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Soccer received votes in the last poll and is off to its best start since 1996. Next up: Texas Tech
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In Print >> Natural talent
Uproar’s Layne Lynch is thankful for piano and lyrical ability
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>> Stepping up
Safety Ahmad Dixon always looks for gamechanging plays
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>> Stiff competition
Three professors will visit Baylor in hopes of winning the Robert Foster Cherry Award, which comes with a $250,000 prize
US News college rankings disputed By Daniel C. Houston Staff Writer
The Bears open Big 12 play on the road against a tough Kansas State squad
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Viewpoints “Despite the fact that Mandarin and Japanese are arguably the two most important languages for business people to know, Baylor does not offer them as majors. That needs to change.” Page 2
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Waiver denied Freshman running back Lache Seastrunk’s hardship waiver to play with the Bears this season was denied by the NCAA Thursday. Seastrunk, a highlytouted recruit from Temple,will have three years of eligibility beginning in 2012. Song and dance Legacy Cafe and Art Gallery, at 723 Austin Ave., welcomes visitors for a time of worship tonight featuring song, drama and poetry. Music starts at 7:30. Bouncing back After suffering a tough, five-set loss at Texas A&M, volleyball returns home and battles Kansas at 7 p.m. Saturday.
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Baylor football has not started a season 4-0 since 1991 and has never won a game in Manhattan, Kan., the home of Kansas State. The No. 15 Bears look to do both this weekend as they begin Big 12 conference play, traveling to take on the Wildcats at 2:30 p.m. Saturday on ABC. “[Kansas State] has a lot of
momentum,” head coach Art Briles said. “That’s why it’s the premiere game of the conference this week. They’re 3-0; we’re 3-0. We’re proud of where we are at this stage of the season.” For both teams, the remainder of the season consists strictly of conference opponents. “Now we start on the second phase, which is getting into conference play and going one game at a time,” Briles said. “Under-
stand that every game is going to be a war, and it will be no different this Saturday in Manhattan.” Baylor heads on the road for the first time this year after going 3-0 in their non-conference home games, including the dramatic 5048 victory over TCU. Headlining for the Bears is Heisman-candidate junior quarterback Robert Griffin III, who leads the nation in completion percentage at 85.4 percent. He
leads the Bears into Manhattan for the first time since 2007. “It’ll be a good experience,” Griffin said. “I’ve never been to Manhattan. I’ve heard it’s a great atmosphere. They have great fans. Sure they won’t be great toward us, but that’s how fans are supposed to be. They’re coming off a big win, so there’s going to be a lot of fans. And it’s going to be on TV, SEE
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The National Association for College Admission Counseling released a report this week calling into question the criteria used by U.S. News and World Report, a magazine widely known for its annual ranking of America’s best colleges. The report cited NACAC members’ dissatisfaction with U.S. News’ emphasis on class rank and standardized test scores. The NACAC comprises 11,000 high school and college admissions counselors, David Hawkins, director of public policy and research for NACAC, said. “I think when most people look at the rankings,” Hawkins said, “they assume that what they’re seeing is an evaluation of what the college or institution offers to the student. In other words, what they assume they’re seeing is the value that the institution adds [to a student’s education].” In place of considering class rank and SAT scores, which reSEE
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How low can you go: Bassist to perform for BU By Ashley Yeaman Reporter
The double bass will take center stage this evening at 7:30 p.m. in Glennis McCrary Music Building’s Meadows Recital Hall. Dr. Sandor Ostlund, associate professor of double bass, will perform a concert featuring three unique pieces all including the double bass and created by Baylor composers. The double bass is the largest and lowest-pitched bow string instrument, traditionally a part of the modern orchestra. Houston junior Matthew Kline, composition major and the composer of the opening piece “Leap of Faith,” said he and Ostlund, his mentor on double bass, wanted to find a unique platform for the instrument. “We were really frustrated with most concertos written for bass,” Kline said. “We wanted something better [that would] really let the instrument shine. This concert is presenting the bass in a radically new way. Any kind of preconceptions you have of the
instrument — this concert [will put] it in a much different light.” Kline said the creative process behind his piece involved breaking these preconceptions of the instrument. “I was very passionate about exploring what the instrument can do,” Kline said. “I like to explore new timbres, sound and just possibilities about the way the bass can be expressed. I’m using a bass drum mallet, [incorporating] this technique where you have to use two hands and hit the [double] bass in a very unusual way.” Ostlund said Kline’s composition technique is inventive. “He’s really this kind of alchemist,” Ostlund said. “He’s up there trying to make gold.” Along with his individual approach to composing, Kline said inspiration for this and every piece he writes comes from individuals who, like him, perform the music they compose. Kline had the opportunity to study last fall with Francois Rabbath, a world-renowned double bassist, soloist and composer, and Ostlund’s former teacher.
Dr. Sandor Ostlund, associate professor of double bass, will perform a free concert this evening. Each of the three pieces Ostlund is playing was composed in a way that highlights the double bass instrument.
Kline will travel to Paris, France, again this spring to study under him. Italian double bassist Stefano
Sciascia is also an inspiration for Kline. Kline said “Leap of Faith” hints at Sciascia’s work. The inspiration for the title,
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Footsteps fight against disease By Brittney Coulter Reporter
First aid Students can become certified in first aid through a five-hour class at the SLC beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday. The cost is $35. Associated Press
Meet Frank and Louie
A cat with two faces is held by its owner at its home in Worcester, Mass. The animal is known as a Janus cat. The cat’s owner calls the face on the left Frank, while the face on the right is identified as Louie. On Wednesday, the cat joined the Guinness World Record book as the oldest living two-faced feline.
