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Oakman jailed on charge of sexual assault

LIESJE POWERS her clothing and forcing Sta Writer her onto the bed before sexually assaulting her at his Police arrested former apartment. Baylor football player e woman le a er Shawn Oakman Wednesday the assault, but le behind a ernoon on charges of underwear and an earring, sexual assault. according to the report. She Oakman, 24, met with then went to the hospital, detectives at the Waco Police received treatment for Department and was served injuries and was given a Tribune News Service with two search warrants sexual assault examination. FACING SCRUTINY ESPN’s “Outside the Line” reports that Baylor University is being accused of mishandling for his cellphone and DNA Waco police searched his sexual assault claims after a student reported being sexually assaulted in 2013 by former tight end Tre’Von samples. He was duplex the same Armstead and former practice squad player Myke Chatman. then arrested day for evidence and taken to of the woman’s the McLennan belongings that ESPN’s ‘Outside the Lines’ reports Baylor County Jail, may have been according to le behind. mishandling of 2013 sexual assault case a Waco Police e police Department were looking press release. for clothing, Information JESSICA HUBBLE Tonya Lewis, assistant director of He stated he could hear oorboards earrings, blood, regarding his Sta Writer media communications at Baylor. squeaking upstairs, the report said. semen, bodily bail has not been “ is safeguard also helps assure According to the police report, Oakman uids, hair, skin released. Baylor University is accused of other students that their right to he walked through the house cells, DNA, bed Tonya Lewis, assistant mishandling sexual assault claims con dentiality will be protected. and checked the bedrooms, and sheets and other items, director of media against two football players from e decision to report to the received a response from a male according to the police communications, issued two years ago in ESPN’s second university or other authorities is saying, “We all right.” When the a davit for the search a statement on behalf of “Outside the Lines” report, which a brave and personal choice and woman came downstairs, her shirt warrant. Two comforters, Baylor. was published Wednesday. occurs on the student’s timetable. was inside out and she was out of a tted sheet and at sheet “We are aware of the Former tight end Tre’Von Once a complaint is led, the Title breath, teary eyed and said the were seized from the arrest of Shawn Oakman, a Armstead and former practice IX process conducts a prompt males were leaving. property. graduate of Baylor University squad player Myke Chatman were and equitable e police report said According to the a davit, and a former member of accused of sexually assaulting investigation that the woman went back Oakman admitted to having the football team. We will a Baylor student a er a police and resolves the upstairs and the roommate consensual sex with the continue to cooperate with report was led in 2013 by the complaint fairly.” followed her and saw a “tall woman. the Waco Police Department woman. Universities are required According to black male.” e male went Oakman is an NFL to provide any information by Title IX to address allegations the Waco police back into a room and shut dra prospect and was one that could be helpful to of sexual violence involving report on April 18, the door behind him. of Baylor’s top defensive the ongoing investigation,” students immediately. According 2013, the woman According to the police players. He was suspended Lewis wrote. to “Outside the Lines,” Baylor did was adamant report, another roommate for the Southern Methodist e investigation, led by not investigate the allegations until that nothing had of the woman walked in University game last season Waco Police Detective Sam Sept. 11, 2015. happened and that and heard “a large bang” for rule violations. During Key, began last week when In January, Baylor was accused she had not been and “ sts hitting noises.” this time Oakman had a Baylor student reported of mishandling several sexual sexually harassed. ey also heard the woman two warrants issued for that she had been assaulted assault cases in a separate “Outside e o cer on the Armstead saying, “No, no please stop.” running a stop sign and by Oakman a er leaving the Lines” report and in March the scene was advised e roommates then went failing to appear in court. Scru y Murphy’s on Speight university had a Title IX lawsuit to make call notes and inform into the garage to hide and called He graduated from the Avenue in the early morning led against them. Baylor University of the situation. 911. e woman came downstairs university in December. of April 3. “Due to the deeply personal According to the Waco Police and collapsed, saying, “I told them He previously played for He asked her to walk and sensitive nature of individual report, a roommate of the woman to leave but they wouldn’t.” One Penn State University, where home with him a er meeting cases and federal law, we do not came home and said he heard roommate then picked her up and he was dismissed for trying at the bar, according to publicly address speci c cases, the woman scream his name “as carried her to the garage. to steal food from a campus the a davit. Oakman is even when a student shares if something were wrong.” e According to “Outside the store. accused of forcibly removing publicly details or reports of his roommate began calling for the or her own experience,” said woman and received no response. ESPN >> Page 4

