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WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE TheTHURSDAY | MARCH 21,Baylor 2013 Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com SPORTS Page 7 A&E Page 6 SPORTS Page 4-5 One down Get away to India Winner, winner Men’s basketball swept the ISSA will bring a taste Indian food Whittle down your 2013 NCAA Long Beach State 49ers in to Baylor along with dancing and Final Four teams with the Lariat’s the first round of the NIT dramatic performances complete bracket Vol. 115 No. 30 © 2013, Baylor University In Print >> IN TUNE Creepy critters crawl onto campus Music and faith bring together baylor students and alumnus Bedbugs Dorms are popular home for pests By Amanda Tolentino average from 1/4 to 3/8 inch long. Page 6 displace SoRo Contributor The average lifespan of bedbugs is one year, but they can live up to The bedtime saying “Don’t let 10 months without feeding. A sin- >> CARRY ON residents the bedbugs bite” is more than a Baseball brings home a gle bedbug can lay up to 500 eggs By Madison Ferril child’s tale. These creepy-crawlies in its lifetime. victory after beating SHSU Reporter are bed hogs too stubborn to leave “Its rapid reproduction is why 4-1 Wednesday without a fight or bite. you shouldn’t let them get out of Baylor relocated two students College campuses can be hosts hand,” Bagby said. “It’s always a Page 7 to a hotel Tuesday for three nights to bedbugs, especially when stu- good idea to wash bedding, espe- after bedbugs were found in their dents travel internationally, said cially when you bring it from an- South Russell Residence Hall >> GET HEALTHY Don Bagby, director of facilities other location, in order minimize room. management. your risk of bedbugs.” The 800 mile Walk across Four adjacent rooms were also SOURCE Bedbugs are parasitic nocturnal The National Pest Management : MCT CAMPUS, DESIGN Texas is set to kick off at inspected by Ecolab and no bed- : MONICA LAKE insects found in and around sleep- Association conducted a survey Cameron Park tonight bugs were found. ing areas. Although bedbugs do tracking the number of bedbug Baylor paid for the hotel room not carry or spread diseases, they cases pest control companies had Page 3 for the two students who had bed- do feed on human blood, Bagby from 2010 to 2011. The results of bugs and offered students in the said. the survey showed that treatment surrounding rooms the option to Outbreaks are common in ar- in universities increased from 35 stay in other rooms in North Rus- >> BAKE AWAY eas where turnover of occupants percent to 54 percent during that If cookies and s’mores sell Residence Hall or stay with is constant, such as hotels, apart- time frame. friends. ments and dorms. As of November 2012, direc- have a baby what do you The room with the infestation get? Bedbug bites tend to be located tor of emergency management on the upper body and cause itch- SEE SORO, page 8 SEE DORMS, page 8 ing and swelling. Adult bedbugs Page 6 Viewpoints Landmark gun “She doesn’t deserve flowers. bills signed She doesn’t deserve standing ovations. It seems in Colorado as though her By Ivan Moreno of the state Corrections Depart- Associated Press ment, Tom Clements, was shot greatest shame is and killed at his home. Hicken- in getting caught. DENVER — Colorado’s gov- looper signed the legislation right ernor signed bills Wednesday after speaking with reporters Is accountability that place new restrictions on about Clements’ slaying. so absent in firearms, signaling a change for Hickenlooper said large- Democrats who have traditionally capacity magazines “have the our society that shied away from gun control in a potential to turn killers into kill- our reaction to state with a pioneer tradition of ing machines.” He also said he gun ownership and self-reliance. realized some gun owners may simple decency is The legislation thrust Colo- be inconvenienced but that “the so exaggerated? rado into the national spotlight potential for damage seems to as a potential test of how far the outweigh, significantly, the incon- Do we have so country might be willing to go venience that people would have,” low a view of our with new gun restrictions after he said. the horror of mass killings at an The bills signal a historic lawmakers?” Aurora movie theater and a Con- change for Democrats in a state Page 2 necticut elementary school. where owning a gun is as com- Democratic Gov. John Hick- mon as owning a car in some ru- enlooper signed bills that require ral areas. background checks for private “He just slapped rural Colora- and online gun sales and ban am- do right in the face,” said Repub- Bear Briefs munition magazines that hold lican Sen. Brophy, who represents more than 15 rounds. an eastern