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STAY CONNECTED >> Follow us on Twitter at @BULARIAT for breaking news updates and more Baylor Softball wins at home 6-0: pg. 6 LariatWE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE MARCH 30, 2017 THURSDAY BAYLORLARIAT.COM Garland testifies on new Texas Senate bill KALYN STORY Staff Writer Baylor interim President David Garland testified at a Texas Senate Higher Education Committee hearing Wednesday regarding a bill that would require Baylor to comply with state laws from which it is are currently exempt. If passed, Senate Bill 1092 would Photo Illustration by Liesje Powers | Photo Editor require any school that receives more POSITIVE PERSPECTIVE Men for Change was created in partnership with Baylor Formation, the department of multicultural affairs and the Baylor than $5 million in Tuition Equalization Counseling Center to change the way society views masculinity. Grants from the state to comply with state open records and open meetings laws. Under current law, because Baylor is a private institution, it does not have to obey state open records and open meeting laws. Men for Change During the hearing, Garland told the senators that 2,943 Baylor students receive aid from the Tuition Organization seeks to redefine society’s view on masculinity Equalization Grant, 1,597 of which are from minority populations and 962 are first-generation college students. RYLEE SEAVERS with Baylor Formation, the department of masculinity and help them figure out what that Garland said that if the bill were Staff Writer multicultural affairs and the Baylor Counseling might look like,” Ritter said. to pass as written it would only Center. The group is a “brave space” for Baylor Ritter said most men grow up with a picture affect Baylor and the University of In a culture saturated with depictions of what men to discuss spirituality and masculinity and of masculinity centered around athleticism and the Incarnate Word, with three other masculinity is, Men for Change seeks to address find an intersection between the two, according promiscuity. Men for Change takes a more private universities coming close to the the negative aspects of society’s definition to its website. holistic look at masculinity, grounded in the $5 million mark. of masculinity and explore healthy forms of “Our society focuses on hypermasculinity Christian faith, he said. Examining Moses and State Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, masculinity as defined by spirituality said Dr. and hyperfemininity as two ideologies that seem Jesus, he said, gives a very different picture of Josh Ritter, co-leader of Men for Change and socially acceptable to most people, and so we masculinity than looking at present-day male assistant director for Baylor Formation. want to challenge the men at Baylor to engage BILL >> Page 4 Men for Change was formed in partnership in a different type, a more healthy version, of CHANGE >> Page 3 Freshman Class Council to host Gut Pak Run RACHEL SMITH campus. All proceeds from the event Prizes will be awarded to the fastest Reporter will benefit Mission Waco’s Jubilee runner in each category. Theatre. Shreveport, La., freshman Students and community members “Everybody can go out and just Meredith Waltman, Freshman Class will participate in the Freshman Class enjoy the day, get some nice food and Council member said this will be the Council’s sixth annual Gut Pak Run do it for a good cause,” Ocenasek said. organization’s last major event of the on Saturday morning. Online registration will close at 5 year. “They told us to tell people no p.m. Thursday, but on-site registration “I’m excited to get up on Saturday one’s ever thrown up doing it before,” will be available the morning of the morning and hang out with all my said Eden Prairie, Minn., freshman race from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. The race, friends,” Waltman said. “It’s kind of Matthew “Chewy” Ocenasek, which Ocenasek said is about two a big celebration for all we’ve done Freshman Class Council member. miles, will begin at 9 a.m. this year in [Freshman Class Council]. The run will begin in front of Malone said the run includes I think it’s just going to be a lot of fun Waco Hall and follow Speight Avenue a team category as well as four to cheer on the runners, have a good Dayday Wynn | Lariat Photographer to Vitek’s BBQ, where runners will individual categories, which group time and raise some money.” I REALLY HATE TO EAT AND RUN, BUT... Students and Waco community eat a Gut Pak, a signature barbecue runners by gender and the size of the menu item, before running back to Gut Pak consumed, small or large. members can participate in the sixth annual Gut Pak Run on Saturday. GUT PAK >> Page 3 >>WHAT’S INSIDE Scholars display, present