>>WHAT’S INSIDE opinion Starr, panel discuss Scalia replacement ERIC VINING e panel, hosted by the Reporter American Constitution Society Editorial: The pay gap and consisting of Starr and Baylor between the U.S. soccer law professors Rory Ryan, Brian Since the passing of Supreme teams is unacceptable. pg. 2 Serr and David Guinn, took time Court Justice Antonin Scalia on to address both Scalia himself and Feb. 13, politicians and the media the vacancy’s implications on the alike have speculated on how the court. sports U.S. should respond to his sudden Starr, a former judge on the U.S. and untimely passing. Court of Appeals for the District Tyler Stayer: How the club Baylor President and Charlene Lee | Photo Editor of Columbia and U.S. Solicitor tennis player suddenly ﬁ nds Chancellor Ken Starr and faculty General under President George himself on the varsity team. JUDGE REPLACEMENT Baylor law students gather on members of the Baylor Law School Wednesday to hear panel members discuss the recent Supreme H.W. Bush, was a close friend of pg. 6 aimed to answer this question for Court vacancy. Baylor University President and Chancellor Ken undergraduate and law students Starr, professor of law Biran Serr, professor of local government Wednesday a ernoon during a and constitutional law David Guinn and professor of law Rory Ryan SCALIA >> Page 4 four-member panel session. were on the panel.

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EDITORIAL US women’s soccer unjustly underpaid

e gender pay gap: a phenomenon some $72,000 a year to play a minimum of 20 games, say doesn’t exist. However, the recent lawsuit and can receive a bonus of only $1,350 for each led by the US women’s national soccer team is one they win. Unlike the men, they only receive shedding new light on an old controversy. the bonus if they win the game and they get On March 29, ve women from the national nothing if they tie. team– Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan, Megan If the women happen to win all their Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn and Hope Solo games, the most a player would make from the – led a wage-discrimination action against federation would be $99,000 for that year, while the U.S. Soccer Federation for being paid the men’s team can lose all their games for that substantially less than the comparable U.S. season and players would still earn $100,000. men’s national soccer team. Men who win all their games can earn as much Members of the women’s team earned about as $260,000 in a season. one-fourth of what male soccer players earned Furthermore, a er playing 20 games, a in 2015, despite winning their World Cup and female player will not earn any additional bringing in $20 million more in revenue than compensation while a man could earn bonuses the men’s team did. e women who led anywhere from $5,000 to $17,625 for additional this lawsuit are seeking equality and to make games played. progress toward closing the pay gap. And these numbers represent just Even though the U.S. Soccer Federation discrepancies in the earnings from the U.S. only pays men if they are called to the national Soccer Federation and doesn’t include bonuses team while women are salaried employees, the from the World Cups. discrepancies in bonuses received by the two e only time the men and women are paid teams should not di er to the degree they do. the same is when they qualify for the Olympic di erences between the two teams, there is should, at the very least, be paid a comparable Based on data in the lawsuit, the players on roster. e Federation then pays each of those no reason for a pay gap this large. is pay amount and receive comparable bonuses. the men’s team receive a minimum of $5,000 to players $15,000 for making the team, showing gap cannot even be justi ed from a business Kelley O’Hara, one of the players on the play in each game regardless of the outcome, in that the idea of equal pay between the teams standpoint since the women’s team brought in women’s soccer team once said, “No excuses. addition to receiving anywhere from $6,250 to isn’t such a taboo idea. more revenue than the men’s team. Play like a champion.” While winning the World $17,625 per game based on the ranking of their Some will argue that men’s soccer has Gender inequalities are still prevalent Cup last year, the women did just that. Now it opponent and whether they win or tie the game. been around longer, has a larger fan base and in society, and this issue highlights the pay is time for the U.S. Soccer Federation to step up e women, on the other hand, are paid they plays harder teams. While there are some inequalities that still exist. Men and women and pay them like the champions they are.

COLUMN COLUMN Change is opportunity Brand bias is pointless to grow; embrace it when buying cameras

