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Recycling Culture

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Generational Identity Crisis

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Black Culture Front and Center

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Fashion Comeback

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Girl Power

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How Disney Shaped Us

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Anita Hill to #MeToo

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Waco’s Changing Reputation

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Looking Back: Baylor Football

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Looking Back: Baylor Basketball

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Cost of Attending Baylor

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Influence of Entertainment

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Baylor Back in the Day

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Greek Life

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Kids: Then and Now

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Where are They Now?

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Friends’ Lasting Legacy

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Kurt Cobain: Voice of a Decade

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Bratz Dolls and Race

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Who has Stood the Test of Time?

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Is our generation moving culture forward?

EDITORIAL Have you ever heard a great old song you loved until it gets overplayed on the radio and eventually gets a remix that makes you retch? That is exactly what our generation is.

We are a generation raised on chronic complaining and bred on political correctness that has not contributed any kind of real revolution. Revolutions are supposed to unite people, and the only one we’ve really experienced in our lifetime — the meteoric rise of technology and social media — has done nothing but divide us, provide unrealistic expectations of reality and make us question if we have any privacy at all.

There’s no face of this generation, just dog filters and emojis. For that reason, we will never experience any great gatherings like in past generations, such as Woodstock or the March on Washington. Without a singular voice to unite people, those won’t happen or have the same effect ever again. When we try to assemble people for a cause through a Facebook page rather than a boycott or a protest, it does not nearly have the profound effect on the public.

Nothing of any importance will change through Facebook or Twitter.

On social media, we give ourselves a platform for all kinds of fake outrage.

If you’re able to retweet something to show you’re upset, it is a lot easier than going out and actually doing something about it. We see it every day: Someone posts something on social media about a story they heard and it gets taken completely out of context until all the people who don’t bother to research the incident vilify the supposed “guilty party” and ruin them.

As far as the typical complaint that millennials and kids from Generation Z are too offended by everything going on, it’s no surprise when we actually look into how much social media controls our lives.

When our lives become controlled by our timeline, we lose all touch with reality. We can follow whoever we

want, never having to hear the other side of a story. If we see something we don’t like or don’t agree with, guess what? We can just block it. We can make it go away forever. There really is no wonder why college students and young adults can’t have civil, adult conversations with people on the other side of an argument.

Everything we do these days has been done before. It is so rare to see any original ideas in any form of entertainment. Take movies, for example; this millennium has been known chiefly for superhero movies and re-booted sequels. In fact, “Star Wars” has gotten not just one, but two re-booted trilogies since the turn of the century. We’ve done this all before. It seems like studio heads say to themselves, “We like this superhero, and we also like this superhero. Let’s make a movie about each of them and then have them team up in a few years for a different movie.” Yet these wildly expensive movies gross millions and millions of dollars because the strongest driving force behind our generation seems to be nostalgia.

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...the strongest driving force behind our generation seems to be nostalgia.”

Similarly, every Disney movie ever created apparently needs a live action adaption as well, as we’ve been deluged with them over the last few years. TV has become the same way.

The network sitcom is officially dead via the hands of streaming services of Netflix and Hulu, so they have reverted

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to just bringing back old, popular shows. Since the beginning of 2018, we have seen reboots of “Magnum, P.I.,” “Roseanne,” “American Idol” and “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” with announcements for a new “Drake and Josh” series as well as a third installment of “The Twilight Zone.”

Do today’s fashion trends look familiar? They probably should, because they’ve all been done before.

One glance into the “fashion trends” section of the Seventeen magazine website will show just how unoriginal the clothes are that we’re wearing.

The page is littered with articles such as “15 cute ’80s fashion trends you need in your life” and “10 coolest bucket hats that will make you feel so 1999.” We are trying so desperately to be like other generations that we are constantly impersonating it, right down to the clothes on our backs.

So, how are we going to be remembered? Are we going to be the generation whose biggest contribution

to society is the Bitmoji, or are we going to step away from the desires and demands of social media to live our lives without considering public perception before we act. Maybe watch a concert without putting the whole thing on your Snapchat story,

get into a sane and rational argument, and actually experience life instead of just posting about it. Right now, we are the generation who ran out of ideas. It is up to us to step away from our comfort zone and think for ourselves, for once.

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Millennials share thoughts on common generational stereotypes ELISABETH THOMAS Reporter As the generation that bridged the digital revolution and the advent of social media, many millennials — individuals born between 1981 and 1996 — have struggled to find their identity as a generation.

Everyone has an opinion about millennials, and oftentimes the term is used in a derogatory way toward all young people when in reality, millennials are all the young people in their 20s and 30s.

The very youngest millennials are graduating college now.

According to Shelton Sears, a roaster at Common Grounds

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I think there’s a very entrepreneurial spirit about our generation.”

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Woodway and born in 1993, when he sees someone address millennials in online forums or on social media, it’s funny to him when he doesn’t affiliate or can’t empathize with the group of “young people” being addressed. Instead, Sears said he experiences a different side to his generation, which is often mislabeled as passive or entitled.

“I’m a millennial — like that’s me,” Sears said. “I think most often, I see millennials portrayed as whiny or over-zealous. I think there’s truth to that the generation usually associated with millennials and the younger generation are passionate. I don’t know that necessarily everyone in that age range is fanatical about things, but I think because particularly the younger side of the millennial net of people has grown up with so much more access to the world, their voices get heard.”

Sears said that another misconception people propagate is that millennials are lazy and not hard-working.

MILLENNIALS Individuals born between the years 1981 and 1996, also known as the millennial generation, have been labeled lazy and irrational by older generations. However, many members of this generation feel these are poor representations of the group.

“For me, that’s the one I most feel dissension against,” Sears said. “I started working when I was 15, and for 10 years of my life, I’ve worked manual labor jobs. I’ve been sweating my butt off working in the heat, outside, lifting stuff, crawling around in attics, laboring for what I earn.”

Sears said he doesn’t feel like this portrayal is a valid representation of himself or his fellow millennials. Rather than being a characteristic of an entire generation, Sears said the labels of laziness or entitlement are instead the result of individual upbringing and values, many of which are passed along from previous generations.

Destiny Gonzales, communications director at Antioch

Community Church, born in 1994, shared similar opinions on the matter of millennial identity.

“A lot of times, people think we don’t have a great work ethic and we just want everything handed to us, and I don’t think that’s true,” Gonzales said. “I think there’s a very entrepreneurial spirit about our generation, but I think people also think we aren’t willing to do the normal nine-to-five jobs, and we totally are.

We’re not all just like, ‘Oh, I sit at home in my pajamas running my own business.’ I think there’s a lot more to it than that.”

According to Gonzales, millennials have more initiative and drive than they’re given credit for.

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CAMERON STUART Radio Director

In the 1990s, it was tough to turn your head and not see a plastering of black culture, be it on your TV screen, in the movie theaters, in the retail stores or hearing it through a car radio passing by.

Did the decade still have its fair share of race relations issues?

Of course. From Rodney King to O.J. Simpson, there were issues that were still there in America, but there was now an undeniable platform for black people across the country. Unlike during race issues of the 1960s and ‘70s, people could now hear about problems facing black people in the mainstream media from Arsenio Hall instead of Johnny Carson. They could hear it through the music of N.W.A. rather than Bob Dylan on the radio and see the success on the mainstream charts. They could see movies about very real gang violence facing young black people in the inner cities in “Boyz n the Hood” in every theater rather than watching the Jets and the Sharks duke it out in “West Side Story.”

Dr. Tyrha Lindsey-Warren, a clinical assistant professor of marketing, doesn’t believe the ‘90s represented a rise in black culture, but rather a bigger platform. She also thinks pin-pointing the ‘90s as the time where black culture rose as “unfair and limiting.”

“Black culture has been very influential throughout American history, since the beginning of American history, from the Harlem Renaissance to gospel music and beyond,” L i n d s e y - Wa r r e n said.

TV began to portray something of a more realistic picture of the black teenager, straying away from “The Cosby Show” and

introducing a young, witty, urban superstar in Will Smith in “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” The show not only portrayed how young black men from the city were talking and acting with their friends, but also the clash of cultures Smith faced when dealing with what was traditionally seen as white, suburban, affluent setting in BelAir. The show bridged the gap not only between black and white teenagers and family stereotypes, but also between black people of the city and those from suburban areas, making a voice for every black demographic.

Lindsey-Warren, who also worked as a director of television for Quincy Jones/David Salzman Entertainment, worked on the last season of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and credited the show’s success to, among other things, its family values.

“It wasn’t so much about the premise of the poor kid from Philadelphia moving in with his rich family in Beverly Hills, it was about family issues, which is universal,” Lindsey-Warren said.

“They weren’t necessarily talking about black families, they were talking about universal themes that all families deal with.”

In comedy, “In Living Color” was a sketch show but was everything “Saturday Night Live” wasn’t. It had a primarily black cast, and they were not afraid to take on racial differences and make them into comedy. Instead of having a popular pop or rock act of the time performing during the show, they would have the occasional hip hop artist accompany the “Fly Girls” — a mixed race group of hip hop dancers bringing street dance to the TV screen in a way only rivaled by “Soul Train.”

The show was a springboard for a slew of black comedians such as the Wayans brothers and Jamie Foxx but also for Jim Carrey and Jennifer Lopez, who was a dancer on the show. In 1992, a more traditional sitcom, “Martin,” showed the everyday struggles of a black DJ living in the inner city with humorous anecdotes and introduced the world to Martin Lawrence. It, like “Fresh Prince,” delved into real, everyday issues that everyone can relate to like an up-anddown career and married life.

While the 1980s were a breeding ground for hip-hop music, the ‘90s were where it came of age.

Through the introduction of gangster rap into the mainstream, America got a look into the streets of inner cities with real issues, mainly New York and Los Angeles. Maybe more importantly for the culture that it was being heard and shared across the country, it was beloved not just by black people, it became a huge

Left: Actor Will Smith of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Right: Hip hop/Pop group TLC

hit among white teenagers as well. While in generations before, being cool for white kids meant being like Arthur Fonzarelli or Marilyn Monroe, now they aspired to be like Tupac, Biggie Smalls or Salt N’ Pepa.

Burleson senior Chris McRae got attracted to hip-hop, especially ‘90s gangster rap, at a young age.

