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ROUNDING UP CAMPUS NEWS SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT VOL. 109 No. 18 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2009 © 2009, Baylor University SPORTS PAGE 6 NEWS PAGE 4 REVIEW PAGE 5 NEWS PAGE 4 Volleyball wins International emphasis ‘Lying’ in theaters Learning a mission Bears now 4-1 thanks to Baylor Interdisciplinary Core Movie features witty thoughts Week features various win against Missouri Tigers uses global focus in teaching on humanity’s affinity to lie missionaries, events TODAY IN PRINT • HEADED NORTH A Big 12 bowl will be held Survey in Yankee stadium next year. PAGE 7 says •NEW TRAILS TO COME clergy Cameron Park will have new trails in starting in May dismiss PAGE 3 •PRISONED POLANSKI mental Our entertainment edi- tor shares his take on the fi lmmakers’situation issues PAGE 5 BY TRENT GOLDSTON • BU’S ACES STAFF WRITER Tennis player, Jordan Rux, played well at last week- Almost a third of congrega- ends invitational tion members who approached their pastor for help in response PAGE 7 to a diagnosed mental illness were told that they did not real- CORRECTION ly have a disorder, according to a 2008 Baylor University study. A new analysis of this study, In a Page 1 story pub- lead by Dr. Matthew Stanford, professor of psychology and lished Tuesday [Stu- Tsunami death toll: 120 neuroscience, is looking into the dents, Garland discuss earthquake. One cargo plane impact of this issue and the ar- eas in which it is most common. Alumni Proposal], The Aid flows to Samoas from New Zealand brought after disaster hits in a temporary morgue and Matt Pene, assistant direc- Lariat reported that by a body identifi cation team — tor of media communications, said the study is revealing some press time it had not APIA, Samoa (AP) — Po- with offi cials expecting the interesting things, such as how lice in green refl ective vests death toll to rise as more areas received responses from averages show that clergy often searched a ghastly landscape are searched. dismiss psychological issues. Interim Baylor President of mud-strewn streets, pulver- Cars and boats — many “(This study) builds upon ized homes and bodies scat- battered and upside down — Dr. David Garland or what exactly they dismiss: anxi- tered in a swamp Wednesday littered the coastline. Debris as ety and major depression disor- Baylor Board of Regents as dazed survivors emerged small as a spoon and as large ders,” Pene said. Chairman Dary Stone as piece of masonry weighing several tons were strewn in the Dr. Ronald Cook, an associ- regarding the indepen- mud. ate professor at George W. Truett Theological Seminary, has had dent status of the Baylor Survivors told harrowing tales of encountering the dead- ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS more than 30 years of experience Alumni Association. In ly tsunami. A powerful earthquake in the South Pacific hurled a massive tsu- in pastoral ministry. Cook said nami at the shores of Samoa and American Samoa, flattening vil- this study is an important move fact, The Lariat erred in “I was scared. I was shocked,” said Didi Afuafi , 28, lages and sweeping cars and people out to sea. in progressing how the church its inquiries, having sug- who was on a bus when the helps their congregation. “I have great appreciation giant waves came ashore on and frightened elderly people. much time to calm down. gested that a response for Dr. Stanford’s work. I think American Samoa. A family atop the mountain “After the shaking fi nished, it’s greatly needed and needs to was not needed until “All the people on the bus provided food and water, about fi ve or 10 minutes after, be read by clergy because this were screaming, crying and while clergymen led prayers. the wave very quickly came later this week. The (study) has been over mental trying to call their homes. We Afuafi helped evacuate over us,” said Ioane, who was health issues that are easy for Lariat apologizes for the couldn’t get on cell phones. some patients, and said people carried by a wave about 80 congregations to marginalize,” The phones just died on us. It are on still on edge and feared yards (meters) inland from his error. Cook said. “Most congregations from the muck and mire of an was just crazy.” another quake. village of Voutosi. do not have individuals in lead- earthquake and tsunami that With the water approach- “This is going to be talked He knew he was lucky to be ership equipped to be sensitive In killed 120 in the South Pacifi c. ing fast, the bus driver sped to about for generations,” said alive; eight bodies were found OPINION to, and responsive to, families Military transports fl ew the top of a nearby mountain, Afuafi , who lives just outside in a nearby swamp. who have some major chal- medical personnel, food, water where 300 to 