JESSICA BABB in any way I could, trying to plan out Broadcast Managing Editor what my future was going to look like. RICHARD HIRST Julien Photography, that used Canon. Believe it or I sought out plans, like potentially going Photo Editor not, the images were just as good as the images from Each morning when I wake up, I can to law school, that would bring me the a Nikon. And believe it or not, the camera did not look forward to seeing a new Facebook most security rather than the ones, like Nearly every time I go photograph an event, bite when I picked it up to use at work. memory on my timeline bringing back becoming a broadcast journalist, that someone wanting to get into photography sees me I had only just started getting into photography, middle school jokes and pictures from would ful ll my passions. I knew my with a rather large camera and asks, “So you use so I did not have a wide variety of lenses to use with when throwing up peace signs was still dreams were risky, uncertain, and would Canon? Is it better than the rest?” or “Don’t you my Nikon. e company I worked had lenses, but cool. While they give me a good laugh bring constant change. know Nikon is better?” they were only compatible with Canons. In order and let me reminisce, they also let me But this way of thinking is backwards. People seem to have a to use the lenses they had, I would need a Canon see how I realized I had been thinking about very set idea that one camera, so I sold my Nikon and purchased a Canon much change change all wrong. Instead of thinking must be better than the body. us begun my long relationship with Canon. has taken the uncertainty of change was scary, it other. at’s just not how e only other reason I was convinced to move place over should be seen as a new opportunity to it works. to Canon is not even an argument anymore. Canon the years. grow. You can only grow when you put Typically those who has something called Canon Professional Services. J u s t yourself in uncomfortable situations bring this up with me e service is for those who have purchased several recently, and when you are fearless enough to try are fairly surprised when thousand-dollars worth of Canon equipment and one of the something new. I say that there really get free cleanings, equipment loans, repair discounts memories ere is a certain feeling of peace isn’t a quality di erence and on-site servicing. I wanted to be a part of this that popped that comes along with knowing you have between them. program to have the perks. At the time of my switch, up on my no idea where you will be in the future, If there was a clear Nikon did not have an equivalent, but if I understand feed was an but being OK with following God’s lead. and distinct di erence making a brand responsible properly, Nikon now o ers a professional resource article I wrote over a year ago detailing By pursuing journalism, I have no idea for the No. 1 camera in the world, then every like Canon Professional Services. my battle with Ankylosing Spondylitis, a what city I will be in when I graduate in professional would use that brand and it would not Canon or Nikon both produce beautiful images, rare type of juvenile arthritis, and how a few years, but I have found comfort be split like it is in the eld. there is no doubt to that. e question really comes I overcame some of the challenges that in the idea of traveling around, seeking ere are only a few reasons why I chose to buy down to personal preference. Do you personally came with it. is particular arthritis change, rather than running away from Canon and most of those reasons are not relevant prefer one interface over the other? Do you know causes severe pain in the spine and it. anymore or relevant to other people. someone with one that would be willing to share could eventually cause my spine to fuse e only sense of security we need To start, I would like to preface that a Nikon was their equipment? together one day, which could greatly is faith in His plan and the rest will actually the second DSLR that I owned. I thought Asking which one is better is the same question reduce my mobility when I am older. naturally work itself out. Change is not Nikon was the best thing in the world and didn’t as asking what brand do you use. ere isn’t a good When I was rst diagnosed with it my something that is scary or alarming, but understand why anyone in their right mind would answer. junior year of high school, I struggled rather something exciting that helps us ever shoot anything else because, obviously, Nikon Richard Hirst is a senior journalism major from with the fact key components of my life enjoy the journey of life. was the best. Durant, Okla. He is the photo editor for the Lariat. were changing and I had no control over When I look back to those Facebook I then started working for a company, Malinda them. memories, I enjoy seeing how I have I struggled because change was scary personally grown over the years. I am to me. happy I have grown from the awkward For the latest... When I came to college, I was lled preteen who was going through puberty with even more change. Change in and making weird faces in photos, to location, priorities and personal growth. someone who no longer fears change Follow us on From new classes to new friends, and the uncertainty life brings. Like us on everything was di erent. Jessica Babb is a sophomore Facebook Twitter At rst, as it is to many other journalism and political science major @bulariat freshmen, this change was unsettling from Harker Heights. She is the broadcast to me. I tried to control the change managing editor for the Lariat.

