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WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE Sing Issue TheFRIDAY | FEBRUARY 17, 2012Baylor Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press A&E Page B1 NEWS Page A3 Sports Page A5, A7 AUSTIN — A special investiga- Sing is back Law in layman’s terms Hopeful for home runs tion will be launched to determine All-University Sing returns to Annual People’s Law School The Bears look forward to anoth- if a former prosecutor who is now a judge hid evidence in a trial that Waco Hall for the 60th year in a includes several new classes er season of success in the softball sent a man wrongly convicted of row featuring Greek organizations concerning current law cases and baseball previews his wife’s murder to prison for nearly 25 years, Texas’ chief justice Vol. 113 No. 19 © 2012, Baylor University ordered Thursday. A proceeding known as a “court In Print of inquiry” will determine whether Judge Ken Anderson, when he was a district attorney, failed to turn >> Gamers give feedback Pop, lock, break with club at the SLC over all documents that would ‘Star Fox 64’ takes center have supported the defendant’s stage in the line-up of A&E’s claims of innocence and whether By Alyssa Maxwell “The performance group takes Great Video Game series he tampered with evidence and Reporter more time and dedication, [but] court records, according to the or- Page B7 there are no auditions to get in the der signed by Texas Supreme Court Wanted: People who love to group,” Blackburn said. Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson. dance. Poppers, Lockers and The performance group is >> Bears represented Courts of inquiry can be con- Breakers is a hip-hop organiza- made up of 13 people who get to- Brittney Griner honors vened when legal officials and tion — the only one of its kind at gether outside of meeting times to other public servants are accused Baylor by making finalist of Baylor — that has been dancing rehearse. of wrongdoing, and have the pow- Olympic team on campus at the McLane Student The group performs at various Life Center for three years. locations in Waco and at Baylor. from Page 1 Page A6 “Dancing is freedom [where] “We’ve performed at Late INTERNSHIP I can let loose and be myself,” Night at the SLC, African Student suit, he said, but obtaining money Nacogdoches sophomore Brit- Extravaganza and will perform >> Reaching out is not the objective. tany Epps, secretary for Poppers, this Saturday during the opening “We want to bring publicity to New REACH program Lockers and Breakers, said. of a play,” Epps said. this issue and get Fox Searchlight hosted by Truett Seminary The group’s purpose is “to The basic membership group to say that it was wrong,” Footman hopes to influence Waco promote Baylor unity and spirit is made up of those who come to said. community throughout the campus.” the meetings just to dance. This Footman is not alone in his Page A3 Atlanta junior Preston Black- group does not perform outside criticism of unpaid internships. burn, treasurer for the group, said of the SLC. After his own unpaid intern- On the Web the name Poppers, Lockers and “[Dancing] is just an expres- ship experience, Ross Perlin re- Breakers indicates three different sion and is no different than an searched and wrote the book “In- styles of dancing. artist or singer convey[ing] emo- tern Nation,” which was released in “Poppers isolate different body tion,” Blackburn said. May 2011. parts, lockers tense their body Although it is the only hip- He said there are up to two and breakers are what you see on hop group at Baylor, it is expand- million internships in the United TV spinning their head on the ing their musical horizons into States every year, and almost half ground,” Blackburn said. other genres. are unpaid. Thousands of these un- Blackburn said the group’s “[We] dance to mostly hip- paid internships are also illegal, he founder, 2011 Baylor alumna hop, but we’re trying to venture said, a conclusion he based on his Cindy Adibe, wanted its name to into new genres like dubstep and research. encompass a wide range of hip- popular songs from our genera- “[My experience] wasn’t hor- rible or exploitative like some in- hop-style dancing. tion,” Epps said. ternships are, but after awhile, the “Most people think hip-hop Membership is limited to sheer fact of working hundreds of Slideshow is one-dimensional, but it’s not,” Baylor students and children of hours unpaid doing core work for Blackburn said. faculty, because the SLC requires the organization made me start to View a compilation of all The approximate 45 mem- students and faculty to present question the whole arrangement,” the 60th All-University bers call the group PLB for short. their ID card upon entering. DAVID