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WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE TheWEDNESDAY | FEBRUARY Baylor8, 2012* Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com A&E Page 4 NEWS Page 3 SPORTS Page 5 New beats Print a valentine What’s at stake Fun Fun Fun Fest headliners Students will have the chance to Interview with head coach Scott “Odd Future” hip-hop collective create free Valentines for a special Drew reveals strategy for tonight’s to release new album someone on Thursday game against Kansas Jayhawks Vol. 113 No. 13 © 2012, Baylor University In Print >> Greatness ahead Proposition 8 declared unconstitutional One-man band, Tidewater, looks forward to year of By Lisa Leff er, I would have never dreamed in tours and single releases Associated Press a million years that we would be allowed to be legally married, and Page 4 SAN FRANCISCO — Same- here we are.” sex marriage moved one step The ban known as Proposition closer to the Supreme Court on 8 was approved by voters in 2008 >> Right on track Tuesday when a federal appeals with 52 percent of the vote. Baylor track and field court ruled California’s ban un- The court said it was uncon- bring glory to the game constitutional, saying it serves stitutional because it singled out last weekend no purpose other than to “lessen a minority group for disparate the status and human dignity” of treatment for no compelling rea- UNIFORM from Page 1 son. Page 5 gays. A three-judge panel of the 9th The justices concluded that the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave law had no purpose other than to >> Food for the Soul gay marriage opponents time to deny gay couples marriage, since Panel discussion in honor appeal the 2-1 decision before or- California already grants them of black history month dering the state to allow same-sex all the rights and benefits of mar- seeks to inspire community weddings to resume. riage if they register as domestic “I’m ecstatic. I recognize that partners. we have a ways to go yet. We may “Had Marilyn Monroe’s film Page 3 been called `How to Register a have one or two more legal steps,” ASSOCIATED PRESS said Jane Leyland, who was gath- Domestic Partnership with a Mil- Supporters of gay marriage react outside the James R. Browning United States Courthouse after a federal ap- ered with a small crowd outside lionaire,’ it would not have con- peals court declared California’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional on Tuesday. Viewpoints the federal courthouse in down- veyed the same meaning as did town San Francisco, cheering as her famous movie, even though The appeals court focused its ly controversial question,” the the District of Columbia. Cali- they learned of the ruling. the underlying drama for same- decision exclusively on Califor- court said. “We need not and do fornia, as the nation’s most popu- “Teaching is a Leyland married her longtime sex couples is no different,” the nia’s ban, not the bigger debate, not answer the broader question lous state and home to more than taxing profession — partner, Terry Gilb, during the court said. even though the court has juris- in this case.” 98,000 same-sex couples, would five-month window when same- The lone dissenting judge in- diction in nine Western states. Six states allow gay couples to be the gay rights movement’s big- mentally, physically sex marriage was legal in Califor- sisted that the ban could help Whether same-sex couples wed - Connecticut, New Hamp- gest prize of them all. and monetarily. nia. ensure that children are raised by may ever be denied the right to shire, Iowa, Massachusetts, New “But when we first got togeth- married, opposite-sex parents. marry “is an important and high- York and Vermont - as well as Those willing to SEE MARRIAGE, page 6 give up so much for the scores of children who need Small businesses yield them year after year should not be extorted for better health, study finds their generosity. By Linda Wilkins businesses in a community (small the population. They should be Staff Writer or large) and the health percent- “Most people assume small ages of the community. locally owned businesses cannot rewarded.” Small businesses may be what Mencken said there are many provide health stability,” Mencken Page 2 communities need in order to theses regarding the growth of big said. “We showed the opposite.” have healthier populations, ac- businesses and the relationship to The goal of the study was to Bear Briefs cording to a study done by two the health of local populations. understand how small businesses Baylor professors and a Louisiana The professors were attempting have added benefits over big busi- MATT HELLMAN | LARIAT PHOTO EDITOR State University professor. to test the hypothesis that small nesses. The place to go to know