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Mike Stobbe not immediately rule on how Wednesday that it was not clear defendant facing probation for Associated Press much longer Couch, already in if that would include the time a felony crime up to 180 days. custody since he was arrested Couch has already spent in jail. Prosecutors asked Salvant to FORT WORTH — A in Mexico last year, would Prosecutors declined to issue a “stacked” sentence, judge on Wednesday ordered spend in the Tarrant County comment afterward on their running each of the four a Texas teenager who used an Jail. strategy, citing a gag order punishments consecutively. “affluenza” defense in a fatal But he reconsidered his Salvant has issued in the case. Salvant agreed over the drunken-driving wreck to ruling after prosecutors For months, they had indicated objections of Reagan Wynn, serve nearly two years in jail, convinced him that Couch they wouldn’t be able to get one of Couch’s attorneys. But a surprising sanction that far should be sentenced not to more than a few months in jail he said he would give both sides exceeds the several months in 120 days in jail for the crash, for Couch, though they said he two weeks to file any response jail that prosecutors initially but to 180 days for each of might face decades in prison if to his sentence, suggesting that said they would pursue. four counts of intoxication he violated his probation as an he might reconsider. Associated Press Ethan Couch, who was manslaughter under a separate Sentenced Ethan Couch is brought into court for a hearing on adult. The initial sentence of appearing in adult court for the part of Texas code. Wednesday at Tim Curry Justice Center in Fort Worth. The judge But as the hearing 10 years of probation that first time after he turned 19 on Couch had always faced ordered Couch to serve nearly two years in jail. Wednesday neared an Couch received in juvenile Monday, received 180 days for the prospect of adult jail time end, prosecutors said they court outraged prosecutors each of the four deaths in the as part of his probation once Couch had violated his juvenile Each 180-day term will be wanted Salvant to consider and relatives of the victims, June 2013 crash. his case had moved out of the probation by fleeing to Mexico served consecutively, Salvant a section under the Texas which include one teenager Initially, state District Judge juvenile system. Prosecutors with his mother, or to consider ordered. Tarrant County Code of Criminal Procedure who was paralyzed and uses a Wayne Salvant said he would didn’t ask the judge to declare it in his ruling. Sheriff Dee Anderson said that allows a judge to give a wheelchair.

Zika linked to birth defects What’s

Mike Stobbe Associated Press Happening NEW YORK — Confirming the worst fears of many pregnant women in the United States and Latin America, U.S. health officials said Wednesday there is no longer any doubt the Zika on Campus? virus causes babies to be Hang out with your friends and get connected born with abnormally small heads and other severe brain by attending these fun and free* events defects. “There is no longer any doubt that Zika causes microcephaly,” CDC *Unless otherwise noted. Director Dr. Tom Frieden said. The CDC said it is also clear that Zika causes other serious defects, including damaging calcium buildups in the developing brain. The CDC and other health agencies have been Thursday, Friday & Saturday, April 14 – 16 operating for months on Equestrian National Championship the assumption that Zika causes brain defects, and Event times vary daily. Come to the Extraco Events Center to watch the Baylor Equestrian team they have been warning compete for the 2016 National Championship title. Admission is free. pregnant women to use mosquito repellent, cover up, avoid travel to Zika-stricken Thursday, April 14 | Campus Kitchen Garden Shift regions and either abstain 1 p.m. Volunteer at the Baylor Community Garden, located at 9th and James, with the Baylor from sex or rely on condoms. Campus Kitchen. Water, harvest, plant and prune vegetables that will be used to make meals Those guidelines will not for individuals in need at Mission Waco, the Family Abuse Center and Salvation Army. change. But the new finding should help officials make a Thursday, Friday & Saturday, April 14 – 16 more convincing case to the public for taking precautions. Free Bowling Weekend The World Health 8 p.m. Enjoy free bowling and billiards in the basement of the Bill Daniel Student Center until close. Organization has made similar statements recently. A WHO official applauded the Friday, April 15 | Relay for Life CDC report. 7 p.m. Join the American Cancer Society by participating in the annual Relay for Life at Russell Gym. “We feel it’s time to move from precautionary language Relay for Life raises funds for the American Cancer Society in hopes of finding a cure for cancer. to more forceful language to For information on registration and to pay the $10 registration fee, visit baylor.edu/baylorconnect. get people to take action,” said Dr. Bruce Aylward, who is leading WHO’s Zika Friday & Saturday, April 15 & 16 | Baylor Baseball and Tailgate response. 6:35 p.m. Friday and 3:05 p.m. Saturday. Support the Baylor Bears as they take on the Oklahoma Public health authorities State Cowboys at Baylor Ballpark. Show up early to enjoy a free food truck tailgate. have mounted mosquito- eradication efforts, including spraying and campaigns Saturday, Sunday, Monday & Tuesday, April 16 – 19 to eliminate the sources of standing water in which 2016 Acrobatics and Tumbling National Championship mosquitoes breed. Event times vary daily. Come to the Ferrell Center to watch Baylor Acrobatics and Tumbling The virus causes only compete for the 2016 National Championship title. For tickets, meet times and more information, a mild and brief illness, at visit baylorbears.com. worst, in most people. But in the last year, infections in pregnant women have Sunday, April 17 | National Bat Appreciation Day at the Zoo been strongly linked to fetal 11 a.m. Explore the Cameron Park Zoo and enjoy events and activities celebrating National deaths and devastating birth defects, mostly in Brazil, Bat Appreciation Day. A ticket is required and can be purchased at the zoo. where the Health Ministry said Tuesday that 1,113 cases of microcephaly have been confirmed since October. So far, there have been no documented Zika infections in the U.S. caught from mosquitoes. Nearly 350 illnesses in the 50 states For more, join Baylor Connect at were reported as of last week, all linked to travel to Zika baylor.edu/ outbreak regions. baylorconnect The CDC report comes at a time when health Follow @BaylorSA and @BaylorUB on Twitter. officials have been begging Congress to approve an emergency $1.9 billion in supplemental funding to fight Zika internationally and prepare for its spread in the U.S. Earlier Wednesday, top House Republicans said they will probably grant a portion of that, but probably not until September. Thursday, April 14, 2016 The Baylor Lariat 4 News

