Texas Official Seeks to Reach Student Voters
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WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE Waco community. TheWEDNESDAY | APRIL 25,Baylor 2012 Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com The registration fee is $10 for the one-mile walk/run and $15 for the 5K race. SPORTS Page 7 NEWS Page 4 MOVIES Page 5 With their entry fee, partici- pants will receive a lunch of ham- Bear leaving the den Tensions rise Games up for debate burgers and fruit, provided by Basketball forward Quincy Miller North Korea publicly threatens Discuss your votes on the Waco Custom Meats and Seafood. decides to enter NBA Draft after South Korean government with Great Video Game online poll weighing his options with family “special action” on Reddit Vol. 113 No. 49 © 2012, Baylor University In Print >> Holding strong Texas official Jennifer Hudson expresses grief at murder trial of man charged with killing members of her family seeks to reach Page 5 >> Track on top UTSA breaks baseball’s student voters 24-game winning streak on Tuesday By Linda Wilkins tures with the secretary of state Staff Writer and with each other, he said. The Page 7 pictures represent how people Texas Secretary of State Es- can make their mark on Texas, peranza “Hope” Andrade will be he said, because people can have >> Race heats up on campus today to speak about them placed into a digital Texas Obama goes head-to-head her voting initiative, “Make Your flag. The pictures will make up the entirety of the flag. Pictures with Romney in pitch for Mark on Texas.” CRIMEfrom Page 1 lower student loan rates Andrade will can be uploaded to the Facebook page at Page 4 speak at 1 p.m. at the Bill Daniel Student http://www.facebook. Center Den stage area com/votetexas. and will be available The booth will be On the Web for questions after- available from 12:45 ward. to 1:45 p.m. Rich Parsons, di- Parsons said An- drade wanted to stu- rector of communica- ASSOCIATED PRESS tions at the secretary dent voters by visiting of state’s office, said Baylor, which is also a central location of Now that’s appreciation Andrade has been Andrade making visits all over McLennan Coun- Top 2012 NFL draft prospect Robert Griffin III poses next to a food statue celebrating his induction as Texas to potential ty. The county has “Famous Fan of Subway” on Tuesday in New York. Subway unveiled the lifesize creation, which joins a voters and to encourage people to 122,000 registered voters, Parsons roster of famous athletes including Michael Phelps and Blake Griffin, to announce its new Smokehouse Video register to vote. The deadline to said. BBQ Chicken sub. The statue contains more than 300 pieces of chicken, with garlic for teeth, and dried The voter education program chilli peppers for hair. Camel trainers from register to vote in the Texas pri- mary is Monday. was designed to provide the 12.9 Diadeloso give students “Before you can educate peo- million registered voters in Texas advice on how to handle ple on the voting process, you’ve with all the materials they need your camel got to engage them,” Parsons said. for the 2012 elections, he said. baylorlariat.com To help voters, a traveling Parsons said the materials for vot- Baylor PD charges student, photo booth will be available at SEE VOTING, page 4 Viewpoints the SUB for people to take pic- non-students with burglary “America is Obama woos young audience by By Rob Bradfield indeed the land Staff Writer of opportunity. Between Diadeloso celebra- pushing low-rate student loans However, there must tions and a string of home inva- be a line drawn sions over the weekend, the Bay- lor Police Department has had its between taking an hands full. opportunity and Police action helped keep vari- sacrificing your ous unsanctioned student activi- ties under control during the hol- Greenleaf Miller Smith own integrity for iday, but resulted in the arrest of a brief moment of eight students in the Tenth Street Sunday by Baylor Police outside habitation and engaging in orga- area. With the exception of one of the La Mirage apartments on nized criminal activity. In Texas, gratification. As we count of assault, all the student Baylor Avenue. burgling a habitation is a sec- draw closer to the arrests on Dia were for alcohol- “One of our officers caught ond-degree felony that carries a end of this school related crimes. them coming out with a TV and sentence of between two and 20 In an unrelated incident another blocked in their vehicle,” years. year (Praise Jesus) I League City senior Michael Baylor police chief Jim Doak said. In this case, engaging in or- implore you