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The National Multiple Sclerosis Society will be hosting its annual Walk MS event at 9 a.m. Saturday. The event has been held in the Cameron Park Zoo for more than 10 years, but this year the walk will begin in Heritage Square in downtown Waco. “This is actually a brand new location for us this year at Heritage Square,” event director AnnaLeigh Kirk said. “We decided to kind of switch it up this year [and] try something new. We’re really excited.” MS is a “disease of the central nervous system that affects 400,000 Americans and 2.5 million people worldwide.” The disease interrupts the flow of infor-
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mation from the brain to the body and causes paralysis, the website said. The National MS Society “funds more MS research than
“I decided that it’s my job to be someone who can make others aware of this disease...” Valonia Walker | Humble sophomore
any other private organization,” according to their website. Through walks and other fundraising efforts the society has played a key role in the development of medications for those suffering from the disease. “Eighteen years ago there were
no drugs for anyone with MS. Now there are eight approved drugs,” Kirk said. “In not very long we’ve made tremendous progress.” Humble sophomore Valonia Walker has made it her personal mission to help spread awareness about the disease. Her father, Truman Walker, was diagnosed with MS 15 years ago. “I decided that it’s my job to be someone who can make others aware of this disease because a lot of people don’t know what MS is,” Walker said. “It affects so many different people, young and old.” Walker created a team of nine people to participate in the event. In less than two weeks, her team, which she named “T’s Walkers” in honor of her father, has SEE
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Mandarin, Japanese should be made available as majors The business world is changing but, for some reason, the business of Baylor is not. Despite the fact that Mandarin and Japanese are arguably the two most important languages for business people to know, Baylor does not offer them as majors. That needs to change. China has the second largest economy in the world according to the CIA’s World Factbook and saw a 10 percent increase in gross domestic product between 2009 and 2010. Baylor students cannot currently major in China’s official language Mandarin. Right behind China in gross domestic product is Japan, a country of approximately 126.4 million people. Baylor students cannot major in Japanese, either. If you want to major in a foreign language at Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences, you can major in Spanish, French, Russian and German. You can also major in Greek, Latin, Classics and Biblical
Editorial & Related Languages. Doesn’t it seem odd that you cannot major in a language that literally billions of people speak every day and yet you can major in languages that are spoken by few, if any, communities? This is not to disparage these other majors being offered — there are legitimate and wonderful scholarly opportunities available to those who pursue these languages — but more to point out that the studies of these languages would be nicely complemented by the study of more modern ones. At the Hankamer School of Business, students can major in Business Spanish, French, German and Russian. Despite the fact that Asia grows more important to businesses every day, there are no Asian languages offered as majors. Baylor already has three in-
structors for Chinese and two for Japanese. The amount of additional faculty the university would need to hire to create new majors exclusively for these languages would likely be minimal. Baylor already offers majors that incorporate Asian languages in the curriculum, such as our Language & Linguistics major and
“Despite the fact that Asia grows more important to businesses every day, there are no Asian languages offered as majors.” our Asian Studies major, so why not offer a major that focuses on the languages exclusively? Many of these students, as well as business students and others looking toward international work, would likely be interested
in double majoring in their current major and Mandarin or Japanese. Such majors would set these students apart from others in an increasingly competitive job market. Students with the ability to speak Mandarin or Japanese in this globalized world are more and more valuable each day, so it seems obvious that this is an area for expansion. Baylor has done a terrific job in beginning to offer courses in these areas, but it is not yet finished with its work. We would like to call upon the university to create Mandarin and Japanese majors for both the College of Arts and Sciences and for the Hankamer School of Business. Looking toward the future and keeping an eye on even more language options would be prudent, but Mandarin and Japanese seem like an obvious enough first step. The business world is changing and being able to understand what others are saying seems like a necessity to face this new world.
Sports and drama seem to collide no matter the cost, and Wednesday night’s games were no exception. There have been several teams to have a lead so insurmountable when all of the sudden, come September, they start to play bad baseball. In 1951, the Brooklyn Dodgers had a 13-game lead over the New York Giants (before they moved to San Francisco). Just when you thought the Dodgers would be World Series bound, New York went 37-7 to tie the Brooklyn and force a then bestof-three playoffs, which ended in Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard Round The World” to give New York the pennant. In 1964, the Philadelphia Phillies (who played spoiler for the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday) were ahead by 6.5 games with 12 left to play. But they lost 10 straight games, which allowed the St. Louis Cardinals to win the National League title. Other teams have recently experienced embarrassing chokes. The 2007 New York Mets lost a seven-game lead with 17 remaining in the season. It took the 2007 Colorado Rockies 19 wins in the final 21 games to tie and later beat the San Diego Padres in a one-game playoff. Three years later, it was déjà-vu all over again as San Diego blew a lead and gave San Francisco the NL West title. But never in the history of baseball had their been two teams that had leads of nine games or higher and yet did not make the playoffs. Maybe it was fate that forced Atlanta and the Boston Red Sox to choke. Or maybe it got to the point where they simply said, “We have this under control.” Whatever the reason, we do not see Atlanta or Boston in the playoffs. For those wondering how the scenario was entering the final day of the season, here it is: Boston and the Tampa Bay Rays were tied for the American League Wild Card going into the final day of the season. Boston played the Baltimore Orioles while Tampa Bay faced the New York Yankees. The same scenario applied to the NL Wild Card as St. Louis and Atlanta were also tied going into the last day. St. Louis won its game easily and waited for the end of the Atlanta-Philadelphia game. Atlanta had a 3-2 lead going into the 9th. But the Phillies tied the score at three, and the game went into extra innings. In the top of the 13th, the Phillies scored, and with the Atlanta loss, the St.
Guest Column Louis started celebrating in the locker room. In the AL, Boston was leading 3-2 in the seventh when rain delayed the game for an hour. Meanwhile, New York was enjoying a comfortable 7-0 lead on Tampa Bay heading into the eighth. By the end of the eighth, though, Tampa Bay cut the lead to 7-6. One inning later, with two outs and a 2-2 count, Tampa Bay pinch hitter Dan Johnson hit a home run to tie the game at 7. The game was now in extras innings. Back in Baltimore, the game resumed and Boston maintained its 3-2 lead going into the ninth. In that inning, though, a Baltimore double tied the game at three. In Tampa Bay, the game was headed into the bottom of the 12th. In Baltimore, the Orioles had the winning run on second with two outs; they singled to left, scoring for the win. Boston was now down by half a game. Boston’s reaction was sad and hurtful, but maybe somewhere they still had hope of making the playoffs. All they needed was for New York to beat Tampa Bay. It only took 180 seconds – 180 seconds it took from shock to reality. Just three minutes after the Red Sox lost, all hopes of a onegame playoff were shattered when Tampa Bay’s Evan Longoria sent a line drive over the fences for a walk-off home run. The Rays were the AL Wild Card Champs. In the span of 89 minutes, two teams that had struggled through the month of September, yet still had hope of playoff contention, were sent home packing in disgrace. It may take awhile for the Atlanta and the Red Sox to move on. While they watch the eight teams in the playoffs, they’ll wonder just what would have happened if they had won the game. Sept. 28, 2011, was another day for baseball. But it was also a day that taught us that in baseball, no lead is safe. All in all, it may have been the best day for baseball. The dramatic comefrom-behind wins, the support of other teams, and the magic of the sport shows us why baseball is America’s national pastime. Kenneth Cline is a sophomore journalism-public relations major from Houston.