Obama claims progress on SCALIA from Page 1 Scalia during his tenure on the Supreme Court. “He tried to be intellectually honest and he wanted all of us to be intellectually honest, even if we ended up disagreeing with Islamic State amid conflict him,” Starr said. “That’s all he asked for. I viewed him on the court as a colleague.” While widely respected in the American law community for JOSH LEDERMAN AND his opinions on the court, Scalia was never one to brag about his KEVIN FREKING intellectual prowess. Associated Press “He was our Socrates,” Starr said. “He was searching for truth. And he wanted to engage in arguments. He’s one of the reasons the court became such as lively place you knew that he was LANGLEY, Va. — President Barack looking for the honest answer.” Obama claimed progress Wednesday Another topic of focus was Scalia’s view of “constitutional in the U.S.-led fight against the Islamic originalism,” which was the primary guide Scalia used for making State group, even as political turmoil his decisions while on the court. As a philosophy, “constitutional in Iraq and renewed violence in Syria originalism” seeks to view and interpret the U.S. Constitution in threatened to jeopardize hard-fought the same manner it would have been at the time the document gains. was conceived. During a rare presidential visit to “He would say the Constitution is for ‘We The People’,” Starr CIA headquarters, Obama said it had said. “It is not for justices to impose their view of a better society. been “a bad few months” for the Islamic He would say were are not drawn here to be judges of equity to State and gave a detailed account of areas ‘do the right thing’. Rather, we are to meditate on the text of the where U.S.-backed forces have wrested Constitution. We need to set our preferences aside and let the territory back from the extremist group. people govern themselves.” Though he acknowledged the fight Scalia held this belief to such a high standard that he remains difficult and complex, he said oftentimes diverged from his generally conservative views in IS was on the defensive and that the U.S. pursuit of constitutional originalism. intends to “keep that momentum.” “Although he is viewed as very conservative, when it came to “Every day, ISIL leaders wake up and First Amendment rights, more often than not, he came down on understand that it could be their last,” the side of the speaker,” Guinn said. Obama said, using an acronym for the Associated Press One particularly memorable instance of such resolve was extremist group. STATE OF SECURITY President Barack Obama speaks at the CIA Headquarters when Scalia voted with the majority opinion in Texas v. Johnson, a Obama offered no new steps or 1989 case where the court upheld the right to burn the American specifics about how the U.S. will beef Wednesday in Langley, Va., after a meeting with his National Security Council. Obama pays a rare visit to CIA headquarters as the United States weighs sending flag as a form of free speech under the First Amendment. up the fight against IS, although U.S. more forces to Iraq to fight the Islamic State group. “There’s little more horrible than for someone to take down officials have suggested those steps are the flag of the United States, put lighter fluid on it, set it on fire in the works. Defense Secretary Ash and say, “Red, white and blue, we spit on you,’” Guinn said. “Yet Carter has said the Pentagon is seeking muddled at best. bolstering Assad with an air campaign [Scalia] said, ‘Under our system, it is not the speech that we love, ways to increase military support for In Syria, escalating fighting between against his opponents, recently ordered but the speech that we hate that we must protect,’’ He was a devout the fight, including a likely increase the government and militants has a drawdown in warplanes, but said disciple of the Constitution in its original meaning.” in U.S. forces, along with the possible threatened to jeopardize a fragile strikes would continue against IS and “He believed that we are not to be governed by unelected use of Apache helicopters for Iraqi-led cease-fire the U.S. and Russia brokered the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front. Both judges,” Starr added. “We are to be governed by ‘We The People.’ combat missions. earlier this year. Peace talks resumed of those groups are excluded from the That is what animated him, and originalism was, in my judgment, The visit to the CIA’s campus in Wednesday in Geneva aimed at cease-fire. a means to that large meta end.” suburban Virginia was designed to resolving Syria’s civil war, though In Iraq, Obama pointed to the Iraqi At the end of the event, the panel discussed the implications assure Americans that the U.S. is fully deep disagreements about who should military’s preparations to retake the Scalia’s vacancy has on U.S. politics for the following year. engaged in the fight, despite persistent participate have continued to plague IS stronghold of Mosul as an example “Good government means good politics, and I think good complaints from Obama’s critics that that process. of increased momentum in the fight. politics means having a hearing,” Starr said. “I don’t think that his strategy isn’t aggressive enough. Syrians living in parts of the country Yet modest signs of progress have there is some judicially enforceable right on the part of anyone to Indeed, in recent months Obama has still under government control also been tempered by ongoing sectarian insist on a hearing. It’s the exercise of the United States Senate’s made similar field trips to the Pentagon voted Wednesday in parliamentary challenges and a political crisis in discretion.” and the State Department to illustrate elections that Syrian President Bashar Baghdad that have threatened to further how all facets of the U.S. government Assad’s opponents dismissed as a sham destabilize the country. are on the case. intended to lend an air of legitimacy Obama’s remarks at the CIA came ESPN from Page 1 “They are working around the clock to his beleaguered government, in yet the week before he travels to Saudi to keep us safe,” Obama said, adding another worrying sign for the peace Arabia for a summit with Persian Gulf Lines,” the woman contacted the woman seemed very that CIA operatives had thwarted talks. leaders focused largely on the threat the police the next morning intoxicated and affected the terrorists repeatedly without being able The uptick in violence in Syria has from the Islamic State. Previewing after hearing about the night recollection of the night. to acknowledge it publicly. “They don’t raised difficult questions about how to his request to countries attending from her friends, and because The investigation was get a lot of attention.” proceed if the truce falls apart and frees that summit, Obama said “the entire of bruises and pain. The suspended May 23, 2013. Though Obama gave an optimistic Assad and his Russian backers to resume world” must step up to help Iraq restore woman had bruises on her Chatman left Baylor after portrayal of progress in both Iraq and attacks on U.S.-supported opposition stability “so that ISIL cannot return.” legs, arms and buttocks and the 2012 season and played Syria, the picture on the ground remains groups. Russia, which had been a scratch on her back. She two seasons at Sam Houston went to Hillcrest Hospital to State University. Armstead receive a sexual assault nurse was expelled in February 2016, examiner (SANE) exam, the according to the “Outside the police report read. Lines” report. TRAINING HARD “While waiting for the The Waco Police SANE exam [she] was asked Department had not if she would sign a desire to responded to an interview prosecute form to which she request by press time. declined saying that she did Philadelphia law firm not wish to press charges Pepper Hamilton LLP is against Mr. Chatman and Mr. conducting an independent Armstead,” the police report investigation to analyze the said. university’s handling of sexual The officer who arrived on assault allegations in recent the scene observed a bruise years. The firm was contracted on her cheek and bite mark by the Baylor Board of Regents on her neck, and also thought last fall.

