ROUNDING UP CAMPUS NEWS SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT VOL. 110 No. 20 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2010 © 2010, Baylor University OPINION PAGE 2 SPORTS ONLINE NEWS PAGE 3 “While it may seem trivial to compliment Lady Bears win 4 of 5 MBA track supported the manner in which Baylor officials hand- BU softball lost the title by one run The Robbins Foundation led Tuesday’s protesters, the officials’ actions at the annual Getterman QTI Classic. awards funds to business school’s health care program should be an encouragement to students.” Check out coverage at baylorlariat.com Lady Bears El Niño source slide past of odd A&M, 65-63 pattern BY CHRIS DERRETT Washington was named SPORT S WRITER a starter Monday night and Professor cites earned 11 points in 33 minutes. Brittney Griner hauled in a Texas A&M stormed back, 18-month cycle career-high 21 rebounds and and Danielle Adams scored as cause of scored 22 points, crashing the seven straight points to pull her boards and finding the net in team ahead 23-21. Adams and North America’s critical times, in Baylor’s 65-63 senior forward Tanisha Smith win over Texas A&M in College provided 15 of the Aggies’ last cold weather Station Monday night. 17 points before halftime, which In front of a national ESPN2 ended in a 33-33 tie. BY JOHN ELIZON D O audience, Griner took an en- As the Aggies applied their REPORTER try pass from Kelli Griffin and man defense, the Lady Bears banked the ball off the glass searched for holes and found the The sun was shining and the for the go-ahead basket with 15 open teammate for nine first-half weather felt warm Sunday for seconds remaining. She pulled assists. Griner found Washing- the first time in a while in Waco, down two Aggie misses on the ton and Griffin for easy buckets but today the city is expected other end to seal the victory. by passing over the outstretched to receive about three inches of Griffin’s assist was her ninth, hands of double teams. snow. a conference season high for “Everybody’s comfortable Dr. Don Greene, Baylor geol- her, and Morghan Medlock, out there,” Mulkey said at half- ogy professor, said that the re- the only other non-freshman time. “What you see is we’re cent weather activity and condi- starter for the Lady Bears, had spreading the floor, and Griner tions are because of the climate nine rebounds. Medlock was is getting good looks.” pattern El Niño. one rebound short of a double- The Adams-Smith duo con- “Under normal weather double. tinued to hurt Baylor in the conditions, the polar jet stream “They’ve taken so much second half, scoring 10 of the travels more or less toward the criticism, and those kids need to Aggies’ first 15 points of the pe- Canada/U.S. border,” Greene be complimented because they riod. said. “But during El Niño years were troopers and warriors for But as the minutes ticked off such as this one, that jet stream you tonight,” coach Kim Mulkey the clock, Adams and Smith fad- has a higher amplitude.” said. ed away. At the 9:07 mark, after Greene said because of El Mulkey explained that she committing her fourth personal Niño, the Pacific Northwest considered taking a timeout be- foul, Adams walked herself to has been warmer than normal. fore Baylor’s last possession, but the bench and substituted her- The abnomal heat has caused despite Griffin’s seven turnovers self out of the game. She later weather problems for the Van- to that point, Mulkey wanted an fouled out, and Smith scored couver Winter Olympics while, experienced player to take the just one basket in the final 11:00. conversely, the eastern United ball up the court. Two Griner free throws gave States has experienced historic “It’s good to have players Baylor a 58-50 lead with 7:50 left. blizzards. SARAH GROMAN | STAFF PHOTO G RA P HER around you to make plays when Not willing to roll over, Texas El Niño and its sister, La you give them the ball. It’s ex- A&M spread its next 11 points Texas A&M’s No. 23 Danielle Adams, right, reaches in on Baylor’s No. 4 Brittney Griner, in the first half of Niña, are both southern oscilla- citing to play games like this,” between four players to cut the Monday’s game in College Station, where the Lady Bears beat the Aggies, 65-63. tions that usually occur in cycles Griffin said. deficit to 63-59. about every seven years. Yet the Both teams fought to set Although the win improves “I haven’t even looked at it. I In the last matchup between win. Jones missed her seventh world has not experienced an El the tone