“I think people found it so much different from rock and kind of that up beat pop at the time,” McRae said. “They talked about real issues and whether suburban kids faced them or not, it was cool nonetheless.”

The hip-hop generation transformed not only music but also the fashion of America’s youth in the decade. Gone were the days of leather jackets, perms and pant suits. Hip-hop replaced the old trends with jumpsuits, fades and parachute pants and Led Zeppelin tshirts became the iconic Run-DMC ones on the shelves, all to go along with LL Cool J’s signature Kangol bucket hat. T-shirts with the faces of Malcolm X and Oakland Raiders hats became the style for suburban white kids all across America.

To this day, hip-hop is still an incredibly popular genre of music among teenagers in America, especially those in the suburbs.

Like hip-hop itself, black culture and fashion had a niche audience before the ‘90s, limited to the inner cities and rarely seen mass advertised. In the ‘90s, however, through not just music and fashion but through TV and movies, black culture became pop culture, and has largely been on that throne ever since.

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Fashion students explain return of ’90s trends SHAE KOHARSKI Multimedia Journalist ’90s fashion was filled with mom jeans, fanny packs, scrunchies, overalls, platform sneakers, neon and much more. Does this sound familiar? Because this is what much of Gen Zs wear today in the late 2010s.

Many stores today sell the same pieces that were trendy in the ’90s because the wave of 1990s fashion is back. Whether it is around town, at the store, at a festival or even on campus, ’90s fashion has made a comeback.

Many brands that were popular in the ’90s died down for several years, but have recently come back. Brands like Levi’s, Fila, Chmpion and Tommy Hilfiger are rocking the runways again. A Champion hoodie, which wouldn’t have been considered fashionable two years ago, is selling for $69 at Urban Outfitters. Busy graphic tees are now being sold for upwards of $100. A quick Google search of “1990s graphic tee” comes up with pages of websites from modern stores that have recreated popular T-shirts. But to find an authentic ’90s garment, shoppers have to be willing to pay a hefty price.

Though the return of ’90s fashion might seem random, San Diego junior Rachel Iacoboni, an apparel design student, has a theory explaining the trend.

“Due to the pendulum swing in fashion theories that show trends coming back into style after a certain amount of years and with the ’90s now being almost 30 years away, it is the perfect timing for these types of looks to come back into style,” Iacoboni said.

The popularity of minimalist clothing in conjunction with similar themes from the ’90s explains the increased prominance of designers like Prada, Helmut Lang, Jim Sanders and Calvin Klein, Iacoboni said.

The classic Calvin Klein minimalist underwear set that took over the ’90s has made a splash today and has now been replicated by other brands because of its popularity. Coming in many different colors, the pieces have a thick band on it that say ‘Calvin Klein’.

Many brands have begun recreating ’90s garments. The classic mom jean is not just in Levi stores anymore, but in popular shops such as H&M, American Eagle, Topshop and even designer brands such as Gucci and Balmain.

San Antonio junior Melanie Moon is studying apparel merchandising and said she isn’t surprised about the ’90s trend coming back.

“There is a theory called Laver’s timeline, and it’s when a new trend comes and then about 20 years after the trend has come and went, it becomes amusing. So with ’90s style, it was a little bit nostalgic to ’70s.”

Beyond the natural coming and going of trends, Fort Worth senior Kennedy Franklin said she thinks music may also have influenced the return of ’90s fads.

“I think music definitely plays a huge part in bringing back ’90s fashion,” Franklin said. “Most music today still has that ’90s feel, whether it’s pop or R&B.” Marshal senior Linda Allen said the rise of social media as a platform for influencers and celebrities has impacted the way our generation engages with fashion trends. Kim Kardashian West, Ariana Grande, Zendaya and the Hadid sisters are among those who have promoted ’90s fashion.

“I think social media has influenced the comeback of ’90s fashion.

For example, Instagram influencers [are] showing off their clothes, reaching a wide audience. The main target is Gen Z and Millennials who are buying them,” Allen said.

Many have turned to thrift shopping in hopes of achieving the coveted ’90s look while avoiding hefty prices. According to a study conducted by ThreadUp, an online secondhand shop, more than one in three Gen Zers will buy secondhand in 2019. The same study also showed that Gen Z has seen a 46% increase of buying secondhand from 2017.

For San Antonio senior Shelby Hilliard, another factor contributes to her love of ’90s fashion: nostalgia “We saw the ’90s as children, and how many times did you think, ‘Oh, I want to wear that,’ or, ‘I want to wear what my mom is wearing or big sister,’” Hilliard said. “So now we get to participate in the trends from when we were younger.”

Grandview senior Hannah Midkiff suggested another explanation for the trend: Younger generations prefer to avoid dressing like older generations.

“When the older generation starts to catch onto something, it’s not as cool anymore. Mom jeans are coming back because the mom’s now are getting into skinny jeans,” Midkiff said.

Malverne, N.Y., sophomore Kelsey Winters said whether or not the the trend will stick around is up for dispute.

“Fashions are evolutionary, not revolutionary, so they are always changing gradually.

Eventually, I believe the trend will eventually go away since trends go out of style, but it might not because it depends on what the consumers want,” Winters said.

Associate professor of family and consumer sciences Dr. Lorynn R. Divita said either way, stores and designers manage to stay up to date with trends because of the cyclical nature of fashion.

“By understanding theory, shifts in evolution of fashion are not surprising to people who are in the fashion industry, which is why you see similar trends in different, unrelated stores at the same time,” Divits said.

Thomas Moran | Arts and Life Editor

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20 years later, the discussion of female media representation persists MORGAN HARLAN Staff Writer Strong female leads broke into the mainstream media in the 1990s, with iconic roles such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a female teenager that fights supernatural creatures and falls in love with vampires in her spare time; The Powerpuff Girls, a band of superhero sisters that regularly saves their town from impending danger and evil; “Clueless’s” Cher Horowitz and her yellow plaid taking over the high school with her signature one-liners; “Bring it On’s” Torrance Shipman and her impeccable cheer moves, blonde ponytail and anarchy against the “popular crowd.”

The ’90s cemented some of the most famous female characters in pop culture and continue to define the entertainment industry and “girl power” in society.

In the 1990s, the first U.S. female vice president was nominated, and the first female attorney general and secretary of state took office. The high flux of women in the media

and government created a third wave of feminism and brought meaning to the term “girl power.” British pop group the Spice Girls helped coin and popularize the phrase “Girl Power,” which is “used in reference to an attitude of independence, confidence and empowerment among young women.”

In a radio interview, Melanie Brown, better known as Mel B or Scary Spice, said, “This is about girl power, this is not about picking up guys. It’s about spreading a positive vibe, kicking it for the girls … It’s not about picking up guys.

We don’t need men to control our life. We control our lives anyway.”

Flower Mound freshman journalism and political science major Hannah Yanowitch said that the ’90s created space for all types of women with different personalities, and expressing personality without apology is what girl power is all about.

“I think the ’90s created a revolutionary perspective on women

through bold and unapologetically spunky female characters in the media,” Yanowitch said. “Before this decade, women were generally portrayed as reserved, overly polite and submissive, thus pressuring girls to conform to these constricting gender roles.”

On the opposite end of the ’90s girl power movement is Allison Yarrow, author of “90s Bitch: Media, Culture and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality.”

In an interview with the Women’s Media Center, Yarrow said she believes that the ’90s didn’t truly deliver girl power.

“Once [these women were] in the mainstream, marketers became really excited about selling women this idea of female anger which ultimately became “girl power.” Women have always been an underestimated and untapped source of power and consumerism. We are a group with tremendous resources, and marketers are really interested in getting us to allocate our resources for their interest,” Yarrow said.

Yarrow said that despite the fact that women were represented more frequently in the ’90s, their representation created more inequality. In an excerpt from her book, Yarrow said by the end of the ’90s, “the promise of equality for women was revealed to be something between a false hope and a cruel hoax. Parity, it turned out, was paradox: The more women assumed power, the more power was taken from them through a noxious popular culture that celebrated outright hostility toward women and commercialized their sexuality and insecurity.”

The ’90s gave pop culture many headstrong female characters and gave young girls role models whose influences have lasted well beyond the decade.

However, despite these characters and the creation of “girl power,” the discussion addressing discrepancies between the portrayal of women in the media and how it relates to gender equality is s prevalent today as it was in the ’90s.

Thomas Moran | Arts and Life Editor

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BRIDGET SJOBERG Staff Writer When thinking of our favorite Disney movies, we often look to the classics released in the 1950s. “Cinderella,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Peter Pan,” “Lady and the Tramp” and “Alice in Wonderland” are films we all grew up watching. However, be less obvious to note that many other of the best known Disney movies all came from another decade: the 1990’s. Despite some hits like “One Hundred and One Dalmatians” or “The Jungle Book” released from the ’60’s to the ’80’s, this three-decade time period was a slump for Disney animation. However, the ’90’s acted as a renaissance for classic films that audiences grew to know and love, giving us many movies that are being revived and remade today. Here’s a look back at some of the best Disney classics that the ’90’s had to offer.

The Little Mermaid

“The Little Mermaid” was technically released in November 1989, but it was the catalyst film for a decade of Disney achievement. The film brought Disney back to its roots by introducing a new princess in Ariel, a mermaid whose desire to live as a human on land and love for Prince Eric cause her to exchange her voice for legs. The Little Mermaid was an instant classic, winning two Academy Awards for best original score and best song for “Under the Sea.”

Beauty and the Beast Disney released another instant success with 1991’s “Beauty and the Beast,” the tale of a young woman who becomes prisoner in an enchanted castle after taking her father’s place. She ultimately falls in love with the Beast, cast away as a hideous creature as a result of his past cruel actions, but transformed into a prince by the end of the film. The storyline and characters of this movie have become iconic, and the story has been released as a popular Broadway play and remade as a successful live action film starring Emma Watson. “Beauty and the Beast” was the first animated movie nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards and won best original score and best original song for “Beauty and the Beast.”

Laguna Beach, Calif., sophomore Ashley Shelton’s favorite Disney film from the ’90’s is Beauty and the Beast due to its memorable cast of characters and the imaginative world created for the story.

