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Folk band Johnnyswim will be playing Miss the game against on campus for Christmas on Fifth. Check Texas Tech on Saturday? 4 out how they formed and what they play We have you covered with about. our video footage. from Page 1 A&E, Page 5 Online Film baylorlariat com The Baylor Lariat WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE Tuesday | December 2, 2014 Bears chalk up another victory By Jeffrey Swindoll a non-bowl eligible, two-win Texas Tech Sports Writer team on Saturday. The Red Raiders treated their game against the Bears on Saturday Over Thanksgiving break, No. 7 Bay- as a pseudo-bowl game. They pulled out all lor football gave Baylor Nation something the stops, running both a fake punt and an to be thankful for. The Bears escaped the onside kick. jaws of defeat against Texas Tech in a 48-46 Senior quarterback Bryce Petty had to shootout to keep playoff hopes and a shot leave the game with a head injury in the at winning back-to-back Big 12 Champi- third quarter after a collision with a Texas onships very much alive. Tech pass rusher. Sophomore quarter- Although they are in the driver’s seat of back Seth Russell replaced the 2013 Big 12 the Big 12 Conference title race, the Bears Player of the Year immediately after Petty (10-1, 7-1) have plenty of problems to sort walked off the field on his own power. out after a tight game against the Red Raid- Russell connected an impressive 27- ers (4-8, 2-7). yard pass to senior receiver Levi Norwood The score line ended close, but the shortly after entering the game, but the Bears could have put the Red Raiders away Bears struggled to get in a flow from that after a 25-point lead halfway in the third point on. quarter. Texas Tech stormed back, going “We had to dial back a few things [af- on a huge run to pull within two points of ter Petty’s injury],” Baylor head coach Art the Bears. If it were not for a failed two- Briles said. “Seth is extremely talented, point conversion attempt, the game would but, you know, do we want to set him back have been tied with less than two minutes there and him go through some progres- to play. sions that he does in practice in a game “We play to a certain standard and we of this magnitude where we need to make didn’t play to that standard,” junior defen- first downs? It was a fine line to walk on sive lineman Shawn Oakman said. “We how aggressive we felt like we could be didn’t dodge anything. We just didn’t do with [Russell].” what we needed to. When you’re playing a On top of Petty’s concussion, sopho- team that has nothing to lose in their last more running back Devin Chafin left the game, they are going to try and do any- game earlier than expected with a dislo- thing and everything to make you lose. It’s cated elbow in the first quarter. Chafin had simple things that we could have done that just gotten back from an injury and was we didn’t do.” Baylor’s go-to running back for red-zone Despite the Bears recovering three Tex- and short-yardage situations. as Tech fumbles in the first half, the Red “[Chafin]’s kind of been a workhorse SKYE DUNCAN | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER Raiders still managed to come within two Junior left tackle Spencer Drango hoists sophomore Shock Linwood in a post-touchdown celebration. The Bears scored six touchdowns points in the end. The Bears were facing SEE BEARS, page 4 and two field goals to reach a final score of 48-46 against the Texas Tech Red Raiders on Saturday. Films for change HEB dishes out BU student uses talents to make Christmas feast a difference in human trafficking By Viola Zhou all over the world,” said Sharp, a to Wacoans Reporter film and digital media major. “They are in slavery. I never thought that By Hannah Neumann Hoping to start a better life in existed. That just breaks my heart. I Staff Writer the United States, a 20-year-old want to change that.” woman from South America gives Sharp said he will be the pro- As a celebration of the holiday season and part of their ef- all the money she has to an immi- ducer of the film and work with a fort to combat hunger, H-E-B will host its 25th annual Feast gration agent. After she is taken to professional screenwriter, director of Sharing dinner, with food, fun and festive entertainment for the United States, she is told to pay and cinematographer. community residents on Thursday more by working as a sex slave. Joani Livingston, a film director H-E-B’s Feast of Sharing will be located at the Extraco Cases like this happen thou- and Baylor graduate, said she will Events Center, 4601 Bosque Blvd. from 4 to 8 p.m. sands of times every year in the decide whether to direct Sharp’s “It’s the highlight of our hunger relief efforts, but it’s also States, according to Polaris Project, film after reading the script. Liv- a really great way to thank our customers and community for a nongovernmental organization ingston has done several projects shopping with us,” said Tamra Jones, coordinator of the dinner. that studies human trafficking. To about human trafficking. “We have created a really fun environment by providing holi- help end modern-day slavery, a “The U.S. is the number one day entertainment as well.” Baylor student plans to make a film importer and exporter of children Jones said there will be an arts and craft area for children out of this story. trafficking in the world,” Livingston and Santa will be taking last-minute Christmas wishes. There Bellaire sophomore Andy Sharp said. “It is just staggering for people will be performances by a variety of local singing groups, in- set up his own film company, Brave t o k n ow.” cluding an Elvis impersonator, The Underwoods, Waco Civic Raven Films, in November. He said About 100,000 children are esti- Theatre Entertainers, St Paul Lutheran Choir, Midway High his first project will be a five-minute mated to be in the sex trade in the School Choir and New Jerusalem Worship Center Choir as well film dedicated to raising awareness United States each year, according COURTESY PHOTO as a ceremonial presentation by a Navy Color Guard and Pastor of human trafficking. Bellaire sophomore Andy Sharp is dedicating his first project of his film com- “There are women and children SEE FILM, page 4 pany to raise awareness of human trafficking. SEE HEB, page 4 Supreme Court looks at case dealing with online threats By Sam Hananel the throat of an FBI agent. cerned that the government’s Associated Press Lawyers for Anthony Elonis say position is too broad and risks he didn’t mean to threaten anyone. sweeping in language protected by WASHINGTON — From the They contend his posts under the the First Amendment. But there violent lyrics of rap music to the pseudonym “Tone Dougie” were seemed to be little agreement over crude comments of teenagers simply a way for him to vent his what standard to use. in video-game chat rooms, the frustration over splitting up with “How does one prove what’s in Supreme Court struggled Mon- his wife. somebody else’s mind?” asked Jus- day over where to draw the line The government argues the tice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was between free speech and illegal proper test is not what Elonis in- on the bench five days after she had threats in the digital age. tended, but whether his words a stent implanted to clear a blocked The justices considered the case would make a reasonable person artery. of a Pennsylvania man convicted feel threatened. That’s the standard Elonis attorney John Elwood of posting violent threats on Face- a jury used in convicting him un- said the speaker’s intent could be ASSOCIATED PRESS book — in the form of rap lyrics der a federal law barring threats of determined by searching computer — about killing his estranged wife, Paulette Sullivan Moore, vice president of Public Policy at the National Network to End Domestic Violence, speaks violence. shooting up a school and slitting Some justices seemed con- to reporters Monday outside the Supreme Court in Washington. SEE COURT, page 4 Vol.116 No. 45 First copy free. Additional copies 25 cents each. © 2014 Baylor University Opinion Tuesday| December 2 , 2014 2 The Baylor Lariat Make a better system for security deposits is far more honest ance. That is a great move in the Editorial and respectable right direction. However, of those By the time most people than collecting a 84 percent, 40 percent say they graduate from college they either so-called refundable deposit that don’t require renters insurance at have experienced, or will soon go they have no intention on giving all of their properties because they through, the process of renting back. Pet deposits also come in are worried the extra $15 a month their first home and eventually many forms. Sometimes they too insurance payment may drive cus- trying to get their security deposit are a one-time fee, sometimes the tomers away to competitors that back. Security and pet deposits are company charges an amount per don’t require it.

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