. on CBS.

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Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Rami Malek - Bohemian Rhapsody

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Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Best Documentary Feature: Mahershala Ali - Green Book Free Solo - Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Olivia Colman - The Favourite Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures Nominees: Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: “Shallow” from a Star is Born Regina King - If Beale Street (Music and Lyrics by Lady Could Talk Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando Best Animated Feature and Andrew Wyatt) Film of the Year: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Best Animated Short Film: Achievement in BAO Cinematography: Roma - Alfonso Cuarón

Original Screeplay: Green Book

For the full list of winners and nominees, visit oscar.go.com

OSCARS Many gathered in the Dolby Theatre Sunday evening for the he 91st Academy Awards in Hollywood Calif. Associated Press

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‘The Umbrella Academy’ impresses with wackiness MOLLY ATCHISON

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Editor-in-Chief Looking for a quirky superhero story filled with dark comedy and family drama? “The Umbrella Academy” is the next Netflix series you should binge. The show, based on a 2007 Dark Horse Comics series by the same name, pulls viewers in right away with a mysterious sequence of births and deaths, all linked together by a slew of slightly abnormal characters. It is soon revealed that all of these characters, numbered and named, became “siblings” raised by an eccentric billionaire who fashioned the seven (then six, then five) children into superhumans. If you’re slightly confused with what you just read, that’s essentially the purpose of the show. As avant garde as the comics and just as twisted, the Netflix series revives seven unique superheroes and reimagines them to fit our modern times. The entire design of the show seems like a darker, more PG-13 version of the “A Series of Unfortunate Events” series — full of hyperbolic acting and dramatic detail shots. The show jumps back and forth in time, and follows these seven heroes (give or take a few) as they

struggle with their individual identities in the world around them. Those efforts in selfactualization are stifled by an impending crisis brought back to them by one of the siblings, who reappears 17 years after an unfortunate disappearance into the future. The boy, simply named “Number Five” (played by breakout star Aidan Gallagher) returns to present day in the same 13-year-old body he left in 17 years prior, warning of an impending apocalypse and urging the fractured group of siblings to work together to stop it. Possibly incestuous love affairs, time traveling assassins and robot matriarchs are just a few of the odd situations and characters viewers encounter in this Netflix series, and it’s one of those shows that makes you open your mind because just when you think it can’t get weirder, it does. While the plot itself is fairly predictable for anyone who even remotely understands the hero story arch, there’s so many twists and turns throughout the show and such strange little anecdotal scenes that it’s still incredibly entertaining to watch. The show also follows the comics closely because the

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SUPERHEROES The new Netflix series “The Umbrella Academy” is based off of the Dark Horse Comic series and features a surreal aesthetic that has been well-received.

creator of the series, Jeremy Slater, brought the comic book creator Gerard Way in to collaborate on the evolution of the TV characters. All in all, the series is promising, and brings a flair of satire that those with an edgy sense of humor will love.

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Amazing Spiderman By: Stan Lee

Dennis The Menace By: Hank Ketcham

We can’t divulge any more information because, to be honest, it wouldn’t make any sense. So if you’re a fan of comic books, suspense and wacky creativity, check out “The Umbrella Academy” on Netflix to figure out what the heck we’re talking about.

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The New Kid on the Block The act’s costumes were simple and fun. The plot of the act was clear, and the choreography was extremely sharp. For the most part, the vocalists were quite talented. However, what made this act so strong was its theatricality. This show stood out from the others because it didn’t rely only on smiles and yells. It had depth — something Phi Chi seems to nail every year.

Cafe Resume | 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. | Moody Library Lobby | Representatives from the Career and Professional Development office will be present to help students refine their resumes. There will be free coffee. Christian Writers Workshop | 6 - 7:30 p.m. | First Baptist Woodway | The group meets every week at 101 N. Ritchie road to share their writing. Open mic night at Commons Grounds | 8 10 p.m. | The local coffee shop will host its weekly mic night with spots given on a firstcome, first-served basis.

