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Runoff to Determine President WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE TheFRIDAY | APRIL 15, 2011 Baylor Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com NEWS Pages 4-5 A&E Page 6 SPORTS Page 7 Dia captured from all angles Bountiful growth Made to be broken Check out a two-page photo spread A coalition partners with The Baylor track and field team of activities from Diadeloso, including groups to bring maintainable breaks three school records in concerts, tug-of-war and the Step Show gardens to local neighborhoods one day at an event in Austin Vol. 112 No. 45 © 2011, Baylor University In Print >> Unusual fundraiser Runoff to determine president, IVP A couple organizes a garage sale to raise funds to adopt a By James Stockton Aguinaga echoed the same three days I’m really going to push class elections are held in the fall. Celeste Russell, Cody T. Orr, Nick Reporter boy from Uganda sentiment in his plans for the h ard .” Permanent class officers in- Pokorny, Silvia Ogo Nweze, Miri- runoff. Kim wasn’t the only one who clude Amber Como as president, am Hobma, George Parfet Bach- Page 3 A runoff Tuesday will deter- “We’re obviously going to try thought that all the candidates Ashley Thomas as vice president man II, Greg Torres and Michelle mine both the student body presi- to reach out to those who did vote ran a good, clean race. and Jacob Voncannon as secre- Singleton. dent and internal vice president and also those who didn’t,” Agui- “I think it was a pretty clean tary-treasurer. Finally, the sophomore class >> Scary bad elections. naga said. election,” Lyssy said. “I hope that The new senior class president elected Raechel Adams as its pres- Wes Craven’s “Scream 4” Houston juniors Zach Rogers The office of internal vice everyone turns out to vote on is Paul Warren. The senior sena- ident. Working with Adams will is panned for resorting to and Ben Aguinaga will continue president will also continue to Tuesday.” tors include Alex Gray, Allison be newly elected vice president gored-up violence that the to campaign for the office of stu- be fought for as neither Falls City The only student body officer Temnick, Gabby Garrett, Shaun Abby Scheller and secretary-trea- original avoided dent body president. junior Michael Lyssy or Houston position filled yesterday was that Wysong, Jake Lane, Daniel Cer- surer Haley Davis. Sophomore Page 6 “I think it’s another opportu- sophomore Brian Kim could se- of external vice president as Cor- vera, Chandler Lucius and Ran- class senators include Daniel Lin, nity to continue campaigning and cure a majority of the votes, with pus Christi junior Angela Gray dall Holoman. Azeem Malik, Caitlyn Henckel, to maintain votes and to also get Lyssy garnering 41 percent of the won with 79 percent of the vote. Newly elected junior class Lexington Holt, Thomas Dam- >> TV deal inked more votes,” Rogers said. vote and Kim receiving 30 per- In addition to the student president Briana Treadaway will row, Dresden Hasala-Shooks, Ja- The Big 12 signs a deal with He added that he plans on re- cent. body officers elections, each class, be working with vice president cob Moran, Joshua Foster, Kirby Fox Sports Media Group, assuring voters that he is the best “I think everyone did great except the freshmen, voted for Rafael Diaz. The junior senators Garrett, Paul Sclaudraff, Wesley candidate for the job. meaning Baylor fans will see in this race,” Kim said. “The next new class officers. The freshmen are Blessing Amune, James Mai, Hodges and Ellie Garcia. the Bears on TV more often Page 7 Darden On the Web garners esteemed award By Nick Dean Editor in chief The English have a word for Robert Darden’s feelings once he was notified he had won: Gob- smacked. Endless photos “Gosh, to be on that list. That is really how I felt,” Darden said. See photos of Diadeloso that Darden, associate professor of weren’t included in today’s journalism and media arts, has paper in the Lariat’s photo been named this year’s Cornelia slideshow online Marschall Smith Professor of the Year, a Baylor award that includes a $20,000 cash prize. From intense researchers to the eloquent in-class lecturers, the recipients of the Professor of the JED DEAN | LARIAT PHOTO EDITOR Year award span a variety of de- partments and talents. Students, faculty and members of the Waco community come together on Fountain Mall in an attempt to beat the world record for the largest Zumba class Thursday during Diadeloso. More than 600 people were in attendance for the fast-paced, 30-minute dance workout, and proceeds went to fund Darden — the first professor