TODAY ONLINE >> Featured Online: Check out our thoughts of the documentary “Poverty Inc.” Baylor THE BEARS FIGHT OFF LariatWE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE NEGATIVE ENERGY pg.6 SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 WEDNESDAY BAYLORLARIAT.COM POPE VISIT GUEST SPEAKER At last, the Pope has landed NICOLE WINFIELD & RACHEL ZOLL Associated Press WASHINGTON — Pope Francis arrived Tuesday on the rst visit of his life to the United States, bringing his humble manner and his “church of the poor” to a rich and powerful nation polarized over economic inequality, immigration and equal justice. According a rare honor to the ponti , President Barack Obama and his wife and daughters met Francis at the bottom of the stairs on the red-carpeted tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland a er the pope’s chartered plane touched down from Cuba. Presidents usually make important visitors come to them at the White House. Emerging from the plane to boisterous cheers Associated Press from a crowd of hundreds, the smiling 78-year- old ponti removed his skullcap in the windy RUDY GIULIANI The former New York City Mayor acknowledges delegates’ applause during the Republican National Convention at the weather and made his way down the steps in his Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, September 3, 2008. white robes. He was welcomed by a military honor guard, chanting schoolchildren, politicians, and Roman Catholic clerics in black robes and vivid sashes of scarlet and purple. Joe Biden, the nation’s rst Giuliani at On Topic Catholic vice president, and his wife were among those who greeted him. Eschewing a limousine, the pope climbed Starr plans to sit down with former New York City Mayor into the back of a modest little Fiat family car and promptly rolled down the windows, enabling HELENA HUNT A er a life in the public sector both as has brought so many illustrious guests to the cheering, whooping crowds to see him as his Sta Writer mayor and as a 2008 presidential candidate, Baylor to open up in conversation. motorcade took him to the Vatican diplomatic Giuliani became a partner in the law rm e On Topic series, which occurs mission in Washington, where he will stay while People wishing to see tonight’s On Topic Bracewell & Giuliani. He is also a partner once each fall and spring semester, brings in the nation’s capital. e choice of car was in conversation with former New York City of Giuliani Partners, which is a strategic policymakers, public intellectuals and keeping with his simple habits and his stand Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Baylor President consulting rm. other world leaders to Baylor to discuss against consumerism. and Chancellor Ken Starr at 7 p.m. are still Giuliani will bring leadership important contemporary issues with During his six-day, three-city visit to the in luck. experience and international expertise to President Starr. Past guests have included U.S., the pope will meet with the president on Even though tickets to see Giuliani in his conversation with Starr. the rst female Supreme Court Justice Wednesday, address Congress on ursday, speak Waco Hall are no longer available, students Members of the university and the Sandra Day O’Connor, former vice at the United Nations in New York on Friday and and members of the public may still get Waco community are invited to hear him presidential nominee Joseph Lieberman take part in a Vatican-sponsored conference on tickets to see the conversation streamed speak on his wide-ranging experiences. and former Secretary of State Condoleezza the family in Philadelphia over the weekend. live in Roxy Grove. Tickets, which are free, Although tickets to the event are free Rice. e Argentine known as the “slum pope” for can be picked up at the Bill Daniel Student to students and members of the Waco Bringing in these guests, who have also ministering to the downtrodden in his native Center ticket o ce. community, Waco Hall is already at included public intellectual and author Os Buenos Aires is expected to urge America to take “We are committed to bringing capacity. A live stream of the conversation Guiness and journalist Juan Williams, can better care of the environment and the poor and international and national leaders to will be played in Roxy Grove. Tickets to the take years of preparation. Many of them are return to its founding ideals of religious liberty Baylor’s campus,” said the Assistant Vice Roxy Grove presentation can still be picked booked up to years in advance, and their and open arms toward immigrants. President of Media Communications, Lori up at the Bill Daniel Student Center Ticket schedules must also be reconciled with