Banning books stops readers from gaining perspective Books have, in many ways, been one of the major highlights of my life. I don’t say this because my life is particularly lame – in fact, I think I’ve actually lived a fairly exciting life for my 22 years on this planet – but I say this because books have made such a difference to me and because they have played such a major role in shaping who I am today. Given that it is Banned Books Week, I think this is as reasonable a time as any to reflect on the fact that uncensored access to literature is one of the most important things we have as students and that we must fight to protect it. I remember one time I was
told not to read the book “Atlas Shrugged” and the reason given was that it was anti-Christian. The claim itself is not unreasonable – the book’s author, Ayn Rand, was an ardent atheist and is very vocal against Christianity in the book. But it’s more the idea behind it that bothered me. Should we not read things that conflict with our own worldview? Do we have the right to censor the thoughts of others? The answer is simple: No. We should absolutely read things that conflict with our own worldviews. We should absolutely never tell people that they cannot read
a book because of its content. Having unfiltered libraries is one of the most important things to give someone who is looking to learn more about the world. If reading something makes you re-evaluate your own beliefs, that is not a bad thing. If something is true, then it should not be too threatened by other opinions and beliefs. True faith in something grows stronger when it is questioned – it is usually only false beliefs that are hurt by gaining more knowledge. Despite Rand’s atheism and despite how much “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” have affected me person-
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ally – these two books literally changed my life and have made me the person I am today – I still believe in God. Rand’s arguments against the existence of God did not convince me. Many of her other arguments about other things, such as the pro-capitalism message that drives both books, were convincing enough to change my opinion on those issues. What does that say? Would I really have been better off not reading “Atlas Shrugged” because of an anti-Christian message? Certainly not. If anything, I am more informed in my opinion about religion than I was before reading the novel. That’s not a
bad thing. We are nearing the end of our formal education as students. If you are a student at Baylor, you’ve already finished your time in primary school, but many of us will eventually be parents of children who will be given choices about what books to read. Let’s let that choice be theirs to make. If my child comes home asking to read something controversial, I’ll probably buy it for him or her if the library doesn’t have it. Joshua Madden is a graduate student in information systems from Olathe, Kan., and is the Lariat’s A&E Editor.
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Passion is coming to Waco. The Passion 2012 University Tour, which is traveling to 12 college cities across America, will arrive on Monday. The tour will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Columbus Avenue Baptist Church and will feature acclaimed Christian artists Kristian Stanfill and Charlie Hall. T h e goal of the tour is to “p r e p a r e the way” Stanfill for the 2012 Passion Conference to be held Jan. 2-5 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. More than 35,000 people are expected to attend. Charlie Hall, who has led worship with Passion since the first conference in 1997, said it has been incredible to watch something start out “in baby stages” and grow into such a dynamic movement. “We really just stepped into a
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stream of what God was already doing,” he said. The Passion conferences feed a movement seeking to engage college students with the message of Jesus and how he is working around the world. “We really want to spread the fame of Jesus Christ across the world,” Hall said. For most adults, college years hold great potential, he said. “College students are in this incredible moment where they’re passionate and they’re ready to run with something,” Hall said. That zeal can take flight through involvement in Do Something Now, a movement highlighted at the Passion conferences in which participants are encouraged to embody a “force for good” in the world. Since 2007, nearly $5 million has been given to mobilize various causes across the globe. These causes include the digging of wells, the freeing of slaves, feeding of the hungry, translating Scripture and more. This year, Hall said the conference’s missional focus will be seeking the end of human trafficking. “I’m really excited about it. I feel like that’s something close to
God’s heart,” Hall said. “I feel like He’s going to blow us away when college students get ahold of God’s heart.” Hall said he is looking forward to seeing passion arise in Waco during the tour. The tour will include worship led by both Hall and Stanfill and a special live video message from Passion founder and Baylor alumnus Louie Giglio. Hall said during the tour and the conference, his goal is to get people into the presence of God.
“College students are in this incredible moment where they’re passionate and they’re ready to run with something.” Charlie Hall | Worship Leader
“The presence of God does everything,” he said. “It opens our hearts, it heals us, it causes us to look up and it convicts us. It brings repentance, it draws out our prayers [and] it draws out our worship.”
Hall said he hopes students enjoy the music, but his ultimate goal is “the presence of God and the power of God.” “That’s kind of beyond what any human has to offer, so I just keep asking God for it,” Hall said. Arlington senior Ryan Guadagnolo said he looks forward to experiencing both the tour on Monday and the national conference in January. “Going to a Passion event really opens your eyes to a lot of stuff, and you end up wanting to give back to a lot of people,” he said. Movements like Do Something Now provide a great way for students to get involved and give back, he said. “The truth is that we’re so blessed, and we have been given so much. And what Passion does is they encourage us to realize that and then to give back to those who God loves just as much but they just haven’t been given as much,” Guadagnolo said. Overall, the conference seeks to turn real passion into action, and the tour is spreading the word, he said. Guadagnolo serves as one of the leaders with Vertical Ministries, the nondenominational, stu-
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Charlie Hall will lead worship Monday at Columbus Avenue Baptist Church, located at 1300 Columbus Ave., during the Passion 2012 University Tour.
dent-led ministry hosting Waco’s leg of the tour. The tour began Sept. 20 in Madison, Wis., at the University of Wisconsin and will continue through Oct. 24, ending at Virginia Tech. Tickets for the event are $10 and can be purchased online at
www.passion2012tour.com. Hall said he looks forward to seeing what God will do that night. “We would love for an awesome great group to come out and hang out with us that night and seek God, knowing that He’s with us,” he said. “So I’m super excited to get out there to Waco and to Baylor.”
Graduate program’s ratings rise thanks to faculty research By Anna Flagg Reporter
The School of Education’s department of educational psychology in the Baylor Graduate School is a small program but is keeping up with large state university research activity. The program is currently ranked sixth among private institutions, according to data released in April from Academic Analytics — an organization dedicated to providing academic business intelligence data.
