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www.baylorlariat.comFRIDAY | SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

© 2012, Baylor University Vol. 113 No. 19

SPORTS Page 6 NEWS Page 4 A&E Page 9Ready for West VirginiaHead coaches ready to meet again as the Bears take on the Mountaineers

Calling all rock climbersDon’t miss the action at the SLC this weekend as climbers drop their ropes and harness to head up the rock wall

Singing Praise The theater arts department gets good reviews on its musical comedy, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

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>> IT’S A FIESTAThe Latin Dance Society cha-chas its way through the semester, while celebrating its Hispanic heritage

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In Print

“Whatever argument created the great divide, someone should take initiative and begin to build a bridge between the two.”

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Bear Briefs

Around the world The Baylor Symphony will perform alongside the Seinan Gakuin Univer-sity Chamber Orchestra from Fukuoka, Japan, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building.

The place to go to know the places to go

A night of philosophyDr. Merold Westphal will present “The Nature of Biblical Faith in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling” from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday in Foyer of Meditation in the Armstrong Browning Library. A reception will follow in the Cox Reception Room.

ABC Clinic in need of funding

With Animal Birth Control clinic low on funds, animals are expected re-produce at high rates, causing the number of animals euthanized to rise.

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By Maegan RocioStaff Writer

The Animal Birth Control Clinic, a nonprofit organization in Waco, is in need of funding af-ter exhausting its biannual Trap-Neuter-Return grant of $56,000 this month. The grant was writ-ten by the Heart of Texas Feral Friends, a program that is part of the Humane Society of Central Texas.

Dr. Stacie Layne Virden,

president of the Board of Direc-tors at the Animal Birth Control Clinic, said the clinic’s services were funded through the Texas Department of Health and Hu-man Services by way of Animal Friendly Licence Plates sales on-line.

“Concerning the Animal Friendly Licence Plates’, people that pay for those plates pay ex-tra money,” she said. “That extra money goes into the fund toward

Medicare makes habit of illegally refilling meds

By Kelli KennedyAssociated Press

MIAMI — Medicare rou-tinely refilled pain pills and other restricted medications that are barred by federal law from renew-al without a fresh prescription, government inspectors said in a report Thursday.

The report based on 2009 data found three-quarters of contrac-tors who processed prescriptions for the Medicare Part D program wrongly refilled some medica-tions classed as Schedule II con-trolled substances, which include strong pain killers and other drugs considered at high risk for abuse. Those refills were worth a total of $25 million.

“Paying for such drugs raises public health concerns and may contribute to the diverting of con-trolled substances and their be-ing resold on the street,” said the report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in-spector general.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in response to the report that the inspector general was misinter-preting partial “fills” dispensed

to patients in long-term care fa-cilities as refills. Partial fills occur when a pharmacist does not dis-pense all doses of the prescribed medication at one time. But the report said there was little evi-dence of that.

The report said nearly 400,000 Schedule II prescriptions were wrongly refilled, or about 2 per-cent of all Schedule II prescrip-tions billed under Medicare Part D in 2009. Of those 400,000, more than 25,000 also lacked some re-quired information, including the name, address or signature of the prescriber.

The report comes as the coun-try wrestles to get a grip on an estimated $60 billion a year in Medicare fraud.

Medicare Part D provides prescription drug coverage for seniors. The federal government contracts with private companies to fill prescriptions and relies on those contractors to have safe-guards in place to ensure compli-ance.

The program forbids providers from issuing refills on controlled substances, yet three-quarters of Medicare Part D contractors paid for refills, according to the report.

The prescriptions were mostly filled by long-term care pharma-cies.

Federal health officials have been touting better safety mecha-nisms as prescription drug abuse overdoses reach epidemic levels.

Two Los Angeles doctors were recently charged with health care fraud after authorities said they prescribed controlled drugs to in-dividuals without a valid medical reason. Medicare paid more than $2.7 million for those drugs over an 18-month period, federal in-vestigators said.

In May, Express Scripts, Inc. paid nearly $3 million to resolve allegations they were using phony prescriber numbers at its mail order pharmaceutical facilities. The company is one of the largest pharmacy benefits managers in the country and runs prescription drug plans for employers, insurers and other customers.

The inspector general rec-ommended that federal health officials automatically flag reim-bursement requests from provid-ers for controlled drug refills and refuse to pay them. The report

By Elizabeth CampbellThe Washington Post

Hog farmers are slaughtering animals at the fastest pace since 2009 as a surge in feed costs spurs the biggest losses in 14 years, sig-naling smaller herds next year and a rebound in pork prices.

The 73.3 million hogs pro-cessed in eight months through August were the most in three

years, U.S. Department of Agri-culture data show. Pork supply will drop to the lowest per-capita since 1975 next year, the USDA estimates. Hog futures that fell more than any other commodity since June 30 may surge 39 per-cent in 12 months to as high as $1.055 a pound, based on the me-dian of 12 analyst forecasts com-piled by Bloomberg.

Crop damage from the worst

U.S. drought since 1956 sent corn-feed prices surging to a record last month and may mean losses of about $44 a head for hog farm-ers in the fourth quarter, the most since 1998, Purdue University es-timates. Two producers in Cana-da filed bankruptcy petitions this month. While the acceleration in slaughtering is boosting supply

Drought depletes hog herds; bacon shortage on horizon

A combine is surrounded by dust at it finishes harvesting a row of corn on Sept. 6, near Bennington, Neb. The latest update on the worst U.S. drought in decades shows that farmers had some relief with recent rains that soaked much of middle America.

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SEE MEDICARE, page 10

the state to fund low-cost or no-cost surgeries, spays and neuters across the state. Less licenses plates have been ordered over the past two years, so there was less money in the fund.”

Echoing Virden’s statement, Carrie Kuehl, executive director of the Animal Birth Clinic, said peo-ple supported the cause through the sales.

“The grant wrapped up early,” Kuehl said. “It started slow, but as people understood and used the grant, the word spread. All of the funds were used for spays and neu-ters, and free rabies shots for cats

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Bobo, a white-faced capuchin monkey (right) and Bert, a black-faced capuchin monkey, round the corner on lap 1 of a race in the Banana Derby on Tuesday at the Red River Valley Fair in Paris, Texas.

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By: Laurean LoveStaff Writer

Students of many religions,

classifications and races joined to-gether Thursday night at Brooks Flats Residence Hall to discuss the recent protests in the Islamic community.

The protests were ignited in the Middle East when an anti-Islamic film, “Innocence of Mus-lims”, was released in the U.S. Many in the Muslim world believe the video degrades the Prophet Mohammad. Muslims were even more outraged when they found that in the U.S, the video was pro-tected by the First Amendment, because in his home country of Egypt, filmmaker Nakoula Bas-sely Nakoula would have faced swift punishment.

However, Al-Siddiq, President of the Islamic Center of Waco, feels the movie was not the only problem. Siddiq believes that it is years of built up hatred from America’s attacks on Iraq and the Muslim country.

“It’s very important in more educated lands, such as the Unit-ed States, to recognize that, of the 6 billion people in the world, 1.2 billion are followers of Islam,” said

Siddiq in an article he wrote for the Waco Tribune-Herald. “The barbaric and disgusting violence we see on TV and read about in the newspaper is hardly a fair rep-resentation of how most Muslims are reacting to this trumped-up documentary made in America.”

Siddiq was born and raised in Karachi and has lived in Amer-ica since 1987. Along with being president of the Islamic Center of Waco, Siddiq has also served in the U.S. Army.

“The bottom line is the econo-my, because all of the protests are happening in poor countries be-cause the dictator has suppressed those people,” Siddiq said.

International security analyst, David S. Oualaalou, explains that Yamin is one of the poorest coun-tries in the outer world; just the basic infrastructure is not even there. Half of the population and country is in or near poverty.

“They do not have a place where words can be expressed, so what are they left with?” Oua-laalou asked. “They are left with violence. Violence is a way of ex-pressing that anger. The difference is, where do you draw the line?”

Many people agreed during

STANCES from

NPHC garden column mistaken

I found the Viewpoint ar-ticle published Sept. 18 to be the poorest form of satire—an unin-telligent one. Your softly mock-ing tone and admittedly shallow knowledge of classic Greek civili-zation did little to compensate for poor craftsmanship.