“I think a lot of original Disney movies like “Beauty and the Beast” from this time period are still impactful because they allow children to see and know an imaginary world where anything is possible and dreams can come true,” Shelton said. “The movies allow us to escape reality and teaches us bigger lessons in life.”

Aladdin 1992’s Aladdin has been one of Disney’s most alltime successful movies, with a popular soundtrack and sense of humor brought by Robin Williams’ free-talking Genie. The film is a type of rags-to-riches story, following free-spirited Aladdin as he wishes to become a prince and win the heart of princess Jasmine. Aladdin won best original song at the Academy Awards for “A Whole New World” as well as best original score. The film has been made into a successful Broadway show and a live-action remake starring Will Smith will be released this May.

The Lion King This 1994 film is often regarded as one of the best Disney films of all time, telling the story of young lion Simba, heir to the throne of his father’s kingdom, until he is forced into exile after being convinced he is to blame for the death of his father. Helpful friendships and life lessons that Simba develops on his journey lead him to defeat his evil uncle Scar and reclaim the throne. The Lion King is known for its strong themes and character development, as well as its iconic soundtrack. Three songs were nominated for best original song at the Academy Awards — “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” won — and the film won best original score. The Lion King is also a popular Broadway show and is becoming a liveaction remake being released this July.

Toy Story 1995’s “Toy Story” is the first Disney film released through Pixar Animation Studios, and the first full-length solely computer-animated movie. The story follows a young boy whose toys come to life when humans aren’t around, particularly the rivalry and ultimate friendship that form between Woody, a cowboy doll, and Buzz Lightyear, space ranger toy. The film is one of Pixar’s most successful, leading to two popular sequels and “Toy Story 4,” which will be released this June. “Toy Story” was also nominated for best original screenplay, best original score and best original song — “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” — at the Academy Awards. The film also won a special achievement award. Naples, Fla., junior Lauren Mulford appreciated growing up with the “Toy Story” movies.

“I am really excited for “Toy Story 4” — I remember watching the first one over and over when I was younger,” Mulford said. “Watching the following sequels, it felt like Andy was growing up with me too. I think the Toy Story movies offer an entertaining experience with humor and emotions that both children and adults enjoy.”

Pocahontas, Mulan and Tarzan

These three films released in 1995, 1998 and 1999 respectively were also incredibly popular films in the ’90s and today. Mulan in particular is praised for its strong heroine and memorable soundtrack and is rumored to become a live-action remake within the next few years. Mulford’s favorite ’90s Disney film to grow up with was Mulan because she stood out from other female disney characters.

“My favorite film from this decade is Mulan because of her bravery,” Mulford said. “She joined the army in disguise to protect her father and become a great hero.

Her boldness to do what was right for her family and country is inspiring to me.”

Pocahontas and Tarzan both won Academy Awards for best original song (Pocahontas’ “Colors of the Wind” and Tarzan’s “You’ll Be in my Heart”). All three films are examples of classic Disney animation and contain popular storylines, songs and characters.

Honorable Mentions

Other popular animated Disney films were released in the ’90s, including “Hercules,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “A Bug’s Life” and “Toy Story 2.” Several live action films have also stood the test of time, including Halloweentown, Hocus Pocus and the Parent Trap.

Whether it be the catchy soundtracks, relatable characters or attention to detail in animation, ’90s Disney films prove to be some of the company’s most successful and memorable, setting the stage for popular movies to come over the next decade. Mulford remembers these films from childhood as possessing courageous characters and containing lessons about finding your way and growing up.

“These classic Disney films tend to frame around a character who overcomes great challenges with confidence,” Mulford said. “They harness the spirit of adventure and being true to yourself. The life lessons learned in them are still powerful.”

Thomas Moran | Arts and Life Editor

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Sexual assault and the #Me oo movement 1991 vs. 2018 BRIDGET SJOBERG Staff Writer The nomination of a new Supreme Court justice is already an important event for our country, but it can become a national controversy when the process is interrupted by accusations of sexual misconduct or assault.

This occurrence has happened twice in our system — first in 1991 and again in 2018.

The first allegation occurred when Justice Clarence Thomas was nominated to replace Justice Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court in 1991. Thomas was a conservative judge nominated by President George H.W. Bush. University professor Anita Hill accused Thomas of workplace harassment while he was her supervisor at two government agencies.

Thomas denied all claims and the Senate ended up confirming him as a justice on the court.

The more recent controversy was in 2018 over the nomination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, nominated by President Donald Trump.

Psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault, citing that the incident occurred while the two were at a high school party. After hearings and an investigation, Kavanaugh was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.

Both women told their accounts of the sexual misconduct before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and both sparked intense controversy not only over whether the men were fit for their Supreme Court positions, but it also raised conversation about how to handle sexual assault accusations and give both sides a chance to tell their version of the story.

Baylor journalism senior lecturer Maxey Parrish mentioned how the #MeToo movement beginning in late 2017 influenced the conversation about sexual assault leading up to the Kavanaugh hearings in 2018.

“The prevailing currents in our society impacted the way people reacted to the Kavanaugh hearings,” Parrish said. “Victims of sexual assault have become more vocal, and there’s been more awareness of it. I think there has also been increased instances of it. As a result, it has gone from a back-burner issue to a front-burner issue. The hearings focused a lot of attention on the greater issue not just of a man and a woman and the hearings, but on the whole #MeToo movement in the country.”

Austin junior Tanner Wright also sees the #MeToo movement as having played an important role in the Kavanaugh hearings, separating them from those of Hill and Thomas.

“The difference between then and now is the #MeToo movement. Sure — other powerful people have been accused and even charged, but many of those were Hollywood men or business leaders who have already had their heyday. Now Justice Kavanaugh, having been nominated to the bench, will be able to influence the American political landscape for years to come,” Wright said.

Wright also sees the prominence of social media in our society today as having influenced the conversations surrounding Kavanaugh’s nomination when compared to those occurring about Thomas.

“When Thomas was accused in 1991 by Anita Hill, there was nowhere for everyday people to share their opinions widely online — people just listened to the radio or watched the news,” Wright said. “In 2018, people took sides and made sure others knew which side they had chosen, thanks to Facebook and Twitter.”

Parrish also viewed social media as an important outlet for sparking conversation around the role of sexual assault during the Kavanaugh hearings, and the internet as allowing people to receive live updates and news coverage.

“Everyone has a voice now, and there’s a twoway flow of information. These things are all brand new — many social movements, #MeToo included, have utilized these things. The realtime issue, the fact that you can watch and comment on things and that everyone is part of the discussion is something so brand new— we’re still trying to wrap our heads around what all that means,” Parrish said.

Parrish saw that a major difference between the Hill/Thomas and Blasey Ford/Kavanaugh controversies came as a result of the #MeToo movement, making the topic of sexual assault one being brought up and discussed more often, despite personal opinions relating to the Kavanaugh hearings.

“In the 1990s, we didn’t have as great an awareness of the issue of sexual assault and there was in many circles a prevailing attitude that this is just a guy thing or that boys will be boys,” Parrish said. “There was an idea that these things are OK because they’re guys. I don’t know what happened or didn’t happen with Thomas or Kavanaugh, but I think the prevailing attitude today is that this is not OK — you can’t let people get away with things like this, and we’re recognizing that this is not just a thing guys do.

It’s healthier that victims are coming forward and speaking up.”

Parrish also recognized that another difference between the 1991 and 2018 situations was that the Kavanaugh hearings were more political and didn’t revolve as much around

whether he was a qualified candidate for his nominated position.

“Some people wanted to use the Kavanaugh situation as a political tool to attack the president. As I recall, the Clarence Thomas hearings were more about him and how fit he was to be a Supreme Court justice. In a sense, the Kavanaugh hearings were about Trump.

You obviously don’t want to diminish what the accusations were because I don’t know what did or did not happen, but there’s no doubt that we live in more highly polarized political times than we did in the ‘90s. We’ve developed a culture that says if you and I disagree politically, you’re a bad person — we demonize the other side,” Parrish said.

Parrish said he hopes younger generations growing up in this politically polarizing time don’t normalize the sense of divisiveness and can work to reach common ground and compromise despite differences of opinion.

“Something that concerns me as a professor who is working with young people is that this is the only world some students are aware of — they’ve never experienced a time when leaders in the House andSenate could be completely at odds with each other but also get together later and be friends. Just because we disagree doesn’t mean you’re a terrible person, but young people today have only seen that. I hope what they’re able to do is undo the ill will — it’s bad for the country because democracy is not about one side getting its w a y,” Parrish said.

Wright said he sees current nominations and hearings, particularly the recent Kavanaugh hearings, as relevant for college students to be aware of, as he said events occurring now will shape the nation for upcoming years.

“The hearings were absolutely relevant for a college student because a Supreme Court nominee like Kavanaugh can potentially serve on the bench for decades,” Wright said. “By the time Justice Kavanaugh retires from the bench, today’s college students could be parents or even grandparents. When a justice wields the power of constitutional review, he or she is shaping the American future for years to come.”

Parrish said that controversies like those of Hill/Thomas and Blasey Ford/Kavanaugh point to the fact that our nation still needs to make progress when it comes to the issue of sexual assault, regardless of political opinion or which involved parties you personally believe.

“Without judging what Kavanaugh may or may not have done, I will say with certainty that we still have a long way to go,” Parrish said. “We need to create a culture in which people are not objectified or viewed purely as things to use — people need to be fully respected regardless of their gender. We still have a long way to go, but we should be ambitious and try.”

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Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford testified against then nominated judges for theSupreme Court Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh in 1991 and 2018.

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Waco’s changing reputation MADALYN WATSON Staff Writer Today, Waco is known for the triumphs and controversies of Baylor, a mass of Baptist churches as well as the Magnolia Silos and all the current and future offshoots of Chip and Joanna Gaines’s popularity.

In 1993, there was a much more sinister following making the name Waco known to people around the world: the Branch Davidians.

In an article titled “10 Things you may not know about Waco” published in Feb. 2018 on PBS Frontline, all of the points listed pertain to the standoff between the federal government and the Branch Davidians, led

by Vernon Howell, who is also known as David Koresh.

Current Baylor students don’t remember the day referred to as “Black Monday” by the Waco TribuneHerald, the infamous ATF raid or the 51-day standoff that ended in a fire. But Waco residents who lived here during the ‘90s remember.

