Victory is sweet: Lady Bears advance in tourney 4 Lady Bears move on to Sweet 16 for the seventh year in a row. Check out our video and story coverage. see Sports, page 7 baylorlariat com The Baylor Lariat WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE Waco Comic Con thrilled at the Extraco Events Center this weekend. Get a taste of the action with our photo spread. see A&E, page 5 Tuesday | March 24, 2015 Behind the lines StuFu puts annual effort into Bearathon, chalking By Amanda Yarger go over it a couple times and it Reporter added a lot of time and effort to making sure people followed the At approximately right course.” 3 a.m. Saturday, Albu- Dimos said Student Founda- querque, N.M., junior tion partnered with the Baylor Brad Dimos and other Cycling Club, using pace bikers, to members of Student Foun- guide runners as they progressed dation began chalking the through the course. Members of course for the 13.1-mile race the Cycling Club biked ahead to called the Bearathon, an an- steer participants in the correct nual half-marathon spon- direction. sored by the student or- Shreveport, La., senior Katy ganization to raise funds Wagner, the co-chair of Student for scholarships. Foundation’s Campus Promotions The runners started at Committee, said the chalking was Fountain Mall, and mem- scheduled to begin at 1 a.m., but bers laid a chalk outline on was pushed back two hours be- the course during the dark cause of the weather. hours of the night to guide “It probably took the same participants along the way. amount of time [as past years], but PHOTOS BY JESS SCHURZ | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER Mother Nature, however, we ended up chalking sparingly Several proud finishers smile for a photo after their half marathon Saturday at McLane Stadium. The rainy weather interrupted plans to chalk - mainly around corners - just to did not stop Baylor’s anual Bearathon, put on by Student Foundation, from taking place this weekend. the course by sending a 2-inch conserve our time,” she said. rainfall to Waco, effectively Wagner said despite the set- she said. This weekend was a testament “We have a large amount of washing away the the first chalked back in chalking, the rest of the Although the weather provided to the many trials and obstacles student activities that are involved course and causing the course to setup process at the stadium went rough conditions for chalking, Student Foundation faces in plan- with every part of the Bearathon,” be redone multiple times. smoothly. Wagner said the runners expressed ning and preparing for the tough- Dimos said. “At every mile marker “When we were chalking, a “Between the set-up starting gratitude for the cooler tempera- est half-marathon in Texas, which we have sororities cheering on lot of the chalk washed away,” tures and moisture while they par- last year raised $55,000 for student at 1 a.m. and the taking down at SEE BEARATHON, page 4 Dimos said. “We really had to 1 p.m., we had a full 12-hour day,” ticipated in the race. scholarships. Education for Police: No women dates evidence of back to BU at gang rape at Independence U.Va. frat By Amanda Hayes Reporter By Larry O’Dell Associated Press The columns at Independence, Texas, are not CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A four-month only a symbol of Baylor’s history, but also hold a police investigation into an alleged gang rape special meaning for women. at the University of Virginia that Rolling Stone No males ever took classes in the original build- magazine described in graphic detail produced no ing where these columns stood, said Dr. Rebecca evidence of the attack and was stymied by the ac- Sharpless, associate professor of history at Texas cuser’s unwillingness to cooperate, authorities said Christian University and Baylor graduate. Inde- Monday. pendence is the location where Baylor was char- The article, titled “A rape on campus,” focused tered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas, and incom- on a student identified only as “Jackie” who said ing students visit the site every summer at Line she was raped at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity more Camp. than two years earlier. The 21st Annual Women’s History Month Lec- It described a hidden culture of sexual violence ture, sponsored by the history department and Phi fueled by binge drinking at the college. Police said Alpha Theta, took place Monday in Morrison Hall. they found no evidence of that either. Dr. Andrea Turpin, assistant professor of histo- There were numerous discrepancies between ry, introduced Sharpless and the topic of “Baylor’s the article, published in November 2014, and what First Female Students: Sallie McNeill and Educated investigators found, said Charlottesville Police Texas Women.” KEVIN FREEMAN | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER Chief Timothy Longo, who took care not to accuse Turpin said this year’s speaker was chosen be- Jackie of lying. cause Sharpless recently published a book, “Cook- Shave it off The case is suspended and the fact that investi- ing in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers Baylor baseball players have their hair cut Sunday at the Baylor Ballpark to raise money for the Vs. Cancer gators could not find evidence years later “doesn’t in the South”, that got positive reception. Coinci- Foundation. Fans stayed after Baylor’s final series game against West Virginia to show their support for SEE INDEPENDENCE, page 4 the cause. SEE FRAT, page 4 Cruz targets conservatives as he starts White House run By Philip Elloitt over moderate voters — and even- the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. Associated Press tually deep difficulties in govern- “I believe in you. I believe in the ing should Cruz win the White power of millions of courageous LYNCHBURG, Va. — Launch- House. conservatives rising up to reignite ing his bid for the Republican But it’s a message that Cruz, the promise of America. And that presidential nomination, Sen. Ted the first major 2016 contender to is that is why, today, I am announc- Cruz of Texas asked Christian declare himself a candidate, is ex- ing that I am running for president conservative voters to imagine pected to forcefully emphasize in of the United States of America.” a United States without the IRS, the coming year before voters start Cruz won’t be the sole GOP Obamacare or abortion rights — to pick nominees. contender for long. Two Senate and to imagine they can make that “God’s blessing has been on colleagues, Kentucky’s Rand Paul happen by supporting him. America from the very beginning and Florida’s Marco Rubio, are His aspirational appeal on of this nation, and I believe that eyeing campaign launches soon. ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday, aimed at America’s most God isn’t done with Americans,” And former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at Liberty University on Monday in Lynchburg, Va., to announce his campaign for conservative voters, could quickly Cruz declared at Liberty Univer- president. Cruz, who announced his candidacy on Twitter in the early morning hours, is the first major candidate run into challenges in winning sity, a Christian school founded by SEE CRUZ, page 4 in the 2016 race for president. Vol.115 No. 81 First copy free. Additional copies 25 cents each. © 2015 Baylor University Opinion Tuesday|March 24, 2015 2 The Baylor Lariat The best breaks aren’t planned Throughout high ed during a stressful week, school and during my I call it a necessity. time here at Baylor, I have Slow life down. We get been described as a couple caught up in getting things of things. One word seems done and going places that to be repetitive: organized. we often let the days pass Well, it’s pretty accurate. by too quickly. Before we I’ve always loved keeping know it, years get away a planner glued to my side from us and we’re middle- and I bring along every aged people with a spouse single school supply you and teenage kids. could think of to every Finally, we can’t spend class. time worrying about what’s to come. While many of I like to stick to schedules because I like to know my family members were walking around the hos- what’s coming, but when things don’t go as planned pital worrying about what the next few days were or when an event suddenly jumps in front of me, going to hold, I didn’t do that. In the end, it’s not in my body reacts to it. I start sweating, my heart rate our hands. It’s ultimately up to God. goes up, and I sometimes start to panic. That same My great aunt was also my godmother. She feeling happened a few weeks ago when I found out brought me into the Catholic Church, stood before my great aunt was in the hospital, and it didn’t look God and said that I would be raised to be a loyal good. and faithful servant of Christ. That same faith that She passed away while I was home for spring I was given the day I was anointed with water over break, and while I was disappointed that I didn’t get my head ended up helping me get through the past to do much of anything during my time off, it taught week. me a few lessons about how life works. Matthew 6:31-34 states, “So do not worry, say- First, we cannot always expect how life is going ing, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ to go.