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TOUGH SCHEDULE SECRET TO SUCCEss GRANT REWARDS KEEPS VOLLEYBALL ABILITY TO RECALL NAMES EFFORTS TO SAVE ON TOES PAGE 4 CAN PROVE ADVANTAGEOUS PAGE 3 GOSPEL MUSIC PAGE 5 ROUNDING UP CAMPUS NEWS SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT WEDNESDAY, OCtoBER 4, 2006 Coffee talk, prices heat up No change at Baylor es on handcrafted beverages And for the first time in nine caramel frappuccino is $3.75 on yesterday in all company-oper- years, Starbucks also has in- campus, but $3.70 at the same as costs increase ated stores in the United States, creased the price on whole bean Lacy Lakeview location. across the country Bertha Gonzaba, regional direc- coffee, Gonzaba said. Because of the nationwide in- tor for Starbucks Coffee Com- While the on-campus Star- crease and slightly higher prices By Laura Frase pany, said. bucks has yet to raise its pric- in the on-campus Starbucks, Staff writer “Starbucks regularly evalu- es because of the nationwide students are raising their voices ates business costs and has de- increase, the regular prices of against the price swells. For students scrounging termined that a price increase Baylor Starbucks still remain Junior Catherine Ward is a around under the sofa cush- is appropriate in our current higher than other area Star- frequent visitor to the on-cam- ions for change to fund their environment of rising energy, bucks, said a Baylor Starbucks pus Starbucks and is from Rich- caffeine fix, they might want to fuel and supply chain costs,” employee, who didn’t wish to be land, Wash., near the Starbucks start checking their neighbor’s Gonzaba said. named. Seattle headquarters. couch to cover the 5-cent, or 1.9 The last Starbucks price At the Baylor Starbucks, a tall Averaging four or five coffee percent, increase of Starbucks change was in October 2004 iced mocha costs $2.95, while breaks a week, Ward is appalled Henry Chan/Lariat staff drinks. and raised coffee prices by 11 the same drink in Lacy Lakev- Starbucks employee Adrian Bennett, an Austin senior, restocks drinks Monday Starbucks increased its pric- cents. iew is only $2.90. A grande Please see PRICES, page 6 at the Starbucks in the Dutton Avenue Office and Parking Facility. N. Korea preps to test nukes Kim Jong Il says communist nation still open to possible disarmament By Bo-Mi Lim The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea triggered global alarm Tuesday by saying it will conduct a nuclear test, a key step in the manufacture of atomic bombs that it views as a deterrent against any U.S. attack. But it also said it was committed to nuclear disarmament, suggesting a willingness to negotiate. The contradictory statement fits a North Kore- an pattern of ratcheting up tension on the Korean Peninsula, a Cold War-era flashpoint, in an at- tempt to win concessions like economic aid. The strategy has had mixed results in recent years as the totalitarian regime sinks deeper into isolation and poverty, with China serving as its lifeline for food and fuel. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Melea Burke/Lariat staff North Korea’s announcement “a very provocative act.” It came as the standoff deepened over Iran’s Face full of foam nuclear program, with senior U.N. diplomats say- ing six world powers would begin negotiations Christine Browder, a Dallas freshman, attacks Little Rock, Ark., freshman Kyle McLeod with a handful of shaving cream during Freshman Follies Tuesday night at Bear Park. Friday in London on possibly imposing sanctions Freshman Follies is one of Baylor’s oldest traditions and was moved from Minglewood Bowl to Bear Park. against Tehran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment. It was the first time North Korea had publicly announced its intent to conduct a nuclear test. Previously, it had warned that it might conduct a test, depending on U.S. actions. Voting made easy with ballot-by-mail “The U.S. extreme threat of a nuclear war and sanctions and pressure compel the Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) to conduct a nuclear By Van Darden “Or, if students are registered State Roger Williams, said students said students can also pick up their test, an essential process for bolstering nuclear Staff writer in their home county and want to may download their voter registra- voter registration forms in the pub- deterrent, as a self-defense measure in response,” change their residence to McLen- tion application at www.sos.state. lic affairs office or in the Bill Daniel said a statement by North Korea’s Foreign Min- Students