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WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE TheWEDNESDAY | NOVEMBER Baylor 2, 2011 Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com SPORTS NEWS Page 3 A&E Page 4 Page 5 by Phillip elliot and First impressions Sunny days ahead Brothers chasing their dreams thomas beaumont Baylor men’s Basketball won A donation of two solar array systems The new band, “Dream Brother” played one of Associated Press their first exhibition game, to Cameron Park saves money and its first shows at Common Grounds Sunday but One by one, five Republican starting the season right promotes solar energy across Texas that doesn’t mean they’re new to music candidates for president took the stage Tuesday in the state that Vol. 112 No. 35 © 2011, Baylor University holds the first presidential contest to pitch themselves as the strongest In Print to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama on voters’ top issue: >> True story jobs. “The October’s” combines Baylor welcomes new opportunity Absent from the forum was the fiction with the real life of one Republican who has made that the authors, making for an argument central to his second campaign for the White House: interesting story packed Community engagement department to fulfill growing student interest Mitt Romney. The former Mas- with life lessons. sachusetts governor, sitting atop By Anna Flagg ways to serve without hassle and work, and we can connect them philanthropy efforts, whether it is dining halls to give to those in Page 4 most polls and a pile of cash, was Reporter difficulty. with the resources and contacts through finding volunteers or as- need. The department is current- in New York raising money. Belz said there have been they need.” sisting with campus advertising. ly helping to promote the Campus And businessman Herman Baylor introduced a new de- mainly opportunities on campus The department has relation- The World Hunger Farm have Kitchen project, Turkeypalooza, >> High hopes Cain took a pass, too, staying in partment this fall called Com- for service in the past, but too ships with mission-minded or- promoted student initiatives such which calls for donations of Baylor soccer will play the Washington to deal with the fallout munity Engagement Service and many different, decentralized av- ganizations in Waco, such as the as stuffed animal drives for Texas Thanksgiving baskets for families first game of the Big 21 of the disclosure of sexual harass- Scholarship, with the goal of enues for students to go through World Hunger Farm and Mission wildfire victims and the 10 Days in need. tournament today with ment allegations from the 1990s consolidating all things student to find volunteer work. Waco, and the group is fostering project, which helps build water Mary Katherine Leslie-Van while he was the head of the Na- hopes of an automatic service. “We want to bring service un- relationships with student or- wells in Rwanda. Hook, project manager of the new tional Restaurant Association. entry into the NCAA Ben Belz, coordinator of pov- der one roof,” Belz said. “This way, ganizations. Belz said the orga- The department is housed department is building relation- So Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, tournament. erty education, said the depart- students and organizations can nization wants to assist student with Campus Kitchen, a project Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul and ment is a place students can seek come to us looking for volunteer groups in their fundraising and that recovers unused food from SEE page 6 Page 5 SERVICE, Newt Gingrich looked to fill that vacuum, jockeying for relevance >> Closure after death on corporate tax policy in hopes An underground crash New chair of gaining an edge with economic Word conservatives two months before in a Montana mine has the Iowa caucuses. In a GOP pri- prompted an investigation mary campaign with few major into the driver’s death. brings past Records policy distinctions, the 90-minute Page 3 forum illuminated incremental dif- ferences as the candidates worked Coming up experience to demonstrate savvy on voters’ top returns concern. Of those on stage, only Perry to Baylor said he favored maintaining a tax on reintroducing corporate profits to Waco By Robyn Sanders held offshore to the U.S. Reporter “I would put a five-and-a-quar- Label celebrates ter percent rate on that money for Baylor’s new chair in environ- one year, to allow it to be brought 60th birthday mental science has had his share back in, to be able to create jobs,” of hazardous waste experience. the Texas governor told the audi- with concert Dr. George Cobb developed a ence of about 400 at Vermeer Man- plan to help remediate the United ufacturing, an agricultural plant, in By Rachel Ambelang States’ largest hazardous waste Pella. Today the money is taxed