During the ight, Francis defended himself Fogleman. O ce. Fogleman encourages all students to those of Starr and the university. against conservative criticism of his economic Giuliani is widely known for his attend. “We are committed to bringing views. He told reporters on the plane that some leadership of New York City both before “It’s easy to become spellbound,” national and international leaders to the explanations of his writings may have given the and a er the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Fogleman said. “ e conversations are On Topic series,” Fogleman said. “Our impression he is “a little bit more le -leaning.” “Giuliani’s achievements in cleaning quite compelling.” guests are leaders in our world who’ve But he said such explanations are wrong up New York City’s crime scene and his e On Topic series is only as compelling played signi cant roles in public policy, and added: “I am certain that I have never response to 9/11 de nitely make his visit and popular as it is because of President government and as public intellectuals.” said anything beyond what is in the social worth attending,” said Belleville senior Starr’s involvement, Fogleman said. It is his Caleb Byrd. POPE >> Page 4 own public experience and credibility that >>WHAT’S INSIDE OBITUARY opinion Editorial: Irving freshman Ahmed Muhammad School of social work closed arrested for homemade clock. Paranoia at its best. pg. 2 after Garland’s passing arts & life EMMA KING semester of 2016. After Dark brought tons Sta Writer Garland came to Baylor in 1997 and was of talent and one band is named the director of the university’s center looking to release an EP e Diana R. Garland School of Social work for family and community ministries in 1998. soon. pg. 5 was closed Tuesday and remains closed today From there, she became the chair of the social in mourning for the school’s namesake and work department in 2001. When Baylor turned former dean, Diana R. Garland, who died on the department into its own School of Social Monday night. Work in 2005, Baylor named Garland as its rst “She was one of the sweetest ladies I’ve ever dean. met,” said Amarillo junior Heath Holland. “She At the time the announcement was made to was so excited I chose to be a social work major.” name the school a er Garland, she said she was Holland said when he met Garland, she was speechless in gratitude. excited to see him and told him to come by her “All this school has accomplished has sports o ce and talk with her anytime, though he been because God has bound us together, never got the chance to. magnifying our strengths and shining through Baylor Soccer Lauren Garland spent six months battling our weaknesses,” Garland said at the time. Piercy wins Big 12 New pancreatic cancer. She stepped down from her “We have achieved far more than any group Comer of the Week. position as dean in the spring of 2015 with the of people could have humanly done alone, pg. 6 intent of taking a research sabbatical for this fall and returning to faculty during the spring GARLAND >> Page 4 Courtesy of Baylor Media Communications Vol.116 No. 14 © 2015 Baylor University Wednesday, September 23, 2015 2 The Baylor Lariat opinionbaylorlariat.com GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? We want to hear it. Send us your thoughts: [email protected] COLUMN EDITORIAL Every party has a pooper In college, birthdays no longer most important day of everyone’s year HELENA HUNT Sta Writer Sunday was my birthday (and no, despite my manifest vanity, this isn’t a plea for more Facebook well-wishing). I used to look forward to birthdays, counting down the days and weeks to Sept. 20 — usually starting around July 3 each year. When I had to do 200 math problems for homework in the third grade, I reassured myself that each equation brought me closer to that blessed day. I could only endure trips to the grocery store with my mom by lingering in the bakery section, ipping eagerly through the laminated book of Sesame Street and Toy Story cakes. I spent the night of every Sept. 19 tossing and turning, imagining the raptures of the day to come. And then it would come, and I partied hard. I gambled away my life savings at Peter Piper Pizza and de nitely drank the Kool-Aid. I surveyed my mountain of presents — the Hickory dickory dumb price of party admission in those halcyon days — and opened them one by one, savoring the sweet taste of birthday cake and materialism. And that was how birthdays are all your Irving freshman wronged in clock incident life, I imagined. Greasy pizza and all the people you sort of liked gathered in one place e hashtag #IStandWith- to deal with emergencies.” to an innocent kid being treated front of the school.