The data also noted that in the United States the program is ranked 34th overall, making notable strides from last year’s No. 54 ranking. The educational psychology department offers an undergraduate degree in special education and four graduate options. The graduate options include a doctoral program, a master’s of arts program, a master’s of science in education program, and an educational specialist degree program in school psychology. The program is small, with 10
full-time faculty members and about 10 students per class, but it is still able to keep up with larger institutions. Dr. Marley Watkins, professor and the chairman of the department of educational psychology, left Arizona State University to work at Baylor this fall. “I think our success can be attributed to our size,” Watkins said. “Students really know their professors here due to the size of the program, and that is unheard of at state schools.” Watkins said most rating agen-
Robert Foster Cherry Award finalists to lecture, compete By Jade Mardirosian Staff Writer
Three finalists for the 2012 Robert Foster Cherry Award will visit Baylor at various times over the next five weeks to present lectures, with one ultimately winning the award designed to honor great teachers. Finalists for the Cherry Award are nominated by their fellow faculty members and former students. The winner of the Cherry Award will teach in residence at Baylor during the fall 2012 or spring 2013 semester and will receive a prize of $250,000. Their academic department at their home university will also receive $25,000. Dr. Michael Thompson, chair of the Robert Foster Cherry Award Committee, wrote in an email to the Lariat that everyone involved with the nomination and selection process is positively impacted by this award. “Based on my experience with the award, it is very gratifying for me to see the thoughtful reflection of the nominators and former students as they describe the powerful influence that teachers have had on the lives of students,” Thompson said. Dr. Allen Matusow, W.G. Twyman professor of history at Rice University, will be the first finalist to present his lecture, which will take place at 3:30 p.m. Monday in the Kayser Auditorium of the Hankamer School of Business. Matusow said his lecture, “Did Reagan Win the Cold War?” is a good topic for undergraduate students. Matusow, who is currently in his 49th year of teaching at Rice, said he was surprised to find out he had been chosen as a finalist. “To be honest I was pretty much amazed that such a great honor had come my way, and I hope to go [to Baylor] and show [the committee] they did not make a mistake,” he said. Matusow said he is also looking forward to engaging students at Baylor and getting to know them when he visits. He said he believes winning the award and being able to teach at
Baylor for a semester would enrich his experiences as a teacher. “[Teaching] at Baylor for a semester would be a great experience teaching at a great university with students who may be different from Rice students, and I would get a new dimension out of my experience as a teacher,” Matusow said. The second finalist to present at Baylor will be Dr. Heather Macdonald, chancellor professor of geology at the College of William and Mary. Her lecture will take place at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 24 in D109 Baylor Sciences Building. Macdonald said her lecture, “Behind the Scenes: From Strong Geoscience Courses to an Energized Community,” will give the audience a better understanding of what professors do to create a thriving learning environment and a strong community. Macdonald, who is currently in her 28th year of teaching at William and Mary, said she was also surprised to find out she had been named a finalist and is looking forward to meeting faculty and students when she visits. “I am looking forward to meeting people at Baylor, learning about Baylor itself and talking to people about what they are doing there,” Macdonald said. “It is a really lovely opportunity and I look forward to sharing ideas with people.” Macdonald, said if she receives the award and spends a semester teaching at Baylor, she would like to take advantage of the opportunity to study the geology of Central Texas. “As a geologist, I am always interested in the geology of other areas. Winning this award would give me the opportunity to learn about the interesting geology that is in the area around Baylor,” Macdonald said. The third finalist to present at Baylor will be Dr. Brian Coppola, Arthur F. Thurnau professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan. His lecture will take place at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 2 in D109 Baylor Sciences Building. Coppola, who is currently spending the year in Beijing, wrote
in an email to the Lariat that his lecture, “The Liberal Art of Chemisty: Stories about Human Nature,” will explain how broad, diverse ideas enrich one’s understanding of anything and everything, including chemistry. Coppola, who has taught at Michigan for 25 years, said he was thrilled to learn he was named as a finalist. “I consider it a tribute to all the terrific students I have been privileged to work with over the years,” Coppola said. “I think that the Cherry Award must be somewhere between the Academy Award and the Nobel Prize for honoring the act of classroom teaching, something that is often overlooked.” Coppola said if he is named as the winner of the award, he would like to take the opportunity to emphasize traditional values he has about the importance of excellence in classroom teaching. “I’d like to hope this incredibily visible platform would allow me to bring some attention to some core values about education, such as the cultivation of mutual, life-long learning between people,” Coppola said. “I hope that my prospective students and colleagues at Baylor will be as open to learning from me as I am from them.” Thompson described this year’s finalists as remarkable. “They have impressive teaching credentials and have won numerous teaching awards at their home institutions,” Thompson said. “Each finalist has a strong record of scholarship, and importantly, the finalists have a track record of taking the time to involve undergraduate students in their scholarship efforts,” he added. Thompson said the Cherry Award, which has a national reputation for recognizing great teaching, a natural for Baylor. “Baylor is committed to great teaching. The fact that the winner spends a semester teaching at Baylor also provides valuable opportunities for students and faculty to interact and share experiences with a great teacher,” Thompson said. Robert Foster Cherry, Baylor and Baylor Law School graduate, created the biennial award.
cies are empirical and base their research on reputation and opinions, which he said he believes can give off faulty and subjective information. According to its website, Academic Analytics does the opposite and compares research activity at various institutions rather than basing a judgement on their reputations. Academic Analytics ranks doctoral programs through the scholarly productivity of the faculty. “Even though our department is small, we excel in publishing
scholarly journals and books as well as conducting scientific research,” Watkins said. “That is why we did so well in the rankings.” Cathryn Clark, a first-year student in the educational psychology master’s program, came to Baylor from Pepperdine University. She said she wanted to work in schools but did not necessarily want to be a teacher, which she said made Baylor the perfect fit. “It is fun to finally be in classes pertaining to what I am going to be doing in the future,” Clark said. “The professors are involved in the
community so we get to hear reallife scenarios from school psychologists in Waco I.S.D. as well as parents of children with disabilities.” Watkins said he hopes that more people become aware of the program in the future. “Psychology is a popular undergraduate major, but a lot of students are unaware of the opportunities in the school of psychology for careers,” Watkins said. “Our hope is to create interest and help people understand the possibilities for future careers in psychology,” he said.
