WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE TheTUESDAY | FEBRUARY 28, 2012Baylor Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com SPORTS Page 5 NEWS Page 3 A&E Page 4 Bears rule the court Women in the church Score for ‘Madden 2004’ Men’s basketball dominates the George W. Truett Seminary will The popular football video game stadium against Texas Tech with a host Sacred Voices: Women in the lands a seat in the ongoing resounding 77-48 win Ministry Conference on Monday “Great Video Game” series Vol. 113 No. 24 © 2012, Baylor University In Print >> Loving the Big Apple Senior Hannah Taylor lives Griffin III’s claim to fame solidified the dream in Baylor in By Tyler Alley New York program Sports Editor Page 4 Hopefully students did not >> Lady Bears heat it up pick Monday to avoid Fountain Mall. Anyone who did missed Women’s basketball soundly something that may not happen defeats the Texas A&M again at Baylor for a long time. Aggies 69-62 Heisman-winning quarter- Page 5 back Robert Griffin III returned to the Baylor campus. Electronic >> New topics on table Arts Sports accompanied him New ELG topics for fall seek to unveil Griffin on the cover of NCAA Football 13. to address current issues for “It’s great,” Griffin said. “We students could have done this at the Super Page 6 Bowl, but we wanted to do it here Viewpoints at Baylor to kind of bring that at- tention back to Baylor, and you “[Indiana State guys are here so we were success- ful. I’m happy about that.” Rep. ] Morris EA Sports set up a pavilion on has painted an the 5th Street-side of Fountain Mall displaying NCAA Football interesting picture 13 banners and a rough, unofficial of a radicalized cover with Griffin on it. “This is great for Baylor to pro-abortion and have this photo shoot here and be pro-homosexual on the cover of NCAA Football organization 13,” Griffin said. “It’s a great -ex perience; only one person gets it that somehow every year and Baylor University MATT HELLMAN | LARIAT PHOTO EDITOR manages to avoid gets that this year.” Robert Griffin III signs autographs for fans Monday in Fountain Mall after the unveiling of his likeness on the cover of NCAA Football 13 video game Griffin will not be alone on the by EA Sports. the question and cover. This year, EA Sports will Marcus Allen, all those guys that cluding SportsCenter, Fox, ABC, of the Sports Illustrated article signed autographs for fans and put a former Heisman Trophy not take a stance. have done a lot more than I have. and radio stations in San Fran- and the New York Times article, threw passes to fans who correctly winner alongside Griffin, and fans along with the publicity of NCAA What Morris was can vote for which players they I’m excited to just be on the cover cisco and Cleveland. answered trivia questions, includ- attempting to do was want beside him at www.ea.com. with them.” Athletic director Ian McCaw Football 13, it offers us a great ing Fort Worth freshman John expose a dangerous “I mean all those guys are Griffin spent most of Monday said having Griffin on the cover period of national exposure,” Mc- Wheeler. great,” Griffin said. “If it’s a quar- morning sitting on a stool in front of a high-profile video game will Caw said. “It was an unbelievable experi- organization that is terback, it’d be sweet, but Her- of the camera doing interviews help with recruitment and in- From 2 to 6 p.m., Griffin posed brainwashing young schel Walker, Barry Sanders, with various media outlets, in- crease enrollment. “On the heels and threw passes for the camera, SEE RGIII, page 6 women, but he instead exposed the ineptitude of some of WISD closures revealed our elected officials.” By Amanda Thomas W.I.S.D. Superintendent Bon- kept taking input,” Cain said. “I Page 2 Reporter nie Cain said the school district is couldn’t cut the teachers [and] I working with the district demog- could not cut the programs, so I Bear Briefs A six-month wait finally came rapher to make new attendance had to cut the facilities.” to an end Thursday when the zones. Drafts of attendance zone In September, the school Waco Independent School Dis- plans should be ready to present board looked at the demogra- trict made its final decision re- to the school board March 22, and pher’s report, and over the past Going to Pigskin garding its school closings. Now the school board could start the six months, the school board, stu- 1st place: Kappa Kappa — with nine schools set to close voting process as soon as March dents, teachers and other commu- Gamma and Kappa Sigma and A.J. Moore students relocat- 29. nity