UT Student Faces up to 10 Years in Iranian Prison
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WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE TheWEDNESDAY | OCTOBER Baylor 5, 2011 Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com A&E Page 4 NEWS Page 3 SPORTS Page 5 Adulthood is calling Dancing reams Texas Slugger The show “Workaholics” explores A Baylor alumna ditches the The Texas Rangers advanced to the the journey of life after college and 9 to 5 job to pursue her love AL Championship Series thanks to the laughs gained along the way of dance and photography some heavy hitting by Adrian Beltre Vol. 112 No. 21 © 2011, Baylor University In Print >> Diet killer UT student faces Gerik’s Ole Czech Bakery & Deli in downtown Waco isn’t making dieting any easier with a large up to 10 years in assortment of kolaches. Page 4 >> Sneak peek Iranian prison The School of Social Work Biannual Preview by nasser karimi entire session was allocated to Day allows students the Associated Press (procedural) hearings and the opportunity to learn more court will hold another session,” An Iranian graduate student Khalili said. about what the master’s at the University of Texas went on No date was set for the next program has to offer. trial Tuesday in Tehran on charges hearing. Page 3 of having relations with a hostile There were few details on the country and receiving illegitimate precise accusations against the funds, his lawyer said. student. >> Great expectations Omid Kokabee pleaded not Many Iranian students apply What is now being called guilty to both charges during the to study in the U.S. every year the most epic collapse trial’s opening session, said the but the acrimonious relations be- in baseball led to one of attorney, Saeed Khalili. tween the two countries means the greatest managers in He could face up to 10 years in any contact between an Iranian baseball being fired. prison if convicted. and the United States can raise Iranian authorities arrested suspicions in Tehran. Page 5 the 29-year-old Kokabee in Feb- The two countries have never ruary at Tehran’s international restored diplomatic relations sev- >> Information central airport as he was about to get on a ered in the wake of Iran’s 1979 The Hankamer School flight to return to the U.S. revolution, and in recent years of Business event First Kokabee was studying optics Tehran has repeatedly accused the in the physics department of the Wednesdays is giving U.S. of fomenting unrest inside University of Texas. Iran. students the opportunity He had previously specialized Keto said Kokabee had to gain valuable in lasers, one of his academic ad- difficulty getting a visa to the information about their visers said. United States. prospective industries. None of Kokabee’s studies “It took a number of letters Page 3 were linked to nuclear applica- to the State Department. But he tions, said John Keto, chair of the finally arrived here in August of graduate studies program at the 2010 and started graduate school,” Viewpoints University of Texas at Austin’s de- Keto said. partment of physics. Since 2007, a number of Iran’s nuclear program is a U.S.-Iranian dual nationals or “While the major source of tension between Americans of Iranian ancestry Tehran and Washington. have faced arrest, imprisonment government The U.S. and other countries or criminal charges when visiting obviously needs accuse Iran of making all the Iran. necessary preparations to build a Keto said the university first to find ways to get nuclear arsenal. learned of Kokabee’s arrest from MEAGAN DOWNING | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER the Postal Service Iran denies that and says its another student after he failed to back on the plus nuclear work has only peaceful show up for his studies. aims, like power generation. “His family actually asked us Horsin’ around side of its balance The student’s lawyer told The at that time not to make a big deal sheet, canceling Associated Press he was not per- out of this because they felt like Riders balance horses on Tuesday in downtown Waco. The team was a part of the Heart ‘O’ Texas Fair mitted to speak with Kokabee at some kind of rabble rousing from & Rodeo Parade. Sneak-a-Peek night starts at 6 p.m. Thursday with the fair officially starting 4 p.m. Saturday mail Tuesday’s trial session. the U.S. would not be in his inter- Friday and lasting until 12 a.m. service is not the “He denied all charges. The est,” he said. answer.” Page 2 Journalism professor Bear Briefs The place to go to know talks impact of stories the places to go By Jordan Hearne satellite. Included on the record Musical talent Reporter were the voices not only of presi- Conductor-in-Residence dents and classical musicians, but Stephen Heyde will Robert Darden, associate