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STAY CONNECTED >> Lariat TV News Online: Students respond to sexual assault at Baylor Baylor LTVN Online: BU vs. TCU recap LariatWE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE NOVEMBER 8, 2016 TUESDAY BAYLORLARIAT.COM Online TWITTER TALK #CAB Title IX @ALEXAPPLE_: “Seen at least 1000 #CAB shirts which might as well say training ‘we don’t care about sexual violence.’ Small CAB chant available starting too” @LIFEOFFITZ: “TCU leads Baylor 38-14 at KALYN STORY halftime. Don’t worry, Baylor, Staff Writer maybe no one will report it happened and it will just go A new Title IX training course away. #CAB launched yesterday and is available to all Baylor students. Previous courses were only @LAURENNICHELLE: available to incoming freshman “This is so much karma for and transfer students. those stupid #CAB shirts. “This course is a comprehensive, #baylorvstcu” engaging and interactive online training opportunity for all students,” said Sarah McPherson, @MSANGNICOLE: Title IX training and prevention “Hey #Baylor, 62-22 & your specialist. Timothy Hong | Lariat Photographer #CAB shirts were classless The course is not currently & well, ignorant. Next time, required to register for classes, BLACKOUT Baylor fans wear “#CAB” shirts at the Baylor vs. TCU game Saturday in support of former head worry about the game and not football coach Art Briles. but McPherson said the Title IX your protest. #TCU #BeatBU” office is working to establish incentives for students to complete training with the goal of eventually having all students take mandatory training. “Successful completion of #CAB stirs controversy the Title IX online course for all students will be recorded in our student information system so Fans support former head football coach with debated shirts that we may track progress on our efforts to educate every student about this important subject. GAVIN PUGH and Boss Hawg Designs, LLC, a Lufkin T-shirt reports since 2011 “involved 17 women who We are asking you to complete Digital Managing Editor company. The company announced plans to sell reported sexual or domestic assaults involving 19 the course before the end of the the shirts during tailgating at Baylor through a players, including four alleged gang rapes.” semester,” read an email sent to The controversy shrouding Baylor’s athletic Facebook post earlier in the week, but the post Regents told the Wall Street Journal that students through Canvas Monday. program intensified Saturday when shirts has since been removed. Briles was aware of at least one incident of sexual McPherson said she hopes sporting former head football coach Art Briles’ Briles was fired five months ago for his role in assault within the football program and did not students will take advantage of initials were sold outside McLane Stadium. the university’s sexual assault scandal. A recent report it to the police. the training program whether they The shirts, reading “#CAB” for coach Art Wall Street Journal article revealed some of the “There was a cultural issue there that was Briles, were sold at the tailgate before the Baylor details behind the sexual assault cases that have putting winning football games above everything vs. Texas Christian University game. brought Baylor into the national spotlight. TRAINING >> Page 4 The shirts were sold by Hurley’s Graphics According the the report, the sexual assault #CAB >> Page 4 Magnolia Realty to offer student housing MEGAN RULE properties. The homes will be built eight and a half bathroom home with Staff Writer by Merck Contracting, according three of the bedrooms downstairs to a recent Waco Tribune-Herald and the other five upstairs. Arnhart The development of six houses article. said each home is a carbon copy of near the Baylor campus by Magnolia “I am the listing agent and selling the next one. Realty is sparking excitement among the property,” Arnhart said. “The “If you drive by, the stakes are the Waco community. The project owner put the plans together as far as in the ground for outlining the slab, has broken ground and is expected to floor plans go, and I helped with the and the slab will be poured either this be done by May 2017 so leasing can finishing touches as far as aesthetic, week or next week,” Arnhart said. start in June 2017. color choice and type of material and Arnhart said the owner of the land “These houses excite me because what we wanted it to look like.” has been piecing this land together Magnolia Realty has made such a big The six single-family homes over the last five to 10 years, and impact on Waco, and it’s cool to see will be built on the entire half-block Arnhart helped him obtain the last lot them continue to spread to students between 15th and 16th streets on needed to complete the puzzle. The at Baylor,” said Austin sophomore James Avenue. There will be a middle homes have a more contemporary Rachel Ormsby. point