Robert Darden is a professor of journalism, public relations and new media, former editor for both the Waco-Tribune Herald and Billboard magazine as well as the author and co-author of several books, including “Mad Man in Waco” with Brad Bailey.

“I had done some work independently on the history of the group, which goes back to the 1930s in Waco,” Darden said.

The Davidians originated in the Seventhday Adventist church in 1931, when Victor Houteff formed his own group. They moved to the outskirts of Waco and established Mount Carmel on 189 acres of land by Lake Waco, an article published in 1987 by the Waco-Tribune Herald said. A fraction of the group later became the Branch Davidians, led by David Koresh.

“A day or two after the initial assault, my agent talked to the publisher and said, ‘I think there’s a book here,’ and part of it was because Koresh used to stop by my office when I worked at the Waco newspaper, so I had a longer relationship with them,” Darden said.

Darden was the gospel music editor for Billboard magazine in New York at the time, so Koresh would give him cassette tapes of the music he made with his band and ask him to show it to music producers.

Koresh would invite Darden to eat meals and play music with him and his followers at the compound, but Darden never accepted his offer.

“I’d seen him around town, like a lot of people had. He would be teaching,” Darden said.

“I remember we were at the Dairy Queen on Bosque and

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WACO’S REPUTATION Mount Carmel was the subject of the Waco Siege in 1993. The Branch Davidian compound was set aflame by leader David Koresh, killing 76 people.

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from the Siege to Magnolia New Road one time. And he’s there eating burgers and milkshakes and they’re all sitting there, apparently for hours, with no water, just sitting.”

His devout followers believed him to be Christ, but a sinful messiah.

The Waco-Tribune Herald wrote a seven-part series called “The Sinful Messiah,” published Feb. 27 to March 1 of 1993. The paper’s investigation claims that Vernon (Koresh) physically, psychologically and sexually abused the children on the compound and that Koresh claimed a divine right to all the daughters and wives in the compound as his concubines, in what he called the House of David.

“But he was the sinful messiah, so he took all their sins, so he did everything so they didn’t have to, including their wives and daughters,” Darden said.

Darden said that he called Brad Bailey, a freelance writer outside of Dallas, because they wanted the book finished and published quickly, when the group was still the object of worldwide discussion.

“While I was working on getting it up from the beginning right up to the assault, Brad took it from the assault to the fire and beyond,” Darden said.

Rod Aydelotte, the current photo chief for the Waco-Tribune Herald and a part-timer lecturer in the journalism, public relations and new media, was one of the photographers on the scene.

“There was the compound a couple of yards in front of us and there was a ATF sniper, and so we were sort of caught in the middle,” Aydelotte said.

During the 45-minute battle, four agents and two Davidians were killed, and 15 agents and three cult members were wounded. Koresh said that he was one of the wounded and his 2-yearold daughter was killed, according to the WacoTribune Herald.

“It was pretty early and it was pretty cold and we had bullets flying around for a while, and then it went up and they were flying around and it rained,” Aydelotte said.

During a 51-day standoff, Koresh gradually allowed about 30 followers to leave. On April 19, 1993, the standoff ended when the FBI began spraying tear gas into the complex, inciting the Davidians to set fires to the compound, which killed 80 members, including children and their leader, Koresh.

“We were the center of the universe as far as the media for quite a long time and then something else comes along,” Aydelotte said.

The compound as well as the city was the focus of the media, even though the compound was approximately 13 miles outside of Waco.

“It really had nothing to do with Waco, even though some of the people worked in town, but they kept to themselves,” Darden said, “It just seemed to me to be unfair that the town would be tarred with this.”

Darden said that the tragedy led to some infamy associated with Waco and the city’s name was turned into a verb, referring to the number of casualties caused by the raid and fire.

“They turned it into a verb, you know, ‘Don’t Waco us,’” Darden said. “When something like the FBI would get into a hostage situation, they would say, ‘Let’s make sure this doesn’t turn into another Waco’ and ‘Don’t Waco this and attack, and end up with a lot of casualties,’” Darden said.

The Waco siege was not the only tragedy to tarnish Waco’s reputation. A tornado outbreak in 1953 took the lives of 114 people in Waco and debunked an old legend that the land Waco is on is immune to severe tornados. One of the newer buildings at the time, now the ALICO building, was one of the only left standing, as well as the Dr Pepper museum, which sustained damages.

In more recent Waco history, on May 17, 2015, a dispute between biker gangs in a Twin Peaks restaurant left killed nine people and injured 18.

Referred to as “the bloodiest motorcycle gun battle in Texas history” by an article in the Houston Chronicle, the dispute that caused the shootout is still unclear.

About 25 miles from Waco, President George W. Bush’s Prairie Chapel Ranch, where he entertained visiting dignitaries, gave Waco more of a positive attraction from residents and visitors alike.

However, the real change in Waco’s reputation came from a reality television show on HGTV. “Fixer Upper” began in 2013, starring Chip and Joanna Gaines, about home design and renovation based in Waco.

The popularity of the television show led them to create the Magnolia Silos location of their Magnolia Market and then later Magnolia Table, their first restaurant in 2018. All of their businesses now attract an influx of tourists from all over the world. They are even planning to open a coffee shop in the near future.

“It wasn’t until I think the rise of Magnolia and the success of not just Waco, but all the towns around I-35 when that started happening in Waco and New Braunfels and these other towns became a desirable place to live,” Darden said.

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MADISON DAY Assistant News Editor March 1, 2015 — the day that changed it all. This is the day all 236 episodes of Friends were made available on Netflix, which ultimately sparked a cultural phenomenon in our generation.

Friends first aired in 1994 and ended in 2004, a time when we were just wee little ones roaming around the playground carrying our beanie babies or sitting on the couch playing leap frog. Along with “Seinfeld,” “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and other ‘90s classics, these shows were iconic in their time and many, in particular Friends, have plausibly remained just as popular now.

“Hi, I’m Chandler, I make jokes when I’m uncomfortable.”

Chandler You can ask almost any 20-something, and they are bound to have seen every episode or at least have watched multiple Friends marathons on “Nick at Nite.” According to a poll surveying around 100 college students, 70% of students have seen every episode of Friends and around 40% of them have seen every episode more than one time.

Just recently, “Friends” fanatics broke out in a tizzy when they saw the January 2019 expiration date on the Friends page on Netflix. Jacksonville, Fla. sophomore

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“When I saw that they were taking friends off Netflix, I was super bummed. It’s my go to show that I rewatch in order or just pick random episodes to watch depending on my mood. So, if it was no longer on Netflix, I wouldn’t

OPINION be able to do that which would’ve been awful,” Reese said.

Atlanta sophomore Jenna Cwalina was also shocked by this news, but she wasn’t too upset since a lot of the shows air on television daily.

“I wasn’t going to go tweet about it or anything, but I was shocked. The good thing though is that a lot of the episodes are on TV or YouTube a lot, so I wasn’t terribly upset,” Cwalina said.

But shortly after the outcry, Netflix announced Friends would be available for at least another year on their platform. However, this came at a price for Netflix. According to the New York Times, Netflix spent

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around $100 million dollars to keep the hit show on their platform, as opposed to the $30 million a year they had previous paid to Warner Media to stream the show.

So why is this ‘90s sitcom so popular today with us millennials and GenZ? Well for one, we can all relate to the themes of love and friendship and everything that comes with it. It’s a carefree and joyful show filled with everyday life moments.

“My favorite thing about friends is the

“ Welcome to hte real world! It sucks but you are going to love it.”

Monica lightheartedness of it. It is funny and very much about friends just living their day-to-day lives together. I think people in our generation love friends so much because it’s so timeless. The issues and subjects of the show are not issues and subjects of the ‘90s but are relevant to

young adults today in their 20s. I think it’s entertaining for people in our generation to watch something that they can relate to and find humor in, but it’s also so different from our lives — sans the online universe we live in today,” Reese said.

In addition to the fun, lightheartedness of the show, it’s also a nostalgia that we’re attracted to when we watch Friends. Whereas we can relate to the basic themes of the show, there’s also this element of fantasy present. A time where there were no smartphones, no portable computers or Apple Watches. When you went to a coffee shop, you just sat there and chatted with friends. You didn’t hop right on your phone while you sipped your latte, ignoring all the humans around you.

In a way, I think we folks in our 20s are almost yearning for that again — a simpler time when you didn’t have to worry about how many likes you got on your post or keeping your snapchat streaks alive.

Friends is about human connection. It is about everyday human relationships, and with the growth of

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technology we have lost a lot of those little moments of human connection that Friends often displays.

For example, it is far less likely that you’ll meet a new lover while you pick up your morning coffee these days, because typically as you’re in line or waiting on your drink, you’re engrossed in whatever is on your mobile device.

Friends is classic, timeless and relatable, but it also gives us a glimpse into the seemingly simple life in the ‘90s.

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REWON SHIMRAY Cartoonist Bratz, an American line of fashion dolls, acted as a staple in the childhoods of many kids born in ’90s. Bratz Dolls were characterized by oversized facial features, street wear and ethnic ambiguity.

Isis Lewis, social work graduate student at Baylor University, said she grew up in a “Bratz-centric family.”

She watched the Bratz TV series and movies, bought the Bratz: Passion for Fashion Game and played the online Bratz Games for Girls.

“I don’t think there was anything in the market at the time that had that type of representation, so when we [my family] found that, we really bought into it,” Lewis said.

Tyrha Lindsey-Warren, clinical assistant professor of marketing at Baylor, said Bratz were part of the beginning of toys reflecting equal representation of the diversity of the United States.

“Bratz, being a multimillion-dollar business, helped other people see that if they expanded what they were offering, they would bring in more money,” Lewis said. “It is good for society and good for business; it’s a win-win.”

MGA Entertainment Toys released the Bratz line in 2001 and sold more than $20 million in dolls within the first six months, according to a study in the Journal of Business Cases and Application. The study also reported that Mattel, the creators of Barbie, introduced My Scene dolls in 2002 to compete with Bratz.

Similar to Bratz, the new multi-ethnic My Scene dolls had larger heads, fuller lips, makeup and high-fashion clothing.

According to Lewis, Bratz paved the way for more companies to manufacture representative products. Today, society is “in an age of understanding how much representation means,” Lewis said.

