Student Killed by Gunman

ROUND TABLE TEA HISPANIC CULTURE EXQUISITE FOOD BRINGS WOMEN FREE FOOD, ENTERTAINMENT MAKES UP FOR TOGETHER PAGE 3 AT LATIN CELEBRATION PAGE 3 SETTING PAGE 5 ROUNDING UP CAMPUS NEWS SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2006 Students embrace after being released Student killed by gunman by authorities to their parents Wednesday in Hours-long standoff was cornered with the girls in to do this,” Wegener said, his ed sweat shirt and a camou- Bailey, Colo. a second-floor classroom, and voice breaking. flage backpack. The sheriff said A gunman took ends with suicide he released four of them, one by The wounded girl was taken the man threatened to set off a six girls at Platte of hostage-taker one. to a Denver hospital in criti- bomb he claimed to have in the Canyon High Park County Sheriff Fred cal condition but was declared backpack. The man was also tot- School hostage, By Chase Squires Wegener said authorities decid- dead, a hospital spokeswoman ing a handgun. holding authori- The Associated Press ed to enter the school to save the said. She did not release the Authorities had what they ties at bay for two remaining hostages after girl’s name. The last hostage described as “sporadic” negotia- hours before he BAILEY, Colo. — A gunman the man cut off negotiations and was unharmed and talking with tions with the suspect and urged shot a girl and took six girls hostage at a high set a deadline. He said the gun- authorities. him to contact them for more then killed him- school in a Colorado mountain man had threatened the girls After the suspect entered the discussion. Officers eventually self as SWAT town Wednesday, using them as throughout the four-hour ordeal building, hundreds of students crept close to the building, and team members human shields for hours before and had shielded himself with at Platte Canyon High School there were reports of an explo- moved in. The girl later died of he shot and fatally wounded a the hostages. were evacuated in a scene that sion inside. her injuries. girl and then killed himself as a The suspect was not imme- recalled the horror at nearby Lynn Bigham, who said she SWAT team moved in, authori- diately identified, and the sher- Columbine High School in Lit- was a family friend of a wound- ties said. iff was at a loss to explain a tleton, Colo. ed hostage, said the girl had just The gunman, believed to be motive. Students said the bearded between 30 and 50 years old, “I don’t know why he wanted suspect wore a dark blue hood- Please see HOSTAGE, page 6 Associated Press Director gets back to roots Baylor alumnus returns to campus to film pair of music videos By Laura Frase Staff writer As the crew scrambled around setting up ex- pensive camera and lighting equipment, a slen- der blonde sat on the steps in front of Armstrong Browning Library giving out instructions, obvi- ously in her element in more than one way. Kristen Cox, president of 16x9 Productions, returned to her Baylor roots Wednesday to shoot two music videos on campus for LG Electronics. The videos are part of a new high-definition prod- uct promotion that will air in Circuit City stores nationwide. “I needed to think of a place where I could get a bunch of different shots all outdoors and have them be quality images that were very pic- turesque,” Cox said. “I immediately thought of Baylor. I know this campus like the back of my hand.” Henry Chan/Lariat staff Remembering the more scenic places on Karin Gilliam, director of the Martin Museum of Art, displays an original Rembrandt than $2 million dollars worth of art that is stored away due to a lack of adequate campus, Cox spotlighted Waco Hall, Armstrong etch named “Return of the Prodigal Son.” Gilliam estimates that Baylor has more facilities and space available to show the pieces properly. Browning Library, the Judge Baylor statue and George W. Truett Theological Seminary for the videos. The music videos, shot Wednesday and today, feature Christian singer Angie Paris, who has per- Darkness conceals priceless art formed at Chapel, and Baylor ’02 graduate Dennis Lamar, who has just finished his first pop music By Van Darden ing, with more than a thousand such as Pat Neff Hall in the pres- several summers, she has chosen album. Staff writer pieces of Baylor’s permanent art ident’s office, or at the Allbritton to exhibit selections from the per- “They are both up-and-coming musicians that collection. House.” manent collection, one of the only are just getting their careers started,” Cox said. Karin Gilliam opens a nonde- “Most people don’t even realize But the vast majority of the per- times some of these pieces are “This helps me, but I’m also able to help them script door hidden in the gallery that Baylor has a permanent col- manent collection is housed in a viewed. because their face in Circuit City stores all over corner and slips into the dark- lection,” Gilliam said, gesturing at dark room about the size of a two- “Space is our biggest problem,” the place is going to hopefully jump-start their ness. the rows of paintings lined up like car garage, nestled deep in the she said, “so we would have diffi- careers soon.” The Martin Museum of Art di- toy soldiers. Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center. culty accepting large sculptures or Lamar sang “Legacy” in the video, a title that is rector picks a path through a maze “We have many very valuable “We only have two small gal- artworks.” also is name of his recently finished album. of cloth-covered paintings, dusty pieces, including some paintings leries in the museum, and those Another problem Gilliam iden- “The whole song has to do with what we leave sculptures and gallery hardware and prints by Goya, Salvador Dali, are usually booked with traveling tified is the quality care the art- behind – our work and how that work impacts to yet another door. Rembrandt and sculpture by Alex- exhibitions,” Gilliam said. “So the works receive in storage. others and what other people’s responses would This one, broader and wider ander Calder,” Gilliam said. “Some rest of the work is only seen during “The museum is not on an in- be to a legacy,” Lamar said. than the first, opens to a cavern- of which we have on display in our summer gallery exhibition.” ous space crammed, floor to ceil- various buildings around campus Gilliam said that for the past Please see ART, page 6 Please see VIDEO, page 6 Fossil fuels linked to hazards T.O. denies Emergence of new man activities, according to the agree that the industrialization Intergovernmental Panel on of China and India are also a suicide industrial powers Climate Change. concern. adds to pollution According to the EPA, some They say the two countries scientists predict this phenom- present new challenges as they attempt By Brad Briggs enon will lead to catastrophic consume and pollute, causing Reporter consequences in the future. more strain on energy supply By Jaime Aron There are fears of an unprec- and the environment. The Associated Press Carbon dioxide emissions edented rise in sea levels due To help deal with the prob- from the use of fossil fuels are to glacial melting and an in- lem of fossil fuels and global DALLAS — Terrell Owens largely blamed for global warm- crease in the intensity of ad- warming, a number of solutions has been stirring things up for ing, according to the Environ- verse weather conditions such have been proposed, such as a years, from edgy touchdown mental Protection Agency. as hurricanes, droughts, floods global agreement to decrease celebrations to mean-spirited and acid rain. fossil fuel emissions. comments about his quarter- Part 2 of a 3-part series In fact, the EPA estimates The Kyoto treaty was drafted Photo illustration by Henry Chan backs and cries of being under- on resources and energy that global sea levels have risen in Japan in 1997 to recognize Some scientists claim that exhaust from vehicles that run from fossil fuels has paid. Yet the drama was always 4 to 8 inches over the past cen- and deal with the problem of raised the planet’s average temperature 1 degree in the past century. about football, never matters of According to the National tury. The agency also estimates global warming. The plan was life or death. Academy of Sciences, the av- that the average American emits to get industrialized countries technologies. Many countries, “Places like Canada and Eu- Then came news late Tues- erage global temperature has about 6.6 tons of greenhouse to commit to reducing their including most of the indus- rope are doing it without much day that Owens was taken in risen by about 1 degree in the gases per year. carbon dioxide emissions to trialized nations, have signed economic pain,” Van Walsum an ambulance to an emergency past century. Dr. John Dunbar, associate 1990 levels. on to the treaty. Australia and said. room. Details from the police re- Most of this warming has professor of geology, and Dr. It also allows for the growth the United States are the only The reason the United States port that came out Wednesday occurred in the last 20 years Peter Van Walsum, environ- of developing countries and remaining developed nations and is thought to be due to hu- mental studies professor, both the eventual sharing of cleaner that have not done so.

Load more