Charlene Lee | Lariat Photographer Baylor ROTC struggles together Wednesday on Fountain Mall doing group push ups during training. Not only does doing team pushups build physical endurance but also forces the participants to work as one fluid team as military units do.

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7 p.m. — Ricky Vazquez Ensemble with Nick Fabian at bring ‘The Man Dichotomy. Free. of La Mancha’ 7:30 p.m. — Waco back to life Symphony Orchestra with clarinetist Franklin KENDALL BAER Cohen at Waco Hall. Reporter $20-45. e Baylor Opera eater and Baylor Jazz Ensemble teamed up for a two-night performance of >> Friday “ e Man of La Mancha” Tuesday Trey Honeycutt | Lariat Photographer and Wednesday at the Waco FIGHTING WINDMILLS Alex Parker, director of jazz, conducts the Baylor Jazz Ensemble as opera students Hippodrome eatre. e concert perform excerpts from “The Man of La Mancha” on Wednesday at the Hippodrome. 11 a.m.- 10 p.m. — was a stripped-down version of the Brazos River Ribfest at beloved Broadway musical, which from the original to showcase the community. for a jazz ensemble.” McLane Stadium. Free. turned the audience’s attention talents of the performing students. “For the very rst time, Waco is As the performance started, on the performers and the music e Hippodrome was packed honored to be one of the focus cities Cárdenas shared with the audience instead of the set or costumes. full of audience members ranging for this important research into the that he too would be a part of the 6:30 p.m. — Gospel e original “ e Man of in all age-groups at the 7:30 p.m. arts,” Cárdenas said. concert opera. Fest at the Waco La Mancha” shows Miguel de performance Wednesday. As the Ken and Kathy Sprinkle, two “We have taken some liberties Cervantes, the author of “Don theater dimmed, Octavio Cárdenas, audience members from New with the show to make it ow with Hippodrome. Free. Quixote,” musically performing his director of Baylor Opera eater, Mexico, came particularly to see the concert,” Cárdenas said. own hero’s exploits in a prison yard. spoke a few words about the concert cast member North Richland Hills e show lasted a little over 6:30 p.m. — The Cervantes plays Don Quixote, a to the audience members. sophomore Blayke Drury play the an hour and was lled with songs knight bent on ghting for justice Cárdenas shared that, along role of Aldonza. performed from the original New O enders at and wooing Aldonza, an abused with the performance that evening, “We are excited to see this musical. Although it was stripped The Backyard Bar, woman. select audience members would be version of ‘Man of La Mancha,’” to only a selection of songs from Stage and Grill. $10 in e production isolated asked to ll out a survey that would Ken Sprinkle said. “I have seen the the original, the concert was easy winning numbers like “Impossible bene t the Baylor School of Music, musical many times, but this is the to follow, ending with a standing advance, $15 day of. Dream” and “I Really Like Him” the Hippodrome and the Waco art rst version I have seen composed ovation from the audience.

