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Vigil for Those of Valor WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE BATTLE from Page 1 TheFRIDAY | NOVEMBER 12, 2010Baylor Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com SPORTS Page 5 NEWS Page 3 MOVIES Page 4 Packed Sports Pit Psychedelic ratings Mega success Baylor’s courtside fan group, Baylor’s psychology doctoral Recent Dreamworks film the Bear Pit, sees interest rise program ranks high in recent uses unique story line as year’s basketball season begins National Research Council survey to provide a comedy for all to enjoy Vol. 111 No. 43 © 2010, Baylor University What Championship hopes on the line does By Matt Larsen order to overcome the conference- about that.” son also threw up interceptions at Sports writer leading Cowboys. Falling 38-3 to the Aggies in head-turning rates. Veterans When all the talk of which College Station a year ago, the After nine picks in seven games mean to It’s always a rivalry, but as both team must win “this” or lose “that” Bears look forward to bringing the and a two-game streak where he Day you? Baylor and Texas A&M put their in order for the Bears or Aggies to Battle of the Brazos back to Waco committed 10 turnovers, Johnson Battle chances (though slim) for a Big 12 play in the Big 12 Championship where they welcomed the Ags with gave way to Ryan Tannehill, who of the championship on the line Saturday is put aside, though, what’s left is a 41-21 win two years ago. has since brought the balance of at 6 p.m. at Floyd Casey Stadium, a deep-seated, down-home Texas Both teams prefer to look at production through the air and the stakes have climbed unusually football rivalry known as the Battle this season, though, considering protection of the football that the Brazos high for both squads. of the Brazos. that Baylor is having its best sea- Aggies sought. “It’s going to be an epic battle,” “Everyone keeps talking to me son since joining the Big 12 and Tannehill has thrown nine head coach Art Briles said. “It’s two about A&M coming [to town],” A&M totes a three-game winning touchdowns in the past three really good football teams going at senior cornerback Clifton Odom streak to Waco this Saturday after games while tossing only three it really wanting the same thing.” said. “They play us tough every dropping its first two conference picks. Both teams must win out and year and it’s always a hard-fought matches. “I guess the change kind of have some help from two of three game. We still have kind of a bad Despite throwing up numbers provided a little spark,” Briles said. schools playing Oklahoma State — taste in our mouths from last year that turned eyes on a national lev- Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma — in so we’ll definitely be thinking el, A&M quarterback Jerrod John- SEE BATTLE, page 6 Senators Cortney Shedd OUSTON ENIOR H S “ table When I was at the parade, it got me thinking about all reform of the men that could go into the service and could potentially get changes shot or wounded. It all became real Starr makes first “to me. Senate appearance By Sara Tirrito Staff Writer President Ken Starr spoke at Student Senate for the first time Thursday night, calling on the senators to act as ambassadors for the scholarship initiative, to be- come a part of the strategic plan- ning conversation and to serve the Waco community through Greater Waco Education Alli- MAKENZIE MASON | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER ance’s mentoring program. Irving sophomore Todd Johnston, Gilmer sophomore Josh DeMoss, Westlake Village, Calif. sophomore Brendan Djernes, and Houston At the meeting, a bill intended freshman Brian Smith stand post during a Veterans Day Flag Vigil, Thursday in front of Pat Neff Hall. to reform the Student Govern- ment electoral code was discussed Jay Kinderknecht “ for more than an hour before be- COLUMBIA, MO., JUNIOR ing tabled by the senator who led the revisions, Ft. Worth senior Vigil for those of valor Daniel Houston, president pro tempore of the Student Senate Veterans Day By Courtney Skelly Manchester, N.H., fresh- and chairman of the operations Reporter recognizes people man Jennifer Jenkins, Air and procedures committee. who have served Force ROTC cadet, agreed, The revisions were meant to Baylor Air Force ROTC for our country adding that the vigil was about remove ambiguities in the elec- guarded the American flag in and make it what it respecting all the branches of toral code that have previously front of Pat Neff from midnight is today. the military. caused misunderstandings be- Wednesday to midnight Thurs- For Fort Worth junior Evan tween candidates and the elec- day in honor