Wide open stood the door of opportunity for you to poke fun at a subculture within a subculture, but you missed it, Rob.

The garden and memorials you so poorly described represent the NPHC. In a nutshell, the Na-tional Pan-Hellenic Council and the National Panhellenic Con-ference are different. NPHC is a group of nine Greek organiza-tions, seven represented on Bay-lor’s campus, that were founded by minorities. African-Americans to be exact.

Non-members of sororities and fraternities can find plenty to mock in Greek purpose, ste-reotypes, and money-draining capability, but on Baylor’s cam-pus, Greeks outside of the Panhel-lenic Council often felt not of that community. The NPHC had no proprietary place to hold meet-ings, host events, or educate the student body of their illustrious past, which began at the turn of the 20th century and fought on through women’s suffrage, Jim Crow, separate but equal, and every other obstacle that stood between minorities and an equal shot at higher education. It took years for the council to find, fund and finish a place of their own on campus. Had you actually walked that garden, you would have seen names like Kappa Alpha Psi, Zeta Phi Beta, and Alpha Phi Alpha—not those mentioned in your ar-

ticle.You see, Rob, you could have

made fun of NPHC’s showy dis-plays of diversity, our colortastic portrayals of our letters, our dead serious pursuit of perfection, and our borderline cult-like familial devotion to our line brothers and line sisters, but you failed. Instead you looked out of that wide win-dow in the Castellaw journalism suite and thought, “I know, I’ll mock the wrong people for some-thing I know even less about than I think I do.”

Stellar journalism, Rob. Tru-ly a sincere expression of your “view.”

Racquel Joseph 2011 Baylor graduate Former Vice President of Rho

Eta chapter of Delta Sigma Theta.

Garden column mis-represented NPHC

I was forwarded the link to the Sept. 18 column “Viewpoint: A serene and fitting memorial” by my sorority sisters of Delta Sigma Theta. We are a member of the National Pan-Hellenic Council, along with nine other historically African American fraternities and sororities.

This article has been seen by every person I know that is tied to the NPHC in some way and it is absolutely degrading and completely discounts the count-less months that members of the NPHC sacrificed to be represent-ed in the Baylor community.

These headstones that the EIC talked about as representing the PanHellenic Wars shows a total lack of research and under-standing about the NPHC and is completely ignorant. The NPHC is already underrepresented at Baylor and these headstones were

to be representative of all the hard work that these nine historically African-American organizations have spilled into community ser-vice and scholarship.

While the National Panhel-lenic Conference has a titanic of a building over on 8th Street, these nine headstones finally came to fruition after years of the NPHC wanting to be properly recog-nized by Baylor.

If this article was written as a satire, no one is amused. If this article was written without ANY proper research, then that is com-pletely ignorant. I know that all of the NPHC Baylor community and countless alumni are taken aback by this article and they feel that all the hard work that went into wanting to be recognized for their dedication to their organiza-tions have been stepped all over. I hope you take the time to address my concerns and I’m sure you will be receiving much more emails on this matter.

Kelly Wilson 2009 Baylor graduate.

Dignity in defeat

A response to the Sept. 25 sports take “Positive game day at ULM”

Don’t see that much...Just read a shocking article from your pa-per! No nudity, sex or violence...have no fear. Greg DeVries wrote about a positive experience com-ing to Monroe for the ULM/Bay-lor game. A positive article, wow!

I am an old grandma who doesn’t read much about football aftermaths, but I read this [Sept. 25 sports take] “Positive game day at ULM.” My nephew posted it along with many other folks. I had to find out what all the hoopla was about. Thanks, Greg and Baylor folks. We heard reports of Baylor shirted friendly shoppers all over town.

Sorry we lost the game (really sorry). Glad to have gained your respect. Salute to you, Greg, and your folks there.

Dixie Hall Resident of Monroe, La.

Editor’s NoteDue to the overwhelming re-

sponse to my column about the National Pan-Hellenic Council Garden on Baylor campus, it seems appropriate to clear up some mis-conceptions about the piece.

The column was a joke, plain and simple. It was a joke mostly about how few people know what the garden is actually for.

I, however, do know what the garden is for, and several times I’ve spent a quiet lunch hour there. I chose to write the piece from the perspective of which I have been accused of writing from involun-tarily — one of ignorance. The ig-norance of people walking by who never look up to read the sign.

From that feigned ignorance I made a giant leap to the ridiculous conclusion that the garden was a memorial for Greek war heroes.

It was my hope that the sheer ridiculousness of the piece would be apparent and would make peo-ple wonder about the garden and maybe give them a good laugh be-fore they really thought about what

they’ve been laughing about.At least some people did, which

is all a writer can really hope for. Others took offense and chose to voice their displeasure. Some people did this better than others, and to those of you who did I wel-come your criticism. It is one of the greatest parts of our society that lets us do so, and I find no fault in exercising that right.

As is apparent from the letters on this page, many of those that wrote to me displayed an amount of loyalty and passion that is a credit to both them and the NPHC.

Some, however let their anger spill into personal attacks. Many things are worth getting that angry over, but a stupid little joke is not one of them.

I hope that this adequately clears up all the issues. I’m sorry that people got so angry over my arrangement of 26 idiosyncratic characters and seven or so punc-tuation marks. That was never my intention, but thanks for reading.

Rob BradfieldEditor-In-Chief

The debate on the correct bal-ance between news and enter-tainment has been going on for decades.

A prime example of this de-bate can be found right here on Baylor’s overly-watered but oh so green grass: Castellaw Communi-cations Building.

The bottom floor hosts the film and digital media depart-ment while journalism, public relations and new media stay on the top.

There is hardly any crossover.It would seem as if both sides

are content to draw their respec-tive lines in the sand and not cross the aisle.

This is a major problem, how-ever, as both sides have tools and expertise that would be of great benefit to share.

For example, the film depart-ment has the studio of the former KWBU station and a television studio. It would be incredibly beneficial to the people upstairs if we could use the equipment downstairs.

We don’t. So, for example, when we want to record a pod-cast it has to be done in the Lariat breakroom with a popular coffee pot and an obnoxious microwave

that beeps for no apparent reason.Journalism students would not

be the only ones benefiting. As much as some people would like to think otherwise, most students that graduate from the FDM de-partment won’t go on to make hit movies right out of college. Wouldn’t it be beneficial if they could, say, learn about the tele-vision business in college while working on a 30 minute college news show?

If the journalism and film de-partments truly want to be top- notch, they need to add a broad-cast curriculum.

The closest Baylor comes to that are two classes: a class where you learn to write for a teleprompter and a brand new video journalism class with lim-ited equipment because the jour-nalism department’s budget is as deep as a puddle.

If the argument is that news channel production is going out of style and will soon be obsolete, we would ask those concerned to reconsider.

Sure, the stations could be gone and the set-up of women in blazers from the ’80s with matching lipstick and men who don’t blink while they read the teleprompter could possibly be nothing more than a memory in a decade or two.

However, in an expanding media world it is foolish to limit

ourselves like this. Film majors should learn how to write a news story and run a short-form pro-gram. Journalism majors need to learn video editing and practical camera use.

A more integrated curricu-lum would allow students to be more competitive job seekers in a market that requires an extreme amount of flexibility.

It is becoming increasingly clear that this is something we need to address.

Whatever argument created the great divide, someone should take initiative and begin to build a bridge between the two.

A perfect example in the pro-fessional world is ESPN.

Hard-hitting, breaking news paired with the laugh-out-loud entertaining Not Top 10 has en-thralled millions and nobody has had to sell their soul to make that happen.

You get professional produc-tion value and professional jour-nalism combined into one amaz-ing product.

If the departments do not want to make a long-term commitment at first, then they don’t have to.

Try it for a semester.Make a test program inte-

grating the two departments and you’ll soon see the results.

On top of higher quality stu-dent media, more prospective journalism students would decide

on Baylor over the University of Texas, and film and digital media would have a journalistic edge to

add more spice on their resumes.So, Castellaw Communica-

tions departments, let’s set aside

our differences and work together for a change.

For all of our sakes.