Harumatsuri festival will bring Japan to Baylor

REBECCA FEDORKO senior Bria Ford, the president of JSA. photo booth, where guests can take and professors, will play live women began to be allowed access Reporter “You get to take in another culture photos in traditional kimonos; a contemporary music at the end of the to the ensembles in the ‘80s and without having to travel. You get to booth for calligraphy; and a booth Harumatsuri. Houston senior James ‘90s. ere are now, generally, even Plunge into Japanese culture at stay right here and broaden your for contestants to play the Japanese Tabata, a JSA member, will also lead numbers of males and females in the Harumatsuri festival from 10 horizons while at Baylor.” version of rock, paper, scissors. an orchestra ensemble performance. taiko performances at festivals and a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the North Harumatsuri translates literally ere will also be a game that lets One of the main attractions at events. Village Community Center. e event as spring (Haru) festival (matsuri) contestants race to see who can use the festival, however, is the taiko Ford said the drums are also one is free to the public and will feature and is thus a festival to celebrate chopsticks to move small circular drummers. of her favorite parts of the festival, games, photo booths and live musical the springtime. is will be the items from one place to another. “My personal favorite thing is the along with the tea ceremony. She performances by various members of association’s eighth year putting on “We’re going to have a traditional taiko drummers,” Nixon said. “ ey said the tradition, rules and culture the Japanese Student Association.Free Sudoku Puzzlesthe festival. by Japanese tea ceremony and some are very loud in a very close space, that surround both activities are Festivals play a central role in “Typically, there are all kinds of traditional taiko drummers and a and you can feel it in your chest.” very interesting to her, and she hopes Japanese culture, so it only makes festivals during the spring in Japan,” lot of cool little booths,” said Eagle, Taiko is a very broad term for others take the opportunity to enjoy sense that JSA would o er a glimpse Ford said. “We do Harumatsuri as Idaho, senior Brian Nixon, who is the traditional Japanese drumming. e them as well. into Japanese traditionSU by puttingDO KU on one 1celebration29 that pulls elements historian for JSA. style was used historically during “It’s going be a really beautiful, a cultural festival. Customize your ownfrom sudoku all of those.” ere will also be two live music wartime, as well as for festivals and small piece of Japanese culture here “It’s a fun way to get to experiencebooklets on e festival will include eight ensembles playing at the event. e celebrations. Although it started on campus that everyone should take another culture,” said San www.sudoku129.comAntonio game booths. ese will include a JSA band, made up of JSA members out as an exclusively male art form, the time to experience,” Ford said.

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SCOREBOARD >> @BaylorBaseball 6, Lamar 3| Win – Ott (3-2); Save – Montemayor (8) BaylorLariat.com Right place, right time Former club tennis player gets unexpected call to join varsity team

