LADY BEARS POUND JAGUARS: Mulkey’s TEAM ENDS EXHIBITION PLAY ON HIGH NOTE PAGE 6 ROUNDING UP CAMPUS NEWS SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT WEDNESDAY, NovEMBER 8, 2006 Texans pick Perry Split vote dooms challengers Kelly Moore/Lariat staff Incumbent Democrat U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards thanks supporters Tuesday night after Republican challenger Van Taylor conceded the congressional race for the 17th district. Edwards rips Taylor in 17th Democrat wins me,” he said. “It’s about all of us in this district, and giving 9th-consecutive term us a better voice in congress.” as congressman During his victory speech, Edwards turned his thanks By Van Taylor from the voters to his family. Staff Writer “I also want to extend a spe- cial thank you to my family,” Riding the wave of support he said. “There were more than garnered from his previous a few baseball games I had to eight consecutive terms in of- listen to on a cell phone, so fice, U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, thank you for standing by Associated Press D-Waco, secured a ninth win me.” Tuesday, besting Republican Edwards already had plans Republican Gov. Rick Perry kisses his wife Tuesday during his victory speech Kinky Friedman and Carole Keeton-Strayhorn. With 63 percent of precincts hopeful Van Taylor by 30.24 in mind for Wednesday during in Austin after defeating Democrat Chris Bell and Independent candidates reporting, Perry led his closest competitor by 10 percent. percent with a margin of his victory speech. 16,010 votes. “(Wednesday) morning at E d w a r d s 8 a.m., my first Friedman Strayhorn Bell thanked the phone call will voters profusely be to the Veter- for re-electing an’s Affairs Ad- him. ministration in “Thank you Washington and for giving my tell them we’re family the privi- going to keep lege of working the Waco VA for you and with Hospital,” Ed- you,” Edwards wards said. “It’s said. “This isn’t Page 3 Election Coverage: time to roll up a job, it’s a labor ✔ Dewhurst re-elected our sleeves and “One of the problems with the two- “I will continue to be one tough “It has been a long, hard battle and of love.” go back to work party system is that it doesn’t give us grandma, watching out for our pre- one I will always believe was worth When con- ✔ MCC bond passes for people in the the two best choices.” cious resource: all of our children.” fighting.” tacted after 17th district.” ✔ defeat, Taylor Controversial props pass E d w a r d s Republican laps field percent of precincts reporting. tion of another four years for sured the people that the issues expressed his serves on the With two of the three chal- Perry, a loud “Woo” signaled are about them. pride in the Military Qual- in race for governor’s lengers conceding, he will be the start of Perry’s acceptance Perry promised to continue campaign he ran. ity of Life and Veterans Affairs mansion in Austin the first governor in Texas his- speech followed by a kiss with his work in education, border “It never hurts fighting for Appropriations Committee, tory to serve 10 years in office. the first lady. security and creating new jobs. what you believe in,” Taylor which is responsible for allo- By Aaron Turney, Laura Frase Democratic nominee Chris Bell “It’s a blessing and an honor “I will serve with humility, said. “I’m proud of the cam- cating more than $130 billion and Laura Klingsporn garnered 29.5 percent, Indepen- to be governor of the greatest recognizing that Texas is bet- paign we ran and the cause we in yearly spending. City Editor, Staff writer and Reporter dent Carole Keeton Strayhorn state in the union,” Perry said, ter when we all work together,” fought for.” Last year, Waco’s VA hos- collected 18 percent, and Kinky as supporters waved signs and Perry said. Working for the people was pital saw more than 140,000 AUSTIN — Texas Gov. Rick Friedman, also an Independent, rambunctiously cheered him A native of West Texas, Perry what Edwards said motivated outpatient visits, providing Perry was leading his re-elec- received 12 percent of the vote. on. began his career by serving in him to keep going. tion race Tuesday evening with As hundreds of supporters After thanking friends, fam- “This has never been about Please see CHET, page 8 39.5 percent of the vote with 77 clamored together in celebra- ily and fellows Texans, Perry as- Please see PERRY, page 8 House Demo- cratic Leader Rep. Nancy House power shifts to Democrats Pelosi, D-Calif., fires up fellow Democrats Nation’s voters swayed Rep. Nancy Pelosi to become Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., who won than Bush’s unpopularity and Tuesday