to take Greenleaf and two non-students The three men, all in their ganized crime is a first-degree — Chad Bailey Miller and Zach- early to mid-20s, were arrested this lesson into the MATT HELLMAN | LARIAT PHOTO EDITOR ary Daniel Smith — were arrested and charged with burgling a SEE CRIME, page 4 summer and for the rest of your life.” Reach for the stars El Paso senior Jessica Ubanyionwu competes in the triple jump Page 2 event during the Michael Johnson Dr Pepper Classic at the Hart- Celebration of Texas event Patterson Track Complex. Ubanyionwu won the triple jump for the second straight week, with Baylor track and field finishing with 10 Bear Briefs wins. See full story on page 7. to conclude with giant bang The place to go to know By Mallory Hisler “Return to Giant.” Hillman also had a connection the places to go Reporter Along with the clips, screen- to Warnock, one of her husband’s Alpha Tau Omega ings and discussion, organizers friends from college. Two worlds collide The Baylor University Librar- hope to draw students in with free Warnock, whose father is from A lecture hosted by the ies plan to conclude their Cel- food. a West Texas town near Marfa, department of philosophy seeks to help Waco ebration of Texas event with a “Vitek’s [BBQ] will be serv- saw remnants of the “Giant” set titled “Science and Reli- grand — or rather, giant — event ing classic Texas fare, including when he was a young boy, but had gion: Where the Conflict at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Bill brisket sliders and sides,” Alison to wait until he was an adult to see Daniel Student Center Den. Really Lies” will be held Pruett, digital media and commu- the actual film. with 5K race and run The Celebration of Texas Film nications specialist for university “There was no VHS back then, at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in event will include a discussion libraries, said. By Bre Nichols fundraisers held earlier this se- so if you didn’t catch it in theaters the Armstrong Browning of the cultural significance of the Kathy Hillman, director of or on TV, you missed it... The first Reporter mester, the fraternity has already Library. The speaker will film “Giant” through clips from special collections and one of the time I saw it all the way through accumulated more than $3,500 be Alvin Plantinga, a the 1956 film and a panel discus- event coordinators, said choosing was in 1976,” Warnock said. “I Baylor fraternity Alpha Tau toward that goal, he said. John A. O’Brien Professor sion. “Giant” and “Return to Giant” to saw the first 15 minutes in 1973 at Omega is teaming up with Mis- Bedford sophomore Brandon Emeritus of Philosophy, “Filmed in Marfa, the movie highlight in the Celebration of Baylor while I was waiting for my sion Waco this Saturday to host Baker, a member on the Race University of Notre Dame, explores the transformation of the Texas Film was an easy choice. date. It was playing on TV, and I Race ONE, a one-mile walk/run ONE committee, is in charge of Texas economy from ranching to “It was just one of those things thought, ‘Holy cow, I’ve been and Jellema Chair of Phi- and a 5K race. publicizing the event on campus. oil,” according to the University that came together,” Hillman said. there before.’ But I had to wait like losophy, Calvin College. A The event will be held at 8 a.m. Baker said the event aims at get- Libraries’ website. “We were looking for a Texas three more years to see it in full.” reception will follow. at Jubilee Park in Waco. Profits ting students outside the Baylor A highlight to the event will movie that had cultural signifi- Both Hillman and Warnock will support Mission Waco, a local Bubble. be the involvement of 1974 Bay- cance, and ‘Giant’ immediately agree that “Giant” was the first organization that serves the Waco “We’re hoping to bring Baylor lor graduate Kirby Warnock, who came to mind.” film to more accurately portray community by providing “Chris- [students] and Waco together so made an award-winning docu- The movie has a personal sig- Texas culture to the masses than tian-based holistic, relationship- students can see the other side of mentary about the making of the nificance to Hillman, who grew the John Wayne/Roy Rogers mov- based programs that empower the Waco they might not get to expe- movie. up in Marfa, and whose mother ies people were used to. poor and marginalized,” accord- rience,” Baker said. Carl Flynn, director of mar- will participate in the event as a “It was the first movie that ing to its official website. Uhlrich said although the keting and communications for member of the panel. got it right, really,” Warnock said.