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WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE TheTUESDAY | FEBRUARY 21, 2012Baylor Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com SPORTS Page 6 NEWS Page 3 A&E Page 4 Bears center court Following another path Restaurant brings nostalgia No. 9 Baylor Bears pull off a Baylor fashion major primed to Health Camp, Waco burger restaurant, resounding defeat against the enter big business by participating reminds customers of simpler times Texas Longhorns 77-72 in selling competitions with old-school style and food DOMAIN from Page 1 Vol. 113 No. 20 © 2012, Baylor University Since its launch, many groups have moved to disassociate their In Print names with the .xxx domain. According to Domain News, >> Box office twist Military study gets government grant an Internet domain industry news ‘Safe House’ and ‘The Vow’ outlet, among the complainants defy expectations in line-up By Daniel C. Houston such as principal investigator Dr. questionnaire aimed at families of tired Lt. Col. Sharon Reese. Reese phase of the project, the Baylor seeking arbitration with .xxx do- of box office hits Staff Writer James Ellor, professor of social soldiers preparing to deploy. worked on the first phase of Bay- faculty members on the team will main holders are Baylor University, Page 4 work, hope the results from the The first phase employed a se- lor’s research at Fort Hood before use their expertise to analyze the Valero and H-E-B. Baylor researchers have re- questionnaire will give research- ries of focus groups to inform the her retirement from the military data and suggest better methods Lori Fogleman, Baylor director ceived a $350,000 federal grant ers insight into effective coping researchers what questions would in September. of coping. of media communications, said the >> Strike, you’re out from the Department of Defense mechanisms. be most appropriate for the sec- Money from the grant will also “The purpose of this study Baseball sweeps weekend to study how soldiers and their “We hope that this will show ond-phase questionnaire. fund materials for the question- right now,” Reese said, “is to pro- series as the pitching leads families cope with the stress of us where the points of distress are The third phase of the proj- naire itself. vide [the military] with the overall information, but at the same time the way military deployment. for soldiers, parents and spouses, ect will be a qualitative analysis Reese said during the first there would be some recommen- The Military Family Coping and how the stress of the parents of families with soldiers who are phase of the project, researchers dations because … we have differ- Page 5 Project, sponsored by the School and spouses impact the soldier currently deployed. found there is not an adequate ent individuals that are qualified of Social Work, will provide ques- and vice versa,” Ellor said. The grant itself will go toward support system for parents or to provide some feedback based >> Circus at Mayborn tionnaires to approximately 500 The grant money is only desig- compensation for collaborators, spouses who want information on the results that we get.” Physics learning program U.S. soldiers and 350 military nated toward the second phase of including Baylor faculty mem- about their deployed loved ones. family members. Project leaders, the project, which consists of the bers, graduate students and re- Reese said during the second SEE GRANT, page 6 seeks to promote desire for higher education in high schoolers Page 3 Baylor fights for On the Web control of .xxx site University seeks arbitration for BaylorGirls domain ownership By Rob Bradfield want to control content associated Staff Writer with their names. Speegle said few companies The website BaylorGirls.xxx fought the practice until cyber- is not what many people might sqatters began asking for outra- think it is. geous amounts of money in ex- Right now, the domain doesn’t change for some domains. Photo of the day go to any website, but Baylor has In response, the government filed for arbitration with the do- passed the Anticybersquatting Steven Gross, principal horn main’s owner through the Na- Consumer Protection Act, which of the Cincinnati Chamber tional Arbitration Forum to gain gives trademarked companies Orchestra, instructed music control of the domain. and organizations a means to con- students in playing the horn Baylor’s arbitration is part trol their name on the Internet. Monday at Waco Hall of an ongoing conflict between After the act was passed, cy- baylorlariat.com trademark owners and domain bersquatting became much less name holders. profitable and for a while was on “Ten years ago it was com- the decline, Speegle said. Viewpoints mon practice for people to gobble That changed when the .xxx up any domain name that was domain came online in 2011, and “When the Lariat close to a popular one,” Dr. Greg a whole new group of domain Speegle, interim chair of the Bay- names were up for grabs. looks