After a 30-year career, Betty Spencer decided to retire from her position Dr. Carson Mencken and Dr. businesses lead to healthier local “The big places come and go; as uniform custodian for the Baylor Air Force ROTC program. the places to go Charles Tolbert, Baylor professors populations than big businesses. the small places commit to the of sociology, along with Dr. Troy Blanchard said the health of a community,” Mencken said, re- B.U.R.S.T. begins Blanchard, associate professor community is part of its growth garding the conclusion of their Professor Edward B. of sociology at LSU, conducted a and that there are different ways study. “A more grounded ap- Burger, vice provost for Uniformly loved study that examines the relation- a community can grow and be- proach can be better for long- ship between small businesses strategic educational Ini- come stable. He said the first way term growth.” The commitment and the health of people in their is attracting large businesses from to the community is what helps tiatives and the 2010 Rob- forms they need in a timely man- AFROTC Uniform ner. She has a very good plan for community. outside the community. “This ap- people become healthier, Menck- ert Foster Cherry Award custodian plans for issuing the uniforms.” “It was the first study to show proach is common, and we know en said. winner for Great Teach- Despite her original plans to that small businesses are healthier it tends to yield positive benefits,” The study found the mortal- ing at Baylor, will deliver retirement in June retire in August, she agreed to stay for the growth of a population,” Blanchard said. ity rates, the rate of diabetes and his special lecture “Zero an extra semester to ease Wooten’s Mencken said. The second way of growing the obesity rates of populations to Infinity: Great Mo- By Daniel C. Houston transition into the commander The researchers found the a community is by stimulating surrounded by a variety of small Staff Writer growth of small-businesses might small business growth and allow- businesses were lower than those ments in the History of position. When January rolled from Page 1 around, AFROTC staff once again produce positive results in the ing small businesses to be suc- surrounded by large businesses, LECTURE Numbers” to the student She intended to retire in Au- requested she stay through the health of the residents in the com- cessful, he said. Blanchard said. organization B.U.R.S.T. gust, but she said, “they kept ask- end of the school year while they munity, Blanchard said. With this method, Blanchard In a press release, Tolbert said (Baylor Undergraduate ing me to stay.” searched for a replacement. The researchers used data said it is often hard to see how small businesses have an attitude Research in Science and For Baylor’s Air Force ROTC Spencer agreed to push her re- from several different national it affects local residents because of determination and take “a prac- program, Betty Spencer’s con- Technology) at 7 p.m. tirement to June. Even though she databases and examined the re- small businesses are not usually tributions have been a constant Thursday in B110 isn’t exactly sure what her plans lationship between the sizes of expected to improve the health of SEE BUSINESSES, page 6 for more than 30 years. While Baylor Sciences Building. for retirement are, Spencer said the organization saw 15 detach- a vacation in Hawaii — the only ment commanders, thousands of American state she hasn’t vis- students and three headquarters On the battlefield ited — is a top priority. She also Civil Rights hero shares story come and go during the past three The game between expressed interest in volunteer decades, it had only one uniform No. 6 Baylor Bears and work. By Rob Bradfield Servive Committee. Before he be- odd jobs, including washing pots custodian. “I’ve got to quit telling people Staff Writer gan telling his own story, he told at a local lunchroom. When the the Kansas Jayhawks will Spencer said the main motiva- when I’m going to retire,” Spen- the audience how impressed he Nashville sit-ins began in 1960, be televised on ESPN at tion for her long career was the cer joked, “because I’m starting Students, faculty and guests was by the students he had met LaFayette found himself pro- 6:03 p.m. today. connection she made with the to sound like Chicken Little, you gathered on the top floor of the so far. testing in the very restaurant he program’s students, but she plans know? ‘The sky is falling!’” Hankamer School of Business to “I can tell from observation worked. LaFayette lost his job and to finally leave the program — Best of Black Glasses Spencer’s time with the AF- hear a leader in the fight against that you have something special joined the movement in earnest.

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