“Any brand knows that if you’re trying to have a strong ROI

dolls brought diverse representation [Return on Investment] for your business, you need to understand every characteristic of your target market,” Lindsey-Warren said. “Your target market isn’t just domestic; you have to have a global worldview.”

Lindsey-Warren said social media has allowed consumers, particularly people of color who have not traditionally had a platform for expression, to be more vocal in their demands to corporations.

“People of color just really connect in an authentic and meaningful way when they see images of themselves versus Caucasian people or the general market, because there are just so few positive images out there,” Lindsey-Warren said.

A classic study conducted by psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark in the 1940s tested children’s racial perceptions using dolls that were identical except in color. In the “doll tests,” African-American children preferred white dolls and assigned positive attributes to it. Their findings showed how discrimination instilled a sense of inferiority among AfricanAmerican children.

“Representations in media, toys, things of that nature, have a major impact on how especially young girls see themselves — their selfesteem, their sense of beauty,” Lindsey-Warren said.

Lewis said she grew up in a “very white area” in Frisco, so having a collection of Bratz dolls that looked like her — especially when the people around her didn’t — provided a helpful escape.

In social work, particularly for children and families, Lewis has studied the instrumental role pretend play has on the development of children. Bratz strengthen the developmental benefits of pretend play by providing a doll that people of color can personally associate with.

“If you’re telling stories with your dolls, you want to be able to tell stories about yourself,” Lewis said.

One of the tools of pretend play is the ability to process traumatic events, Lewis said.

“Having a level of control over what’s going on [in pretend play] allows [children] to regain a sense of certainty,” Lewis said. “When you experience trauma, especially as a child, you have very little control over the situation.

Helping them regain a sense of control is something they can do through [pretend play] and retell in their own way and introduce new things into the story.”

Pretend play can be used to project stories about their perceived future. The Bratz dolls’ fashion and makeup allow children to imagine themselves as adults through the dolls, Lewis said.

“Part of the thing about dolls is it allows children to project stories about their future, so you do want a doll that is fashionable and wears makeup, because those are things you want when you’re an adult,” Lewis said.

The diversity of Bratz dolls extended past ethnicity to varying senses of fashion, personalities and interests. Girls could choose which of the four main Bratz friends — Yasmin, Cloe, Sasha and Jade — to identify with.

“It gave you options, versus Barbie who is one person,” Lewis said. “It made different types of personality and dress and interests OK.” Lewis said she worries about the trends of children moving away from physical play and toward technology-based entertainment.

Lewis said a loss of pretend play will result in changes in social interaction because acting out friendships and relationships with toys is often how children model their social behaviors.

“The wave of parents now grew up with technology, and I think that’s changing how they raise their kids as the ’90s kids start to become parents,” Lewis said. “If children are given the option to play, they will. It might be more of a shift of parenting than what children want to do, because things that are developmentallyappropriate stay so.”

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The Evolution of Baylor football JESSIKA HARKAY Sports Writer

The early ’90s were a special time for Texas football.

Professionally, from 1993-1996, the Dallas Cowboys won three Super Bowls under head coach Jimmy Johnson. For Baylor, the Bears in 1990-1995 were only below .500 once and went to three bowl games.

Under head coach Grant Teaff, who coached at Baylor for 21 years and retired in the early ’90s, the Bears went to eight bowl games, two of which were back-to-back in 1991 and 1992. After Teaff ’s retirement, under head coach Chuck Reedy, the Bears clinched the Southwest Conference title and made an appearance in the 1994 Alamo Bowl against Washington State.

Though the early and mid ’90s marked points of success and momentum in the program, the Bears would later take a dip and struggle – only winning nine of 35 games in a four-year period.

After Teaff and Reedy’s early ’90s success, the Bears would undergo three coaching changes in a ten-year time frame from 1997-2007. Unable to break .500 until 2010, the Baylor football program wasn’t the same.

Looking back at the program’s history, there are many parallels in correlation to our Bears now. The early ’90s success mirrors the Art Briles era, specifically from 2010-15 where the Bears made a bowl every year and averaged a .731 winning percentage.

The Bears’ 2010s success would be halted after the 2012-2016 sexual assault scandal came to light.

An entirely new coaching staff and reconstruction of the program would leave the Bears to fall to 1-11 in the 2017 season. Similar to the 1996-1999 seasons that averaged a .205 winning percentage, the Bears would struggle as they adapted to a new program.

Unlike the late ’90s, the Bears had a quick turnaround, going 7-6 the following season and pulling off a win in the Texas Bowl under head coach Matt Rhule.

Teaff said there are many similarities between the team he coached and the one that is developing now.

“I’m a fundamentalist, so we were very very intent about penalties, not getting penalties, not turning the ball over, those

basic things. I see and sense that from Coach Rhule,” Teaff said.

“I think there’s many similarities between their philosophy and the philosophy that we had. The relationship we have with the players seems to be very strong with Coach Rhule and his staff as well. The demanding of excellence in the classroom and in the community and on the football field seems to be very very similar.”

On the other hand, unlike the Bears now, the 1996 team had to adapt from moving from the Southwest Conference to the Big 12, ultimately resulting in newer opponents and different competition. Jerry Hill, Baylor’s director of sports journalism, who has been covering Baylor sports for over 30 years, described the shift in conferences as the main reason for the ’90s dip.

Another point of change was the shift from being football oriented to focusing more on academics. In the late ’90s, the program was more directed toward being a successful athlete rather than a student. Hill especially noted the Reedy era for a time where athletics were focused solely on sports.

“One of the knocks against Coach Reedy is that he recruited a bunch of guys that never got eligible,” Hill said. “There were a lot of guys that would never make it in school.”

One thing Rhule has made clear in his coaching style is emphasizing school first.

“One of the things I’m proud of is we’re not one of those schools that cluster guys into one major. Our guys are in over 33 different majors,” Rhule said. “I don’t ever want a person to make a decision between class and practice, and if they do, they’re going to pick class. I don’t want them to shy away from a major because they can’t do it.”

Something that didn’t change throughout years, though, is the famous Texas Christian school rivalry.

The battle of the Christian schools – Baylor and Texas Christian University – dates back to 1899 and is a fan favorite. Throughout 19901995, the Bears defeated the Frogs in five of six matchups.

After joining separate conferences in 1996, the matchup took a hiatus and didn’t resurface until 2006. Since 2006, the Frogs have won eight of 11 matchups and lead the rivalry 55-52-7 as of 2018.

Going forward, Teaff gave a few pieces of advice for the team that were the key to success during his era.

“It boils down to four basic things. I call Branson Hardcastle | Multimedia Journalist them mind controls, because as humans we can control many aspects of our lives [...] Number “The biggest thing was adjusting to the Big 12. I think there one is attitude. You have to approach life with a positive attitude. was a stretch of where they didn’t win more than one conference It can’t just be one day; it has to be every day, ” Teaff said. “The game until maybe the late 2000s when Coach Briles came in,” Hill second one is total effort. Whatever you do, whether it’s in the said. “Obviously the dip in 2017 was somewhat the same thing classroom or city streets or football field, if you give total effort, with coaching changes and just everything the program has gone every way on every play, then it’s going to be very hard for you not through, losing recruits. There was a little bit of that in the ’90s. to be successful. The third thing is self-discipline, self-control. We ... In 2017, that was of course Matt Rhule’s first year and there as human beings have that. [...] The fourth thing I believe in is the was some adjustments in there, as well going into a completely power of love. [...] If you’re going to play the game, you have to different style in offense and defense.” love the game.”

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Kim Mulkey, Scott Drew and the Big 12: How Baylor b-ball went from overshadowed to elite DJ RAMIREZ Sports Writer Basketball in the ’90s was characterized by larger-than-life athletes and the birth of a serious sneaker obsession.

It was a decade marked by major moments on the hardwood, beginning with the assembly of the 1992 U.S. national team, more commonly known as the “Dream Team,” who won the gold at the Barcelona Olympics after steamrolling their international competition with a 8-0 record.

It was the era of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, Larry Bird, Scottie Pippen and many other Hall of Famers.

On the college level, Kentucky continued to build on its basketball legacy and Duke was just beginning to grow theirs.

But for Baylor University, a school in the heart of Texas football country, basketball was not that big of a deal.

Baylor journalism senior lecturer Maxey Parrish, who worked as the sports information director for Baylor athletics and managed media relations for all of the sports programs at the university from 1980 to 2000, said basketball really took the backseat during the ’90s.

“I think it was more of a regional sport then. Very popular in the Northeast. Popular on the west coast, Midwest,” Parrish said. “But the South and Southwest, football country you know, and in many cases unfortunately basketball was kind of an afterthought. It was just kind of something you had to do.

So back then it was much more regional in nature.”

For the Bears, the ’90s began with their only postseason appearance of the decade, their third under Gene Iba, who had coached them since 1985. Baylor was awarded a spot in the NIT but lost in the first round 84-75 to Mississippi State.

The biggest thing that happened for Baylor basketball in the ’90s was the switch from the Southwest Conference into the Big 12. Baylor Athletics assistant director for broadcasting John Morris, more commonly known as the “Voice of the Bears,” said it was a tough move since the Bears were “not at a good point.”

“Moving into the Big 12, we were the dregs of the Big 12 when we first started and unfortunately, in football and basketball,” Morris said. “So here’s all these new schools and new fans, who were Big 8 fans and were just discovering the new schools, and they look at Baylor who was like, you know, the cellar dweller. Which at that point we were. So it was unfortunate timing in that respect, that we were so far down in those two major sports as we went into the Big 12.”

A big reason the program struggled during that time was the fact that it had three coaching changes over the course of the decade. Iba left in ’92 and was replaced by Darrel Johnson, who was fired two years later for breaking NCAA rules. Harry

Miller replaced him and was tasked with ushering the team into a new conference. The Bears finished ninth in their first year in the Big 12 with a 6-10 record and only improved to 8-8 in their second year. Dave Bliss then took over the program at the end of the ’90s and into the new millennia, but was also forced to resign due to another scandal that involved an NCAA investigation.

But two major things have changed for Baylor basketball: stability and funding.

According to Parrish, the latter is what’s changed the game the most in the past 20 years.

