100 Years of Spirit Explain Threat

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Professors 100 years of spirit explain threat VIVIAN ROACH Staff Writer of coronavirus PRANAY more severe disease.” Celebrating MALEMPATI Dr. Alan Schultz, an Staff Writer anthropology assistant professor at Baylor and Baylor’s cheer epidemiologist, said the China’s daily death toll reason the coronavirus is a from a new virus topped threat is because it is unlike The Baylor University Spirit Squad is 100 for the first time and any disease our body has pushed the total past celebrating 100 years of serving as Baylor fought off before. 1,000 dead, authorities ambassadors cheering on the university’s “It’s interesting because said Tuesday after leader what exactly sets off the sports teams both at home and away. Xi Jinping visited a health The spirit squad is composed of all process by which enough center to rally public changes occur that the girl yell leaders, co-ed yell leaders, the morale amid little sign the immune system can’t fight songleaders dance team and mascots contagion is abating. it off?” Schultz said. “It Bruiser and Marigold. They perform at Though more offices looks like nothing else. all football games, basketball games and and stores in China It is, in that sense, brand home volleyball games. Team members were reopening after the new. So your immune also travel to postseason football extended Lunar New Year system doesn’t recognize championships and bowl games. break, many people appear it. Nothing you’ve seen Baylor yell leader alumna Susan Bell to be staying home. Public before necessarily affects it, health authorities are said during her time at Baylor from 1986 meaning that everyone is closely monitoring whether to 1988, the spirit squad consisted of yell vulnerable.” workers’ returning to cities Barr said the global leaders and songleaders, with five men and businesses resuming and five women as yell leaders. community is not very close worsens the spread of the to developing something to “Back in the day, we did it a little virus. fight the disease because of differently. I would try to get sleep before Baylor professors gave the type of virus it is. games but it was like we were trying to their thoughts on the “Coronavirus is an RNA compete with A&M, we had pep rallies virus based on their prior virus and it has a very high at midnight for the football games,” Bell experience and knowledge mutation rate,” Barr said. said. “I wouldn’t get home until 2 or 3 in of the virus. “It is also passed between the morning. Although you get energy Dr. Kelli Barr, assistant humans and numerous once you’re in front of the crowd; the professor at Baylor and sorts of animals like bats, adrenaline kicks in.” tropical disease biologist, cats, dogs, pigs, cows, so said that the novel Bell said most of the cheers and the it mutates even faster... Lariat File Photo coronavirus is actually not we probably will [have a band’s music has remained the same. At any more threatening than any game the fight song or “When The DECADE-LONG SUPPORT The Baylor University Spirit Squad was founded in 1920, vaccine] in the future.” and has served the Baylor community in sporting and spirit events. It has kept many other respiratory illnesses Saints Go Marching In” won’t be missed. Both professors said traditions from the past, including the fight song and other cheers. currently circulating. that the fatalities related When Bell was on the sidelines, the While the fatality rate to the disease are mostly bears joined them too. She said they got to once you get on the field, do pregame and community it has given her. for the coronavirus is among individuals who be really up close to them, and in proper also on the Baylor Line run, you get a new “When we are all in the locker rooms only 2%, less than that of have some sort of outside Baylor fashion, the bears were allowed to burst of energy,” Fuller said. so early, we just mess around. You make influenza, Barr said there is factor. They said this a right to be concerned. enjoy a Dr Pepper too. Bell said that during her time at Baylor a lot of fun memories hanging out with includes elderly people, It is tradition for the spirit squad to “The reason whythose already sick or those only the men ran the Baylor Line. everyone,” Talley said. it’s viewed as a threat is travel to postseason games. Bell traveled In 2019, Fuller and Talley traveled with As a new tradition for the spirit who smoke. to the Bluebonnet Bowl in 1986, and the because other viruses The statistics, according teams to the Big 12 championship game, squad, the songleaders will return to the have had severe fatalities,” NCAA men’s basketball tournament in to Schultz, show that out NCAA March Madness tournament, Dance Team Union’s College Classic as Barr said. “Coronavirus 1988 to cheer on Baylor. of every 100 people to be NCAA volleyball tournament and NCAA last year’s national champions during the can jump from human to exposed to this coronavirus, San Antonio junior Kathryn Fuller Division I women’s basketball tournament. first weekend of April in Las Vegas. They animal and is spread by has been dancing as a member of the only about four individuals Houston junior Caroline Talley has represent Baylor among other college’s respiratory contact. When get infected. However, songleaders and said the long hours are been a member of the songleaders since dance teams in a number of different you have those factors Schultz said a big reason more than worth it. her sophomore year, and said she enjoys dance competitions. combined, the virus has “We have really long days, wake up at the tradition of the Baylor spirit squad and more chance to become VIRUS >> Page 4 4 in the morning to get ready but honestly more pathogenic and cause Candidates congregate in Wednesday’s Career Day Waco for meet-and-greet sparks student interest LUCY RUSCITTO there were so many of them throughout the MATTHEW MUIR seat without an incumbent for the upcoming Staff Writer academic year. Many of the employers come Staff Writer election. Democrats David Anthony Jaramillo, specifically seeking Baylor grads to recruit. Rick Kennedy and William Foster III, Baylor’s Career Day is scheduled from 3 “We have it early in the semester because Republicans Kristin Alamo Rowin and Laurie Waco’s chapter of the League of Women p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Paul L. Foster that’s when employers are going to be Godfrey McReynolds and Libertarian Ted Voters hosted roughly 20 political candidates Campus for Business and Innovation and in Brown all came to pitch themselves to voters. recruiting,” Cefaratti said. “We do it all for a meet-and-greet Monday night at the the fifth floor of the Cashion Academic Center. Every attending candidate vying for the together so that the students, instead of taking Texas Rangers Hall of Fame. The event seat made healthcare one of their talking The campus Career Center hosts Career numerous days, can take one day they can included candidates from both major political points. As the Libertarian nominee, Brown Day to provide students with an opportunity dedicate to this.” parties running in next month’s primary is the only candidate so far guaranteed to to introduce themselves, create connections Las Vegas sophomore Anchal Chandra is elections seeking local, state and federal be on the ballot for the general election in and seek out internship and job opportunities on the pre-dentistry track at Baylor. She said offices. November. Brown pitched himself as the with over 150 employers. Ivy Hamerly, the voter services chair for this Wednesday will be her first time attending “anti-war candidate” and said he believes In the Paul L. Foster Campus for Business the Waco League of Women Voters, said Career Day, but she has fully utilized the in the Libertarian principles of free market that Monday night’s event took months of and Innovation atrium, for-profit companies Career Center and its resources in order to economics and personal freedom. This applies planning. Hamerly is responsible for reviving can be found meeting with students, and the receive her first collegiate internship. to his healthcare proposals as well; Brown said the League’s Waco chapter following the 2016 fifth floor of the Cashion Academic Center “I went to the Career Center to amp up the key to fixing America’s healthcare system election. will host nonprofits and government agencies. my resume, tailored towards internships I was is making use of the free market. She said she wanted to grow a healthy Shelby Cefaratti, the marketing aiming at for the summer. They also helped “I think there’s too much government political climate in the local community. communications coordinator at the career involved in healthcare, that what causes it to me with writing my personal statements and “After the 2016 election I thought - what is center, said there is a heavy emphasis on the become so expensive and so over-regulated,” other application essays,” Chandra said. “It something I could do that is constructive and Brown said. “Is healthcare a right or is it a fact that Career Day is all-encompassing for really helped me out, gave me confidence that helps improve our democracy?” Hamerly privilege or whatever? I don’t think it’s either.

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