Chamber Waits to Reveal Headliner
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WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE TheTHURSDAY | APRIL 11, 2013 Baylor Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com SPORTS Page 5 NEWS Page 6 A&E Page 4 Hoping for good To the house Tournament of Champs The Lady Bears look to bounce Texas welfare applicants may be Baylor senior competes against back from a rocky stretch and end subjected to drug testing under a bill 15 other students for $100,000 the season strong passed by the Senate on ‘Jeopardy’ Vol. 115 No. 40 © 2013, Baylor University In Print >> PLAY BALL Chamber waits to reveal headliner The baseball team has gained momentum after a slow start to the season Students express frustration with lack of knowledge about performer By Danny Huizinga on attendance. People might not dent Brian Kim, Chamber was ning of this year, however, student Last year, the headliner band, Page 5 Contributor go if they don’t know that they’ll given $90,000 for entertainment government voted to grant the Parachute, was announced by and Caroline Brewton like who is playing,” said Travis for this year’s event. The figure is increased funds to Chamber in a March 27, a full 24 days before Editor-in-chief Gidley, a Sugar Land junior. meant to cover total entertain- special allocation for Diadeloso Diadeloso. In previous years, the >> WHY DO IT? Diadeloso, an annual holiday ment costs and not just the head- without requiring the application event’s details were also released Is becoming a journalist Banners promoting the event for students, will be held next liner. This is almost four times the process. This took place on Sept. 6 sooner. In 2011, country art- worth the work? One are up around campus, but no an- Thursday. During Dia, students amount budgeted for Diadeloso of last year. ist Jack Ingram was chosen and reporter explores the nouncement has yet been made are entertained by a variety of 2012, when Chamber was allocat- “By giving them the money at announced by March 24. Well- usefulness of a media as to who will headline Baylor’s shows, activities and sporting ed only $25,000 for entertainment the beginning of the year, this al- known artist Colbie Callait played degree in a market with Diadeloso celebration. events, usually culminating in a expenses. lowed for Chamber to have more at Dia in 2010. Details of her con- With Diadeloso coming up in a rapid decline in the performance by a headliner band. Furthermore, Kim said, the time to book an artist,” said one cert were released as early as April less than a week and no headliner number of jobs Expectations are high. Cham- process was made easier for senator, who spoke on condition 8 for the April 22 event. announced, students are left won- ber has been given an increased Chamber to secure the funds this of anonymity. The intent was for Pauline Minnaar, the Diade- dering what their entertainment amount of funding by student year. Prior to this year, Chamber Chamber to use the increased loso chair for the Baylor Chamber Page 3 will be. government to find quality enter- had to fill out a formal application resources to secure a more popu- of Commerce, the organization “I feel like Chamber’s ambigu- tainment. According to student for funds, just like any other stu- lar artist than the one who per- in charge of the event, said the ity concerning the headliner for government Internal Vice Presi- dent organization. At the begin- formed last year, the senator said. Diadeloso is taking a huge gamble SEE HEADLINER, page 6 Hospital back to normal after lockdown By Caroline Brewton the lockdown, the hospital’s op- And Rob Bradfield erations continued, although se- Lariat staff curity guards were posted at hos- Download the Lariat pital entrances to screen potential app on your Apple and Waco’s Hillcrest Baptist Medi- threats. Android devices today! cal Center continues normal “Safety is the first thing that business today after a lockdown comes to our mind,” Robinson Wednesday morning that lasted a said. few hours. Members of the Waco Police Viewpoints Shortly after 10 a.m. on Department responded in addi- Wednesday, Hillcrest Baptist tion to hospital security. Sgt. Pat- Medical Center in Waco went on rick Swanton of the Waco Police “Here’s the lockdown in response to a threat- Department said the investigation ening phone call. into the threat is ongoing, but problem: Pokémon The hospital, which is located “there is no immediate hostile ac- and Super Mario at 100 Hillcrest Medical Blvd., was tion going on inside the hospital.” given the all-clear late Wednesday Since the all-clear was given aren’t real. If morning. for the hospital and the lockdown PETA wants to be Hospital CEO Glenn Robin- ended, the screening has stopped. son said the lockdown was