research projects opinion AMANDA HARGETT- the Global Environmental Leaders GRANATO Program at Hong Kong University Inappropriate Reporter this December prepared and presented relationships with the work they accomplished during teachers: We need to Smartly dressed students stand in their time in Hong Kong. Baylor draw the line pg. 2 front of large, glossy posters. Many students involved in the program smile nervously, hands clasped in worked with students from at least front of them, as their peers and one other country to complete their arts & life professors judge the results of research. months of research. Pearland senior Mark McComb’s Pride and Prejudice is Over this week, undergraduate presentation focused on comparing showing at the Waco Civic students displayed and presented the protection of marine ecosystems Theatre starting on Friday. the research they’ve conducted over by the United States and Hong Kong. pg. 5 the last year at the Undergraduate In his almost 30-minute presentation, Research and Scholarly Achievement he discussed the impact of ocean acidification, ocean warming, sports Scholars Week. Students gave oral presentations in the Bill Daniel other threats to marine life and the ecological and economic benefits of Junior guard Al Freeman Student Center, while poster protecting these areas. is planning to transfer presentations continue through Liesje Powers | Photo Editor “Development of these [Marine INTERACT WITH DATA Corpus Christi senior Yvette Dequito presents her next year. pg. 6 Friday in the Baylor Sciences Building. Protected Areas] MPAs was largely research on “Characterization of the Relationship between Imipramine and Of those giving oral presentations, the Egg Laying Potential in C. Elegans” to Garland senior Danniel Abuloc on a group of students who took part in RESEARCH >> Page 4 Tuesday in the Baylor Sciences Building. Vol.117 No. 89 © 2017 Baylor University Thursday, March 30, 2017 2 The Baylor Lariat opinionbaylorlariat.com GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? We want to hear it. Send us your thoughts: [email protected] EDITORIAL We must draw the line on predators A popular TV show among 13-year-old student. teenagers, “Pretty Little Liars,” is Her defense team made their one of many that features a truly case that she did not believe what disgusting act — a teacher having she was doing was wrong, that she sexual relations with one of his was in love with the student and students. that therefore their relationship Now “Pretty Little Liars” is was acceptable. The problem with not the only show or movie to this argument is that it brings include these acts — the new CW into play the age-old question of hit “Riverdale” also highlights a “where do you draw the line?” relationship between a teacher and If it is OK for an adult to have a student, and there are several a relationship with a teenager, movies such as “Notes on a Scandal” should it be OK for an adult to and “A Teacher” where this takes have a relationship with a child? place as well. Anyone under the age of 18 With the consistent prevalence is still in the care of parents or in the world of television and guardians and is identified a child movies, it comes as little surprise by the law. that in the real-world inappropriate There is the caveat of parental teacher-student relationships permission for adult relationships have become increasingly more and marriage once the child common. reaches the age of 16 or 17, but According to the Texas when it comes to teachers and Education Agency, the number of students, it still crosses a line. inappropriate relations between Whether students are 12, 15 or teachers and their pupils was 179 in 17, they are still underage, and if 2014, the last time this information we don’t identify that clear line, it was recorded. could open doors for molestation This is in the state of Texas alone, and statutory rape to become not even taking into account the acceptable. countless reports of misconduct We need to draw the line. in states such as Pennsylvania, We need to recognize that just Florida and Ohio, among others. because the teacher isn’t a creepy These children — and yes, they are old man doesn’t mean they aren’t children — are sometimes as young a pedophile, and that as the future as 13 years old. adults of the world, and possibly The age 13 is not old enough even future teachers, we can make to drive a car, to go to an R-rated a difference. movie and, in many cases, not even Many of us will have children old enough to get a job. Children one day, so we should be are being taken advantage of by concerned about teachers and the people they trusted with their administrators, both male and education and their development, Joshua Kim | Cartoonist female, taking away a child’s and the perpetrators are using that woman.