Roll up the Tarp

TARP from Page 1 baylorlariat com SPORTSp. 4 p. 7 The Lady Bears throttle Palm Beach Atlantic 111-52 in first exhibition of the season. Baylor Lariat WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE Thursday | October 31, 2013* Yahoo, DANCE from Page 1 Roll up personal training certification program called Curves University for Google 55 countries. She also assisted in the sales plan for Curves pedom- eter MyTrak, all while still sharp- ening her craft under the direction the tarp tapped of Baylor professors. “Hands down it was the entre- preneurship program that taught South end zone of me how to raise a business from by NSA the ground up,” Armstrong said. “A huge part of just growing Timbuk The Case to open By Lolita C. Baldor and making people aware of the Associated Press brand is because of the connec- By Maleesa Johnson tions I have at Baylor. The entre- Staff Writer WASHINGTON — The Nationalpreneurship program taught me to Security Agency has secretly broken create a plan, execute the strategy Baylor Athletics is removing the tarp at the south end into the main communications links and move forward.” zone of The Case before the game against the University of that connect Yahoo and Google data And move forward is exactly Oklahoma next week, making 3,500 more seats available. centers around the world, The Wash-what Armstrong did. After gradu- The influx of fans drawn to Floyd Casey to watch the ington Post reported Wednesday, cit-ating in 2010 she made the move Bears play in a record-breaking season has prompted the ing documents obtained from former to Florida, where she met West Af- change in seating arrangements. NSA contractor Edward Snowden. rican Diádié Bathily (pronounced Originally, the tarp was scheduled to be removed only A secret accounting dated Jan. 9, Jah-JAY BAH-chee-LEE). for the Dec. 7 game against the University of Texas, the 2013, indicates that NSA sends mil- Bathily, cofounder of Timbuk last game at Floyd Casey. That game has already sold out, lions of records every day from Ya-Fitness, has taught African dance and every available space is being used for seating. This hoo and Google internal networks to in his home country Ivory Coast, includes the typically covered area in the south end zone, data warehouses at the agency’s Fortacross Europe and was teaching which can seat approximately 3,500 people. classes at Florida State University PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY TRAVIS TAYLOR | LARIAT PHOTO EDITOR Meade, Md., headquarters. The Nov. 7 game against the University of Oklahoma is In the last 30 days, field collec-when he met Armstrong. When facing the same scenario. Reserve tickets have sold out and the tarp is being re- associate athletics director for external affairs. “All the re- all the reserve seats are taken, we are going to take the moved to create more room. serve seats except for what we are holding for our students t ar p off .” “We’ve always said that if we have the demand to sell have been sold and we still have a week to go until the “We are outraged at tickets we will take the tarp off,” said Nick Joos, executive game. We made the decision [Tuesday] night that since SEE TARP, page 8 the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fiber networks, and it underscores the need Students for urgent reform.” Davis Drummond | Google CLO to step out, tors had processed and sent back more than 180 million new records — ranging from “metadata,” which would indicate who sent or received emails and when, to content such as text, audio and video, the Post re- help Waco ported Wednesday on its website. By Abigail Loop different sites in the Waco and The latest revelations were met Reporter West communities from 11 a.m with outrage from Google and trig- to 3 p.m. Saturday. gered legal questions, including Baylor students will once Students will participate whether the NSA may be violating again step out into the commu- in an assortment of volunteer federal wiretap laws. nity by participating the 28th work such as gardening at St. “Although there’s a diminished annual Steppin’ Out. standard of legal protection for in- PHOTO COURTESY OF TIMBUK FITNESS Luke’s African Methodist Epis- 2010 Baylor grad Rachel Armstrong created the African-inspired dance workout program, Timbuk Fit- Started in 1985 at Baylor, copal Church or picking up de- terception that occurs overseas, the ness, as a new, creative way to introduce fitness to America. Steppin’ Out is a service event bris in the areas affected by the fact that it was directed apparently that provides Baylor students fatal explosion of the West