PAST AND PRESENT: A JOURNEY THROUGH SIGNIFICANT POINTS IN BAylor’s historY SECTION B ROUNDING UP CAMPUS NEWS SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT FRIDAY, OCtoBER 20, 2006 1 year later, UBC pastor not forgotten minor, too. are “finally getting out of sur- Adam Horton, a Waynesville, Wife, friends reflect Then came the real news: vival mode.” N.C., graduate student, said on Lake’s devotion Kyle Lake, the pastor of UBC, She said Lake’s death brought Lake’s marriage was “almost had been electrocuted in the a barrage of changes for them. like a storybook relationship.” to serving others waters of the baptistery during “This year I’ve had to rede- One of the things that gave a service and was on his way to fine what normal and what hap- Lake the most joy in life was his By Lauren Hightower the hospital. piness is,” Jennifer said. relationship with his children, Reporter Last year, the congregation She described changes in Jennifer said. She said he was al- of UBC was in disbelief. Lake’s everything from her role at Uni- ways looking forward to life, but Craig Nash was sitting in the death left behind his wife, three versity Baptist Church to her would tear up at the thoughts of nursery when a mother came in children, countless friends and personal identity. his children growing up. and took her daughter out. a legacy that is still remembered Now, nearly a year after his Nash, one of Lake’s closest He said he heard someone in by everyone he knew. death, Jennifer is able to talk friends, said Lake loved to play the nursery mention an accident Today Jennifer Lake, the wife and laugh about all of the things hide and seek with his chil- at University Baptist Church, and widow of Kyle Lake, says that she remembers about her dren. Courtesy photo but a light had fallen out in one she and her three children, a husband. She described their “He would keep hiding long Former University Baptist Church Kyle Lake plays with his three children, Avery, of the previous weeks, so this daughter, Avery, 6, and 3-year- relationship as a “perfect fit and Sutton and Jude. Lake was electrocuted last fall during a worship service. one was probably something old twin sons Sutton and Jude, balance.” Please see LAKE, page 10A Brooks accused of elitism Concerns raised regarding residence’s name, secret traditions By Analiz González Staff writer Some faculty members have expressed con- cern over what they perceive to be a radically dif- ferent community at Brooks College than at other residences on campus. The college will have its own board of trustees, motto and coat of arms. It will be modeled after universities like Cambridge and Oxford and will have a medieval feel, complete with secret tradi- tions, a community covenant and a live-in faculty headmaster. Freshmen who want to live in the college will have to make two-year commitments to stay in the community and all its members will take part in weekly closed dinners that exclude nonresidents and honor esteemed students and college guests by seating them at a high table similar to the one in Harry Potter. Faculty Senate Chairwoman Dianna Vitanza said some faculty believe Brooks College seems a little pretentious and elitist. Kristina Bateman/Lariat staff “There are lots of places where students live on campus and they are not called colleges,” Vitanza said. Burn, baby, burn “They don’t have trustees. They don’t have a Members of the freshman class of 2010 guard the eternal flame from upperclass- to light the bonfire at 9:30 p.m. today at the Ferrell Special Events Center parking men Thursday at Fountain Mall. Members of the freshman class will use the flame lot. For the history of the eternal flame, see page 10B. Please see BROOKS, page 10A Students trace legacies back multiple generations By Claire St. Amant more than an education, it’s a “All of my life, I have known years later her mother, Becky Baylor was the place for her. great-great grandmother, Bell Reporter tradition. about Baylor traditions,” Casen Rector Brown also graduated. “I was already so comfortable Riley, graduated in 1885, earn- Growing up, sophomore said. “My parents were really in- on campus, and I knew that my ing her Mistress of Science de- If you learned the words to Casen Brown and her brother, The Brown family boasts volved while at Baylor and I parents would be pleased with gree from the Independence, the Baylor Line before you could Kellan, a junior, traveled with five alumni spanning two gen- think that is why they loved it so my decision,” Casen said. Texas campus, Lindsay Spur- sing the national anthem, at- their parents from Geneva, Swit- erations, Casen said. Both of her much,” Casen said. “They have While five alumni in