also Blind Willie Johnson’s “Dark present a concert professor of journalism at Bay- Was the Night, Cold Was the lor, never thought he would go featuring Beethoven’s G rou n d .” into teaching, but it has been This is a story Darden tells his Symphony No. 3 and “an extraordinary journey.” Of class each year. He said he uses Frank Proto’s Fantasy course, that’s only part of his storytelling as a way to teach his for Double Bass and story. students. Orchestra with winner As the recipient of the 2011 “Studies show that students of the Baylor Concerto Cornelia Marschall Smith Pro- will remember a story longer than Competition soloist, fessor of the Year Award, an notes on a blackboard,” Darden honor that recognizes excellence said. Ryan Baird, at 7:30 MATT HELLMAN | LARIAT PHOTO EDITOR in teaching, research and com- Darden said the most com- p.m. Thursday in Jones Manuel Quinto-Pozos, former staff attorney for the Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, founder and president munity involvement, Darden mon type of story listeners can Concert Hall in the of the Ruth Institute, participates as a keynote American Civil Liberties Union, argues in favor of same- gave a lecture Tuesday about the relate to is known as “The Hero’s speaker in “A Debate on the Definition of Marriage,” sex marriage, advocating accepting same-sex marriage Glennis McCrary Music impact of storytelling. Journey.” Through this design, building. The concert Tuesday in the Sheila and Walter Umphrey Law as a legitimate societal institution. Quinto-Pozos said Center Morse argued there is a distinction between the moral beliefs of the majority should not be translated After commenting on his a hero goes on an adventure for is free and open to the public and private purposes of marriage. into laws prohibiting moral beliefs of the minority. slight limp from recent knee sur- some specific goal and eventu- public. gery and explaining that a stu- ally changes due to hardships and dent thought he looked like Dr. circumstances that occur within Going fishing Debate explores reality of same-sex marriage House from the popular TV show the story. At the end, the true goal “House,” Darden began with a The Association of Black and motivation for the journey is story not about his own past, but realized by the character, and the Students and Kappa By Daniel C. Houston this country,” Toben said, “mar- institution of same-sex marriage. Staff Writer riage traditionally has been de- Morse said public policy about the life of a gospel singer hero’s transformation is the real Sigma Fraternity present known as Blind Willie Johnson. reward. the annual Fish Fry fined as a legal and spiritual union should focus on the public pur- Two experts sparred Tuesday between a man and a woman; pose of marriage, which she said Johnson was a musician who “The hero must change. With- Festival Fry What You over the proper definition of mar- however, in recent years the defi- is to promote the natural rela- was blinded as a child and learned out change, it’s just a documen- Like Competition from riage before an audience of more nition has begun to expand as tionship between biological par- to play guitar on the streets tary, or a Steven Seagal movie,” 6 to 10 p.m. Friday at the than 100 people, debating wheth- a result of change in social and ents and children. while struggling to make enough Darden said. SUB Bowl and Traditions er homosexual couples should be family values and the activism of “The essential public purpose money to survive. At one point, The story of Blind Willie John- Plaza. The event is free granted state marriage licenses the gay and lesbian, bisexual and of marriage is to attach moth- a talent scout asked Johnson to son is one Darden can relate to as record a handful of songs, which with proceeds from the and the relationship between transgender communities.” ers and fathers to their children the co-founder of the Black Gos- he did,. The record did not bring pel Music Restoration Project at competition benefiting marriage and parenting. Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, and to one another,” Morse said. him great success however, and Baylor, a nationwide attempt at the Waco VA Hospital. The debate was hosted by the founder and president of the Ruth “Now, that’s an essential purpose Baylor American Constitutional Institute, an organization pro- in the following sense: if you he then continued to play outside finding and preserving vinyl gos- Society and the Federalist Society, moting heterosexual marriage, didn’t need that purpose, I claim, clubs until his death. pel records. and moderated by Bradley Toben, made a distinction between what you wouldn’t need the institution “That could have been the end He started the project after dean of the Baylor Law School.