of Veterans Day. Ross, an Air Force ROTC ca- toral commission, Houston said. Ninety Air Force cadets det, the flag vigil was a way to “In the past we’ve had indi- volunteered their time dur- honor every veteran and fallen viduals every single year that I “ ing the 24-hour vigil, rotat- servicemen. can think of... get called into the ing out in 15-minute shifts. “So many people have died electoral commission for offenses For some of the cadets, the vigil for the freedom of this country, they did not know were infrac- held a personal meaning. and everybody that gives their tions and they did so because they “My grandpa was in the life in service for our country had a different interpretation of Vietnam War,” Indianapolis DANIEL CERNERO | LARIAT EDITOR is buried under an American the code, due in large part to the junior Katrina Cheesman, Air flag,” Ross said. “And so, the Flags on Fountain Mall Thursday commemorate Veterans Day. There were a total of 600 flags, each representing nine soldiers lost ambiguity of the code. That’s one Force ROTC cadet, said. “He American flag is the symbol of in the war on terror. of the things we’re really looking doesn’t ever talk about it, but everything this country stands to address,” Houston said. “In I know it affected him. I think However, the student re- the Office of General Counsel for. Our opportunity to guard addition to that, I feel like the it’s not just respecting him and sponse was not what many in Pat Neff, gave insight as to the flag is symbolic to us giving criteria by which the electoral people like him, but it’s also would have liked to see. why the reaction was less than back to the flag.” commission decides how severe showing my personal pride for Many students avoided the enthusiastic. Each cadet had to stand at a sanction should be are funda- the military and for what I’m flag vigil entirely, while oth- “I know Veterans Day is one full attention during the vigil mentally flawed, and that’s why about to enter into. It’s a reflec- ers simply continued their day of those things that once you’ve Paula Haynes “ and many cadets served multi- we added those in the changes.” HOUSTON SENIOR tion of the past and the future ple shifts to ensure the flag vigil as normal. Chris Holmes, employee of SEE VIGIL, page 6 for m e .” was successful. SEE BILL, page 6 I think of people I work with at the Myers Center [part of Mission Father gifts ancient biblical texts Waco] that are By Jade Mardirosian monastic community at St. Cath- Codex to be accessed by a global veterans. It is Staff Writer erine, which is the oldest working audience for the first time. a day for them to Christian monastery in existence. Through this project, all surviv- be remembered. Baylor was presented Tuesday Fr. Justin described the Codex ing parts of the manuscript have with two copies of what is described as the most authoritative text for a been published together for the first as the world’s oldest manuscript of number of the books of the Septua- time. “ the Bible. gint — the Old Testament in Greek. Fr. Justin’s personal connections The two facsimiles are of the The two copies are the result of to Baylor served a vital role in his Codex Sinaiticus, which is written the Codex Sinaiticus Digitization decision to gift the university with in Greek and includes the oldest Project, which is an international these copies of the Codex. complete copy of the New Testa- collaboration effort to reunite the Both of his parents attended ment. entire manuscript, which is cur- Baylor before becoming missionar- One facsimile will be given to rently held by the British Library in ies in South America. George W. Truett Theological Semi- London, the Library of the Univer- His father studied Greek in the nary and the other will be given to sity of Leipzig, the State Library of classics department, resulting in his Thank you, the classics department. Russia in St. Petersburg and Saint decision to give the classics depart- Father Justin of the St. Catherine Catherine’s Monastery. ment one of the two facsimiles. Veterans monastery at Mount Sinai in Egypt The project takes high-resolu- Dr. Jeff Fish, associate professor DANIEL CERNERO | PHOTO EDITOR gifted the facsimiles to Baylor. tion digital images of the leaves of of classics, said he believes Fr. Justin David White, senior lecture in the Classic Department, Woodlands junior Fr. Justin is the only American the Codex in order to create a life- Lance Forsythe, and Amery, Wisc. senior Amanda Swenson look over a who has ever been accepted into the like view of the pages, allowing the SEE BIBLE, page 6 copy of the Codex Sinaiticus Tuesday in Morrison Hall.
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