Opinion

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Some football cheers not appropriate

I'm amazed that anyone can think "Kill ’em!" is an appropriate cheer at a Christian university's sports event. It really isn't appro-priate at any university's sports events, but it is especially ironic and out of place at a Christian university's sports event.

Every time fans yell “Kill ’em!”they are saying, in effect, "We don't like Jesus!" Sorry if that of-fends, but that's simply the obvi-ous truth of the matter. Sure, most yellers don't intend that, but that's what's implied.

How ironic that a prayer is uttered before a game where the proclaimed sentiment is “Kill ’em!”

Dr. Roger E. OlsonProfessor of TheologyTruett Seminary

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Rapp vetoes bowling alley legislation in senate meeting

By Jocelyn FowlerReporter

What’s done in the dark will come to the light.

Or not, according to the poli-cies of the Student Senate.

During their exclusive execu-tive session, senators discussed a new policy which would change the current grading system to in-clude minuses as well as pluses.

Student Body President Kelly Rapp vetoed the Building a Bet-ter Bowling Alley legislation that passed last week.

According to Houston senior Brian Kim, all conversations that occur while the senate is in execu-tive session are confidential and cannot be discussed outside of the session.

The Student Senate meeting began as usual: the gavel of sen-ate president Brian Kim struck the desk at a little past 5 p.m., call-ing the meeting to order; chap-

lain Meagan Rowell delivered a few words of encouragement and prayed for benevolent attitudes among senators; next a motion to move into executive session was called and anyone who was not a senator was asked to stand outside in the hallway for the next hour or so.

However, Rapp said he believed the restrictive nature of executive session was unnecessary for the minor issues that triggered his veto of the bowling alley bill.

“The original bill was writ-ten asking administration and the athletics department to help build a bowling alley that was NCAA approved, but I didn’t think that it was the best thing if we were to request administration to build a bowling alley that was NCAA approved if we didn’t know the costs that were associated with it,” Rapp said. Once senators closed their executive session, things moved rapidly.

Four court justices were con-firmed, as were a court clerk and an assistant court clerk.

The funds requested in the Fish Fry 2012 bill were easily given with little protest from the senators present.

Colorado Springs, Colo., soph-omore Meagan Rowell supported the bill and cited an enjoyable ex-perience at last year’s event as rea-son to approve it.

With more organizations on board this year, the bill’s authors, sophomores Dominic Edwards, Will Jones and Dallena Nguyen, hope the event will be even better.

“The Fish Fry will feature an ar-ray of activities including a bounce house, a dunk tank, a monster obstacle course, as well as a food frying contest,” reads the Fish Fry 2012 legislation.

“Overall it’s a great event,” Ed-wards said. “It’s something we like to see in senate. We like to see col-laborative events.”

Judge approves $42.6 million in FEMA trailer settlements

By Michael KunzelmanAssociated Press

NEW ORLEANS — A fed-eral judge gave his final approval Thursday to a $42.6 million class-action settlement between com-panies that made and installed government-issued trailers after hurricanes in 2005 and Gulf Coast storm victims who claim they were exposed to hazardous fumes while living in the shelters.

U.S. District Judge Kurt Engel-hardt ruled from the bench after hearing from attorneys who bro-kered a deal resolving nearly all re-maining court claims over elevated levels of formaldehyde in trailers provided by the Federal Emergen-cy Management Agency following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Roughly 55,000 residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas will be eligible for shares of $37.5 million paid by more than two dozen manufacturers. They also can get shares of a sepa-rate $5.1 million settlement with FEMA contractors that installed and maintained the units.

Gerald Meunier, a lead plain-tiffs’ attorney, said the deal pro-vides residents with “somewhat modest” compensation but allows both sides to avoid the expense and risks of protracted litigation.

“Dollar amounts alone do not determine whether a settlement is fair and reasonable,” he said.

Jim Percy, a lawyer for the trail-er makers, said Engelhardt would have had to try cases individu-ally or transfer suits to other ju-risdictions if the settlement wasn’t reached.

“It was not going to end quickly, and it was going to be even more monumental for all the parties concerned,” he said.

Formaldehyde, a chemical commonly found in building mate-rials, can cause breathing problems and is classified as a carcinogen.

Government tests on hundreds of trailers in Louisiana and Mississip-pi found formaldehyde levels that were, on average, about five times what people are exposed to in most modern homes.

FEMA isn’t a party to the settle-ments and had downplayed form-aldehyde risks for months before those test results were announced in February 2008.

As early as 2006, trailer occu-pants began reporting headaches, nosebleeds and difficulty breath-ing.

Only three plaintiffs have opted out of the settlement with the trail-er makers.

Engelhardt opened the floor to objections during Thursday’s hear-ing, but nobody spoke up.

The judge said he didn’t receive any formal, written objections, ei-ther.

But that doesn’t mean the deal isn’t a disappointment for many residents who blame their illnesses on the cramped trailers they occu-pied for months on end.

“We were told not to look for much,” said Anthony Dixon, a New Orleans resident who says he developed asthma while living in a FEMA trailer for two years.

Dixon, 58, attended the hearing with his wife and mother to learn more about the deal.

“We’re glad to get it over with,” he added.

Engelhardt noted he received a letter from a woman whose 66-year-old mother, Agnes Mauld-in, of Mississippi, died of leukemia in 2008 after living in a FEMA trailer.

Mauldin’s daughter, Lydia Greenlees, said the settlement of-fers “very little” for what her family considers to be a wrongful death case.

“I am saddened about the set-tlement in that I feel like it makes a mockery of my mother’s life,” Greenlees wrote. “I don’t want any-

one to think for one second that I view this settlement as a fair trade for my mother’s life. I do not.”

Dan Balhoff, a court-appointed special master, will determine the plaintiffs’ awards.

Up to 48 percent of the total settlement money will be deducted for attorneys’ fees and costs.

Payments are expected to go out late this year or early next year.

Engelhardt presided over three trials for claims against FEMA trailer manufacturers and install-ers after he was picked in 2007 to oversee hundreds of consolidated lawsuits.

The juries in all three trials sid-ed with the companies and didn’t award any damages.

Plaintiffs’ lawyers have accused the trailer makers of using shoddy building materials and methods in a rush to meet FEMA’s unprec-edented demand for temporary housing.

Meunier, however, said it was difficult for plaintiffs’ attorneys to prove a link between formaldehyde exposure and residents’ health problems because many trailers couldn’t be tested until months or even years after the fact.

Many residents never sought treatment for their symptoms, he added.

“It was both challenging in the legal and factual sense,” he said.

A group of companies that in-cludes Gulf Stream Coach Inc., Forest River Inc., Vanguard LLC and Monaco Coach Corp. will pay $20 million of the $37.5 million settlement with the trailer makers.

Shaw Environmental Inc., Bechtel Corp., Fluor Enterprises Inc. and CH2M Hill Constructors Inc. are among the FEMA contrac-tors that agreed to pay shares of the separate $5.1 million settlement.

Only a handful of formalde-hyde-related claims are still pend-ing, including those against FEMA by a group of Texas residents.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presses China on maritime spats

By Matthew LeeAssociated Press

NEW YORK — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged China’s top diplomat on Thursday to peacefully resolve in-creasingly tense maritime disputes with Japan and its smaller neigh-bors in Southeast Asia.

A senior U.S. official said Clin-ton had pressed Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on the im-portance of settling its conflicting claim with Japan over the Japa-nese-held Senkaku islands, called Diaoyu by China, along with nu-merous competing claims in the South China Sea with members of the Association of South East Asian Nations.

“We urged that cooler heads prevail, that Japan and China en-gage in dialogue to calm the wa-ters,” the official said. “We believe that Japan and China have the resources, have the restraint, have the ability to work on this together and take tensions down.”

The official was not authorized

to publicly discuss the private dis-cussion between Clinton and Yang on the sidelines of the annual U.N. General Assembly and therefore requested anonymity. Clinton was expected to make the same case to Japanese Foreign Minister Koi-chiro Gemba when she meets with him in New York.

However, Japanese Prime Min-ister Yoshihiko Noda said Wednes-day that his nation was not willing to compromise in its territorial dis-pute with China over the Senkakus that have spawned violent anti-Japan protests in China.