where three of the homes will look as opposed to the cottage style The project is not related to the mirror the other three with flipped that has been prevalent in Waco. show “Fixer Upper,” and Chip and floor plans. The dumpsters and “Single-family homes are Joanna Gaines are not personally porches of the left three will face what students love as opposed involved in this project. According towards Vitek’s, and the dumpsters to apartments, duplexes and to listing agent Harris Arnhart, and porches of the right three homes townhomes,” Arnhart said. “This is Magnolia is merely acting as a multi- will face toward the Baylor campus. family brokerage for selling the Each home is an eight bedroom, MAGNOLIA >> Page 4 >>WHAT’S INSIDE Students celebrate Asian Heritage Month opinion SARAH PYO “encouraging [students] to celebrate Student Association, Filipino help spread awareness. Although #Repealthe19th: An Editor-in-Chief their personal heritage and embrace Student Association, Korean Student the coalition is supported by the open letter to the women the cultures of others,” according to Association, Vietnamese Student department of multicultural affairs, it of the 21st century. pg. 2 For the first time, Baylor’s the department’s mission statement. Association, Indian Subcontinent is completely student-led. department of multicultural affairs “The Asian population in the Student Association, Chinese “I’m definitely beyond excited has dedicated a month to recognizing university was very disconnected,” Students and Scholars Association, because the students have been the arts & life and bringing awareness to Asian said McAllen senior Yoonki Japanese Student Association, Asian driving force behind the events,” Baylor Theatre performs culture on-campus. Na, intern for the department of Ministry Intervarsity, Kendo, Tae- said Pearlie Beverly, director of the multicultural affairs and chair of the Kwon-Do, Alpha Kappa Delta Phi, department of multicultural affairs. “Experiments with an Air 10 distinct Asian cultural events Coalition of Asian Students. “So by Lambda Phi Epsilon, Baylor Chinese “They own it, and that’s what’s Pump.” pg. 5 hosted by Asian organizations on campus take place from Oct. 17 to unifying all of them together, we can Club and the National Japanese important. When you say the concept Nov. 18 for Baylor students, faculty have better communication. We can Honor Society. of student-led, staff-supported, this sports and staff to participate in. support each other and also help each Each of the participating one is it all the way.” The Coalition of Asian Students, other.” organizations elects one The multicultural department has Baylor vs. TCU: an in- along with the department of The coalition was newly representative for the coalition been growing every year and has depth look at Saturday’s multicultural affairs, worked formed this past summer, and it’s each semester. The members of been working hard to better cultural game. pg. 6 together to improve cultural diversity composed of 14 of the 18 Asian the coalition collaborate with one and follow the department’s goal of organizations on campus – Asian another to prepare for the events and MONTH >> Page 4 Vol. 117 No. 38 © 2016 Baylor University Tuesday, November 8, 2016 2 The Baylor Lariat opinionbaylorlariat.com GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? We want to hear it. Send us your thoughts: [email protected] COLUMN EDITORIAL #CAB is just Dear women of the 21st century Dear women of the 21st but remember that what the another strike century, majority of women’s rights Americans live in a supporters are calling for is beautiful time of freedom not women overcoming men, against Baylor and growth. Women today but instead women and men are able to become virtually working together in an equally anything they want to be beneficial situation. KARYN SIMPSON — doctors, authors, even The guerrilla feminist Copy Desk Chief journalists. They are able movement has become to marry who they want, the misrepresented face of To those who were selling when they want, if they want women’s rights supporters. and buying #CAB shirts at to and the same applies to Bra-burners and man-shamers last Saturday’s football game choosing to have (or not are not the majority, but they against TCU. To those who to have) children. Forty have become the stereotype, believe Art Briles should years ago, many of these which is why many reject have never been fired. To options would not have the feminist movement. The those who mourn our been available, and women original values of the women’s football team’s recent descent have centuries of fighting rights movement and the and claim the allegations and defiance of authority to values of the radical feminist surrounding Briles’ coaching, thank for that. Brave women movement are not the same, his athletic program and his built this country, and many but are often mixed up.