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Across 1 Shoots the breeze 6 1940s-’50s Israeli U.N. ambassador 10 Game __ 14 “The Wolf and the Crane” author 15 Cross off 16 Piece of one’s mind? 17 Halloween tricksters’ route? 19 Awestruck 20 Roy Halladay stat 21 Sister of Calliope 22 It may be icy 23 Best place to watch “Animal House”? 25 Close, for instance 28 Unburden 29 Kate of “Ironclad” 30 Soften by soaking 35 How most reading is done, and this puzzle’s title 39 Sherry alternatives 40 Albany’s father-in-law 41 “Piers Morgan Tonight” channel 42 Eisenhower library site 45 Feathers? 50 Nigerian seaport 51 Noted Beethoven interpreter 52 CIA’s ancestor 55 Cancel 56 Work the late shift at the diner? 58 “__ no kick from Champagne”: song lyric 59 Steady 60 Response to a skeptic 61 Gets into 62 Employee IDs 63 Third shift hr.
oughly Modern Millie,” but the singer/songwriter said her love of acting is second to music. “My passion for theater spawns from my passion for music, because there’s a psychological aspect in both of them, and in both of them you have to be able to pour yourself out for everyone to see,” Lynch said. Lynch writes all of her own pieces, and said even though her lyrics are personal, she wants her songs to be applicable to others in their own life. “The lyrics are like a puzzle,” Lynch said. “I like people to pick out bits and pieces of the lyrics and relate it to themselves so they can have their own response to it.” Hale said that when Lynch performs, she speaks to the crowd as if she is talking with close friends. “She likes to tell a little bit about the song that she writes before she performs it,” Hale said. “A lot of times she kind of sets the stage… to where the emotions and passion are coming from. She’s friendly. She makes everybody feel like she’s playing just to show you something.” Lynch said an important component of her music is that it applies to her at the time she writes that particular song, like a diary. She said they are her “response” to what her current life circumstances are. She spoke of her newest work in progress. “That song is about moving forward and having the strength to continue on with what you’ve been given, even if that means leaving things behind,” Lynch said. “Basically a song about endurance.” “I think Layne has really grown as an artist and found her identity in her style,” Faulkner said. More information on Lynch will be available on the Uproar Records website, uprorarrecords. com, soon.
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said, “And when my [mother] asked me what song I was singing, I said, ‘Jesus put it in my heart beNewly signed Uproar Records fore I was born.’” artist Layne Lynch began playing Lynch said her lyrics are written music in front of an audience when from the heart. She is always writshe sat down at one of the public ing down quotes, responses to her pianos at Baylor. The junior the- daily devotional and anything else ater performance major from Dal- that may be useful for a song or las, had a talent that drew crowds later reflection. around her, and eventually landed “My music is very personal to her a spot with the student-run re- me,” Lynch said. “I have a really cord label this semester. hard time defining my sound, but “I first heard I can say that it’s honLayne when she est, passionate and was practicing real.” with some friends “She takes her of mine for a permusic very seriously formance at a dinand it’s an outlet for ner my creative her emotions,” Huntleadership and er Hale, Lynch’s manentrepreneurship ager and San Antoengaged learnnio senior, said. “I’m ing group was hoping that she’ll be putting on my able to get the opLynch sophomore year,” portunity to play a lot Lincoln Faulkner, of shows and really vice president of marketing and get her music out there. She puts a sales at Uproar Records, said. “She ton of emotion and feeling into her was singing and playing piano. I re- music and so it’s really passionate.” member being shocked at how inLayne said that working with credible her piano parts were, and Uproar this year will help her grow at first I actually thought she was as an artist and keep her organized. covering music. I listened to them “Already I have to get a calensing a song she had written and I dar,” Lynch said, thinking ahead to was immediately reminded of Re- anticipated shows, recordings and gina Spektor. The lyrics were very other opportunities that working unique and felt genuine.” with Uproar will bring. Lynch said she has been singing Hale, who worked with KJ and playing piano since before she Doug Grate last year for Uproar, can remember. While she took pia- said Lynch is mainly focusing no lessons for two years in elemen- on integrating into the “Uproar tary school, she said her preference world” this early in the game. was to just sit down and play music “We’re working on setting up instead of read the notes. a foundation,” Hale said. “We’re Her natural ability and “God- working on narrowing down her given gift,” in Lynch’s words, took songs and finding some good ones hold at a young age. that we can make some good qualThat was especially apparent ity demos with.” when Lynch retold a story about Layne played Ethel Peas, Doroa time her mother picked her up thy Parker and was an ensemble from pre-school. dancer in Baylor’s Theater Depart“I was singing a song,” Lynch ment’s recently debuted “Thor-
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The “NFL Blitz” franchise was never intended to portray a realistic brand of football. The game is replete with players provoking unnecessary roughness calls, earning late-hit penalties,and drawing flags for pass interference. There is, however, one minor caveat: there are no referees, and, even if there were, they certainly wouldn’t be calling those penalties. Welcome to the world of “NFL Blitz 2000,” where excessive celebrations and after-the-play body slams are not only allowed but are an essential component of the game-playing experience. Despite the relatively short playbook, simplistic control scheme and overly polygonal graphics, Blitz shines as a testament to the rough-and-tumble ideal that football fans sometimes wish the real sport and traditional video game franchises would live up to. Are you a defensive back who doesn’t like having to make a play on the ball? Just lay out and tackle the receiver while the ball is in the air. Don’t worry, the referees are looking the other way — and always will. Thinking about punting the ball on fourth down with 30 yards to go? Please. That’s what “Da Bomb” — an air-it-out deep pass that’s really appropriate for any down — is for. Considering kicking a field goal when you’re down by two with a minute to go? Don’t make me laugh. Da Bomb. It would be doing a disservice to more conventional football game franchises like “Madden NFL” to compare them with “Blitz,” mostly
because the former are intended to accurately recreate actual football dynamics while the latter revels in its encouragement of brash playcalling, its cheesy, repetitive musical motifs and unrealistic physics. What do I mean by unrealistic physics? Well, for one thing, your team will quite literally catch fire when you complete enough passes to the same receiver on offense or repeatedly tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage on defense. Once your team is on fire, tackling your players is twice as difficult. At best, players from the other team can hop on your back and get dragged along for the ride until a lucky soul is finally able to knock you off your feet. But the most satisfying aspect of the game comes between the plays, when defensive players get free license to knock down, throw, flip or even body slam their offensive counterparts with no negative repercussions other than cries of disbelief from the game’s announcer. “Was that absolutely necessary?!” the announcer will often scream with an air of faux indignation. Perhaps not, but it is part of what makes the classic “Blitz” franchise worth picking up all these years later, even if I do lose to my roommate by two points every time we play. Next time.