plains district. “They The place to go to know The debate in the Democrat- are overwhelmingly upset about the places to go TRAVIS TAYLOR | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER ic-controlled Legislature was in- this.” tense, and Republicans warned Both bills take effect July 1. Save money, honey that voters would make Demo- People who currently own larger- Create a personal From dollar to diabetes dog crats pay. The bills failed to garner capacity magazines will be able to a single Republican vote. spending plan with the keep them. The bills’ approval came ex- At the signing ceremony, help of Student Financial Houston sophomore John Ytterberg and other Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Kappa Kappa Gamma actly eight months after dozens of Hickenlooper was surrounded by Services at 6 p.m. today in members stood post Wednesday outside Rena Marrs McLean Gym to help raise money for a service dog for a professor with diabetes. people were shot in Aurora, and the Beckham Room of the a day after the executive director SEE GUN, page 8 Bill Daniel Student Center. This event is free and open to all students. Under a wing Baker opens up about death on the border Hundreds of kids are By Sanmai Gbandi The database provides a cen- whom they belong to. waiting for a big brother or Reporter tralized place for all of Baker’s “We only get the bones that can sister. Sign up to volunteer DNA analysis, allowing private cit- be found by the individuals doing with Big Brothers Big Dr. Lori Baker, assistant pro- izens search for characteristics that the search, and they don’t always Sisters of Waco at fessor of anthropology at Baylor, might match those of their missing know what to look for,” Baker said, www.bbbstx.org and make identifies remains of undocument- relatives. “There are very sparse elements ed immigrants crossing the border a difference. With the U.S.-Mexican border that come to us. There’s always a and reunites them with their fami- being about 2,000 miles long, it lot of scatter and of course there lies as director of the Reuniting makes it almost impossible for bor- are lots of wild animals. So there’s Families program. der patrol agents to monitor every a lot of havoc wreaked with these At a lecture in Cashion stretch of land. remains.” Wednesday evening, Baker talked Most of the immigrants trying Baker has created a depository about the program and the work to cross the border do so without on campus to store the bones left that they have accomplished. carrying proper documentation in unidentified. The cases are open. As director of the project, order to prevent being identified if Last summer, Baker took a Baker, has worked in identify- caught. group of students on a field school ing remains mainly on the border Since they do not have many to Del Rio to work with her as she between Mexico and the United items to help with identification, unearthed new graves. States. Baker and her team rely on anthro- Schertz senior Valerie Alvarez Baker joined the faculty at Bay- pology and bone analysis to figure was a member of the group that lor in 2002 with the goal of making out details of the person and their found the remains of a woman, a database of newly identified bod- life such as broken bones, gender which were on display at the lec- Download the Lariat ies that was accessible to families, and even where they originated. ture. TRAVIS TAYLOR | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER app on your Apple law enforcement and medical ex- Once the remains are acquired, Dr. Lori Baker speaks Wednesday in Kaiser Auditorium on the topic SEE BORDER, page 8 device today! aminers. it can still be difficult to discern of “Death on the Border.” Rounding up campus news since 1900 TheLariat Best Student Newspaper three years running | Houston Press Club THURSDAY | MARCH 21, 2013 | the Opinion 2 Baylor Lariat www.baylorlariat.com Politician’s DWI apology did not deserve rewards driving is wrong. We don’t need to tell said in the apology. you apologizing is the right thing to do. Indeed she did. It takes courage to Editorial It’s the way Gonzalez approached admit your mistakes, especially in front the apology, requesting special privi- of your colleagues. But it’s certainly not leges and apologizing for bringing courageous behavior to use a public fo- Think about the things you ap- shame to the House, as if that were rum as a place to garner applause for plaud: a symphony, perhaps, or a play her greatest offense and not the injur- doing something so essential, trying to at your community theater. You don’t ing of an innocent cyclist, that we take make yourself look better by apologiz- applaud any old thing, and when you exception to; that, and her colleagues’ ing for your serious mistake.