Survivors Fight Pink Campaign

WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE The WEDNESDAY | OCTOBER Baylor12, 2011 * Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com SPORTS Page 6 NEWS Page 3 A&E Page 5 Most valuable player What’s on the inside Baylor style broadway Baylor defensive end Tevin Elliott’s Miss Plano Christine Tang looks to Baylor is well represented in 86-yard touchdown was the winning prove pageants are about more than The WaterTower Theatre showcase of moment in Saturday’s game looks at the Miss Texas competition ‘Spring Awakening,’ running until Oct. 23 Vol. 112 No. 25 © 2011, Baylor University In Print >> Clean sweep North Texas proved no Survivors fight pink campaign match for the Bears during By Kevin Begos Combo” at Jersey Mike’s Subs, or Tuesday’s game when Associated Press the Sephora Collection Pink Eye- Baylor defeated the Mean lash Curler. One year, there was Green in straight sets. The country is awash in pink for a pink bucket of Kentucky Fried Page 6 breast cancer awareness month and Chicken. some women are sick of it. The San Francisco group Breast While no one is questioning the Cancer Action has led the campaign >> Going green need to fight the deadly disease, to question pink products, but ex- A Baylor graduate was some breast cancer advocates are ecutive director Karuna Jaggar said among nine finalists starting to ask whether one of the they aren’t saying all such products most successful charity campaigns are bad. who spoke at a world in recent history has lost its focus. She said there’s no doubt that competition about her “The pink drives me nuts,” said when the pink ribbon campaigns patent-pending method Cynthia Ryan, an 18-year survivor started about 20 years ago there was for reducing the amount of breast cancer who also volun- still a great need to raise awareness. of plastic in composite teers to help other women with the “At one time, pink was the disease. “It’s the cheeriness I can’t means,” Jaggar said. “Now, it’s al- material. s t an d .” most become the end in itself. In its Activists have even coined a new most simplistic forms, pink has be- Page 3 word: pinkwashing. come a distraction. You put a pink They say that’s when a company ribbon on it, people stop asking or organization does a pink breast questions.” >> Special guest cancer promotion, but at the same Breast cancer activists agree Merrie Spaeth, director time sells and profits from pink- that the use of a ribbon to promote of media relations under theme products. awareness evolved in stages. ASSOCIATED PRESS President Ronald Reagan, Some of the pink products have They note that in 1979 there Bras hang across the Hot Metal Bridge over the Monongahela River Wednesday. Aerie, a bra company that’s will visit Baylor to speak generated plenty of discussion were yellow ribbons for the Ameri- part of Pittsburgh-based American Eagle Outfitters, has a current breast cancer campaign to heighten breast among breast cancer advocates. can hostages in Iran; in 1990 AIDS cancer awareness. Aerie said $1 from every sale during October will be donated to a breast cancer charity, on “Caring How We A Smith & Wesson 9mm hand- activists used red ribbons to call at- up to $50,000. Communicate” and the gun with pink pistol grip? tention to victims of that disease; “Dos, Don’ts and Trends The manufacturer says a “Por- and 1991 saw the first major use of But the ribbon symbol may tie “Round Her Neck She Wore A Yel- And it’s clear that too many in the YouTube Age: The tion of the Proceeds Will Be Do- the pink ribbon, when the Susan G. into a far older tradition, according low Ribbon” have been popular loved ones are still lost to the dis- Most Common Mistakes nated to a Breast Cancer Awareness Komen Foundation gave them out to the American Folk Life Center for 400 years, all with the theme of ease, despite many advances in di- C h ar it y.” at a New York City Race for cancer at the Library of Congress. It notes displaying the ribbon for an absent and Why Storytelling is You can get the “Pink Ribbon survivors. that various versions of the song loved one. SEE PINKWASH, page 8 Part of Leadership and Other Critical Skills.” Page 3 Proposal focuses on sexual misconduct Viewpoints By Daniel C. Houston said, “because when you’re verbal reprimand to firing. vice president and provost, that just makes sure that professors Staff Writer talking about romantic and sexual Details on what policy would change how the university don’t take a financial hit if they “The 99th conduct, you’re talking about a modifications may be under compensates faculty on leaves get grant money,” Beck said. “Say Faculty Senate discussed person in a position of authority. consideration are not yet available, of absence doing grant-funded you go to live in London for a percentile for U.S. a proposal Tuesday