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Dixon fuels improved Bear defense By Tyler Alley Sports Editor
Last Saturday, the Baylor defense stepped on the field for Rice’s second drive of the second half with the Bears leading 35-17. Despite the lead, the atmosphere in Floyd Casey Stadium was dead. Rice quarterback Taylor McHargue threw right to receiver Andre Gautreaux, who bobbled the catch. The ball bounced off Gautreaux and landed in the arms of sophomore nickelback Ahmad Dixon. Dixon returned the interception for a touchdown, and the crowd roared back to life. “It was very exciting,” Dixon said. “The whole week Coach [Phil] Bennett told me they were going to come with that play, and it just happened right it front of me. It was like God [said], ‘Here, Ahmad, you can have this play.’ I’m grateful for it. It gave us a big spark when we were flat in the first half.” Dixon ran the kick back 55 yards for the score, extending the Bears’ lead to 42-17. Junior quarterback Robert Griffin III laughed about Dixon’s effort on the score. “He was running hard, wasn’t he?” Griffin said. “Oh my gosh. It’s like, ‘No one’s going to catch you, man. Slow down.’ But we like to see that. He’s got good hands. He needs to make big plays for us, and he did.” Dixon laughed when he heard Griffin’s comment.
“My first thought was get to the endzone,” Dixon said. “I’m not an offensive guy so I really don’t know how to hold the ball. When you get an interception, you don’t look back; [you] just get in the endzone. You never know when that opportunity will come again so just make
“He was running hard, wasn’t he? Oh my gosh. It’s like, ‘No one’s going to catch you man. Slow down.’ But we like to see that. He needs to make big plays for us, and he did.” Robert Griffin III |Quarterback
the best of it.” The interception was Dixon’s first of the season. Dixon said he had two chances before in the past two games. He tipped the ball that was intercepted by junior safety Mike Hicks against Stephen F. Austin, and he nearly intercepted a pass on TCU’s final drive before Hicks made the pick to seal the game. Dixon has 17 total tackles on the season. “I think he’s played at a very high level all year,” head coach Art Briles said. “Every time you look there’s 6’s (Dixon’s jersey number)
around the ball and he’s making plays. That was a big play actually because we didn’t come in the halftime leaning back with our feet up feeling good. That was a huge play.” Dixon played 11 of 13 games his true freshman year as a reserve safety and on special teams. This year he moved to the nickelback position, which he described as a combination linebacker, cornerback and safety. “I’m pretty much just the allaround guy,” Dixon said. “Some people call it a hybrid position because you have to be versatile. I thank Coach Bennett for allowing me to play the position because that’s a big factor in our defense. If that position messes up on a few plays, it’s noticeable.” Dixon smiled when asked about the effect Bennett had on his play. “Coach Bennett knows how to get you in every kind of way, but it’s all for a good reason,” Dixon said. “I think he has affected my play a lot. He’s changed the way I play, made me realize my good and my bad. He’s a tremendous coach. He’s known for doing that. He’s affected me a whole lot.” Senior linebacker Elliot Coffey said he has been with Dixon since the latter came in as a safety, and Coffey was happy to see him succeed. “To see him move down to that nickel and see him embrace it as well as he has [is] awesome,” Cof-
fey said. “And then you finally see it come to the point that it did where he gets the pick-six. The play is in perfect position. The ball pops up in his hands, no hesitation, he’s gone. It feels great to see that his work isn’t going in vain, that it’s finally showing up.” Dixon was a bluechip local recruit out of Midway High School. He was an All-American defensive back rated No. 15 national by ESPN.com, Baylor’s highest-rated signee in recent memory. He is one of 17 Baylor players from the Central Texas area. Heading into Big 12 play, Dixon recognizes the defense and specials teams need to become more consistent if the Bears are to succeed in conference games. “We’ve had our ups and down,” Dixon said. “That’s not a good thing going into conference play, playing against a K-State team that just came off a big win in Miami. Bill Snyder is a great coach. Coach Bennett told us after the game that we’re going to have to step up. Going into Manhattan playing against those guys, we’re going to have to bring our A-game.” Baylor’s defense currently ranks seventh in points allowed in the Big 12 with 26.3 points alllowd per game and rank fifth in yards allowed with 363 yards per game. The defense has done better against the pass than the run. The Bears are fifth in pass defense and sixth in rushing defense.
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No. 6 defensive back Ahmad Dixon returns the interception for a touchdown during the game against Rice Saturday in Floyd Casey Stadium. Baylor beat Rice 56-31.
Lariat Super League: Week Four Once again, our fantasy football results. A couple people had to eat crow this week. Next week will feature two 3-0 teams, one run by the sports editor and the other by the only girl in the league. Enjoy.
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The Baylor women’s basketball team and Tip-off Club are sending Tennessee Head Coach Pat Summit a card in support of her through her illness Thursday at the Ferrell Center. Summit was diagnosed with early onset dementia on Aug. 25 but plans to coach the Lady Vols “as long as the good Lord is willing.”
Volleyball looks to rebound after loss to Ags By Krista Pirtle Sports Writer
Without the chemistry it possesses, the Baylor volleyball team might have fallen apart after Wednesday’s 3-2 defeat in College Station. “The thing about us is we don’t break apart,” senior middle blocker Briana Tolbert said. “We pride ourselves in sticking together all season. We lose as a team. We win as a team.” After only five games thus far in the friendly confines of the Ferrell Center, the Bears look to improve their 0-3 conference record with a four-game home stand.
“Especially being at home with the fans and being in our comfort zone,” Tolbert said. The support of the fans offers some fuel for the Bears, but Baylor will need more than that. “These home games will provide great opportunities to train and recover,” Barnes said. “This is the most crucial part of our schedule. We will have home court advantage to gain some traction.” Inexperience has been a factor in the Baylor games this season, but under the leadership of Tolbert, things are slowly beginning to take shape. “After this loss to A&M, things are finally snapping knowing that
we can beat whoever we want to beat as long as we play,” Tolbert said. “We’re past the point of talking about it to just doing it.” Next on the schedule for the Bears are Kansas, Texas Tech, Missouri and North Texas. Currently, Baylor has its sights set on Kansas, who is coming in off a 0-3 loss to Iowa State. “Kansas is coming in here ready to make up for that,” Barnes said. The Jayhawks also have not found a conference win in two games. “It’s always a tough game against them, but we’re ready to go in and basically get ‘er done,” Tolbert said.