LI | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER “The youngest member is 14 Perlin said. Sing performances at The organization consists of two years old,” Epps said. “[That mem- But he also said he realized baylorlariat.com Houston sophomore Joonho Choi, member of the Poppers, Lockers and Breakers Club, break dances during groups: a performance group and many student interns may not be practice Wednesday at the Russell Gymnasium. a basic membership group. SEE POPPERS, page 8 as fortunate as he was. Viewpoints “While it is Fox Searchlight interns important to educate students on sexual claim they were exploited health, offering By Trevor Allison Searchlight disputes their em- the trash, picked up lunch and contraceptives— Reporter ployment claims. filed papers. Footman said he and other Footman said performing especially one The handling of unpaid in- employees were taken advantage these tasks without pay violates that can promote ternships is being challenged by of as free labor for the studio. the internship portion of the former interns who claim they “We weren’t there to learn any- FLSA. It says an internship is unprotected sex— were exploited by Fox Searchlight thing,” Footman told the Lariat. to be “similar to training which the same way Pictures. “They just needed people to do would be given in an educational Several lawsuits have been stuff they needed done.” environment,” “for the benefit MATT HELLMAN | LARIAT PHOTO EDITOR that candy bars recently filed by former interns In defense, Fox Searchlight of the intern,” and “the employer Former Texas congressman and Poage Distinguished Chair of Public can be purchased against Fox Searchlight Pictures said Footman and Glatt worked that provides the training derives Service Chet Edwards sits in his new office located in the Poage Legisla- and Hearst Publishing, citing laws on the film for another produc- no immediate advantage from the tive Library on Tuesday afternoon. The office and its contents originally takes away from governing unpaid internships un- tion company before Fox Search- activities of the intern,” among belonged to the late Texas congressman Bob Poage. the seriousness of der the Fair Labor Standards Act light purchased it. other regulations. (FLSA). “These individuals were never Footman said the tasks he the issue. ” According to the FLSA, for an employed as interns or retained in did for Fox Searchlight were not Page 2 unpaid internship to be legal, an any capacity by Fox Searchlight, of any benefit to him, but rather Chet Edwards looks Bear Briefs internship must be for the ben- which has a proud history of sup- benefited his employer and, with- efit of the intern and be similar to porting and fostering productive out interns, would have been per- training that would be given in an internships,” Fox Searchlight said formed by paid staff. The place to go to know educational environment, among in a statement printed by Reuters. “You hear so little about this forward to teaching the places to go other regulations. Dates for the “We look forward to aggressively issue because people are worried trials have not been set. fighting these groundless, oppor- about being seen as greedy or en- By Daniel C. Houston there’s nothing to be gained by Bears play tennis too Alex Footman, a documen- tunistic accusations.” titled,” Footman said. Staff Writer ‘what ifs,’ and [wondering] what Women’s tennis will play tary filmmaker, is a plaintiff in the Footman said he took the Footman said he and another could have been. So I just saw this UCLA from noon to 3 lawsuit filed against Fox Search- internship with the promise of intern thought what Fox Search- Fifteen months after losing as an opportunity to open up a light in September. Footman making connections with impor- his bid for re-election to the U.S. new, exciting chapter of my life.” p.m. Sunday at the Hurd light asked them to do was illegal said he worked as a production tant people in the industry and and decided to file a lawsuit. Foot- House of Representatives, former Edwards remains involved Tennis Center on intern during the making of the learning what it was like to pro- man said it is a slow process, but Rep. Chet Edwards is not finished with Washington organizations University Parks Drive. film “Black Swan” after graduat- duce a film. Instead, he said he he felt it was the right thing to do. bringing attention to the issues that advocate for veterans and Tickets can be purchased ing from Wesleyan University. researched hotels for the cast and Back wages are a part of the law- on which he staked his political military families, the same work at the Bill Daniel Student Eric Glatt is the other plaintiff crew, shopped online for items for career.

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