Baylor Sign Language Policy Sparks Class Credit Debate
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WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE BEAR TRADE from Page 1 TheWEDNESDAY | FEBRUARY Baylor16, 2011 Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com SPORTS Page 7 A&E Page 6 NEWS Page 5 King Dunn crowned Don’t call it a salon Iran protests rev up LaceDarius Dunn is Baylor’s all-time A Philadelphia barbershop Opposition protesters in Iran turned scoring leader after scoring 17 in a is beloved for its old-school out for a rally in solidarity with Egypt’s win over Wayland Baptist style and oddball owner popular revolt, angering lawmakers Vol. 112 No. 16 © 2011, Baylor University In Print >> Deal or no deal A&M A business program brings together entrepreneurs and defers business consultants Page 4 medical >> Sun power A Texas school district reduces pollution and saves students money by going solar By Carmen Galvan Page 4 Assistant City Editor After miscalculating the antici- >> Pursuit of perfect pated student acceptance rate, the After defeating the Aggies, Texas A&M Health Science Center the Lady Bears may defy the College of Medicine is now asking odds and go perfect in the 80 students in the class of 2015 to defer their medical education until Big 12 next year. Page 7 According to a letter signed by Filomeno Maldonado, associate dean of admissions at Texas A&M >> Young out? Infielder Michael Young of Health Science Center College of Medicine, and Leila Diaz, direc- the Texas Rangers wants to tor of admissions at the college, be traded 250 students accepted the medical Page 7 school’s offer when only 170 spots MATT HELLMAN | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER were actually available. The letter, dated in the first week of February Garland junior Analynn Serrano, center, carries on a conversation by sign language with Waco resident and Texas State Technical College ASL and sent to the 250 students who interpreter Allen Arrington and Waco resident Jessica Arrington during the ASL lunch Tuesday at the McAlister’s Deli on Sixth Street. were accepted, came too late for On the Web students to choose another school’s offer since the medical schools of- ficially declared their classes on Feb. 1. Baylor sign language policy “As a result of pre-match offers and the match, our current class size for entering year 2011 stands at 250,” the letter states. “ … Obvi- ously this poses a problem as this sparks class credit debate incoming group clearly exceeds Editor’s note: This is the first of tervention Services, that helps Baylor policy says the language Because Armstrong began her our sanctioned class size of 170.” a three-part series on issues in the provide services for infants and does not meet that requirement, studies in the communication sci- In order to reduce the incom- deaf community. children who have developmental despite the fact that it is a language ences and disorders department ing class to its accredited size, as delays or disabilities. distinct from English. Only if stu- and had taken four semesters of determined by the Liaison Com- Frisbee fling By Sara Tirrito But like many students who dents are majoring in the com- ASL when she switched majors to mittee on Medical Education, the Check out the Lariat’s Staff Writer might have immediate applica- munication sciences and disorders child and family studies, she was college is asking students to vol- website for a video about tions for American Sign Language deaf education program can they only able to receive two semesters’ untarily choose the option of de- ferring before the school begins to the exploits and purpose of San Antonio junior Cheniese in their lives at present or in their petition to have ASL count as their worth of foreign language credit. Armstrong wants to be an early randomly select students for defer- Baylor’s Club Ultimate future careers, Armstrong can’t foreign language credit, said Joyce Baylor policy in the College of childhood interventionist for deaf take ASL for her foreign language Miller, director of academic ad- children — a worker in a Texas credit. visement. SEE ASL, page 8 SEE A&M, page 8 program, Early Childhood In- baylorlariat.com Viewpoints Student launches “While honoring the history of the ‘Craigslist’ for BU South is something By Leigh Ann Henry These materials then move to we don’t think Reporter a landfill, but The Bear Trade is should be stopped, Chapman’s solution to alter this A small, local business is de- wasteful cycle. honoring a man pending on Baylor students to The Bear Trade is intended with a history grow. to allow students to buy, sell and In October, Indianapolis ju- trade within the Baylor commu- entangled in nior Cole Chapman, who is pur- nity instead