back on how lor department of computer sci- Speegle said the .xxx domain we reported the ence, said. was designed to eliminate cyber- While it has yet to be decided squatting and help end the confu- tragic news, we hope if the owner of BaylorGirls.xxx is sion between adult entertainment cybersquatting, the practice has sites and similarly named popular we didn’t miss the MEAGAN DOWNING | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER been fought by trademarked com- websites. one element that panies for years. The new domain has been is too often lost in Cybersquatters buy domain compared by several sources, in- Lady Bears celebrate victory names similar enough to main- cluding the BBC news, to an In- Brittney Griner raises the Big 12 trophy over her head for the media after defeating Texas Tech on Sat- stories like this: stream websites to get a signifi- ternet “red-light district.” urday at the Ferrell Center. Baylor beat Texas Tech 56-51. See story on page 5. humanity. At the cant amount of traffic, and resell SEE DOMAIN, page 6 core of this story, the domain to companies that minus the confusion surrounding Biblical womanhood given modern interpretations Patterson’s death, is By Meghan Hendrickson physical contact with any man be- Evans referenced Proverbs 31 the loss of a young Reporter cause, according to the Bible, she as a passage of Scripture that de- human life.” was considered “unclean.” scribes the ideal woman of faith. Rachel Held Evans, author of Evans said the topic of biblical But she admitted to once having Page 2 the recently published “A Year womanhood always intrigued her hated the passage because she of Biblical Womanhood,” spoke for two reasons. thought it caused Christian wom- Bear Briefs at Chapel on Monday about her “First, if you ask Christians en to feel inferior to the “Proverbs year-long project to discover how what ‘biblical womanhood’ 31 woman.” to live the life of a “biblical wom- means, you’ll always get differ- After her “year of biblical The place to go to know an” according to laws set forth in ent answers,” Evans said. “Also, womanhood,” Evans concluded the places to go Scripture. any claim to a biblical lifestyle, that Christians have been mis- After extensive study of the specifically womanhood, is inher- translating the passage. Job seekers wanted Bible and commentaries, Evans ently selective.” She said she realized Proverbs The university-wide found every scriptural reference Evans wondered aloud wheth- 31 is a poem about a woman of to women and applied it to her life career fair for Baylor er there was only one “right way” valor that should be used to en- in a literal fashion for one year. to be a woman of faith. courage women, not condemn students will be held This meant Evans submitted She said she found the old- from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. them. to her husband, grew out her hair, fashioned definition of biblical “It’s not a to-do list for wom- Wednesday at the Ferrell DAVID LI | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER refrained from gossip, covered womanhood revolved around do- en, but instructions for men to Center. It is for students her head during prayer, called her Rachel Held Evans, an author, speaker and blogger, shared pictures mesticity, motherhood and sub- remember what their wives have and stories from her year of biblical womanhood presentation Monday seeking full-time and husband “master” and camped mission to male leadership both already done,” Evans said. Evans’ out in her yard for the 12 days at Waco Hall. in the home and in the church. internship employment view of Proverbs 31 is not the only surrounding her menstrual cycle. Evans said women of the 1950s opportunities in a variety menstrual-cycle camp-out. Ev- band attended a wedding, which view that has been shared at Bay- Evans observed some prac- were given the idea that if they did of industries. Various em- lor. tices for the entire year; others ans said during those 12 days of she said was extremely awkward, not excel at such things, they were ployers seeking students she tried just once, such as the camping out, she and her hus- since she could not engage in any not “biblical women.” SEE BIBLICAL, page 6 in all academic fields will be present. The student dress requirement to enter the fair is business casual MIT chip may someday replace repeated immunizations or professional dress. A By Kayla Reeves The chip has 20 tiny reservoirs last Thursday. The MIT research- its kind, but it is supposedly more ever, they could potentially keep student ID is required. Reporter that hold a prescribed drug and ers tested the chip on a group of reliable than previous under-skin a medicine in the chip for emer- is programmed to release a dose eight women, ages 65 to 70, and pumps since it proved equally as gencies, if they install a sensor to There might be a sigh of relief into the body whenever the pa- found there were no foreseeable effective as daily injections, Mi- detect low blood sugar, Cima said.