“So far as the Senkaku islands are concerned, they are the inher-ent part of our territory, in light of history and international law. It’s very clear,” Noda told reporters in New York. “There are no territo-rial issues as such, therefore there could not be any compromise that may mean any setback from this basic position.”

Senior Chinese and Japanese diplomats met both in New York and Beijing on Tuesday, seeking to mend ties frayed by the spat over

the islands that has raised tensions between them to their highest level in years. The islands are uninhab-ited but sit astride rich fishing wa-ters and potentially large reserves of natural gas.

In her meeting with Yang, Clin-ton also called on China to work cooperatively with ASEAN over the territorial disputes in the South China Sea, according to the U.S. of-ficial.

Clinton has been pressing Chi-na and ASEAN to develop and im-plement a code of conduct for the South China Sea that could pave the way for a mechanism to resolve the disputes.

Clinton, who was to meet later Thursday with ASEAN foreign ministers, said she was pleased that ASEAN and Chinese officials had resumed high-level meetings on the matter ahead of November’s East Asia Summit in Cambodia at which the issue is expected to be a primary focus. The U.S. would like to see progress on the code of conduct by the time the summit takes place.

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Thursday at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York.

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Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure returns to WacoBy Lindsey Miner

Reporter

The battle against breast cancer will enlist runners, activists, do-nors and multipurpose volunteers in a charity event.

The 2012 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure will take place at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at Heritage Square in downtown Waco.

Registration will begin at 6:30 a.m., followed by a survivor break-fast and ceremony.

Tawny’s SexyFit Crew will lead participants in a warm-up after the ceremony. The one-mile race will begin at 8:30 a.m. directly after the warm-up, and the 5K will start at 9 a.m.

Participants of all ages are wel-come to run or walk.

Individuals can register in per-son, by mail, online at www.ko-mencentraltexas.org or at the reg-istration tent on the day of the race.

“Susan G. Komen for the Cure” strives to raise money and edu-cate people in the ongoing battle against breast cancer each year through global events and legisla-tive actions,” according to the Su-san G. Komen website.

“My senior year [in high school], we did the walk for my best friend’s mom who was diagnosed,” Waco senior Brianna Deaton said. “This meant the world to her. We did this twice and made shirts and bandanas and were called Anna’s Warriors. While we were running, she rode beside all of us in a golf cart. It was one of the coolest expe-riences of my life. She was so full of joy and gratitude.”

Entry prices vary by the type of participant, package and when the individual or team signs up.

“It’s a really motivating atmo-sphere to see everybody pretty in their pink,” April Pullen, this year’s event chair, said. “All ages, sizes

and races come together for one thing and it’s for a cure for breast cancer.”

Participants can attend the race as an individual or as a team of at least ten people.

Different bags of race shirts and other free materials will be provid-ed to survivors, individual racers, team participants, youth partici-pants, kids and those who choose to “Sleep in for the Cure.”

Sleep in for the Cure is meant for individuals who can not par-ticipate in the race and instead can donate money and “sleep in.”

“You can feel the camaraderie in the air from these big teams com-ing together for people they know and love who have been affected by breast cancer,” Pullen said.

Pullen said there will be activi-ties provided to appeal to a variety of people.

“It’s so welcoming because any-one can go. This year we are going

to have different areas to target dif-ferent groups,” Pullen said. There will also be a “man cave: featuring big screen TVs for the comfort of the participants’ male supporters.

Emmalie Cunningham, a cer-tified lactation counselor and in-structor of health at Baylor, said women can also significantly re-duce their risk of breast cancer by breastfeeding longer.

“It’s great to have college stu-dents getting involved with this event because it can increase pre-vention efforts by putting it on their radar. They learn more about it at an earlier age,” Cunningham said.

Deaton said the race can be en-lightening for women.

“I think it is important for women, especially young college women to see the impact the race has on those who are fighting or have survived,” Deaton said.

According to the Susan G. Ko-

men for the Cure website, Komen wanted to think of a way to make life better for fellow women bat-tling breast cancer.

Komen’s sister, Nancy G. Brink-er, promised her she would do ev-erything in her power to end breast cancer.

Although Komen lost her battle with cancer in 1980, her legacy lives on through the organization her sister established in her honor, Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Since 1982, the organization has worked to transform how breast cancer is treated and thought of in society.

Its vision is to turn millions of breast cancer patients into breast cancer survivors.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure has invested more than $1.9 billion into cure efforts since its founding in 1982.

Breast cancer is the second most common form of cancer that

affects women in the United States. Susan G. Komen for the Cure

provides mammograms, which is the most effective screening tool to detect breast cancer.

Around 70 percent of women 40 and older receive regular mam-mograms and, since 1990, there has been a 33 percent decline in breast cancer mortality in the U.S. because of early detection and ef-fective treatment.

In 1980, the five-year relative survival rate for women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer was around 74 percent, while today it has increased to 99 percent.

The federal government al-locates more than $850 million each year to breast cancer research, treatment and prevention. In 1982, that number was $30 million. There are currently about 3 million breast cancer survivors.

This is the largest group of can-cer survivors in U.S. history.

ChalkUp to test students in uphill battleBy Holly Renner

Reporter

Ropes can be left at the door as participants compete Saturday at Baylor’s annual ChalkUp event.

The event is a mixed-format bouldering competition that will be held at the rock wall, also known as the Rock at the McLane Student Life Center.

Bouldering is a type of rock climbing that does not require ropes and harnesses, as climbers do not ascend past 12 feet.

Two options will be available for participants: a redpoint course will be offered from 9 a.m. to noon, and an on-sight course from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Staff at the McLane Student Life Center rockwall will set the routes, which are also called problems in the bouldering world.

The redpoint competition al-

lows participants unlimited at-tempts at all problems in the given time frame.

Competitors are able to see the problem beforehand and can give each other tips.

The level of difficulty for each completed problem determines the final score, and the top male and top female competitors for the beginner and advanced sessions will receive first and second place prizes.

Daniel Ezell, manager at the Rock, said the onsight competi-tion is geared toward the more ad-vanced climber.

Competitors are prohibited from seeing or attempting the problem beforehand. Onsight con-sists of four rounds — each round must be completed in three min-utes, with a three-minute rest in between.

If a competitor fails to complete

the problem in a round, he or she must wait for the next route and move on. The level of difficulty for each problem determines the climber’s score. First- and second place-prizes will be offered for top male and top female competitors.

Beginning climbers are encour-aged to sign up for redpoint, while the onsight event is targeted to-ward advanced climbers, although participants may sign up for both. A total of 35 climbers can register for redpoint and 15 for onsight.

The redpoint contest is “a great way for new climbers to get their feet wet as far as competition goes,” said Sarah Groman, Waco senior and rock climbing team president.

Former Rock manager Drew White created ChalkUp in 2006. Since then, bouldering problems have expanded, offering two com-petitions for beginner and ad-vanced climbers.

Ezell said bouldering problems are smaller and more challenging than standard rock climbs.

Seabrook, Texas, senior An-drew Sayers will compete in his third ChalkUp event Saturday. Say-ers will participate in redpoint.

“It’s a good representation of how well you can climb under pressure,” he said. “You want to win, so you climb as hard as you can until you can’t climb anymore.”

Sayers said he prefers boulder-ing to standard rock climbing be-cause each move is powerful and controlled, using more strength. Bouldering is a battle of endur-ance, Sayers said.

For some, ChalkUp is strictly competition-driven, but for others, it is a way to challenge, encourage and motivate each other, Ezell said.

Keller senior and rock climbing team officer Jake Heffley will com-pete for a third time Saturday. Hef-

fley said he prefers climbing with a rope but loves both forms.

“I climb slow and controlled, with a lot of technique. I’m more endurance-driven,” he said. Reg-istration will be open through the competition, which is open to the

public. Baylor students can register at the front desk of the Student Life Center, and all other participants can register at www.baylor.edu/campusrec/oa.

Registration is $20 for one ses-sion or $30 for both.

Chico senior Jacob Creighton demonstrates the rock-climbing style of boul-dering (climbing without a safety harness) Thursday evening in the McLane Student Life Center.