of just throwing items violence and racism suing a triple major in finance, away when no longer wanted. entrepreneurship and real estate, Chapman said he hopes that is step backward for launched a website called The the move-out in May will be dif- [Mississippi].” Bear Trade. ferent than those in the past, “It is essentially an amplified Page 2 thanks to his website. Craigslist customized for Baylor “I think this year as opposed students. It got inspired by move- to people throwing stuff away out every year,” Chapman said. they’ll post it on The Bear Trade,” Bear Briefs Chapman describes the site as Chapman said. a one-stop shop for Baylor stu- Increasing awareness for dents and said tutoring services, JED DEAN | LARIAT PHOTO EDITOR The place to go to know his website at Baylor has been a textbooks and housing are among struggle. His company is not af- the places to go the items listed online. filiated with Baylor so the school When students move out each doesn’t allow Chapman to adver- From Russia with love Heady topic year, large amounts of unwanted tise on campus. Since the name Dr. Z.E. Musielak, physics books, furniture and other un- of his company is The Bear Trade Kilgore seminary student Josh Kulak and Hanover, N.H., law student Erena Streltsov prepare and professor at the University used materials quickly find a path serve boshet (beet soup) and vareniki (stuffed dumplings), traditional Russian dishes, for the weekly International Students Dinner on Tuesday in the Bobo Baptist Student Center. of Texas at Arlington, will to the nearest Dumpster, Chap- SEE BEAR TRADE, page 8 man said. speak on “Quantum Cold Dark Matter” at 4 p.m. today in E125 Baylor Sciences Building as part of the 2011 From Jay-Z to King of Pop, celebrities dominate Google Spring Physics Colloquium. By Stephen Strobbe which users can search via key- in the world, who would be the Trio to perform Reporter words. Once a search is run, most Googled men,” Lauren Her- The Aspen Spring Trio will Google provides an estimate of skovic, editor-in-chief for the site, play music from Mozart, A recent look at the men with the number of sites within its in- said. “We just wanted to see if are Beethoven and Schubert in the most Google search results dex with that keyword. the people we think really at the a free concert at 7:30 p.m. found Jesus Christ losing in pop- College Candy began the pro- top, or are there more?” ularity to celebrities such as 50 today at Roxy Grove Hall. cess by gathering a vast list of The top five ranked, in as- Cent and Bruno Mars. close to 300 men it considered cending order, were Drake, Chris College Candy, an online life- possible entries into the top 50 Brown, Justin Bieber, Eminem Find a job style magazine, researched the and then narrowing them down and the number one man, Mi- Baylor Career Services will most popular men according to one by one by Googling their PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY JED DEAN chael Jackson. host a career fair from 12:30 Google’s search index. Google is names and then recording the the list with others who have Googling people online, both Some men who placed within to 4:30 p.m. Thursday at the the most dominant search engine number of results. Although the compiled similar lists to provide personally and for our job. So the top 50 should come as no Ferrell Center. The event is on the Internet, with an index process is not without its flaws, a relative level of consistency. we kind of got curious to see, open to all students. of billions of websites through the site noted it cross-referenced “We spend a lot of time with the wide access to Google SEE GOOGLE, page 8 Newspaper of the Year | Texas APME TheLariat Best Student Newspaper | Houston Press Club WEDNESDAY| FEBRUARY 16, 2011 | the Opinion 2 Baylor Lariat www.baylorlariat.com Many mistreat life by creating more, inessential drama Anyone who knows me can sationalism (See, even I’m doing tell I’m not a very dramatic per- it. That sentence was way over- son. This year, the more I try to stated.) stay drama-free, the more it pops Sure, the extra dose of in- up. trigue takes away the sting of monotony in our own lives, but it’s getting to the point where people should walk around with the commercial disclaimer “dra- matization.” Because will all know that art imitates life, it’s no surprise that there are glaring examples of amped up monotony all over the media. Shows like MTV’s “Teen Mom” and A&E’s “Intervention” exploit serious real-life situations and dub them entertainment. Take the recent movie release Catfish. It’s a documentary about twenty-somethings being duped on Facebook and the most in- triguing part is their belief that Wakeelah Crutison | Copy editor their lives are interesting enough to warrant documenting.