and build a lead until the Lady Bears’ conference re- can’t focus on that because I’ve Baylor and Texas A&M, in straight game Monday night Niño like this since 1998 when Shanay Washington turned a cord to 7-6 and gives the team got to get freshmen to the level Waco, Melissa Jones returned for the stress reactor that has there were several storms in In- Brittney Griner pass into a layup its 20th win, Mulkey has yet to to be able to win the next game,” from a four-game injury and plagued her during all of con- donesia and fires in Australia. and and-1 free throw, giving think about the Big 12 tourna- Mulkey said. helped the Lady Bears to a 61-53 ference play. Baylor a 19-12 lead. ment. see SNOW, pg. 4 Austin man’s Waco tea partiers suicide attack boast importance of Texas primary called ‘heroic’ BY LAURA REMSON ulous an outlet,” Simon said. fringe Web sites such as storm- ST A FF WRITER “They give people a place to go Some see pilot’s front.org, a forum for white su- where they can be around other plane crash into premacists. But admirers also Local election candidates people that have the same sort are expressing their apprecia- met with the public Saturday for of feelings that they do. … It’s IRS building tion on mainstream sites such as a “hob nob” event at the Palladi- everybody out there and they Facebook, where a fan page um in downtown Waco, hosted are all getting together over one as way of supporting some of the things by the Waco Tea Party. cause and purpose and it gives ‘sticking it to he said in his six-page manifesto Toby Marie Walker is the them a voice and an outlet to ex- had more than 2,000 members president and a co-founder press their dissatisfaction.” the man’ Monday. of the Waco Tea Party. She ex- A number of Republican lo- Stack, 53, left behind a ram- plained that the party decided cal election candidates attended BY JEFF CARLTON bling, 3,000-word screed in to hold this event as a means for the event along with surprise Ass OCI A TED PRE ss which he ranted about his fi- the community to better under- visitors Samuel Joseph Wur- nancial reverses, his difficulty stand the upcoming election. zelbacher, nicknamed “Joe the DALLAS — Flames were still finding work in Austin and his “We wanted people to be in- Plumber” by the presidential shooting from the building when hatred of big business. Mostly, formed, involved and active vot- campaign of 2008, and Deborah the suicide pilot who crashed though, he focused on his clash- ers and we don’t want people to Johns of the Tea Party Express, his plane into the IRS office in es with the IRS, including one make last-minute decisions in who are currently traveling Austin was being hailed in some after he failed to file a tax return the voting booth without know- around for the tea party move- corners as a hero who struck a because he said he had no in- ing about who is running,” ment. courageous blow against the come. Stack traced his problems Walker said. “Most of our events While Wurzelbacher doesn’t tyranny of the U.S. tax code. to a 1986 change in the tax code are like this. They are not always get involved directly in local While most Americans sure- affecting software contractors the protests or the rallies. We are elections, he understands the SARAH GROMAN | STAFF PHOTO G RA P HER ly see Joseph Stack as an angry, like him. still just Americans, just regu- importance of community in- misguided man whose final act In Texas, Republican guber- Firefighters of the Austin Fire Department work to put out the remnants lar…This isn’t a protest; it’s a volvement. was repugnant, his suicide mis- natorial candidate Debra Medi- of the fire Friday that destroyed the house of suicide attacker Joseph meet-and-greet with everyone “I encourage Americans in sion has clearly tapped a vein of na told a San Antonio radio sta- A. Stack. The house, which is located at 1827 Dapplegrey Lane Austin, so that we can get to know the that area to get involved in their was set on fire by Stack before his attack on the Echelon Building later rage among anti-tax, anti-gov- tion last week that she did not candidates better.” (elections), because I don’t know that day. ernment extremists. sympathize with Stack, but that Walker said many of the the politics, I don’t know the ins The way they see it, “he did his act reflected “the hopeless- Waco Tea Party’s events are not and outs of what’s going on the ultimate flipping of the bird ness many in our society feel.” terview broadcast Monday on in Norway, where she lives, she rallies and protests.