baylorlariat com A&E p. 4 The first faculty-only flags across Fountain Mall Wednesday art exhibition is showing with signs displaying abortion-related BaylorLariat facts and resources for post-abortion now in Martin Museum. WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE men and women. “I don’t think a lot of people realize how huge the number of aborted chil- Thursday | January 23, 2014 dren is,” she said, referencing a sign that provided an estimated number of Ameri- can abortions. “It’s up to 55 million since 1973, which is when Roe v. Wade was passed.” The first 30 minutes of the rally will Former BU football player on trial for assault serve as a time for participants to gather together, followed by a 30-minute march, and will end outside the city’s Capitol By Paula Ann Solis liott was signed from Mount Pleasant the victim was taken to Hillcrest Bap- school and team policies. sexual assaults. She said she thought building. Staff Writer High School in 2009 when he joined tist Medical Center after the assault. Elliott was indicted on three counts for three years she was the only victim Attorney General Greg Abbott is the the team as a redshirt. Sgt. Patrick Swanton said the Waco of sexual assault Aug. 27 by a McLen- but after realizing she may have been event’s keynote speaker, although other A 2010 Baylor alumna testified The witness said she was assaulted Police Department obtained a war- nan County grand jury. It was then the first and could have prevented fu- Texas leaders will also address attendees. Wednesday that while she was a stu- in 2009 but kept the event concealed rant and arrested then-Baylor student that Jason P. Darling, Elliott’s attorney, ture incident by speaking out the first “The speakers educate the crowd,” dent, former Baylor football player for three years until she heard Elliott Elliott at his apartment near campus said one of the charges stemmed from time, she had to come forth. Tevin Sherard Elliott, 22, sexually as- was arrested and charged with sexu- April 30. a November 2009 incident. When Darling asked the witness saulted her. ally assaulting another Baylor student After the arrest, Elliott was sus- The victim from 2009 said she de- why she was claiming assault years The testimony was part of El- in 2012 after an apartment party. pended from Baylor’s football pro- cided to tell Waco authorities about after physical evidence and texts mes- liott’s sexual assault case being tried at That party was April 15, 2012, at gram and then suspended by the uni- the incident in 2012 after discover- Waco’s 54th State District Court. El- the Aspen Heights Apartments and versity on the accusation of violating ing Elliott was connected to other SEE ELLIOT, page 6 Elliot New app puts Baylor sites all in one spot By Nico Zulli and Katdie Norton cy numbers of campus police, the Reporters counseling center, health center and the help desk at Baylor. Information on class schedules, The app functions by hooking shuttle buses and grades is now into maps, news feeds and banner available to Baylor students on the data, which is data from BearWeb, move. while keeping student information OsoMobile, a new mobile appli- secure. Similar to Bearweb, users cation from Baylor ITS, offers a way will be logged out after 15 minutes to access BearWeb and information of inactivity. from other existing apps. “OsoMobile interfaces with our “I think it is the first true mobile student information systems in a app that brings in some of the data way that keeps our academic re- from BearWeb,” said Steven Kucera, cords secure,” said Pattie Orr, vice director of information systems and president for information technol- Above: Bears for Life, a pro-life group, demonstrated its stance on abortion Wednesday services and the team supervisor for ogy and dean of university libraries. on Fountain Mall by filling the lawn with blue and pink flags representing aborted babies in OsoMobile’s development. “It brings “As vice president for information the United States. Greenwich, Conn., sophomore Christopher Bedoya puts up fli- Right: together many features for Baylor ers in protest of the pro-life display. “I believe that everyone should be treated equally, and technology, I am concerned about nobody should be told what they can and cannot do with their body,” said Bedoya, who is students.” keeping our data secure. OsoMo- not associated with an organization. The fliers were later removed. The app features a current course bile provides a great combination of schedule, all past semesters’ fi- convenience and security.” nal grades, current holds, student The app’s development process and faculty directory, a Baylor bus began in April of last year, pilot test- tracker that links to an existing bus ing of the app began in October, al- tracking app called Ride Systems, a most two months prior to the actual campus map that uses current loca- release. tion and a Baylor Lariat news feed. Standing up The app also includes the emergen- SEE OSOMOBILE, page 6 Pro-life group heads to Austin, advocates anti-abortion laws PHOTOS BY TRAVIS TAYLOR | LARIAT PHOTO EDITOR By Rae Jefferson ing to transport about 20 students to the “This will be my first march,” she said. Staff Writer event. “But I feel like it’s important to defend the “This is something the organization does lives of those who can’t defend themselves.” A group of Baylor students will join thou- every year,” she said. “I’ve been going for sev- The rally will also commemorate the sands of demonstrators in the state’s capital eral years, and some of these students have 41st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling, this weekend for the pro-life cause. been attending these rallies since birth.” a Supreme Court decision that originally le- Bears for Life, an on-campus pro-life stu- The event is being held in hopes of show- galized abortion through all nine months of dent organization, as well as students with ing “the media and our elected officials that pregnancy, but has paved the way for current St. Peter’s Catholic Student Center and St. Texas is pro-life,” according to the event’s abortion laws. Mary’s Catholic Church, will attend the 2014 website. Wilmington said this anniversary is the Texas Rally for Life from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday Katy freshman Emily Gilcrease, a mem- reason Bears for Life set up blue and pink in Austin. ber of Bears for Life, said this march will be Bears for Life co-adviser Molly Wilming- the climax to her first semester with the or- ton said the pro-life organization is expect- ganization. SEE ABORTION, page 6 Target account hackers will be hard to find, experts say By Bree Fowler dresses, phone numbers, names and home of information is stolen, criminals gener- make them easier to use. of a pair of Mexican citizens at the U.S.- Associated Press addresses — for another 70 million people. ally divide the data into chunks and sell the After thieves purchase the numbers, Mexico border earlier this week. In the aftermath of the breach, millions parcels through online black markets, says they can encode the data onto new, blank According to police in McAllen, Texas, NEW YORK — The hackers behind the of Americans have been left to wonder Chester Wisniewski, senior security advis- cards with an inexpensive, easy-to-use the pair used account information stolen recent Target data breach are likely a world what has become of their precious personal er for the computer security firm Sophos. gadget. Or they can skip the card-writing during the Target breach to buy tens of away and nearly impossible to find. information. The information can be used In many ways, those markets behave process and simply use the card numbers thousands of dollars’ worth of merchan- That’s the consensus among outside in a variety of nefarious ways. Criminals much like any legitimate marketplace online. Crooks often have the option to dise at national retailers in the area. But cybercrime experts as Target, the Secret can attempt to use the credit card numbers ruled by the forces of supply and demand. buy cards last used in their area. That way, the U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday its Service and the FBI continue their inves- and place charges on the original own- Groups of higher-end cards are worth Wisniewski says, the cards attract less at- investigation into the possibility of a link tigation of the pre-Christmas data heist in ers’ accounts or they can use other pieces significantly more than those with lower tention from the banks that issued them. between the Target data theft and the ar- which hackers stole about 40 million debit of personal information to steal people’s credit limits and so are cards tied to ad- That could explain why some debit and rests remains ongoing. and credit card numbers and also took per- identities and apply for new lines of credit. ditional personal information, such as credit card numbers of Target customers sonal information — including email ad- In cases where such a massive amount names, addresses and zip codes, which from South Texas turned up in the arrest SEE TARGET, page 6 Inside A&E p. 4 NEWS p. 3 SPORTS p. 5 MLK celebrations Baylor Fencing Club The Lady Bears host the first stays on guard and prove successful African-American attacks competition against Kansas State woman to attend time after time on Wildcats with a Baylor in the 1960s.