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Curiosity finds signs of ancient streambedBy Alicia ChangAssociated Press

LOS ANGELES — The NASA rover Cu-riosity has beamed back pictures of bedrock that suggest a fast-moving stream, possibly waist-deep, once flowed on Mars — a find that the mission’s chief scientist called ex-citing.

There have been previous signs that water existed on the red planet long ago, but the images released Thursday showing pebbles rounded off, likely by water, offered the most convincing evidence so far of an ancient streambed.

There was “a vigorous flow on the surface of Mars,” said chief scientist John Grotzing-er of the California Institute of Technology. “We’re really excited about this.”

The discovery did not come as a com-plete surprise. NASA decided to plunk Cu-riosity down inside Gale Crater near the Martian equator because photos from space hinted that the spot possessed a watery past. The six-wheeled rover safely landed Aug. 5 after a nail-biting plunge through the Mar-

tian atmosphere. It’s on a two-year, $2.5 bil-lion mission to study whether the Martian environment could have been favorable for microbial life.

Present day Mars is a frozen desert with no hint of water on its radiation-scarred surface, but geological studies of rocks by previous missions suggest the planet was warmer and wetter once upon a time.

The latest evidence came from photos that Curiosity took revealing rounded peb-bles and gravel — a sign that the rocks were transported long distances by water and smoothed out.

The size of the rocks — ranging from a sand grain to a golf ball — indicates that they could not have been carried by wind, said mission scientist Rebecca Williams of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz.

Though Curiosity did not use its high-tech instruments to drill into the rocks or analyze their chemical makeup, Grotzinger said scientists were sure that water played a role based on just studying the pictures.

It’s unclear how long the water persist-

ed on the surface, but it easily could have lasted “thousands to millions of years,” said mission scientist Bill Dietrich of the Uni-versity of California, Berkeley.

Curiosity chanced upon the dried-up streambed while driving to Glenelg, an in-triguing spot where three types of terrain meet.

Its ultimate destination is Mount Sharp, a mountain rising from the center of crater floor, but it was not expected to travel there until the end of the year.

Finding past water is a first step toward learning whether the environment could have supported microbes. Scientists gener-ally agree that besides water and an energy source such as the sun, organic carbon is a necessary prerequisite for life.

While an ancient streambed holds promise as a potentially habitable environ-ment, scientists don’t think it’s a good place to preserve the carbon building blocks of life.

That’s why the rover will continue its trek to the foothills of Mount Sharp where there’s a better chance of finding organics.

This image provided by NASA shows a Martian rock outcrop near the landing site of the rover Curiosity thought to be the site of an ancient streambed, next to similar rocks shown on earth. Curiosity landed in a crater near Mars’ equator on Aug. 5 on a two-year mission to study whether the environment could have been favorable for microbial life.

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Latin Dance blazes trail in campus, Waco community By Linda Nguyen

Staff Writer

Let’s salsa. Or merengue. Or cha-cha.The Baylor Latin Dance Society

is a student club at Baylor whose mission is to encourage student and community involvement in the Latin culture and to demon-strate and teach the different styles of Latin-influenced dances such as salsa, merengue, cha-cha and more.

“What we’re trying to do is show people Hispanic heritage,” Katy junior Melanie Medina said. “Dancing is a way that everyone can do that.” Medina is the presi-dent of the Latin Dance Society.

The club meets every week. Me-dina said every week the club de-cides on a style of dance they want to specialize in for that week.

They warm up and learn the basic footwork together and then split into three groups by experi-ence levels. The first level is for students who have never danced in a Latin style before and still need to learn the basics. The intermedi-ate level is for students who have

already learned the basic footwork and want to begin working with partners. The advanced level is for students who have had previous dance experience and are familiar with the more technical moves.

“We accept all levels,” Medina said. “That’s why for the second half, we separate into levels so peo-ple are in their comfort zones.”

Medina said dance experience can vary from people who have never done Latin dancing before to people who have had more profes-sional experience and know more technical and advanced footwork. There is no limit to the number of students in each level.

“We leave it up to people’s dis-cretion, but we say things like ‘to be in this level you have to know this and this and this,’” Medina said.

Atlanta sophomore Dominique Smith-Bryan, Baylor Latin Dance Society’s service and fundraising chair, said she really enjoys being able to learn the different dance styles.

“I saw myself getting better and better,” Smith-Bryan said. “People would comment and say, ‘You’re so much better than you were before.’ It made me happy and kept me ex-

cited about it.Medina said the club was start-

ed in 2001, mostly by people of the Hispanic community who wanted to get together and dance because there was not a Latin dancing pres-ence in Waco compared to bigger cities like Dallas and Austin.

“I love it because I love danc-ing, and it’s something I’ve always done,” Medina said.

Smith-Bryan, who had no prior dancing experience, said she joined for other reasons. “I joined last year because after I saw Danc-ing with the Stars, I wanted to learn how to dance like that,” Smith-Bry-an said.

Dallas freshman Cristina Vega, a new member of Latin Dance So-ciety, said she joined after a current member heard about her previous experience as part of a salsa band.

“I thought dancing would be the next best thing,” Vega said. “I wanted to get a lot more technical because I used to only know basic footwork.”

Vega said the Latin Dance Soci-ety has had a positive effect on her freshman year at Baylor.

“The environment is very healthy,” Vega said. “Everyone is

friendly. Everyone helps each oth-er.”

The society holds an event ev-ery year in the spring called Salsa Invasion, where the club brings professionals and Latin dancing enthusiasts together. The dates for

next year’s Salsa Invasion have not been announced yet.

“We bring in other colleg-es and high schools,” Medina said. “Professionals come and teach workshops.”

Baylor Latin Dance Soci-

ety meetings are every 9 p.m. on Monday in Russell Gym. Their first performance will be Nov. 9 in Waco Hall. Dues are $15 a semes-ter and $25 for the year and in-cludes a T-shirt and a discount for Salsa Invasion.

Baylor Latin Dance Society performs on the main stage during Diadeloso April 14, 2011, at Fountain Mall.File Photo

Attendees of the Thursday memorial service for Dr. Susan E. Colon, a former associate professor of literature in the Honors Program, are graced with John Bell’s song “I Refuse to Be Comforted Easily,” performed by assistant professor in Truett Seminary, Dr. Brian Brewer.

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Mass. crime lab shut down due to faked drug test results

By Bridget MurphyAssociated Press

BOSTON — Chemist Annie Dookhan was “Superwoman,” a colleague at a Massachusetts state crime lab used to joke. She seemed unstoppable in her quest to please prosecutors, police and her bosses, testing two to three times more drug samples than anyone else, working through lunch and not bothering to put in for overtime.

“The kind of person, if you owned your own business, you would want to hire her,” a supervi-sor would later tell police.

Beginning about four years ago, suspicions arose about the way she seemed to plow through so many cases so fast. After that, a supervi-sor complained he never actually saw her in front of a microscope. But her superiors let her work on.

Now, the startling explanation has come spilling out: Dookhan told investigators she faked test results on drug samples and cut other corners.

The scandal has created a le-gal morass of monumental pro-portions, with tens of thousands of drug cases in Massachusetts thrown into jeopardy.

Dookhan, 34, is still under in-vestigation by the state attorney general and has not been charged, and investigators have offered no motive for the fakery. She has not responded to repeated requests for comment.

The fallout could be huge.Gov. Deval Patrick ordered a

shutdown last month of the Boston lab, and the scandal has led to a fir-ing and two resignations, includ-

ing that of the state public health commissioner, whose department oversaw the William A. Hinton State Laboratory Institute before it was transferred to the Massachu-setts State Police over the summer.

A war room of sorts is being as-sembled to pick through Dookhan’s cases and determine which ones have been compromised.

Law enforcement officials say Dookhan tested more than 60,000 drug samples involving 34,000 de-fendants in her nine years at the lab. More than a dozen defendants are already back on the streets as authorities try to determine whether Dookhan’s actions tainted the evidence in their cases, and more could be sprung. Authorities say more than 1,100 inmates are doing time based at least in part on Dookhan’s work.