the fam- lock said. tending Baylor was probably in zerland, to attend Baylor football parents, two aunts and an uncle so many memories and friends ily is an accomplishment in it- The family legacy continues your mind long before it entered games. Even though her father’s comprise the Baylor portion of from their college years.” self, one student has green and with her great-grandmother, the thoughts of the average job took the family from Plano their family tree. Her father, When looking for a college of gold roots that trace back five Ella Jeter, class of 1912, and her Baylor Bear. to Switzerland, they wouldn’t let Randy Brown, a Chamber mem- her own, Casen said she didn’t generations. Arlington sisters For some families, college is go of the Baylor spirit. ber, graduated in 1976. Two have a whole lot of doubt that Lindsay and Sarah Spurlock’s Please see FAMILY, page 10A A injured woman’s relative Officials say violence shouts for help Northern students Thursday at Yarmouk Hospi- hasn’t subsided in Iraq tal in Baghdad, Iraq, moments shocked by culture By Christopher Bodeen the toll for American troops in before she died. The Associated Press October to 74. The month is on In two roadside By Kris Firth to make new friends since course to be the deadliest for explosions Reporter people are nicer here. BAGHDAD — The U.S. mili- U.S. forces in nearly two years. in Baghdad’s Danielle Lee, a freshman tary acknowledged Thursday The high death tolls this neighborhood Howdy, y’all. from Pompton Plains, N.J., of Dora, at least that its two-month drive to month for both Americans and four people died Welcome to Texas, the chose Baylor for its strong crush insurgent and militia vio- Iraqis have pushed the long and and 13 were home of cowboys, country mu- Christian atmosphere and its lence in the Iraqi capital had unpopular war back into the wounded. sic, extreme heat and Southern Honors Program. fallen short, calling the raging public eye in the United States, friendliness. Lee said she also found bloodshed disheartening and forcing the Bush administration At least that’s how Texas Texas to be a lot more friendly saying it was rethinking its and the military to address diffi- is viewed from the eye of a than her hometown. strategy to rein in gunmen, tor- cult questions in the final weeks Northerner. “In Jersey, when someone turers and bombers. of the midterm U.S. election For those that leave home smiles at you, you immediately The admission by military campaign. up North to attend college at get suspicious,” Lee said. “Here spokesman Maj. Gen. Wil- Vice President Dick Cheney Baylor, the Southern culture in Texas, everyone smiles. It’s liam B. Caldwell came as car said the United States was not may come as a shock. normal.” bombs, mortar fire and shoot- looking for a way out of Iraq. “I “No one, I mean no one, Other aspects of Southern ings around the country killed know what the president thinks. Associated Press says ‘y’all’ where I’m from,” culture, such as the environ- at least 66 people and wounded I know what I think. And we’re said Alex Kushneir, a Ridge, ment, are drastically different 175. The dead included the An- not looking for an exit strat- in the capital had not delivered “In Baghdad, Operation To- N.J., freshman. “It’s either ‘you than up North, Lee said. bar province police commander, egy. We’re looking for victory,” the desired results, with attacks gether Forward has made a dif- guys’ or ‘how you doin.’” The lack of mountains and slain by gunmen who burst into Cheney said in an interview in Baghdad rising by 22 percent ference in the focus areas but Kushnier said the biggest trees, as well as the heat, sur- his home in Ramadi. posted on Time magazine’s Web in the first three weeks of the has not met our overall expecta- difference between the North prised Lee when she first ar- The U.S. military also an- site Thursday. Muslim holy month of Ramadan tions in sustaining a reduction and the South is the person- rived in August. As an avid nounced the deaths of three Caldwell told reporters the when compared to the three ality and manners of people. U.S. troops in fighting, raising U.S.-Iraqi bid to crush violence previous weeks. Please see IRAQ, page 10A Kushnier said he found it easy Please see SOUTH, page 10A VOL. 106 No. 31 www.baylor.edu/Lariat © 2006, BAYLOR UNIVERSITY 2A The Baylor Lariat OPINION Friday, October 20, 2006 Demise of interlocking BU has been greatly exaggerated Over the last couple of days tuition dollars it would cost to tinue to take an active interest until the fourth page, after six ever, wish that in the future I have witnessed students do away with all the interlock- in the direction and progress of other schools.