“There’s a far greater emphasis and a lot more money at stake today than there was in the ’90s. Basketball, particularly in this part of the country, really took a back seat to football.

Football was king,” Parrish said. “But then basketball in this part of the country began to get better and better, and so schools started to put more emphasis on it, put more money into programs and things began to change tremendously as a result of the funding and the emphasis.”

Comparing things to how they are now, less money meant a smaller coaching staff. It meant traveling by bus anywhere you went instead of taking a chartered flight. When Parrish first became Baylor’s SID in the ’80s, the coaching staff for the basketball team was composed of two people. Then-head coach Jim Haller was also in charge of concessions at Floyd Casey Stadium during football games, and his assistant coach served as the academic adviser for every single athlete at the university.

Now there’s more funding in athletics, and not just by the schools but by outside sponsors such as Nike and Mountain Dew, there’s more opportunity for a larger staff to help run the program.

Which brings up the second biggest change in Baylor men’s basketball: the hiring of Scott Drew in 2003.

In the 16 years since Drew became head coach, he has mounted one of the most daunting and successful rebuilds in college basketball. More importantly, he has brought stability, which according to Morris has been a huge impact on the men’s program.

“From Baylor’s perspective we have great stability now. You know Coach Drew has been here 16 years. [...] There’s been very little change in his staff during that time,” Morris said.

“So that consistency of the staff has been really, really big. To me every time you change coaches, you take maybe one step forward and two steps back, until that coach gets established in recruiting and everything. So just to have the stability of Coach Drew for the past 16 years, that’s the biggest thing.”

In contrast to Baylor, the ’90s were significantly successful for Drew. While working as assistant coach under his father Homer Drew at Valparaiso, he helped lead the Crusaders to

nine Mid-Con titles and was named National Recruiter of the Year in 1999. His younger brother, Bryce Drew, was also playing for Valpo late in the decade and is responsible for one of the most shocking wins in NCAA history when he hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to complete the a 70-69 upset of fourth-seeded Ole Miss to the 13th seeded Crusaders.

Morris said the Drew family has recently been named one of the top three coaching families in college basketball.

“The coaching Drews are the third winningest coaching family of all time. Like the Ibas, the Suttons are number two and the Drews are number three, so that’s pretty impressive for the Drew family,” Morris said.

If men’s basketball was taking a backseat to football in the ’90s, then women’s basketball was basically nonexistent.

The Lady Bears recorded losing seasons in 13 of the 17 years prior to the Kim Mulkey era. If Drew had to rebuild the men’s program, Mulkey basically invented the women’s program.

When Morris was a student at Baylor, the women would play before the men and the only people who would show up were the fans who got to the stadium early in order get a good seat for the men’s games.

“You know, there just wasn’t a fan base for women’s basketball, but Coach Mulkey’s really cultivated that fan base and has a very, very loyal following. That’s a huge difference from the 90s till now with women’s basketball,” Morris said.

The thing that has changed for women’s basketball is not only that the players have more opportunity to develop their skill and athleticism, but the level of coaching is on another level. In the 19 years that she has been in Waco, Mulkey has coached the Lady Bears to 10 regular season conference titles as well as 10 conference tournament championships.

Parrish thinks Mulkey’s coaching has really been the difference in the growth of women’s basketball at Baylor.

“Kim Mulkey could coach a men’s team. There’s no doubt about it. She’s a great coach,” Parrish said. “Maybe of all sports, the greatest coach in Baylor history. They do a phenomenal job and it shows. Now they’re number one in the country.”

The women’s program has two national titles under Mulkey and is making its fourth trip to the NCAA Final Four this year. According to Parrish, women’s basketball is a “true team game” and the Lady Bears exemplify this by the way they play unselfishly on the court, and that might be the key to Mulkey’s team winning another national title this year.

Taking a look back at where the game was and where it is now, the future seems bright for the sport as a whole, especially at Baylor. Basketball in general continues to gain popularity.

At Baylor, the expectations for success are higher, but so is the quality of play.

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Baylor’s tuition has outpaced U.S. inflation since 1990 MATTHEW MUIR Staff Writer With the cost of attending Baylor full time set to yet again increase for the upcoming academic year, this time to nearly $43,000, it’s worth noting that Baylor hasn’t always been this expensive. Baylor students today pay substantially more to attend than students did in the ’90s, and in some cases, this difference can be felt across generations.

Debbie Gerik graduated from Baylor with a degree in elementary education in December 1999. Now her daughter, Kaitlyn, attends Baylor and majors in psychology. Both are from Robinson.

Data on tuition, housing and other expenses is available through yearly Baylor Trends reports. These reports are compiled by Baylor’s Office of Institutional Research and Testing and are publicly available in pdf form through the Institutional Research and Testing section of the Baylor website. Each report spans a seven-year segment preceding its publication. The most recent available report covers fall 2012 through fall 2018, and the earliest spans fall 1991 through fall 1998.

During the ’90s, tuition increased from $185 per hour for fall 1991 to $355 per hour for fall 2000. While year-by-year tuition increases fluctuated, they were generally slightly below 8%, and the overall change represented an increase in tuition rates larger than 90% over this range.

Through the most recent available decade of data, fall 2009 through fall 2018, tuition increased by about 5.5% each year, and just over 60% overall. To Baylor’s credit, this lower percentage increase is not insignificant, but the overall dollar amount was far higher.

Tuition rose from $1,055 per hour to $1,716 per hour over this time.

Kaitlyn Gerik said the high cost was difficult to understand given the necessity of a college education in today’s society.

“You’re basically told you don’t have a choice but to go to college. It’s really weird to me that college would be so prohibitively expensive,” Kaitlyn Gerik said.

Meal plans and housing follow similar trends. Some changes, particularly to meal plans, make a direct comparison difficult, but using the examples listed in the Trends report they still jumped from $1,750 per semester in 1991 to $2,420 in 2000, and reached $6,297 by the last report.

Debbie Gerik said the cost increase was understandable, but she doesn’t think the degree of it is justified.

“You expect it to increase because the cost of everything has increased,” Debbie Gerik said. “I do think that it’s very difficult to afford tuition.”

Baylor’s tuition increases have outpaced U.S. inflation. According to data from The Balance, a finance website, inflation hasn’t exceeded 4.1% since 1990, and averaged about 2.5% from 1991-2000 and just under 2% from 2009-2018.

Some changes have been made to the tuition system since the ’90s that benefit students. Baylor instituted a flat-rate model of tuition for the 2002-2003 school year. The flat-rate model charges all full-time students the same rate on a yearly basis, and is based on the cost per hour for the 12 hours required to maintain full-time status. This flat rate system provides a better value to students who take more classes, as a student could take 18 hours for the same price as they’d pay for 12 (excluding any additional fees). With the current price per hour, this can save students upwards of $10,000 when taking the maximum allowed number of hours.

However, the flat-rate model isn’t a cure-all for high tuition. While it does act as a cap keeping costs under control, tuition prices continue to increase each year. Paying $41,194 for an academic year is significantly less expensive than the $60,000+ price tag students could potentially pay without the flat-rate model, but is still

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far more than the $25,320 students paid in 2009.

According to Debbie Gerik, scholarships are also far more accessible now than when she was at Baylor in the late ’90s.

“Scholarships were not available back then to the extent that they are now,” Debbie Gerik said. “I got a couple of small grants, and I can’t even tell you what they were.”

By contrast, Kaitlyn Gerik’s accomplishments in high school earned her a Provost’s Gold Scholarship, which she said covers about half the cost of her tuition.

She also saves money by living at

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home, while her mother lived in an apartment while at Baylor.

When asked if the cost of Baylor would be too high without her scholarship, both Kaitlyn Gerik and Debbie Gerik answered with certainty.

“Absolutely,” Kaitlyn Gerik said.

“If she didn’t have that scholarship, there’s no way we could have done it,” Debbie Gerik said. “It would have been impossible.”

Scholarships are also available to transfer students, though they don’t pay the same amount as the higher levels of scholarships for incoming freshmen.

Debbie Gerik transferred to Baylor in the fall of 1997 after taking classes at McLennan Community College, and said she averaged about 16 hours per semester before graduating in December 1999. Tuition for this time would have cost roughly $25,000.

Debbie Gerik said that this was considered a lot of money for college in the ’90s.

“Even whenever I was [at Baylor], we joked that we’re paying so much at Baylor to become an educator,” Debbie Gerik said.

Using the CPI inflation calculator to adjust for inflation, this would have been about $37,000 for five semesters at today’s dollar value. Less than the flat rate for a year today.

With today’s prices at Baylor, those five semesters would have been over $100,000.

Kaitlyn Gerik took dual credit classes in high school and summer classes at MCC, earning enough credits to put her on track to graduate in fall 2020, a semester early. She said even with the work she put in before coming to Baylor, the price is still cause for second thoughts.

“I think I went into Baylor thinking I didn’t have enough credits or courses to take at MCC to justify it, but I definitely should have done that,” Kaitlyn Gerik said. “It would have been cheaper; it would have been academically easier.”

Despite the doubts and financial burden, Kaitlyn Gerik said Baylor can offer something tuition money can’t buy.

“At this point I’ve had so many good experiences and met so many good people now I don’t know if I’d want to go back and do it differently because of the impact Baylor has made on my life and the people have made on my life,” Kaitlyn Gerik said.

Debbie Gerik also said that even with the high costs, a Baylor education is worth it.

“I think it was worth it both times,” Debbie Gerik said. “It’s a relatively small university and we trust the vision and the guidance of Baylor.”

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Baylor students continue to feel the influence of ’90s entertainment AVERY OWENS Contributor While most Baylor students weren’t born until the late ’90s, the television and movies that came out of that decade were still influential in growing up in the early 2000s. In fact, movies like “The Titanic”, “You Got Mail” or shows such as “Full House” or “Friends” are still circulating platforms like Netflix and prime-time television.

Mart freshman, Grace Boyer has vivid memories of how she usually started her day growing up. Her mornings would consist of eating PopTarts, getting ready for school, and watching ’90s cartoons.

“It was always a good day when ‘Rugrats’ was on,” Boyer remembered.

“The cartoons that studios come up with today can’t compare to the ones from the ’90s.”

Boyer is just one of many who were impacted by entertainment from the ’90s. Navasota sophomore, Katie Nowak, a film and digital media major, has many reasons why the 90s are so memorable to her.