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ROAD TRIP >> The Lariat heads to Houston with Baylor baseball for the Shriners Classic.

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Sports Schedule Baseball vs. Dallas Baptist Tuesday, 6:35 p.m. Baylor Ballpark Men’s Basketball vs. Texas Wednesday, 8 p.m. Ferrell Center Softball vs. Southern Utah Red Desert Classic Friday, 4 p.m. St. George, Utah Women’s Tennis @ Michigan Friday, 4 p.m. Ann Arbor, Mich. Men’s Tennis vs. Illinois Friday, 6 p.m. Hurd Tennis Center Baseball vs. Texas A&M Shriners Classic Friday, 7 p.m. Houston

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CLEAN SWEEP Baylor junior forward Lauren Cox drives against Texas on Monday at the Ferrell Center. The Lady Bears defeated the Longhorns 64-35 to complete the season sweep. Cox scored 13 points in the win.

Lady Bears shut down Texas JESSIKA HARKAY Sports Writer The Lady Bears extended the nation’s longest active overall win streak to 18 games after defeating the Texas Longhorns 64-35 on Monday at the Ferrell Center. Limiting the Longhorns to only 35 points, the matchup marked the fewest number of points Baylor allowed in a regular-season Big 12 game since 2013. It was the Longhorns’ second-fewest points scored in program history. Senior center Kalani Brown notched her sixth double-double game of the season, with 19 points and 12 rebounds, aiding the Lady Bears in their 36th straight home victory. The Longhorns were led by center Jatarie White, who had six points and 11 rebounds and helped Texas become the first team this season to out-rebound Baylor (46-44). The game opened with an unusually slow start for the Lady Bears. With a highpressuring Longhorns defense, the Lady Bears struggled to establish an offense, creating a back-and-forth battle full of missed baskets. Texas capitalized on offensive rebounds to keep the game close with eight of

their 11 first quarter points coming from second-chance opportunities. By the end of the first, Baylor was shooting 42 percent

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It’s all about players that understand what’s important when you get on that floor. They all buy in to defense.” KIM MULKEY | HEAD COACH

from the field, ending the low-scoring quarter 16-11. The second quarter opened with a quick

3-pointer from Texas junior guard Joyner Holmes and three early Baylor turnovers. The Longhorns soon went into a scoring drought, only notching 5 points the whole quarter. From four UT turnovers, the Lady Bears found sparks of momentum, going on a 9-0 run the last five minutes of the half. By the break, the Lady Bears led 2716. Brown said the team needed a boost to give the Lady Bears energy. “I thought that [increasing the lead from 5 to 9 by the half] changed the momentum and gave us a spark,” Brown said. “We needed some energy and by me hitting those shots, everyone gets excited, so I was just trying to get momentum.” The Lady Bears opened the second half with the ball and scored seven points within the first two minutes. Crowd noise soared as head coach Kim Mulkey riled up the roaring audience with flailing arms, adding to Baylor’s growing momentum. Scoring 25 points in the third, the Lady Bears nearly matched their first-half points while holding the Longhorns to 10. Texas head coach Karen Aston credited the inability to regroup offensively for the changing point in the game.

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Vital signs Sophomore forward brings toughness to the table BEN EVERETT Sports Editor

