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STAY CONNECTED >> Follow us on Twitter @BULARIAT for breaking news updates and more Baylor LariatWE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE MEDIA NUMBNESS: pg. 2 NOVEMBER 11, 2016 THURSDAY BAYLORLARIAT.COM Task force addresses regents’ operations KALYN STORY Staff Writer Baylor interim President David Garland sent an email to Baylor faculty and staff Wednesday announcing the formation of a task force to review the Board of Regents’ current operation methods. “Today the Board announced a new Governance Review Task Force that will review and recommend improvements in the Board’s practices, procedures and selection process,” Garland said. “This Task Force will work alongside the Board’s Governance and Compensation committee that has already led the implementation of substantial changes.” Lariat File Photo BOARD >> Page 3 LETTUCE ATTEND Local residents pay for goods sold by at the Downtown Waco Farmers Market on Aug. 4, 2012. The market will recognize its fifth anniversary on Friday with a night event, complete with regular vendors, music and activities. Election Music, Food, More results affect Waco Downtown Farmers Market celebrates fifth anniversary stock market MEGAN RULE The actual anniversary is Nov. 19, but the The market is free to the public, but there MEGAN RULE Staff Writer celebration will be held Friday. According is a wristband required for children’s activities Staff Writer to Pereira, it is a festival-type setting with that costs $5. All products sold by vendors The stock market likes to stick to the A local favorite, the Waco Downtown activities for kids in addition to almost all the will vary in prices like a typical Saturday status quo, which is hard to do when election Farmers Market, will be celebrating its fifth regular vendors. There is also going to be a morning market. The market will be held years roll around, according to both Dr. Shane anniversary on Friday with a special night handmade products vendor. in its normal location on 400 S. University Underwood, associate professor of finance market. “I’m looking forward to seeing the Parks Dr. Pereira said, as far as fundraising and the Lacy Chair of Banking and Finance, “This is a celebration of our five-year community come together to celebrate goes, there will be a raffle for a basket in a and John Riley, chief strategist at Cornerstone anniversary,” said Kristi Pereira, manager of and support the Waco Downtown Farmers silent auction. The market reached out to Investment Services. Tuesday night’s election the Waco Downtown Farmers Market. “We Market,” said farmers market intern Shelby about 15 local businesses, and the businesses proved this statement to be true. also wanted to do our second fundraiser of the Rubatzky. “Because we are a nonprofit, contributed services and goods to auction off. “In general, when one party is handing off year, so we thought this would be a great time raising money helps us maintain and improve to get the community together and celebrate.” the quality of the market, so this event is very important to us.” MARKET >> Page 4 STOCK >> Page 4 International students invited to Turkey Day BRIANNA BASSETT Baylor Round Table is a women’s The event will include a Jane Lin, co-chair of the student, I loved this event. It was Reporter organization designed to assist in the Thanksgiving buffet dinner, music international dinner committee, came something that I looked forward to development of the social and cultural by Baylor’s very own musicians and to Baylor in 1985 as a freshman every November,” Lin said. The Baylor Round Table will life of Baylor. Baylor Round Table a message from interim President Dr. international student herself. Lin said Lin said she was honored to serve host an International Thanksgiving holds different actives and events to David Garland. she remembers attending the event as a co-chair for the event this year; Dinner from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in bring the community together. This is an annual event for the each year she was at Baylor and how it was her way of serving and giving the Meyer Conference Center in the The event is designed to honor international students, and each year, much she enjoyed the hospitality of back to the Baylor community. Paul L. Foster Campus for Business national students and scholars who a theme is selected. The theme for the Baylor Round Table. and Innovation. represent 78 countries on campus. this year is “God’s Blessings on All.” “I remember when I was a TURKEY >> Page 4 >>WHAT’S INSIDE Baylor to honor veterans with ceremony opinion KAYLA FARR colonel will be there speaking about Point of View: Reporter open enlistment. There will be a Don’t forget