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Summey brings spark on and off field By Daniel Wallace Sports Writer
mey has a wide range of skills and has greatly improved, but not just on offense. “Summey’s really dangerous on the attack,” she said. “She’s very good technically on the ball. She’s a very good passer. She can shoot the ball very well. She’s also become a better defensive player.” Junior defender Carlie Davis says she considers Summey her best friend and admires how devoted she is in all areas of life, not just soccer. “She’s really passionate,” she said. “She loves life and loves people. She puts everything she has into all of her friendships and teammates in soccer, too. She goes all in. She’s pretty passionate.” On the field, Summey gives the team a much-needed spark, Davis said. She noted how important her best friend is to the team, whether she is on the field or not. “She brings a level of energy halfway through the half that we can’t really get from anywhere else,”
Davis said. “Obviously she makes a lot of difference in the games, because she scores a lot of goals.”
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With two goals and two assists this season, sophomore midfielder Karlee Summey has taken full advantage of the chance she has been given. Summey has appeared in all 12 games for the Bears and had the game-winning goal 45 seconds into overtime Sunday against Weber State. Junior midfielder Lisa Sliwinski was quick to mention Summey’s inspiring attitude and the mentality she brings to the team. “I’ve really been admiring her attitude lately,” she said. “She makes the most of the opportunities on the field and she doesn’t complain when she doesn’t get the opportunities.” Head coach Marci Jobson said Summey has matured as a player within the past year and believes she will become better and more effective for the program in the coming years. Jobson said Sum-
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No. 3 Forward Dana Larsen heads the ball against Weber State last Sunday at Betty Lou Mays Field. The Bears celebrated an exciting golden goal finish. The Bears won 1-0.
Soccer to face Red Raiders By Daniel Wallace Sports Writer
In a game where there figures to be some bad blood, the Bears (9-2-1) will host the Texas Tech Red Raiders (7-3-1) at 7 p.m. today at Betty Lou Mays Field. The Bears are eager to play the Red Raiders, as memories from the day they played Texas Tech in Lubbock last year loom. Twenty minutes before the game kicked off, they were notified they would not qualify for the Big 12 tournament, regardless of their performance during the game. The Bears won that last game of the season 1-0 despite this news. The team went into that game wanting to ruin Tech’s season, since they knew it would be the last time Baylor takes the field, whether they won or not. Junior midfielder Lisa Sliwinski said that game was a huge battle and is fully aware that the Red Raiders “hate” the Bears on the soccer field. She says she is excited to see how Tech will respond in this game and figures it will be an intense contest. “They are very hard-nosed and tough,” she said. “They like to battle, which we have a reputation for as well. They have a lot of powerful players instead of the crafty, tickytacky players.”
Head coach Marci Jobson said the Red Raiders can pass well and are aggressive. She said they have been “crushing” teams lately. That observation is proved by two 5-0 victories over Arizona State and Northern Arizona already this season. All seven of Tech’s wins have been by the way of a shutout. The Red Raiders are led by sophomore forward Jessica Fuston, who has a team-high five goals this season. Another threat Jobson says sees on their squad is senior midfielder Taylor Lytle. “I think they have the best forward in the Big 12 in Taylor Lytle,” she said. “She’s a difference makers. She’s very hard to stop. Carlie Davis will have her hands full with Lytle. It will be the best player she plays against this season.” Jobson said it is imperative that the team gets better on offensive set pieces. She said in the two games the team played last weekend, the Bears had plenty of corner kick opportunities but could not convert any of the chances into scores. In Sunday’s game against Weber State, Baylor took 20 shots and had one score. Jobson said the team must perform better on set pieces because she does not expect near that many chances to put a goal in.
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“She loves life and loves people. She puts everything she has into all her friendships and teammates in soccer.” Carlie Davis | Junior defender
Summey, who is from Keller started playing soccer at the age of 3. She played soccer and basketball her whole life until freshman year of high school when she had to choose between playing soccer or basketball. At 5 feet 4 inches tall, she thought soccer might be the better choice; it helped that she had already developed a love for the sport. She said she has not always lived and breathed soccer, how-
ever. For nearly four months in the summer before her junior year of high school, Summey decided to quit playing soccer. “It was just a low point in my life,” she said. “I wasn’t enjoying it and didn’t see it in my future.” She couldn’t stay away for long though, and her coach her inspired to come back and play for the select team she had been playing for in high school. Summey is thankful she made the choice to come back to soccer and through that absence saw that her life was in greater hands. “The Lord just had it all worked out for me,” she said. “It’s honestly been the greatest thing ever that I came back and played.” Summey is a psychology major with a minor in religion. She is involved in Fellowship of Christian Athletes at Baylor and said she has a passion for children. She plans to pursue a masters’ degree in counseling and become a child play therapist.
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so they’re going to make sure they look good.” Baylor is 2-6 all time against Kansas State. Last season, Baylor defeated the Wildcats in Waco, 47-42, to earn the Bears’ first bowl bid since 1994. Griffin threw for a career-high 404 yards and four touchdowns. The offense gained a total of 683 yards. One stat that stands out for Griffin is his 13 touchdowns compared to 12 incompletions on the season. “It’s my job to make sure we stay on the field and move the chain, and that’s the biggest growth I’ve had,” Griffin said. “You don’t always have to take the huge shots. Sometimes you have to take the guy who’s sitting in the flat just so you can stay on the field and gain positive yards.” Kansas State features the No. 1 defense in the Big 12 so far in terms of points and yards allowed. Baylor ranks second nationally in total offense and third in scoring offense. “Kansas State has a great defense, and we’re looking forward to the challenge,” said senior running back Terrance Ganaway. “I believe they’re going to come out guns blazing, and that’s fine. I think it’s going to be exciting.”