the Baylor accounting vocational mission trip team’s summer trip to Uganda. from the journalism and media arts department to win the award — is on a sabbatical that began this semester and ends in August. Zumba record unclear; fun undeniable “I was quite stunned. As I look over that list of previous win- Dia through the years By Liz Hitchcock lor to observe and count the num- for fitness and nutrition educa- phone to tell you what to do.” ners, I see Reporter ber of people dancing, and the tion. Bell, who holds classes at Wa- people who Take a history lesson by result was 632 people who partici- “Even if we didn’t meet the co’s YMCA and at Fellowship Bi- were both watching a video that This year Baylor kicked off Di- pated for the duration of the class. goal of breaking the record, it is a ble Church, led the group through research- juxtaposes Diadelosos from adeloso with possibly the largest It was unclear if the number was win-win situation where we held a a wide variety of dance exercises. heavy and as far back as 1973 with the official Zumba class ever held in enough to set a world record. great event on campus and helped “With Zumba, you just let the people who festival in 2011 the world. “There’s an unofficial count raise money for the mission trip,” music teach you and visually fol- are great Participants young and old of 1,100, but we checked and as Davis said. low the instructor,” Bell said. “So in-class gathered in Fountain Mall Thurs- of last night there is no official Hurtt estimated that about it feels more like a dance party lecturers. I day morning to attempt to set a Guinness [record] of the world’s $6,000 was raised toward the trip. than a regular fitness class because was quite Guinness World Record for the largest Zumba [class],” said Dr. Zumba, a popular aerobic ex- you’re just moving and shaking.” astounded,” world’s largest Zumba class. Kathy Hurtt, an accounting pro- ercise routine, incorporates a vari- Both experienced dancers and Darden Darden Organized by the account- fessor who helped organize the ety of dance music. people new to Zumba were in- said. “It ing department of the Hankamer fundraiser. “We don’t think any- “It is so different,” said Susan vited to come join the fun. When makes it even more special to me School of Business, the event was body else has actually filed all the Bell, a Zumba instructor of two encouraging people to come and that the rest of the campus no- not only fun for participants and paperwork. We think we will have years. “It is a Latin dance-based join the dance, Zumba instructors tices that over here in journalism observers, it also raised funds for set the world record with our 632.” fitness class, where the instructor refer to it as partying, in hopes and media arts we are doing some the department’s upcoming mis- If the record wasn’t set, the doesn’t have a microphone on, of not scaring people away who pretty good stuff. I think it is the sion trip to Uganda. event was still worth organizing, and any other fitness class will best department on the campus.” Guinness sent officials to Bay- said Van Davis, assistant director have the instructor wear a micro- SEE ZUMBA, page 8 Dr. James Bennighof, vice provost for academic affairs, an- Paintball warfare nounced Darden’s award at the Watch the paint fly as the honors convocation Wednesday, Air Force ROTC cadets train Cadets simulate combat with paintball battle pointing to his wealth of writing and research experience. for combat in this video that By James Stockton what the Air Force was 25 years “In addition to having per- captures the action Reporter ago,” Ross said. “A lot of airmen formed a great deal of service. are being asked to go pick up an ...One of the most outstanding baylorlariat.com Outnumbered and out- M16 and go fight on the front achievements has been closely gunned, the members of the Air lines.” connected to his research,” Ben- Force ROTC professional officer Paintball has been used for the ninghof said. “He has made it pos- Viewpoints course fought valiantly but were past five years to give Baylor ca- sible for Baylor to receive a grant ultimately defeated Wednesday at dets a taste of what battle would that allows for the digital restora- Powerplay Paintball in Waco. be like. It also prepares sopho- tion of black gospel music. These “Toughness It was the 13th leadership lab mores for their field training, materials will not slowly deterio- of the semester for the cadets of which happens at the end of the rate to the point of being unusable, cannot be confused the ROTC and this one was used spring semester.
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