MEGHAN MITCHELL Sports Writer

It was the perfect storm for junior tennis player Tyler Stayer in his unexpected journey to becoming a member of the Baylor men’s tennis team. Just months ago, Stayer was a member of the club tennis team. Now Stayer finds himself in the thick of a tightly contested Big 12 regular season. With injuries and ineligibilities plaguing the Baylor men’s tennis team this season, the Bears’ coaching staff was left with no choice but to scout the Baylor club tennis team for reserves. When Stayer got the call from the varsity team, the decision whether to accept the offer was a no-brainer, he said. “It was an immediate yes,” Stayer said. “I thought it was really cool. I didn’t think that I would be playing regularly, I just thought I would have a chance to get a lot better at tennis, use the facilities and practice with the coaches.” Stayer thought his competitive tennis career was, for the most part, complete after graduating Richard Hirst | Photo Editor from high school. Little did Stayer know his BRIGHT EYES Junior Tyler Stayer watches the ball as he prepares to hit it with his racquet during the Bears’ match against Arkansas Pin-Bluff. Stayer was formerly a involvement in Baylor’s club member of the Baylor club tennis team and was asked to join the varsity men’s tennis team earlier this semester as a reserve player. tennis team would eventually thrust him under the lights to represent his school again online, and that is why I have been playing matches with the best of the best. ended up at Brookhaven. more regularly, I’m not as Picking up basketball She really pushed me and nervous.” and soccer early on in life, helped me get the best tools “My first match I was Stayer seemed to be a natural to improve.” really distracted and focused at sports, but it wasn’t until However, the weekend on the people in the crowd, he reached the age of 9 tournaments and long days of but now I use it as a bonus. that tennis opened new WANT TO EARN practice seemed to weigh on I really focus on the match, possibilities for Stayer. Stayer. but when I hear them I get Stayer’s mother, Melissa, Although he had talent excited.” recalled the first time he used that could have potentially Now past the first match a racquet. It was a moment earned him a college jitters, the coaches and his HOURS THIS that both of Stayer’s parents scholarship, Stayer decided teammates have all been realized their son’s gift to play that high school tennis was thrilled to have Stayer on tennis. enough and stopped playing the lineup as he continues to “When he was around in tournaments that would improve. 9 years old, I put him in a have improved his ranking. “He has been a joy,” said SUMMER? little, local tennis camp one While starting college head coach Matt Knoll. “The summer at Wagon Wheel,” seemed like the end of his guy has improved in the three his mother said. “Some of tennis career, it was during or four weeks he’s been with HERE ARE SOME TIPS: these kids were very serious. his sophomore year at Baylor us more than anybody I have In fact, when we got there we that a friend encouraged him ever seen. He listens, he does didn’t even have a racquet to join the club tennis team. exactly what we ask him to because we thought it was a Stayer’s passion for the sport do, and he’s a great teammate. camp where they gave you reignited. He is just phenomenal.” DO DON’T racquets. So my ex-husband “My freshman year, I Senior Julian Lenz, who had to go buy him a racquet didn’t play on the club team. has played doubles with from behind the counter at I was a little burned out after Stayer the past few matches, the camp. Tyler my senior year is blown away by the progress beat everybody of high school, and skill that Stayer has Enroll at the t h e re .” Let required because I played brought basically out of Alamo Colleges this From that a lot my junior nowhere. courses get in the way point on, Tyler’s summer to keep and senior years “He is working really of progress. passion for tennis of high school,” hard and he’s really going up with your began to grow. Stayer said. “I out there wanting to win. He “We put him in joined club my is not afraid. He is trying to degree plan. a ZAT tournament sophomore year help the team and he is really the following because I had good,” Lenz said. “He’s a month and he a friend who funny guy and social also. He won it all,” Stayer’s was joining and is really involved. He has just Let your summer mother said. “He Stayer Enroll in it was a great improved a ton compared job keep you was 10 years old, and people experience.” to how he was playing early online courses. were freaking out about After an impressive club in the season. He stays after from learning. it. So at 10 he won his first tennis season, winning practice, hitting serves for tournament with the racquet various tournaments and hours, he is doing all the right that was bought over-the- making it to nationals, Stayer things.” counter.” decided to return once again As his junior year comes to Come back to Pay more for the Giving up soccer to focus to the club team the following an end, Stayer, who has plans on basketball and tennis, year. to become a lawyer one day, Baylor with same education. Stayer would play all through It was in his second perhaps surprised a couple more hours. Alamo Colleges offer middle school, participating semester in his junior year people with his unanticipated first-class courses in select basketball and that Stayer saw his tennis collegiate tennis career. But competing in tennis career take an unanticapted there is one person who’s not at a great price. tournaments. turn. Men’s tennis assistant surprised by Stayer’s success – It was when he started coach Dominik Mueller his mother. attending Brookhaven reached out to Stayer about “He did very well in high in Dallas that he started joining team. school then gave it up, but improving at a rapid pace. Stayer would see his first then he came here (Baylor) START NOW AT ALAMO.EDU. “My mom, when I was a match against Texas Tech on and started club tennis,” kid, would put me in a lot of April 2. Stayer’s mother said. “He got different sports to see what I “My first match was into it, and now look at where like, and I actually ended up against Texas Tech and it was he is at. I love how he is so liking all of them. That is why at the International Indoors humble. Anything that he has I ended up playing basketball in Virginia,” Stayer said. “I wanted to do, he can be the and soccer for a long time,” was excited, but I was also best at it.” Dare to Dream. Prepare to Lead.™ Stayer said. “She did research super nervous. Now that I