at Cute and cuddly Reporter site where 100 years of copper the 35-percent corporate rate. Don’t miss the Lariat smelting has taken its toll on a Santorum, the former Pennsyl- feature this week about Chris August and Sidewalk 100-square-mile expanse of land vania senator, favors requiring no in Deer Lodge, Mont. Indah and Bugara, the Prophets will perform at 7:30 to- tax on the money if it is spent on Millions of cubic meters of ash tiger cubs at the Cameron day on Fountain Mall as a part of a manufacturing plant and equip- Baylor’s Homecoming worship and waste left behind after metal ment. And Bachmann, Gingrich Park Zoo, only in service, but their performances smelting, covered the land were and Paul said they support a zero- The Baylor Lariat will also be the conclusion of an- contaminated with lead, arsenic, percent tax, without strings. other celebration, the 60th anni- copper, zinc and cadmium. But “Without a doubt, it’s their Viewpoints versary of Word Records, a com- a group of researchers, including money,” said Bachmann, a Minne- pany started by a Baylor student. MEAGAN DOWNING | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER Cobb, sota congresswoman. “Profits are “Having the 60th anniversary “It was just a wasteland,” Cobb stimulus. That’s the true stimulus.” “Seven Marine during Baylor’s Homecoming said. “And after the smelter shut All the candidates on stage week I feel is very fitting,” Rod For the birds down, there was an intense ef- called for vastly cutting federal units and four State Riley, CEO of Word Records, said. Students watch Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” while snacking on pie and hot chocolate Tuesday at fort to re vegetate the area by regulations and overturning the Department team The company was founded by Fountain Mall. The event is Student Foundation’s first annual Fall Festival. U.S. Geological Survey, state of health care law. They also support Jarrell McCraken, a 1950 Baylor Montana and several other enti- incentives — to varying degrees — members add up to graduate. ties. And they have managed to for U.S. companies to bring money 11 service members Robert Darden, an associate get some things to grow there, but generated overseas back into the professor in Baylor’s journalism it’s very, very difficult because the country on the argument the infu- Obama seems to department, remembers when Nearby crimes cause concern metal concentrations are so high sion of cash will spark expansion have forgotten. Word Records began to grow. that it’s phytotoxic — things won’t and hiring. Estimates range from “It was a trend-setter and By Jade Mardirosian According to Baylor police the face but not injured. No injures g row.” $1.2 to 1.7 trillion in off-shore Though this is a powerhouse,” Darden said. Staff Writer suspect in three of the incidents is were reported in the other three One of the objectives of this profits. “Word Records was the first to a black male, between 5 feet 6 robberies. project was to figure out what ar- Studies have shown, however, an unacceptable create the contemporary Chris- A series of four armed inches and 5 feet 8 inches, around Baylor police are working eas would be most likely to suc- that a similar holiday under Presi- oversight, the tian genre.” robberies have occurred on the 150 pounds and between 20 to with Waco police to solve these ceed in remediation. dent George W. Bush and a GOP- Darden said the company con- western edge of Baylor’s campus 25 years old. Another suspect, robberies and provide extra “We were able to do pretty controlled Congress in 2004 and indignation it tinued to look for Christian artists since Oct. 15, with the most involved in one of the incidents, surveillance around Baylor’s sophisticated modeling and help 2005 had little effect on job growth. caused highlights in any genre, from black gospel recent occurring Sunday. is a black male similar in size. campus. Baylor police advise these guys prioritize the areas that The forum was one of sev- to metal, and grew to produce a The incidents have occurred Both men were wearing dark- students to be aware of their needed to be cleaned up,” Cobb eral this year in Iowa and New the pride Americans number of successful Christian between Interstate 35 and Speight colored hoodies at the time of the surroundings at all times and to said. “And that might not sound Hampshire, where the voting be- Street. on Eighth, Ninth, and have in their artists. robberies. contact Baylor Police if you are like a big deal, but when you’re gins in January. The appearances The company changed hands Eleventh streets. One victim was struck in the the victim of a robbery. talking about having to possibly m i l i t a r y.” and cities a few times before mov- remove topsoil a foot and a half Page 2 ing to Nashville, Tenn., where deep from a hundred square miles from Page 1 Word Record’s legacy continues.