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West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins knows a thing or two about having tough, gritty players. In 2012, Mountaineer power forward Kevin Jones put up almost 20 points and 10 rebounds per game for Huggins’ squad en route to a consensus second-team All American nod. Last year, point guard Jevon Carter finished up his four-year career with his fourth straight selection to the All Big 12 Defensive Team as a Mountaineer. When the Mountaineers traveled to Waco for a matchup against the Bears on Saturday, Huggins’ team faced a player that would fit right into his style: Baylor sophomore forward Mark Vital. Huggins said Vital’s most important contributions may not show up on the stat sheet. “He may be the first MVP of the league that scores seven or eight points a game,” Huggins said. “He’s really, really good. He’s unselfish. He’s a great team guy. He makes big plays for [Baylor].” Vital scored 15 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in the Bears’ 82-75 win over West Virginia as the two best rebounding teams in the Big 12 clashed. In a game that saw 51 fouls called and 69 free throws attempted, Vital said the small plays made the biggest difference. “Every possession counts,” Vital said. “I know that when we’re down, if you see a loose ball you’ve got to dive on it, because every possession counts in the Big 12.” Vital doesn’t shoulder a big offensive load, but he does all the dirty work. Vital is fifth on the team in minutes played, averaging 27.1 minutes a game, but he has only attempted 147 shots this season. To put that into perspective, Vital is sixth on the team in shot attempts and is 23 shot attempts behind sophomore forward Mario Kegler for fifth. Freshman forward Matthew Mayer, who plays 13 minutes per game, has just one less shot attempt than Vital. At 6-foot-5, Vital leads the team with 7.1 rebounds per game. In the win over West Virginia, Vital’s 14 rebounds were double

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DO-IT-ALL FORWARD Baylor sophomore forward Mark Vital drives the ball against West Virginia on Saturday at the Ferrell Center. Vital notched 15 points in 14 rebounds in the 82-75 win over the Mountaineers.

that of any Mountaineer. Baylor head coach Scott Drew said the front court of Vital and Kegler provided much-needed scrappiness against a physical West Virginia team. “That’s where the toughness of Mario and Mark [come into play],” Drew said. “They had 10 and 14 rebounds. You got the two best rebounding teams in conference going at it. With that, you’re going to have a lot of contact and a lot of physicality. We did get

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Bears firing on all cylinders in early season series sweeps DJ RAMIREZ Sports Writer With back-to-back sweeps to open up the season, Baylor baseball is threatening from all sides by doing all the little things right. Hot bats and strong pitching combined with smart base-running and defense have the Bears on an early win streak. Baylor has had to face some early challenges due to health and injury, with junior catcher Shea Langeliers sitting out for a few weeks and junior first baseman Andy Thomas out sick. But their “next-man-up” mentality and the way they battled through tough weather to get comeback wins in the doubleheader against Holy Cross, have shown that they’re prepared to fight their way to the College World Series. Setting the tone for Baylor on the mound is junior right-hander Hayden Kettler, who currently sports a 0.00 ERA and has 17 strikeouts, with a career-high nine strikeouts in the opener against Cornell. The Friday starter has done a great job at getting ahead of hitters and extending his pitch count largely due to a four-pitch arsenal. Against the Big Red, Kettler was able to throw every one of his pitches for strikes, commanding his fastball to get ahead of batters and his offspeed stuff to keep them off balance on both sides of the plate. According to Kettler, aside from working on mastering each of his pitches, one of the things that helped him prepare was having to face the Bears’ lineup during the offseason. “I’ve had to go through this whole fall facing our lineup and it’s really polished me,” Kettler said. “It’s made

me know that I can’t make mistakes and so I’m able to carry that into the regular season and face lineups that I’d argue aren’t as powerful as ours.” That powerful lineup is slugging .560 and holds a .370 batting average going into the third week of the season. Baylor has seven home runs so far, five of those hit against Cornell, two off the bat of senior center fielder Cole Haring, but has also been able to drive some down the line and up the middle for extra bases. The Bears have 22 doubles and three triples out of 95 hits and 64 of their 73 runs were RBIs. But just as important as the starting pitching and offense have been, it’s the little things that Baylor has been doing that add to their threat. The team holds a .973 fielding average and has turned 11 double plays. While there have been a couple of errors in the middle infield, senior second baseman Josh Bissonette, Loftin and Wendzel have been executing great plays to keep opponents off the bases. The Bears are also 12-for-14 in stolen bases with junior third baseman Davis Wendzel at 5-for5 and sophomore shortstop Nick Loftin right behind him at 3-for-3. Head coach Steve Rodriguez said that he’s been happy about what he’s seen from the team in terms of baserunning. “That’s something we really enforce, making sure we don’t make foolish mistakes on the base paths, being able to take extra bases when we have an opportunity. Reading ball and dirt is a really big emphasis that we take in regards to our practices,” Rodriguez said. “They’re doing a phenomenal job at it and we need to keep it up.”