“It’s incalculable the damage she’s done ... not to say all the time, money and energy it’s going to take the commonwealth,” said defense attorney Bernie Grossberg, who has already had one client get out of prison and is being inundated with calls from others.

It remains to be seen if any lab supervisors face criminal conse-quences. The governor said Thurs-day it was troubling that Dookhan and her supervisors “did not seem to understand the gravity” of her actions.

“I fully expect, and indeed I will say I hope that there are charges, and I think that all of those who are accountable for the impact on individual cases need to be held ac-countable,” Patrick said.

The governor has not said how much money he expects the state

will have to spend dealing with the crisis, but on Thursday his budget chief, Jay Gonzalez, wrote to dis-trict attorneys, court administra-tors and other state officials ask-ing for an initial estimate of the costs expected as a result of the lab breach. The letter also seeks a de-scription of the “scope, nature and timing” of the anticipated work. Dookhan’s alleged confession and the missed warning signs were detailed in state police reports ob-tained this week by The Associated Press.

As early as 2008, a supervisor noticed Dookhan’s testing num-bers were high. He spoke to her superior, but nothing happened. In 2009, the supervisor took his con-cerns to another superior, saying he never saw Dookhan in front of a microscope.

In 2010, a supervisor did an audit of Dookhan’s paperwork but didn’t retest any of her samples. The audit found nothing wrong. The same year, a fellow chem-ist found seven instances where Dookhan incorrectly identified a drug sample as a certain narcotic when it was something else. He told himself it was an honest mis-take.

In one incident detailed by state police, a lab employee witnessed Dookhan weighing drug samples without doing a balance check on her scale. Dookhan told police she just wanted to the get the work done and never meant to hurt any-body.

“I screwed up big-time,” she was quoted as saying. “I messed up bad. It’s my fault. I don’t want the lab to get in trouble.”

Judge orders man behind anti-Muslim film jailedAssociated Press

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the man behind a crudely produced anti-Islamic video that inflamed parts of the Middle East to be de-tained because he is a flight risk.

U.S. Central District Chief Magistrate Judge Suzanne Segal ordered Nakoula Basseley Nakoula held after authorities said he vio-lated terms of his probation.

Nakoula, 55, was convicted in

2010 for federal check and sen-tenced to 21 months in prison. Un-der terms of his probation, he was not allowed to use computers or the Internet for five years without approval from his probation offi-cer. Nakoula was arrested after fed-eral probation officials determined he violated the terms of his super-vised release, Thomas Mrozek, a U.S. Attorney’s spokesman in Los Angeles, said Thursday.

Protests have erupted around the Middle East over a 14-minute

trailer for “Innocence of Muslims,” which depicts Muhammad as a womanizer, religious fraud and child molester. Though the trailer was posted to YouTube in July, the violence didn’t break out until Sept. 11 and has spread since, kill-ing dozens.

Nakoula, a Christian originally from Egypt, went into hiding af-ter he was identified as the man behind the trailer. The full story about Nakoula and the video still isn’t known.

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Mayhem in Morgantown

There’s history in unchartered territory as Baylor travels to West Virginia for its Big 12 conference opener at 11:06 a.m. Saturday.

Baylor head coach Art Briles and West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen worked together at Texas Tech from 2000-2002.

A shared experience has brought about a similar coaching mentality, as Saturday morning’s game is sure to showcase footballs flying through the air.

The ground game, statistically, leans in Baylor’s favor, as the Mountaineers only ran the ball for 25 yards against Maryland last weekend.

“I think we’ve been okay,” Briles said. “We’ve been averaging over 200 yards a game. There are not many teams in America that are averaging 300 [passing yards] and 200 rushing a game. We are certainly not where we think we will be, we feel like we have some energy out there that hasn’t pro-duced yet.”

That energy will be needed as the Bears head into a packed Milan Puskar Stadium.

The Mountaineers will open up play in the Big 12 conference, as well as celebrate homecoming; not to mention, West Virginia is 47-8 at home during the past eight years.

“We get to open those guys up to the Big 12,” ju-nior nickelback Ahmad Dixon said. “We get to show them how we perform in the Big 12. It’s their home-coming as well. We know that they’re going to be taking a lot of shots, so we have to stay focused and do what we have to do.”

Whether or not the Baylor defense lines up in a 4-3 or a 3-4 is beside the point as it will focus on stopping a Heisman favorite in senior quarterback Geno Smith.

So far this season, Smith has an 81.4 percent completion record, going 96-118 for 1072 yards with 12 touchdowns and no interceptions.

Another big threat for the Mountaineers is senior wide receiver Tavon Austin, No. 9 in the nation for all-purpose yards. He is also responsible for kick and punt returns, possibly because he runs a 4.38 40-yard dash.

Austin isn’t the only offensive threat the Moun-taineers have, as a variety of receivers line up on either side of center.

“We know West Virginia has a really explosive offense,” redshirt freshman defensive tackle Trevor Clemons-Valdez said. “We have our work cut out for us, but we are a great defense. We are a great team ,and we give great effort. I have all the faith in the world that we’re going to go out there and handle business.”

Baylor matches up with the offensive threats with senior quarterback Nick Florence, who has record-ed a 64.5 percent completion percentage, record-ing 71-110 for 1004 yards, 11 touchdowns and four interceptions.

Florence is a yard, touchdown and interception behind preseason Heisman favorite USC senior

quarterback Matt Barkley.Two of Florence’s interceptions happened in the

Bears’ last matchup against the University of Loui-siana at Monroe.

“It was awful,” Florence said. “But you learn from it and to be able to bounce back was a good thing for me to clear it. We talk about it all the time is clearing the last play. We can’t make those mistakes. Turn-overs can kill a game, and we were down 14-0 early because of turnovers. We can’t do that this week. We’ve got to protect the football and execute well.”

Florence leads the nation in total offense with 387.67 yards per game while Smith is No. 2 with 379.67 yards per game.

As for the top target for Florence, senior wide re-ceiver Terrance Williams leads the conference and is No. 6 in the nation with 117.7 yards per game.

Williams is surrounded by 1,000 yard receivers in senior Lanear Sampson and junior Tevin Reese.

Sophomore Levi Norwood is also a threat that is often overlooked.

“One thing that shocks me is that he [Norwood] is not the biggest guy, but he might be one of the toughest guys to bring down on the field,” Florence said. “He plays with a lot of confidence and a lot of poise. He just understands the game and the holes.”

While the game is being predicted as a shootout, both teams’ defenses have different ideas.

“We want to go out and show that we can make plays too,” West Virginia senior linebacker Terence Garvin said. “Of course as a defense you never want to go out and expect to give up some points. You want to come out and say that we are going to make plays.”

West Virginia’s redshirt freshman Isaiah Bruce is No. 2 in the Big 12 with 30 tackles so far this year.

Baylor’s sophomore Bryce Hager is No. 1 in the conference with 13 tackles per game.

“They look pretty good on film,” junior wide re-ceiver Steadman Bailey said. “They look pretty solid on defense. They have some good defensive backs, and their guys up front do a good job of cre-ating pressure on the quarterback. They’ve given up quite a bit of points the past few games, but that’s no reason for us to take them lightly.”

While the matchup looks even statistically, turn-overs will play a big role in this game.

Baylor leads the Big 12 with a +2.0 turnover mar-gin.

“Coach [Phil] Bennett teaches perfection, he preaches perfection and that is what we are striving for,” Valdez said.

Ultimately, however, the result of the football game will all boil down to how it handles playing in one of the best stadiums in college football.

“They are going to have a good stadium,” Briles said. “It’s not like it’s going to be a big first-time deal for them. They have been doing things right up there for a long time. The only significance is that it’s their first Big 12 game.”

Both coaching staffs will be wearing Coach to Cure MD patches in support of Muscular Dystrophy Research, the most common fatal genetic disorder among boys. Text CURE to 90999 to donate $5 or visit CoachtoCureMD.org.