members have come together 2nd place: Kappa Omega Tau ing — the school board, students, The March 22 and tentative to create a plan that would benefit 3rd place: Delta Delta Delta parents, teachers and commu- March 29 attendance zone meet- everyone, Cain said. and Alpha Tau Omega nity members are waiting for the ings will be open to the public. “You never want to close a reveal of new attendance zones, After the $3.4 million cut in school,” Cain said. “I really regret Alpha Chi Omega which should come later this state funding Waco ISD received, having to make this decision.” Chi Omega month. the school board began the pro- At the end of January, the “Process-wise, the next cess of planning what it could do board met and discussed the plans Phi Kappa Chi step is to draw new attendance to save money and had demog- that were developed by Cain as Phi Gamma Delta zones,” Pat Atkins, president at- raphers assess the district, Cain well as other plans that were pre- Pi Beta Phi MEAGAN DOWNING | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER Sul Ross Elementary is one of nine WISD schools that will close on Mon- large of the Waco I.S.D. school said. day due to cuts in the state budget. board, said. “I started with one plan and SEE CLOSURES, page 6 Best Choreography Kappa Kappa Gamma and Kappa Sigma Lecturer declares religion in America is still strong Best Costumes Kappa Alpha Theta By Daniel C. Houston ous Internet sources, spoke at that drastic. but confusing,” Lott said. with certain unalienable rights Staff Writer Armstong-Browning Library at “Is the era of big religion Lott said he thinks the reason and among these are life, liberty DAVIDIANS from Page 1 Best Song Selections the invitation of Baylor’s Institute over?” Lott asked the audience of why so many Americans, in con- and the pursuit of happiness.’ And The head editor of the Real for Studies of Religion. mostly Baylor faculty members. “I trast to many Europeans, still hold I think that a lot of Americans at Pi Beta Phi Clear Religion website visited Lott cited a series of surveys don’t think so. America is a very, deep religious beliefs is rooted in some level say, ‘OK, so our rights Baylor Monday and argued the administered by the Gallup Or- very devout country compared to the founding of the United States derive from God. What happens Sing Chair of the Year decline of religion in America ganization going back to 1948 most European nations.” political institutions. when you take God out of the Virgil Walker of Phi Gamma over the last 60 years has been that indicate a gradual decline in “There is some fall-off in reli- “I have a bit of speculation [as equation?’” Delta greatly exaggerated. the percentage of Americans who gious affiliation and attendance, to why], and it’s real simple,” Lott Although Lott said the de- Jeremy Lott, editor for Real self-identify as belonging to an but it’s not as severe as you’d think. said. “It’s that the founding idea cline of religion in America may Best Vocals Clear Religion, a website that organized religion, saying that the I basically came to the conclusion of America is a theological state. SEE LECTURE, page 6 Phi Kappa Chi consolidates content from vari- numbers themselves are not all that religion in America is robust ‘We are endowed by our creator Best Theme Development Kappa Kappa Sigma News director: New media could have changed Waco siege Best Backdrop By Trevor Allison The siege of Mt. Carmel, which those of the Arab Spring in 2011 Kappa Omega Tau Reporter included agents from the Fed- that led to revolutions in Tunisia, eral Bureau of Investigation; the Egypt, Libya and other nations. Nineteen years ago, federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Rick Bradfield, news director agents attemped to execute a Firearms (ATF); the Texas Rang- at KWTX, Waco’s CBS television search warrant at Mt. Carmel, ers and the Texas National Guard, affiliate, was one of the reporters the Branch Davidian compound began when ATF agents attempt- covering the siege in 1993. While near Waco, after the McLennan ed to execute a search warrant for speaking to Dr. Cassy Burleson’s County Sheriffs Office was noti- the compound on Feb. 28, 1993. advanced public relations class fied of the possible presence of The ATF is now called the Bureau on Wednesday, Bradfield said the illegal weapons. of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms Davidians were cut off from the That was the beginning a 51- and Explosives. media during the siege by FBI sig- day siege that ended with the Some wonder how different nal jammers.