The bullpen has also had an impact in Baylor’s victories. Coming into the year, the team knew they had lots of talented new arms they were waiting to test out. Several of them have come in to complete shutout innings, including freshmen Ryan Segner and Blake Helton and sophomores Daniel Caruso and Wil Gilbert. Juniors Kyle Boyd and Ryan Leckich have gotten the Bears out of some sticky situations as well. Boyd holds nine strikeouts in four innings of relief, and Leckich currently has a WHIP of .24. Freshman righty Anderson Needham has also been impressive on the mound, making a start in the closing game of the opening weekend and a relief appearance in the closing game of the Cornell sweep. Needham pitched four complete innings in each game with a total of 12 strikeouts but seemed to struggle in completing his fifth inning in both cases. Freshman backstop Kyle Harper said the team is confident in what Needham can do. “You know he’s young. The fact that he’s got so much stuff that looks so good and it’s maybe just a little bit of that stamina that’s slowing down towards the fifth inning, certainly not a mentality thing,” Harper said. “The guy’s got a great mentality on the mound, striking everybody out and he looks really good, so we’re confident in what he can do.” Baylor hopes to keep its momentum going against Dallas Baptist at 6:35 p.m. today and will then travel to Houston this weekend to compete in the 2019 Shriners Hospital for Children Classic at Minute Maid Park, where it will face Texas A&M, Rice and Texas State.

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SHUTOUT Baylor sophomore pitcher Hayden Kettler winds up for a pitch against Cornell on Friday at Baylor Ballpark. Kettler pitched six innings, allowing zero runs and striking out nine batters.

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Softball notches 2-3 record at Baylor Invitational

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ROOM TO RUN Baylor junior infielder Taylor Ellis runs to first base following a hit against North Texas on Friday at Getterman Stadium. The Lady Bears defeated UNT 5-2 and picked up a 4-3 win over Louisiana on Sunday, but fell to Kent State twice and Louisiana once in the Baylor Invitational.

from Page 6 “I thought our team played pretty competitively for 20 minutes,” Aston said. “Aside from that last couple of minutes, it got away from us a little bit in the second quarter. ... You have to give Baylor an enormous amount of credit for how good their defense is.” Entering the fourth with a 26-point lead, the Longhorns’ offense couldn’t keep up with the Lady Bears dominating second half in-paint play. Only scoring nine points in the fourth, UT fell to Baylor 6435. Mulkey credited the Lady Bears’ mindset and defense for the win and teams success. “It’s going to be about the team first,” Mulkey said. “It’s going to be about chemistry. It’s going to be about defense and they know that when we recruit them. It’s all about players that understand what’s important when you get on that floor. They all buy into defense first [and] team second.” The Lady Bears next take on Oklahoma State at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Ferrell Center.

VITAL from Page 6 more second chance points and we out-rebounded them, so our guys competed hard.” Vital doesn’t just help on the glass. His ball-handling ability at the power forward position allows for more offensive movement and creativity. Vital is third on the team in assists, sitting only behind point guards Makai Mason and Jared Butler. Recently, Baylor’s offense has soared, and Vital is an important part of that. The Bears have best offensive rating, according to college basketball statistical website KenPom, in conferenceonly games. Drew said the

team’s unselfishness is the reason for that. “Our [offensive efficiency rating] has been number one in the conference for most of the conference season, and that’s a real credit to the guys and how much they’ve bought in,” Drew said. “They’re playing for each other, trying to make their teammates better. I think on the court they play better collectively than they do individually.” Vital and the Bears face off against Texas at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Ferrell Center.

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