Fer- to Google’s cloud and Yahoo’s cloud, with opportunities to serve the tilizer plant explosion in April. and that there was no legal order as community. Then, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., best we can tell to permit the inter- BU alumna helps people This semester student vol- ception, there is a good argument to unteers will spread across 70 SEE STEPPIN’, page 8 make that the NSA has engaged in unlawful surveillance,” said Marc Ro- tenberg, executive director of Elec- feel the beat, break a sweat tronic Privacy Information Center. By Paula Ann Solis believing in myself,” Armstrong said. “They really The reference to ‘clouds’ refers to sites Staff Writer empower people to believe that they can do what where the companies collect data. they want to do and more than anything, I was The new details about the NSA’s When Rachel Armstrong was a Baylor stu- inspired by young people like myself at Baylor access to Yahoo and Google data dent she was one of the first Zumba instructors starting businesses.” centers around the world come at a on campus. Today she is fulfilling her dreams by Armstrong was a student in Baylor’s entrepre- time when Congress is reconsidering co-founding her own workout sensation and cre- neurship program and graduated with a bach- the government’s collection practices ation – Timbuk Fitness. elor’s degree in business administration in 2010. and authority, and as European gov- Timbuk Fitness is the nation’s first African She was also a member of Baylor’s gymnastic ernments are responding angrily to dance fitness program that teaches people how team for four years. Armstrong said physical fit- revelations that the NSA collected to move to the beat of African drums while also ness has always played a great role in her life and data on millions of communications breaking a sweat. Armstrong and the Timbuk passing that passion on to others is something she in their countries. fitness team premiered their first workout DVD began doing long before her fitness venture Tim- Details about the government’s “Timbuk Fitness” at a conference in Chicago, but buk Fitness. programs have been trickling out Armstrong said none of this would have been Through her Baylor connections, Armstrong since Snowden shared documents possible without the guidance and insight from interned at Curves International and worked di- with the Post and Guardian newspa- her Baylor professors. per in June. rectly under the vice president to help develop a MEAGAN DOWNING | ROUND UP PHOTO EDITOR “I just feel like the values behind Baylor, be- Baylor students clean up the yard of a blind widow during Steppin’ ing a Christian institution, taught me a lot about SEE DANCE, page 8 Out on Oct. 29, 2011. SEE NSA, page 8 Inside WEB NEWS p. 3 A&E p. 6 Check out the gory Baylor curriculum Dallas singer/ details about how is a step above the songwriter of Bears get their rest at No. 22 in the “Vampire Diaries” thrills only on nation, according to fame to entertain at baylorlariat.com. one survey. Common Grounds. Vol.116 No. 34 First Copy free. Additional copies 50 cents each. © 2013, Baylor University OpinionThursday | October 31, 2013 2 Haunted houses can be fun; watch your step once inside Haunted houses are a legiti- of the house. An accident like this mate rite of passage for Hallow- is just another reminder that some een. You go through them with normal aspects of haunted houses the expectation to get scared while can lead to more severe conse- people in creepy masks chase you quences. and gory props are set up to add to Dragging an unconscious the aura of fear. friend through a haunted house However, while everyone can is not what most people envision appreciate a good scare now and when entering and I’m sure it then, I’ve found out through some makes running a whole lot more unfortunate experiences that go- difficult, especially when trying ing to a haunted house sometimes not to hit walls, props and maybe tends to leave participants a little even poles. Also, if I was a person worse for wear. standing in line to enter a haunted We all know what we like to house, I’d be pretty freaked out to do when we go through a haunted Abigail Loop | Reporter see an unconscious person being house. Cling to whomever is next dragged out. to you, scream your head off and look on people’s faces was price- Haunted houses are meant pray that you don’t trip over any- less as they took one look at her, to scare us for fun. Sometimes, one or anything in the ominous changed their mind and stepped though, the fun we expect to have darkness.

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