de- Robinson said this is the first taken seriously, clared as a precautionary mea- time this facility has been threat- then it needs to sure after the hospital received a ened in the past year. stop criticizing threatening phone call. During Nintendo games and focus on actually promoting the ethical treatment of animals. Nintendo is not under fire from MONICA LAKE | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER animal rights groups. PETA is.” Take it away, hoppers Page 2 Ryan Alyward and Ben Barnes of Kappa Sigma finish the last leg of the three-legged race at Kappa MATT HELLMAN | LARIAT PHOTO EDITOR Alpha Theta’s “Theta Olympics,” on Wednesday, where each fraternity competes in different events, Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center has been given the all-clear and is back from an inflatable challenge course to a muddy tug-o-war. to normal business after a threatening phone call that put it on lockdown Bear Briefs Wednesday morning. The place to go to know the places to go Air Force general: Actions aim to deter NKorea Fun at the ballpark By Audrey McAvoy to mess with America today’ — less likely to face weather prob- The Baylor Alumni Associated Press that’s a good morning,” Gen. Her- lems if they were flying out of Network will sponsor a bert Carlisle said Tuesday in an a place like Misawa Air Base in community tailgate from JOINT BASE PEARL HAR- interview at his headquarters in northern Japan, Carlisle said. 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at the BOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — The Hawaii. “We need all those morn- The U.S. uses the drones to Baylor Ballpark. A free United States sent its most pow- ings to keep coming.” monitor North Korea and could hotdog lunch followed by erful airplanes to the Korean The U.S. is hoping a missile de- do so from Japan as well, Carlisle peninsula in recent weeks in part Bluebell ice cream will be fense system it’s sending to Guam, said. because it wants North Korea to a U.S. territory and strategically “They could do all the mis- offered along with carnival know what the American military important military outpost 1,500 sions that they do now if they games, inflatables and free is capable of doing, the top U.S. miles south of Tokyo, will have were flying out of Japanese bases,” admission to the baseball Air Force commander in the Pa- the same deterrent effect, he said. he said. and softball games. cific said. If “they know we got some- Tokyo is also considering buy- B-2 stealth bombers, F-22 thing that can knock down their ing some of the drones for its own stealth fighters and B-52 bombers missiles — it may stop them from use, Carlisle said. have recently all flown to South shooting them,” Carlisle said. “We’re still working it with Korea for exercises or short de- The U.S. has also explained it’s LEE JIN-MAN | ASSOCIATED PRESS the Japanese government. I don’t ployments in what amounted to a South Korean Army soldiers, along with U.S. Air Force’s Airman First reassuring its allies by showing it’s Class Lee Simpson, top, run a joint military drill between South Korea know whether we’ll do it this year dramatic display of U.S. air power. prepared to defend them. and the United States to protect a U.S. air base on Thursday near the or not. It does cost money to do The stealth planes are capable of The missile defense system Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea. that, again that’s another factor. sneaking past radar undetected. — called Terminal High Altitude We’re still examining it and look- B-2 and B-52 bombers are capable Area Defense — is designed to in- and midflight phases. land’s summer storm season. Of- ing at how to make it happen. of delivering nuclear weapons. tercept missiles during their final Carlisle said the U.S. also is ten, typhoons and thunderstorms When we do it is another ques- “Every morning that a poten- stage of flight. It joins other tech- considering sending high-altitude around Guam ground the Global tion,” he said. tial adversary gets up and goes, nology the military has to inter- surveillance planes from Guam Hawk drones from April through ‘You know what, I’m not going cept missiles during their initial to Japan during the tropical is- November. The planes would be SEE NKOREA, page 6 Rounding up campus news since 1900 TheLariat Best Student Newspaper three years running | Houston Press Club THURSDAY | APRIL 11, 2013* | the Opinion 2 Baylor Lariat www.baylorlariat.com Lariat Letters Lariat picture misleading I’m writing in response to an April 3 article titled “Central Texas plagued by rabies.” As a citizen of Waco and a person that works with the feral cat community in our area, I would like to offer a few words in response to the ar- ticle about recent rabies cases in McLennan County.