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Baylor @ West Virginia: This is by far the most difficult test the Bears will have faced this season. No. 9 West Virginia has a wildly raucous crowd in Morgantown, and the Bears will be forced to play an early game at 11 a.m. which will be a different experience for them this year. WVU quarterback Geno Smith has already thrown for 1,072 yards this season, and he has accounted for 13 touchdowns. The Mountaineers top offensive playmakers are Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey, who have 10 total touchdowns and more than 600 yards receiving. Baylor counters with a high-octane offense of its own with Nick Florence spreading the ball to Tevin Reese and Ter-rance Williams. Ultimately, WVU will be an extreme test for the Bears. Prediction: West Virginia 55, Baylor 38

Texas Tech @ Iowa State: The Cyclones and the Red Raiders are both 3-0 heading into their Big 12 Conference opener. Texas Tech has played a schedule full of marsh-mallows, and Iowa State is only slightly more battle-tested with a win over Iowa from the Big 10. Cyclones quarterback Steele Jantz can be a game-changer, and Texas Tech’s only road game thus far was at Texas State. Homefield advan-tage should give the Cyclones the edge. Prediction: Iowa State 35, Texas Tech 31

Texas @ Oklahoma State: It’s finally time to see what the Long-horns are made of in Big 12 com-petition. Sure, OSU lost Brandon Weeden and Justin Blackmon to the NFL, but playing in Stillwater is always a tough challenge. Cowboys running back Joseph Randle aver-ages more than 6.7 yards per carry

and has 335 yards rushing on the season. Texas quarterback David Ash has yet to throw an intercep-tion this season and has thrown for 703 yards. The Longhorns’ backfield is stacked with Malcolm Brown and Joe Bergeron, who have received 37 carries apiece this sea-son and have each run for more than 200 yards. Texas’ ground game might prove to be too much for the Cowboys. Prediction: Texas 41, Oklahoma State 24.

TCU @ SMU: As Baylor fans have witnessed, SMU is practically hopeless this season. This should be a breeze for the 3-0 Horned Frogs. SMU quarterback Garrett Gilbert has yet to blossom for the Mustangs, while Casey Pachall has the highest passer rating in the na-tion at 209.9 and has thrown for eight touchdowns and 841 yards for the No. 15 Horned Frogs. Al-though this is a rivalry game, TCU should get the better of SMU. Pre-diction: TCU 35, SMU 10

Teams on bye this week:Kansas: The Jayhawks are 1-3

with their only win coming over South Dakota State. On Oct. 6, the Jayhawks travel to Manhattan to take on the No. 7 Kansas State Wildcats.

Kansas State: The Wildcats up-set No. 6 Oklahoma in Norman last weekend in an impressive manner. Collin Klein was efficient with 149 yards passing and 79 yards rushing with a touchdown. The Wildcats play Kansas on Oct. 6.

Oklahoma: Head coach Bob Stoops has seen his Sooners squad suffer yet another upset at the hands of Kansas State. The Soon travel to Lubbock to face the Red Raiders on Oct. 6.

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‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ doesn’t fail to wow By Rob BradfieldEditor-in-Chief

I’ve seen a lot of Baylor musi-cals.

I haven’t enjoyed any as much as I enjoyed “Dirty Rotten Scoun-drels.”

“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” tells the story of Lawrence Jameson, a suave, continental con-man on the French Riviera.

Lawrence, played by Lewisville senior Richard Ross, makes his living tricking rich women out of their money. Accompanied by his pessimistic French “bodyguard” Andre, played by Seguin senior Francisco Lopez, the two rule over a court of Europe’s richest and most gullible wives and widows.

Ross, who is much taller than most, is well adapted to this role as a — pardon the phrase — giant among men. More than physical height, he has a towering presence that leaves none unconvinced of his claims to money and title.

Into this scene walks Fred-dy Benson, played by Colorado Springs junior Kevin Wilson.

Freddy is an aspiring con man,

and attaches himself to Lawrence as an unwanted student.

Call it opening weekend jitters, but I wasn’t immediately impressed with Wilson’s performance. His first scene jumped between the two poles of Bob Hope and Marty Mc-Fly. It seemed a little affected, but it didn’t last long.

In his first number Wilson re-ally found his voice and the char-acter took off like a rocket.

Suddenly there was this en-dearing, wheedling, witty, rascally and wholly likeable guy on stage. The sort of guy you’d love to have a drink with but wouldn’t leave your wallet unwatched with.

Among the other denizens of French Riviera casinos were the various heiresses that make up a good part of the rest of the cast.

Muriel, played by Sulphur Springs junior Brittney Woolley, is a terminally Midwestern heiress who gets swept up in Lawrence’s fake world. Her first solo song was an absolute powerhouse, and she did not disappoint afterwards.

My favorite part must have been the sequence with Oklahoma oil heiress Jolene.

Jolene, played by Spring junior Samantha Wendling, is pushy and wonderfully tacky. The con-trast between her brash southern

stubbornness, which everyone in Texas has experienced at one point or another, and the refined airs of Lawrence are a recipe for comedic splendor.

Last but not least is the ingenue Christine, played by Colleyville se-nior Kelsey Martin. Christine en-ters to great anticipation, and her first number does not disappoint. Far from being a device for Ross and Wilson to play off of, Martin grabs your attention when you first see her. Not literally in the play of course— saying more would be a horrible spoiler for a wonderful gag. Her character’s slow-to-erode naivete makes you want to slowly shake your head and say, “Bless her heart.”

Without giving anything away, I will say that it doesn’t end there with her.

The action takes place on a lav-ish setting that recalls at times the forced perspective sets of bygone eras of theater and the most mod-ern of Broadway glitz. The chore-ography, while slow to start, quick-ly picks up into a rolling pace that belies the difficulty of the moves.

The show is definitely a must- see for theater fans, and in spite of a few wobbles, Baylor’s version is exceedingly enjoyable and fun.

I’d plan on going again.

Associated Press

DALLAS — The State Fair of Texas opens today in Dallas with food, festivities and football as part of the 126th annual expo.

Organizers have chosen “Big and Bright” as this year’s theme. A Chinese Lantern Festival is part of the activities through Oct. 21 at Fair Park.

Free concerts include Kevin Costner & Modern West on Sat-

urday, Kansas on Oct. 14, Kellie Pickler on Oct. 19 and the Com-modores on Oct. 20. Grambling State will face Prairie View A&M on Oct. 6 at the Cotton Bowl. Oklahoma takes on Texas on Oct. 13 in the Red River Rivalry football matchup.

Fans of Fritos snacks can turn out Monday to see a huge chili pie marking the 80th anniversary of the corn chips. Frito-Lay is based in nearby Plano.

State Fair opens today

By Krista BrooksCalifornia State U.-Long Beach

UWIRE

I’m sure you’re all devastated about the news of the worldwide pork shortage.

Yes, this includes our favorite meat, bacon.

Last Thursday, Britain’s Nation-al Pig Association warned that the escalating numbers of shrinking herds are going cause an “unavoid-able bacon shortage. ”

This ‘porkapocalypse” is due to the increase in cost of feeding these delicious animals, according to the pig industry.

If you’re still reading, let out that breath you’ve been holding — bacon will not be extinct as pre-dicted.

The U.S. Department of Agri-culture predicts that the pork pro-duction of next year will be around 23 billion pounds, only a 1.3 per-cent decline in America.

Worldwide, it’s predicted that the availability will only be a 2 to 3 percent decrease per-capita.

Bacon has become a fad, or ob-session, for American food lovers.

In 2010, the pork consumption reached an all-time high of 33.4 pounds per person a year, accord-ing to the Department of Agricul-ture’s Foreign Agricultural Service.

Europe may experience a lack of bacon within the next few years, but only a 10 percent decrease at

most.Do not freak out. There will still

be bacon.The bacon crisis has spun into

an exaggerated epidemic. We can all blame the media, but let’s get serious.

If there was a terrible shortage of bacon in our future, we would all want to know about it immedi-ately.

Thankfully, this issue is not as worse as forecasted by the United

Kingdom, but the word “unavoid-able” comes across very serious and scary.

The bacon in the United King-dom is also different from the bacon that Americans eat with scrambled eggs and toast. The ba-con in this region is from a differ-ent part of the animal, a meat fa-miliar to us as “Canadian bacon.”

YouTube series “Epic Meal Time” will be happy to know that the price of bacon in Canada, how-ever, will not be raised as high as in the U.S.

This predicted scarcity was due

to a recent drought and rise of corn price.