500 people were the village of Leone, one of the Some people had enough lenges.” and medicine to the islands of gathered, including patients hardest hit areas. warning to run to higher Even though there is some- Samoa and American Samoa, evacuated from the main hos- Suavai Ioane was rattled ground. times a tension between spiri- which were devastated by pital. by the violent earthquake that tuality and science, Cook said, the wall of water triggered by Among them were new- shook his village of 600 people TOLL Tuesday morning’s undersea borns with IVs, crying children on Samoa — but he didn’t have see , pg. 8 While it is see CLERGY, pg. 8 certainly true that fl avored Banned books revived for week of recognition “cigarettes BY ADEOLA ARO from our library, but from any Amendment, according to the occur throughout the nation, Vitanza has never had her STAFF WRITER where in the world,” said Carl American Library Association Baylor professors have yet to book selections denied by ad- can provide Flynn, director of marketing and Web site the week is meant to fret about any book ban. ministration. To raise awareness the Amer- communications for university highlight the benefi ts public ac- Dr. Dianna Vitanza, chair “It is the experts, specialist an attraction ican Library Association is spon- libraries. cess to information and draw and associate professor of Eng- in the fi elds who should make soring its annual Banned Book “Most of books banned aren’t attention to the harms of censor- lish, said faculty members use the choices, because they know for younger Week, which will end Oct. 3. national, they are regional and ship by emphasizing the ban- their best judgment when select- what is important and what In observance of banned local. A school board can ban a ning of books across the United ing novels for course work. should be taught,” Vitanza said. Americans, book week, the Baylor Uni- book. “ States. “I would choose a book for “We teach texts that have it is doubtful versity Libraries is celebrating Students can listen to pieces “This is a reality: Books do my class that I consider to be a been banned, people ban books “ by holding three reading days from Thomas Paine and Walt get banned,” Flynn said. “We book that had artistic integrity for all sorts of reasons, and some that this where students, faculty and staff Whitman from noon to 1 p.m. have to re-decide if that is the and one that revealed something reasons for banning books are can listen to entries from books today at Moody Memorial Li- kind of community we want to about the world and the histori- not ones we would agree with is the sole that are currently banned or brary. live in. The kind of community cal context that it was written,” or recognize. were previously banned. Banned Books Week cel- we want to inhabit (is one) where Vitanza said. “I want books that reason “We’re doing three days of ebrates the freedom to read literature is not restricted.” say something about how one see BOOKS, pg. 8 youngsters reading of banned books, not and the importance of the First While restrictions certainly should live his life.” begin smoking. Study: Stressful traffi c induces heart problems BY SAMREEN HOODA deal with that on a daily basis nity in quantitative terms,” said to other commonly used assess- are immobile and passive for PAGE 2 REPORTER could probably be a factor in Truls Gjestland, an observer of ment methods where only a the most part, so there’s a loss causing some chronic illness- the study “The socio-economic certain fraction of the impacted of control,” Genous said. “And, Sitting in traffi c may not just es,” said Louri Genous, director impact of noise: A method for people, e.g. those “highly an- in congestion, when you’re in Submit your be annoying or aggravating, but of wellness. “I don’t know how assessing noise annoyance.” noyed,” is considered.” your car hoping for some de- OPINION may actually cause long-term much of an impact traffi c re- Gjestland said this method More than 24,000 adults were gree of freedom and indepen- health problems. A recent study ally has on health, but I would of measuring this phenomenon surveyed in Sweden for the dence, what you do encounter in Sweden showed that people imagine it to be signifi cant.” is more reliable because of the study, which showed a direct are restrictions and constric- The Lariat accepts letters who drive in traffi c more often According to the study, peo- breadth of people interviewed. link between noise pollution in tions, preventing you from or live in close proximity to to the editor on a daily ple who live in areas with a sig- “The method takes into ac- a neighborhood and the num- driving as you’d like.” constant traffi c noise are more nifi cant rise in noise and traffi c count all levels of noise annoy- ber of adults impacted by the As a result of this lack of basis.