at an the country’s first female House a 11th term. the nearly four-year-old war in election night by Iraq war, scandal speaker. By early Wednesday, The magic number for control Iraq. rally at the Hyatt in Republican party no Democratic incumbent had was 218 seats. By late Tuesday, Republicans surrendered Regency Hotel lost. Democrats had won 186 seats the Texas seat of former Ma- near the Capitol By Liz Sidoti “The old era of irresponsibil- and were leading for another jority Leader Tom DeLay, who in Washington, The Associated Press ity is over, and the new era of 34, which would give them 220. resigned from the House after D.C. Pelosi will real reform has just begun,” de- Republicans won 149 and were being charged in a campaign become the first WASHINGTON — Democrats clared Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the leading in 46. finance scheme, the Ohio seat female major- captured more than enough Re- Illinois Democrat who oversaw Casualties of a Democratic once held by Bob Ney, who re- ity leader of the publican-held districts Tuesday his party’s House campaign. call for change, three GOP con- signed after pleading guilty House of Repre- sentatives. to seize control of the House Faced with the inevitable, gressmen lost in Indiana, three in a lobbying scandal, and the after a dozen years in the mi- the White House made plans more in Pennsylvania, two in Florida district of Mark Foley, nority as voters demonstrated for President Bush to call Pelosi New Hampshire, one in North who stepped down after the disenchantment with a war, a first thing Wednesday morning, Carolina and one in Kansas. disclosure that he sent sexually president and scandals on Capi- and Republican Party Chairman Democrats won open seats in explicit messages to male con- tol Hill. Ken Mehlman said: “It’s possible New York, Arizona, Iowa and gressional pages. Winning 23 GOP seats, if that Nancy Pelosi will become elsewhere. In Pennsylvania, Democrats Democrats hold nearly all of House speaker.”. Scandals that have dogged defeated Curt Weldon in the their own, they would rise to “It’s been kind of tough out Republicans appeared to hurt Associated Press power and clear the way for there,” conceded House Speaker GOP incumbents even more Please see HOUSE, page 8 Clifton freshman surrenders to police in connection with burglaries Christine M. Tamer nection with several thefts that “Several boys awoke to find would be arrested and that fundamentals,” Doak said. ley said he regularly locks the Staff writer occurred in Penland Residence someone in the room, but they he should secure an attorney, “The doors are self-locking, door to his Penland room. Hall over the past month, Baylor were in a stupor and sleepy so Doak said. so something like this is easy to “It makes me more conscious Clifton freshman Roman Police Chief Jim Doak said. the suspect exited before they Elwell was taken to McLen- defend against.” about watching my stuff,” he Elwell turned himself in to au- During the early morning could stop him,” Doak said. nan County Jail, where he re- Dallas freshman Cale Dicker said. thorities Tuesday and was taken hours, after a thief systematical- Through some “creative in- mains tonight, and bail was set said $60 was stolen from one of A second-degree felony car- to jail on second-degree felony ly sought rooms that had open vestigating,” police were able to at $15,000, a jail spokeswoman his hallmates. ries a minimum sentence of two charges of burglary of a habita- doors or doors that were not se- pinpoint Elwell as the suspect, said. “Guys should keep their years in prison and a maximum tion, according to the Baylor Po- curely shut, the thief would qui- he said. Doak said there is a lesson to doors shut,” he said. “Too many fine of $10,000. lice Department. etly enter and steal cash from Police told Elwell during be learned from the thefts. people leave their doors open.” Tommy Stone contributed to Elwell was charged in con- the residents, he said. an interview last week that he “Students are not doing the Burleson freshman Ben Beaz- this story. VOL. 106 No. 41 www.baylor.edu/Lariat © 2006, BAYLOR UNIVERSITY 2 The Baylor Lariat OPINION Wednesday, November 8, 2006 Political bickering ought to be least of our worries The latest news from Wash- President Bush. day parties this year after all. in this little debacle. It’s not. But I get this idea that any objec- ington isn’t really news. Well, it’s CNN quoted one top Dem- Do we have anything — any- both Bush and Kerry could do a tive viewer, seeing the entire important, but only in the way ocratic strategist saying Kerry point thing at all — more important little growing.