regarding Age is not really relevant. … but the issue will be discussed in research. semester to do work at the British households earns romantic and sexual relationships Developing a relationship with more detail at Faculty Senate’s Since the university is museum. Well, you still have a between Baylor faculty, a person who doesn’t have that next meeting on Nov. 8. responsible for ensuring external mortgage payment back in Waco, nearly $506,553 supervisors and students. authority, that can’t be fair.” At that time, Beck said, the grants reach the appropriate Texas, but you’re also having to each year, and The proposal would Baylor’s civil rights policy Senate will contribute feedback professor, it is typically considered pay for all the stuff in London … consolidate and modify Baylor’s prohibits “an exchange, or just that could influence how detailed part of the professor’s income. and if that entire amount is taken those making existing policies on this form of an explicit or implicit offer of the definition of misconduct In the past, Beck said, these out of your salary, then financially up the leftover sexual misconduct. an exchange, of sexual favors will be, whether appropriate grants have been deducted from you just can’t afford to do that.” The policies which are for employment or educational punishments for misconduct the income professors earn on Davis, who attended part of 1 percent...earn currently split into at least four privileges,” including offering a should be explicitly indicated, and sabbatical; the affirmed proposal Tuesday’s meeting, announced to one- fifth of the different sections of the faculty student a better grade or a pay whether there should be special would allow professors to receive the Senate that professors teaching handbook, Dr. Rosalie Beck, raise in return for sexual favors. exceptions for certain types of at least part of that external unexpectedly small summer country’s income. professor of religion and chair of Furthermore, Baylor’s reaction romantic involvement. funding as income over and above classes will not necessarily receive This economic the Faculty Senate, said. to a violation of these or similar The Senate also affirmed what they would normally receive smaller salaries for their efforts in “This is really serious business expectations for faculty and staff a proposal from the office of on sabbatical. inequality is what that we’re dealing with,” Beck conduct could range from a Dr. Elizabeth Davis, executive “What this policy does is it SEE SENATE, page 8 has put a fire in the protesters’ hearts.” Page 2 Lecture explores world’s Bear Briefs largest particle accelerator The place to go to know the places to go By Robyn Sanders why all particles have mass. “After so many years, we are Reporter “Still, we have not found [the still looking for the particles Cordially invited Higgs Boson] in the LHC data which are made of dark matter,” The Martin Museum of The Fall Physics Colloquium yet,” Hatakeyama said, “but at Wang said. “So this is very impor- Art at Baylor University series continues this afternoon least by the end of next year’s run, t ant .” with a lecture about Baylor’s on- is featuring recent I’m pretty sure we can tell [if] the Hatakeyama said their data is going research at the Large Had- Higgs Boson exists as we expect, coming from collisions between work by Chuck Hindes ron Collider in Geneva, Switzer- or we can tell that Higgs Boson protons in the LHC that happen and Ron Meyers in land. The Large Hadron Collider does not exist as predicted by the every 50 nanoseconds. (LHC) is the world’s largest and Gallery I. Ron Meyers’ MATT HELLMAN | LARIAT PHOTO EDITOR t h e or y.” “We cannot record all these most powerful particle accelera- Hatakeyama said researchers proton collisions,” Hatakeyama pieces are made to A box containing vials with precise measurements of the amount of tor. at the LHC have a variety of dif- said, “and so we look for proton- reflect individual and sugar in various everyday foods students eat sits in the McLean Student Life Center Tuesday. Dr. Kenichi Hatakeyama, as- ferent research interests in the proton collisions which look like human qualities from sistant professor of physics at data being produced, in the same Higgs being produced, or dark the life process. The Baylor and a researcher involved way that he is interested in both matter particles being produced.” main inspirations for with the LHC, will give an hour- the Higgs Boson and dark matter. Hatakeyama said there are long lecture, “What Did We Learn the work of Chuck Sugar makes sweet “People can use the same data important implications to the un- from the Large Hadron Collider?” to study very different aspects of derstanding of physics whether Hindes is the japanese at 4 p.m.

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