This may raise the price of pork-per-pound within the next few years.

Steve Meyer, a consulting econ-omist to the National Pork Board, predicts that prices will be raised at most to $3.75 per pound. This price is only 25 cents higher than present costs.

If you were freaking out about the loss of bacon — I know I was — rest assured that it will only be raised by a measly quarter, a price us bacon-lovers will have to pay.

A Ferris Wheel rises over the Fair Park in DallasMCT

Have no fear: Bacon will not disappear

The Baylor Theatre Department presents “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26- 29 and Oct. 3-6 and 2:00 p.m. Sept. 30 and Oct. 7. Ticket information is available on http://www.baylor.edu/theatre/.

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also encouraged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to work more closely with individual providers on this issue and fol-low up with those who had a high number of refills.

The agency said it has already provided guidance to contractors regarding partial fills and will con-sider whether additional direction is necessary. But the agency said working with individual providers and pharmacies is not an efficient use of resources.

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the state to fund low-cost or no-cost surgeries, spays and neuters across the state. Less licenses plates have been ordered over the past two years, so there was less money in the fund.”

Echoing Virden’s statement, Carrie Kuehl, executive director of the Animal Birth Clinic, said peo-ple supported the cause through the sales.

“The grant wrapped up early,” Kuehl said. “It started slow, but as people understood and used the grant, the word spread. All of the funds were used for spays and neu-ters, and free rabies shots for cats

and dogs living in Waco.”Kuehl said the clinic was

pleased that the community sup-ported the Trap-Neuter-Return Program.

“The volunteer trappers and members of the community want to do the right thing and get them fixed,” she said. “Now we need to apply for a continuous grant, be-cause there are many strays and feral cats that need to be spayed or neutered.”

The Animal Birth Control clin-ic, at 3238 Clay Avenue, offers sur-geries and spays and neuters dogs and cats at a price lower than the

market price thanks to its fund-raising efforts. The clinic also offers low-cost vaccinations and flea and heartworm prevention medication.

Kuehl said the Trap-Neuter-Release Program helps alleviate community shelters of the growing number of animals.

“We don’t want those animals to have more litters, which are at much higher risk to end up at the Humane Society,” she said. “So ev-erything we do at our clinic affects them, so we want to do as much as we can to reduce the burden at the Human Society and rescue shelters and on municipal budgets.”

Virden said the clinic is run-ning out of room due to the large number of cats and dogs being brought in.

“People are not caring for their pets,” she said. “For every dog you don’t spay, you will have five to ten puppies per litter. Our local shelter was at an 85 percent euthanasia rate because not enough people were adopting. So our theory is if they aren’t born to begin with, we won’t have a problem.”

Virden also said that one in ten puppies or kittens will be passed from home to home or euthanized.

“The surgeries are partially sub-

sidized for the average pet owner. For the low income and the trap-neuter-release volunteers, those are the free surgeries. We are de-pendent on donors for helping with those. We typically have six to eight surgeries that we need to be free because of the low-income owners and the trap-neuter pro-gram.”

Kuehl said community mem-bers can still help if they cannot donate money.

“If they have their pet already spayed or neutered, they can help someone they know to help do the same, whether financially, provid-

ing transportation or telling them about our service for a reasonable price,” she said. “It’s more impor-tant now than ever for people to have their pets fixed because the Humane Society is being restrict-ed.”

The Animal Birth Control Clin-ic is located at 3238 Clay Avenue. Kuehl said the clinic is accepting donations online to continue its Trap-Neuter-Return program and other services. To donate, go to www.http://animalbirthcontrol.org. For more information, contact the clinic at 254-776-7303.

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now, buyers including CKE Inc., the owner of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. fast- food chains, expect higher prices in 2013 as herds shrink and U.S. exports rise.

“We’re going to see more con-solidation in the industry,” said Mark Greenwood, who oversees $1.4 billion of loans and leases to the hog business as a vice president at AgStar Financial Services Inc. in Mankato, Minn. “It’s only go-ing to get worse on the higher feed prices.”

Futures on the Chicago Mer-cantile Exchange fell 20 percent since June 30, the biggest drop among 24 commodities tracked by the Standard & Poor’s GSCI Spot Index, which rose 11 percent. The MSCI All-Country World Index of equities gained 7.7 percent this quarter and Treasur-ies returned 0.2 percent, a Bank of America Corp. index shows.

A pig eats 10 bushels of corn to reach a slaughter weight of about 270 pounds, the University of Mis-souri at Columbia estimates. Corn futures rose 47 percent since mid- June after the USDA predicted the drought will cut domestic output by 13 percent. Prices reached a re-cord $8.49 a bushel in Chicago on Aug. 10.

Producers may receive about $56 per hundredweight for hogs in the fourth quarter, and the cost of production is estimated at about $72.29 per hundredweight, said Chris Hurt, an agricultural econo-

mist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. That means farmers may earn about $151.20 for a 270- pound hog that cost about $195.18 to produce.

Hog farmers will see “huge amounts of red ink” in the fourth quarter, said Jim Robb, the director of the Livestock Marketing Infor-mation Center, which is funded by the industry, universities and gov-ernment. Fewer sows will be kept for breeding, cutting output and tightening pork supply, he said. That will raise both wholesale and retail prices to records by the sec-ond half of 2013, Robb said.

Prices for now are retreating, with wholesale pork costs tracked by the USDA tumbling as much as 25 percent since June 25 to the lowest in almost two years on Sept. 19. Hog slaughtering climbed 2.8 percent in first eight months of the year, the most since 2009, when farmers sought to shrink herds amid weaker demand following the global recession and the out-break of the H1N1 virus, known as swine flu.

The 12 percent drop in corn prices from a record last month, and the prospect of bigger harvests next year, may encourage some hog farmers to slow their herd re-duction. Slaughter rates in the five weeks through Sept. 1 rose less than 5 percent from a year earlier. That may leave enough sows to ac-celerate production once feed costs have come down enough, Rachel

J. Johnson, a USDA economist, wrote in a Sept. 18 report.

Meatpackers processed an esti-mated 79.735 million hogs in this year through Sept. 22, 2 percent more than a year earlier, govern-ment data show. Animals sold at slaughterhouses fell to 63.58 cents a pound on Sept. 14, the lowest since Nov. 26, 2010. Prices retreat-ed 8.5 percent this year.

Lean-hog futures for July de-livery are trading at 97.725 cents a pound, compared with 75.875 cents for this December, a sign traders are already anticipating fewer supplies next year. Per-capita pork supplies will shrink to 45.2 pounds next year, the lowest since 1975, the USDA estimates.

Hog producers are retaining fewer gilts, or young females that haven’t had a litter yet, reducing the number available to replace older sows, said Rich Nelson, the chief strategist at Allendale Inc. in McHenry, Illinois, who has tracked the market for about 15 years.

Brad Hennen, a hog producer in southwest Minnesota, is reduc-ing the size of his business because costlier feed and declining prices for weaned pigs. While he gener-ally markets as many as 15,000 pigs annually, he expects to sell no more than 6,000 this year.

“It could easily get worse than that,” said Hennen, who has been raising hogs since 1987.

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Brooks Flats hosts a Q& A panel Thursday on “How American Muslims View Islamic Protests Against America” with guest speakers Al Siddiq, President of the Islamic Center of Waco, International Security Anilyst David S. Oualaalou and Baylor World Religions Professor Dr. Chris van Gorder.

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the Q & A panel, hat the film was just the tip of the iceberg that start-ed the protests and that Americans should be educated on all of the issues that the Islam culture faces.

“We have fault and cannot blame their violence and behavior because they are uneducated or il-literate,” Siddiq said. “We have to look at ourselves and what we do to provoke those kind of incidents.”

Nakoula Bassely Nakoula, also known as Sam Bacile, the creator of the anti-Islam film, was arrested

on Thursday in California for vio-lating the terms of his probation of bank fraud in 2010.

“We are trying to figure out as a country, how to respond to vio-lence and threats of violence,” said Baylor World Religions Professor, Dr. Chris van Gorder. “We have the Patriot Act, which is an unbeliev-able violation of the constitution, but people put up with it because they are willing to give up free speech for security.”

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