“I love entertainment from the ’90s,” said Nowak. “The characters are well-developed and the stories are so good.”

Nowak said she is learning what makes a good movie, and the ’90s are a good reference to her studies.

“The stories and plot development were given a lot of thought back then,” she said. “That raised a standard in film.”

She said she believes movies from the ’90s were relatable and rich in culture references.

“When watching a film, you want to relate to the characters,” she said. She said she believes the 90s made this connection between screen and audience possible.

The 90s inspired Nowak to pursue a career in film.

“Whenever you watch a film from the ’90s, it gives you a specific feel and aesthetic,” Nowak explained. “That’s what makes me want to watch it. It is a sort of nostalgia. I want to incorporate this into my films.”

Nowak said she has noticed over the years that the focus of stories and plot has faded.

“As technology has grown, filmmakers have acquired new ways to tell stories. Filmmakers worry less about the story and they worry more about visual effects and presentation,” Nowak said.

This difference accounts for why Nowak she said she prefers films from the ’90s. Her favorites from the decade include “The Fugitive” and “The English Patient”.

“I love older films,” she said. “A film can be beautiful and have lots of special effects, but if it doesn’t have substance, it’s missing something.”

Boyer said she believes that today’s entertainment is less quality and tends to be the same thing repeated over and over again. She said she has always hoped that Rugrats would be rebooted.

“Today’s cartoons aren’t as glorious,” said Boyer. “I’ve always wished that they’d remake the show.”

A rebooting may be a possibility since Netflix recently rebooted “Full House” with “Fuller House” and Disney Channel continued “Boy Meets World” with “Girl Meets World”.

All differences aside, the ’90s have come and gone but according to Baylor students their influence lives on. From “Clueless” to the “Titanic”, so many recognizable movies came out of the decade. As for television, who hasn’t heard of “Friends” or “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?” Over 15 years later, the ’90s legacy continues.

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Baylor in the ’90s EMMA WHITAKER Reporter Imagine a campus of big hair, bow ties and Ray Bans.The ’90s at Baylor not only brought new styles, but also new ways of thinking, as a fresh collegiate identity was being formed. Controversial topics such as dancing on campus and technological advances like the first computer lab on campus arose within the decade.

Perhaps different from the settings of “Friends” and “Seinfeld,” Baylor in the ’90s was conservative and tradition saturated. Alumna and graduate of the class of 1995, Jonelle Tucker explains the mixture between traditional Baylor and national culture back in the ’90s.

“The culture was very Christian. People that didn’t go to church on Sundays would still put on dress clothes to go to the cafeteria. If you showed up wearing athletic clothes or a tank top, you were judged,” Tucker said.

Tucker explained how, besides All-University Sing, all dancing had to be off campus.

Orlando junior Kendall Wood said it is crazy to think how the Baptist culture did not allow dancing for 151 years.

“Culture is definitely different than it was back then. If dancing was seen as promiscuous, then it makes sense why Baylor, a Baptist university, would ban it. Baylor in some ways, wants to be known as a leading university, and anything conservative seems to be seen as backwards,” Wood said.

In 1996, however, Baylor held the first dance on campus. Alumna Kristi Mouse remembers that first dance.

“I was on the front page on the Lariat. The headline said ‘Dancing at Baylor’. I was so proud. That was my sophomore year. Helicopters flew over campus. It was a huge deal,” Mouse said.

Dances were not the only events Baylor was changing. Football events began to change as well.

“Fire Up, Dress Down campaign began to get people to dress down,” Tucker said.

“People were dressing so formal to football games, that Baylor started to promote casual football gear, like jerseys. This was back when the stadium was on Valley Mills.”

Mouse said it wasn’t until the ’90s that people started to dress a little more casual.

“People dressed so fancy back then. But I think the ’90s was the threshold from dressy to casual. I started to see for the first time people wearing pajama pants to school,” Mouse said.

Sorority life on campus has changed throughout the years as well. Mouse explains how sororities and fraternities ate lunch together often, marking their territory in specific areas on campus.

“We were raising money for the Panhellenic building at that time. It was built right after I graduated,” Mouse said. “Sororities were very a part of campus life, and getting lunch in the cafeteria was definitely social hour. Chi Omega would sit next to Kappa Sigma and Zeta. Sororities and fraternities would sit together to create a further sense of community.”

Yet, some situations never change. Mouse said the Baylor Police were strict on where you could park, the Noze Brothers still wrote satire, students loved to country dance at Melody Ranch on Thursday nights and freshman still jumped into the campus fountains at night.

As time passes Baylor forms its own collegiate identity still. Then Baylor President Robert Sloan aimed to make Baylor more well known among all races, religions and nationalities. Now 24 years later, Baylor feels different. Wood said that Linda Livingstone does a wonderful job combining traditional and modern mindsets into her leadership.

“I really appreciate Linda Livingstone. I think her Give Light campaign, and the way she communicates, like adding prayer to the Bear Walk, it has been clear though the little things that she is committed to her faith. It’s not like certain things are spelled out in the Bible all the time, so I think as long as Baylor is staying true to scripture, then students are open to interpretation in the grey areas,” Wood said.

According to Wood, Livingstone seems to combine her own dreams and passions for the university, to that of Baylor’s president in the ’90s, Robert Sloan. While much has changed since Baylor was in the ’90s Tucker says it still feels like home. It still feels like old Baylor.

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Greek life in the ‘90s Baylor’s Greek life then and now MORGAN HARLAN Staff Writer Greek Life is a prominent part of Baylor’s campus, with 25% of its student body involved in a sorority or fraternity. However, the abundance of students involved in the greek system isn’t new. In fact, in the ’90s, Greek Life was very much apart of Baylor’s culture. While social media had yet to exist, the Stacy Riddle Panhellenic building was a parking lot, and date event photos were taken on polaroid cameras students still wore their letters with pride. Looking back on Greek Life two decades ago, many things have changed on Baylor’s campus but, many traditions have sustained to today’s Greek culture and organizations.

Melanie Briscoe, joined Chi Omega on Baylor’s campus in the spring of 1990.

Briscoe was an active member until her graduation in 1994. Briscoe was a member of Chi O’s winning All-University Sing act and served as the historian and house manager. She currently serves as a faculty advisor for Baylor Chi Omega, runs the Tutoring Center in Sid Richardson and grew up in Waco because both of her parents were on Baylor faculty.

Briscoe’s member class was 54 women, which is quite smaller than the 100 plus sized pledge classes that are currently taken by Panhellenic chapters. She said that certain traditions such as Sing have practically remained the same, with crazy hair, makeup and dancing.

“Being a part of Greek life at Baylor allowed me to find identity in an organization that was working towards a greater good and a common goal,” Briscoe said. “I always wanted to represent Chi Omega in the highest form possible.”

Briscoe said that she has noticed

chapters fluctuate in terms of Sing and intramural performance throughout the years. In addition, Chi Omega’s room was in Alexander Hall. Briscoe said that recruitment would take a lot of manpower and time because everything was done by paper and girls had to walk to and from every sorority room, which were spread across campus.

Amy Hougen, a 1991 pledge member of Alpha Chi Omega had a pledge class of 50 women.

“We did Sing and homecoming floats and it was just as much work then as it is now,” said Hougen.

Hougen said that women received their bids by slipping them under their door rooms which is the biggest difference she sees in Greek life today at Baylor. Towards the end of her time at Baylor part of her Alpha Chi Omega dues went towards a Panhellenic building, which ended up paying off because Hougen’s daughter is now active in Greek life at Baylor.

“We did not have cameras or cellphones so instead of taking our own pictures a business called Flash would come to all the events and take pictures,” Hougen said.

“You would then go look at all the different pictures and decide what you wanted.”

Hougen said sorority women were referred to as “Baylor bow heads” because of the giant bows many women wore in their pony tails. Her roommates at Baylor were also involved in Greek life, one of them was a Zeta Tau Alpha and the other a Chi Omega.

Two of the chapters that were on campus in the ‘90s were Kappa Delta and Sigma Kappa but are no longer apart of Greek Life on Baylor’s campus. While recruitment has changed, Greek Life at Baylor still plays a large role in many students’ lives.

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Research shows that children are playing outside about half the amount of hours per week as their parents did. There’s been a shift in how children spend their free time to be increasingly on screens.

How do ’90s kid childhoods look different from today’s?

MICHELLE PEREZ Reporter

Since the ’90s, life has changed dramatically, especially for kids. It’s obvious on social media how people of our current generation are different than others. For example, ’90s kids grew up watching “The Land Before Time” and “Lizzie McGuire” and will most likely know the lyrics to “Baby One More Time” by Britney Spears.

Although the TV shows we reminisce over reveal our generation, another revealing difference between ’90s kids and kids growing up now is the amount of time spent online.

Due to having such sophisticated technology in their generation, children today are spending

less time outside and more time on social media such as Instagram.

National Trust research shows that current children are playing outside for an average of just over four hours a week while their parents played an average of 8.2 hours outside when they were children.

This means children are missing out on making mud pies, drawing with chalk, riding bikes and having face-to-face outdoor interactions with friends or neighbors.

Parents these days are struggling with getting children go out and play while parents in the ’90s struggled to get their children to come inside for dinner.

“Children these days only want to be glued to their phone,” said Maria Moreno, Dallas babysitter and parent. “If it’s not YouTube, it’s

video games.”

Atlanta sophomore Mason McBee reminisced about his time as a kid.

“I would go outside and play basketball for hours until my mom would drag me back inside for dinner,” McBee said. “She would get mad at me because I would stay out so late, and she was worried I would disturb our neighbors. It kinda sucks that kids these days don’t really want to go out and play sports anymore.”

Whether it was running through the sprinklers or sitting down to read Junie B. Jones, children in the ’90s spent much of their time off screens.

According to Tech Crunch, the average age for a child getting their first smartphone is now 10.3 years. ’90s kids will remember how the Backstreet Boys changed music and how the Spice Girls influenced relationships. Children these days will know all of the Ariana Grande’s songs and love life drama.

Schools have also changed since the ’90s.

When the teacher would roll out the large TV

and VCR, students knew it was going to be a movie day at school.