interested in voting on nan County, they can pick up that tx.us. Student Center. istry and carried by the North’s official Korean Nov. 7 have until Tuesday to regis- form at city hall, many post offices, “Students wishing to vote in “If a student picks up a form Central News Agency. ter and until Oct. 31 to send in an libraries or online.” their home county without chang- from us or at the SUB, the postage is Yet it said it wanted to “settle hostile relations” application for ballot-by-mail, said Van Wolfe said students can ing residence can also download already paid, so he or she can send between the North and the United States, and that McLennan County’s elections ad- drop off those forms at her office at the application for ballot by mail on it in for free,” Hixson said. it “will do its utmost to realize the denucleariza- ministrator Kathy Van Wolfe. 214 N. 4th St., Suite 300, or send it our Web site and then turn it into According to the U.S. Census tion of the peninsula.” “Students should call their home by mail to the county’s elections of- the early voting clerk in their home Bureau, only 17.2 percent of Ameri- Many North Korea watchers believe the coun- county’s elections office and request fice. county,” Haywood said. cans ages 18 to 24 voted in the No- try’s dictator, Kim Jong Il, knows that all-out con- an application for ballot by mail,” Scott Haywood, director of com- Jana Hixson, associate director Van Wolfe said. munications for Texas Secretary of for Baylor’s Office of Public Affairs, Please see VOTE, page 6 Please see N. KOREA, page 6 Student spreads Killer’s final letter good news on bike reveals troubled past By Mark Scolforo planning to sexually assault By Ashleigh Boutte ple, so he accomplishes what he The Associated Press the Amish girls before police Reporter feels is his mission by covering closed in. the region between Baylor and QUARRYVILLE, Pa. — The “It’s very possible that he A cardboard sign and his Richland Mall wearing one of gunman who killed five girls intended to victimize these bike: These are the items that he his many signs. in an Amish schoolroom con- children in many ways prior uses to spread the gospel. “I continued to think about it fided to his wife during the to executing them and killing Physics graduate student and several months before I actually siege that he molested two himself,” State Police Commis- Dallas native Michael Devin, a went out and did it,” Devin said, relatives 20 years ago when he sioner Jeffrey B. Miller said. member of Antioch Community “I felt like it was a calling.” was a boy and was tormented But Roberts “became disorga- Church, rides around campus Devin said he has about eight by dreams of doing it again, nized when we arrived” and and the city carrying a sign on different signs that he wears. authorities said Tuesday. shot himself in the head. his back that reads “HIS LOVE Dr. Walter Wilcox, a profes- Investigators also said that Holding up a copy of the ENDURES FOREVER” to spread sor of physics, is a close friend Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, gunman’s suicide note at a the good news of Jesus Christ. of Devin’s and said he admires plotted his takeover of the packed news conference, Mill- “I just felt like I was being what he does. school for nearly a week and er also suggested that Roberts urged to do it,” Devin said. “Each time I see him he has a Kristina Bateman/Lariat staff that the items he brought, in- was haunted by the death of Devin said he is a pretty shy better version of the sign,” Wil- Michael Devin, a Dallas native and physics graduate student, has been spread- cluding flexible plastic ties, his prematurely born daughter person and is unable to speak ing the gospel on his bicycle for more than two years. Devin’s route takes him eyebolts and lubricating jelly, about the gospel to other peo- Please see DEVIN, page 6 from Baylor’s campus to Richland Mall. suggest he may have been Please see AMISH, page 6 VOL. 106 No. 22 www.baylor.edu/Lariat © 2006, BAYLOR UNIVERSITY 2 The Baylor Lariat OPINION Wednesday, October 4, 2006 Keep waiting, girls: Right guy will come along someday I figured out the other day of those child-and-family stud- always means trouble. Imagine then, if we dudes up inventing stuff like feminism that college is a great place to ies majors really plan on child- It’s a little troubling that my don’t really like the emotional and breaking glass ceilings meet girls. I say this because and-family studying for a job? gender can prove so lame some- stuff that much, what’s more and Sadie Hawkins dances. We there’s a lot of them here.