about moment of silence showing Baylor Thanksgiving. pg. 2 Every year on Nov. 11, support for the men and women who Americans take time to honor fight for our freedoms.” veterans for their service. What Matthew Simpson, an assistant arts & life some might not know is that Baylor professor for military science, said takes part in this tradition too. Baylor the Army ROTC will be involved as will hold a Veterans Day Ceremony well. from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Friday in the “There has been a tradition Barfield Drawing Room, located in for Veterans Day that the ROTC the Bill Daniels Student Center, to programs get together and hold a flag honor those who have served. vigil,” Simpson said. “It will start at midnight on Thursday and run for Local artist holds exhibit Kevin Davis, the veteran educational and transition services 24 hours. Two air force and two to raise money for White director, said this event has been army ROTC members will stand at Feather Foundation. pg. 5 around for a few years. attention at the Pat Neff building just “It is hosted by our Veterans of to commemorate those who served.” Baylor student organization,” Davis Simpson looks forward to the sports said. “I am helping support them. event and said he is proud of his They are going to have a couple cadets. Liesje Powers | Photo Editor Lady Bears sign four new different events. We will have the “I am a product of the ROTC, recruits. pg. 6 HONORING A COMMUNITY An American flag flies alongside a flag color guard come out with the Air welcoming those who have served in the US military to the Veterans One Force ROTC. A retired U.S. Marine VETERANS >> Page 4 Stop on La Salle Avenue. Vol. 117 No. 40 © 2016 Baylor University Thursday, November 10, 2016 2 The Baylor Lariat opinionbaylorlariat.com GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? We want to hear it. Send us your thoughts: [email protected] COLUMN EDITORIAL Are we too Don't become numb to tragedy You probably won’t read this entire we view tragedy, because becoming numb attached to piece. You might skim a paragraph or two to the horrors that fill the news only — you’ll read the headline and smirk at perpetuates the problem. We need to stay the comic, but will you read this word for appalled, stay horrified, so that we will television word, from start to finish? Probably not. continue to hunger for change. There’s an old newsroom adage that We live in a fast-paced, immediacy- says, “If it bleeds, it leads.” And quite centric society. According to Statistic characters? frankly, this doesn’t bleed. It won’t catch Brain, the average attention span in 2015 and hold your attention like a photo was 8.25 seconds, down from 12 seconds depicting destruction or a story outlining in 2000. The same website reported that, KAYLA FARR the chaos of tragedy, so your eyes will in a study of almost 60,000 internet Reporter only spare it a moment’s glance. page views, 17 percent of people viewed We live in an era of immediate webpages for less than four seconds and information. We learn about events only read an average of 28 percent of the Why do we get so across the globe as they happen, and we’ve words on an average webpage (a page involved in the plots grown to expect instantaneous updates, with approximately 600 words.) On web of television shows complete with photos and quotes from pages with approximately 100 words, and movies? With so witnesses, even when the events occur consumers typically read only 49 percent many television shows half a world away. of the content. out there, we are able Our attention spans are shrinking. We to easily get caught up spend decreasing amounts of time reading in the many different webpages and stories, and advertisers are plots and characters' "As a society, we having to go to greater lengths to catch lives without even need to refresh how and hold our attention for any significant realizing it. period of time. Last week, I was making dinner while we view tragedy, It makes sense that we have, in turn, my roommate was watching television. I because becoming become increasingly numb to tragic and wasn’t paying attention to what she was numb to the horrors graphic images displayed on news sites: watching when all of a sudden she started that fill the news They affect us for only a moment before freaking out — I turned around and she we move on to the next story, the next was yelling at the television. Apparently, only perpetuates the photo, the next tragedy. a beloved character on a certain show problem." In a society that enables us to jump about zombies had just been killed. I from topic to topic with ease, to consume was confused why she was so sad about streams of information with just the a fictional character’s death.