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Ganaway ranks fifth in the Big 12 in rushing yards. Kansas State ranks last in the Big 12 in scoring offense. The Baylor defense, though, is not overlooking this team going into conference play. “This week we have to be a lot more physical than their offensive linemen,” junior defensive end Gary Mason Jr. said. “We’ve got to have good communication between the (defensive) line and linebackers. But I know if we have any miscues, they’ll break a long run, so we have to be sharp on that.” Senior inside receiver Kendall Wright is Baylor’s all-time leader in career receptions, career receiving yards and career receiving touchdowns. He ranks second nationally in receiving yards per game and third in receptions. Baylor’s No. 15 ranking in the AP poll is its highest since 1991, and Griffin says the team is only looking to go higher. “We work hard for what we’ve gotten,” Griffin said. “It hasn’t been given to us. We didn’t come into the season ranked. It’s our job to keep working hard. We want to keep climbing, keep doing great things, and keep winning football games.”
flect the academic ability of incoming students rather than the rigor of an institution’s programs, the report called for U.S. News to take into account “factors that measure student satisfaction and engagement,” although detailed explication of these factors was lacking. The report also suggested diluting the influence of reputational surveys that allow presidents of institutions to rank those of their peers. This year, U.S. News ranked Baylor as the 75th-best college in the country, matching its highest overall ranking since the list’s inception. Baylor announced earlier this month that this year’s freshman class had the highest SAT scores of any class in the university’s history. Lori Fogleman, director of Baylor media relations, stressed the U.S. News rankings do not affect Baylor’s student recruitment process except insofar as they influence the decisions of parents and students. “Parents are making an informed decision,” Fogleman wrote in an email to the Lariat, “and if students select Baylor as their college choice and they have the kind of experience that they expect and
that they love and that helps them reach their full potential, then we’ve done our job.” Robert Morse, data research director for U.S. News, said the magazine had no intention of changing its ranking criteria anytime soon when he spoke at the NACAC conference at which the report was presented, according to a Monday article in Inside Higher Ed. Morse said these factors are relevant metrics for judging the quality of an institution because universities still weigh class rank and test scores so highly when recruiting students. Because of this, Hawkins said NACAC will focus its efforts on educating its own member counselors so they can exert influence over parents and students as they search for the right college for them. “I think the idea is just to keep the conversation going,” Hawkins said, “because I don’t think there’s much hope that a single report from a relatively small organization like ours will cause a multimillion dollar enterprise to change their brand overnight.” U.S. News public relations did not respond to a request for an interview with Morse by Thursday’s deadline.
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raised over $600 in donations for the cause. The team reached out to friends and family members through emails in hopes of meeting their fundraising goal. “There was nothing coming in the first couple of days and then things started to pick up and donations started falling in,” Walker said. Walker’s team is the fifthhighest fundraiser out of 48 total teams. Teams and individual walkers can register for the event online until 8 a.m. today. Registration will also be held at the walk site at 8 a.m., an hour before the event starts. The walk is five miles, but a one-mile option is also available to participants who would prefer a less-strenous route. For those who wish to help the cause but can’t make it to the walk this year, there are other ways to get involved. “You can always go on our website and donate at www.walkmstexas.org,” Kirk said. Both Walker and Kirk said they have high hopes that MS will be cured. “We truly are making a difference dollar by dollar for the lives of those affected by MS,” Kirk said.
big influences and mentors.” Along with Kline’s “Leap of Faith”, Ostlund will perform pieces by Dr. Edward J.F. Taylor, lecturer in music theory, and Dr. Scott McAllister, associate professor of composition. Taylor’s piece, “Ascension,” was the first piece he had written for the double bass as a feature instrument. The piece was composed for the senior recital of Ryan Baird, who graduated in May 2011. Ostlund was also interested in performing the piece. Taylor said as he was composing the piece, he focused on compositional structure. “I’m very interested in formal design,” Taylor said. “So I spent a lot of time dealing with structure and working out the details
of that long before I even begin to think about themes or harmonies. It’s really central to the way I work. I don’t try to tell a story as
as a feature instrument, Taylor said. “When you think of the [double] bass, you think of this instrument that’s in the back of the orchestra, off to the side, but here, the bass is really in the front and center position on the stage,” Taylor said. “The piece was also inspired by one of Taylor’s favorite authors, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.” The final piece to be performed at the concert is “Concerto for Double Bass,” composed by McAllister. The piece was originally composed for Ostlund and the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, Ostlund said, but has been reduced to a solo piece with piano accompaniment. “I approached him and asked if he would consider writing me a concerto piece, and he said yes,”
Ostlund said. “He got a grant through Baylor to write this piece, and a year ago I premiered it. It was a great experience.” The pieces may all be written by Baylor composers, but Kline said that they all offer originality. “All of these pieces are radically different,” Kline said. “They’re not trying to be one another. They stand on their own. It’s really cool how they have their own personality. To me, not one of them pales against the other.” Ostlund said the three pieces also provide unique challenges. “It’s three separate worlds, and they’re all very hard — extremely difficult,” Ostlund said. “In Matt’s piece, [“Leap of Faith”] literally my fingers were bleeding. You have to hit all the stuff, and I’m practicing, and I’m starting to feel pain, and
I look down and have this blood flowing down my fingers. They’re all incredibly challenging in different ways, and the music is going to be very different.” Ostlund said the concert will illustrate the breadth of work coming from the Baylor School of Music and the innovations of the double bass within the world of music. “It’s sort of the golden age for the double bass,” Ostlund said. “The [double] bass is coming into light today. Composers like the ones for this concert are doing stuff that wasn’t possible on the instrument. People couldn’t play then like they do today. It’s a really exciting time to be a [double] bassist and have the opportunity to work with these composers.” The concert is free and open to the public.
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theology major, on philosopher and theologian Soren Kierkegaard’s notion of the leap of faith. “The whole act of faith and having a belief in God requires — it demands — that there is some doubt, that you believe in something despite the fact that it is almost unreasonable and does not make sense,” Kline said. “The leap of faith is the gift that God gives you, and that’s where [the title] comes from.” Kline said having his piece featured is a great opportunity. “It’s a really big honor for me to be on a program with three of my professors,” Kline said. “My [double] bass professor is performing my work, and then my piece is sitting right next to my composition professor and my theory and orchestration teacher. These are my
“All of these pieces are radically different. They’re not trying to be one another. They stand on their own.” Matthew Kline | Houston junior, composer
other composers sometimes do. My ideas are driven by the musical content.” The piece was titled “Ascension” early on in its creation, initially signifying the rise of the double bass