“I used to get so excited whenever they rolled in the huge TV,” said Joliet sophomore Hayden Wagner. “I knew it was ‘Bill Nye The Science Guy’ time.”

Children now are renting out iPads for the year and much of their school work and lectures are online.

Atlantic Technology Group explains that “as technology dominates the classroom, iPad rentals for schools are becoming more popular and beneficial.”

Instead of taking notes on paper and making arts and crafts in class, children are now given tablets and doing online activities.

“Technology and teaching was practically nonexistent in the ’90s,” said Irma Borrego, a third grade teacher from McAllen. “Today, many of the new teachers are able to do many different things using technology while making it fun for the students. In this way, they can cut their work in half allowing computer programs to grade assignments for them.”

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

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Angela Kinsey, a 1994 Baylor graduate, is best known for her portrayal of Angela Martin from the hit show “The Office,” which ran from 2005 to 2013. Kinsey’s role in the show was an accountant who had no sense of humor, judged her peers, was no-nonsense and the head of the party committee.

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Chip and Joanna Gaines are best known for their hit show “Fixer Upper,” where they help flip homes for couples in Waco. While at school, Chip Gaines started the Baylor Wash ‘N Fold, where he became known as the mother for college students away from home. Students would pay an entry fee of $150, which allowed them a certain number of pounds of laundry. They would give students duffel bags to bring their dirty laundry in, weigh it and have it clean and folded for them by the next day.

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The legacy of Kurt Cobain CAMERON STUART Radio Director Whether it be James Dean, John Lennon or Nelson Mandela, each generation has a voice and a face that they can point to and say: They spoke for us. For 1990s America, adolescents pushed back the blonde locks from their eyes and pointed to a man from suburban Seattle who was a prisoner to fame and didn’t even live to see half the decade.

Nonetheless, the ‘90s needed Kurt Cobain like humans need oxygen.

While the 1980s were a booming time for the music industry, singers and bands that ruled the pop charts usually lacked one critical component: skill.

While the decade became known for a bit of experimentation and ultimately the birth of hip hop, the industry was more focused on a new facet of entertainment that would change music forever: MTV and the music video. The quality of the song became overshadowed by who could wear the flashiest outfits or make the most well-choreographed video.

The ‘90s, on the other hand, saw music go back to its roots, revolving around bands who didn’t care nearly as much about their commercial image as they did about the genuineness of their music.

Acts like Oasis and Radiohead were being compared to the careless rock stars of yesteryear, but no band became more iconic than Nirvana. With grunge music being arguably the most popular new genre of the decade, Nirvana quickly became America’s most important band.

As Nirvana’s fame rose precipitously, Cobain’s face became more and more prominent and he became the most relatable star to young people in the country. As America left social and economic conservatism in the ‘80s, teenagers in the ‘90s were ready to regain their voice. What did they want to say?

They wanted everyone to know they didn’t give a damn. Cobain didn’t care what anyone thought of his haircut, his

voice, his clothes or his music. Grunge music was born in the garage and, if it were up to him, that is where it would have stayed. People were tired of the overflamboyance of the ‘80s and were much more content trading in the Brat Pack films for more contemporary teen manifestos like “Scream” and “Trainspotting.”

Students today, whether they grew up on grunge bands or not, can recognize Nirvana’s influence in the U.S. Charles Town, W. Va. junior David Craft reflected on what made Nirvana so popular all across America, not just in the Seattle grunge scene.

“I think people were so drawn to Cobain at that time because of how

different the sound was,” Craft said.

“Nirvana represented a great transition between hair metal to grunge that I feel inspired a lot of new age and alternative rock today.”

The underbelly of America was no longer concerned with big and burgeoning in the ‘90s, but rather elected for the macabre that would rock the establishment, which became popular in the ‘60s and ‘70s.

Cobain and Nirvana embodied the new age of anti-establishment better than anyone else in any form of entertainment at the time. Instead of making epic, moviestyle music videos a la “Thriller,” they made one with an old man crucifying himself

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while a young girl in a KKK outfit looked on. They made a song called “Rape Me,” had a massively successful album with a naked baby on the cover and played an hour and a half long concert for millions to watch on MTV, only to abandon their hit songs and play a set list of mostly covers.

If anyone was not caring what other people wanted, it was Kurt Cobain.

Whether they entirely agreed with his methods or not, America loved him. They loved his creativity, but more so they loved his gall.

Pocahontas, Ark., senior Kenneth Hanson has been a fan of Nirvana since he was young, and thinks the band came to fame at the perfect time.

“I think in the early ‘90s, teens just sort of felt displaced and that they didn’t really have their own voice in America,” Hanson said. “I think their grungy edge that they had really gave those kids their voice.”

Cobain almost single-handedly brought angst back to the mainstream.

The only thing more powerful than Cobain’s fame was his hatred for it.

Ultimately, the fame and fortune became Cobain’s downfall, driving him into a deep depression and his eventual suicide in 1994. While ascending into martyrdom, Cobain proved that the ‘90s and the young people of his generation were not going to be satisfied with what was already determined to be “cool.”

The kids who grew their hair out and were shunned to their own garages to get stoned in the ‘80s became the ones that defined the ‘90s and have solidified their spots on the social totem pole ever since.

As we look back into the ‘90s, we will remember Kurt Cobain not as the man who had a hit called “Rape Me” or had child pornography for his album artwork.

We will remember him as the man who told an entire generation of misunderstood rebels labeled as “ne’er do wells” and “dirtbags” to come as they are, giving the silent majority a loud, rugged voice ever since.

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Some ’90s stars still shine while others could not survive OPINION GRETA GOULD Reporter The ’90s brought about celebrities still popular today – those who have stood the test of time throughout the past 20 or so years. On the other hand, there are also celebrities who either crashed and burned after the ’90s or slowly faded away as time went on.

Music The ’90s were home to boy bands, rock bands, girl groups and so many more influential artists who helped mold music into a more modern sound. Groups such as Nirvana, Goo Goo Dolls, Counting Crows, TLC, Radiohead, The Cranberries, Backstreet Boys, Destiny’s Child, Foo Fighters, Spice Girls, Matchbox Twenty and NSYNC paved the way.

However, not all of these groups could last through the decades. The Spice Girls, NSYNC and Destiny’s Child have all disbanded. Some members of these groups have gone on to be successful on their own in various ways. Victoria Beckham, Posh Spice of the Spice Girls, went on to thrive in the fashion world.

Justin Timberlake, lead singer of NSYNC, and Beyoncé, a member of Destiny’s Child, went on to be greatly successful as solo artists. Beyoncé has gone on to be nominated for 66 Grammy Awards and

has won 23 during her time as an artist, and is the most-nominated female artist in Grammy history. Timberlake has been nominated for 39 and has won 10.

“Justin Timberlake has really evolved with his audience, and he’s kept everybody on their toes,” Waco senior Hannah Ellis said. “He’s been so innovative in the music industry and not afraid to try new things, and I think that really keeps people excited.”

Justin Timberlake is one of the most common household names from the 90s.

Timberlake continues to evolve his music and influence the music industry today through his songs and live performances.

Starting on “The Mickey Mouse Club,” Timberlake became a household name.

He began his music career with the boy band NSYNC from 1995 to 2002, continued as a solo artist from 2002 to the present, and has also starred in major films like “In Time,” “Friends with Benefits” and “Bad Teacher.” He also married a fellow ’90s star, Jessica Biel from “7th Heaven,” who also starred in films such as “It’s a Digital World,” “Ulee’s Gold,” and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.”

Movies/TV Popular actors and actresses are constantly changing depending on the newest movie coming out, the most popular TV show of the time and who is winning awards. According to Insider, some of the most popular actresses and actors in the ’90s were Will Smith, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Melissa Joan Hart, Kenan Thompson, Amanda Bynes,

Lindsay Lohan, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., Brandy Norwood, Mario Lopez and the Olsen twins.

Most of these stars are still in movies and TV shows today. Will Smith has starred in numerous blockbuster films since his time on “Fresh Prince of BelAir,” which aired from 1990 to 1996.

After marrying Jada Pinkett-Smith in 1997, the couple raised two children who have grown up in the spotlight and followed in their acting footsteps, as well as started their own music careers. For example, Smith’s son, Jaden, has appeared in films such as “The Karate Kid” in 2010 and “After Earth” in 2013 and has also released three albums since 2014. Smith’s daughter, Willow, has released hit singles such as her hit song “Whip My Hair” in 2010.

“I feel like Will Smith is one of those actors who will be famous forever,” Lake Charles, La., senior Lizzy Portie said. “He has one of those personalities that people are drawn to.”

Unfortunately, not all of these stars took fame well. Amanda Bynes and Lindsay Lohan are known for having gone through the most public meltdowns. Being brought up in spotlight, both turned to drug usage, among other things, to cope with the stardom. According to People. com, Bynes struggled with drug usage for most of her adult life and is still in and out of rehab “getting help and treatment from mental health professionals and addiction counselors for drug addiction and mental health issues.”

According to CNN.com, Lindsay Lohan has been checked into rehab

six times due to numerous situations, including drunk driving and driving under the influence of drugs. Since her rehab days, Lohan has begun to repair her reputation by doing sit-down interviews, such as with CNN, and starting her own TV show Lindsay Lohan Beach Club.

Recent TV shows have casted past ’90s stars such as Luke Perry, who died on March 4, and Skeet Ulrich (“Riverdale”).

Popular family shows “Full House” and “Boy Meets World,” have had spinoffs created, which bring those actors, such as Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber back into the spotlight. Unfortunately, not all fans enjoy the spin-offs as much as the original shows.

“I really wasn’t a huge fan of ‘Fuller House,’” Portie said. “It felt like they were trying too hard to make it funny and weren’t doing a good job of targeting it to the audience that watched ‘Full House originally.’”

The Forgotten According to “16 Forgotten ‘90s Celebs (& What They’re Up To Now)” on Refinery29, a number of artists and actors have since been forgotten and left in the ’90s. Some of these include Jonathan Taylor Thomas from “Home Improvement,” Erik von Detten from “7th Heaven,” Rider Strong from “Boy Meets World,” Mike Vitar from “The Sandlot,” and singer Toni Braxton. Rider Strong starred in “Girl Meets World,” the “Boy Meets World” spin-off, although the show only lasted for three seasons.

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