TODAY ONLINE >> New Slideshow: Check out the rest of the photos from the Veterans Day Parade Baylor SHOP ‘TIL YOU DROP LariatWE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE pg.5 NOVEMBER 12, 2015 THURSDAY BAYLORLARIAT.COM TECH UPDATE ITS expands PAYING TRIBUTE email storage system JILLIAN ANDERSON Reporter Soon, Baylor students, faculty and sta will no longer receive “email almost full” messages. ITS has started to expand storage space for student email by moving servers to the Microso Cloud. Student mailboxes will expand from 600 megabytes to 50 gigabytes Trey Honeycutt | Lariat Photographer through the use of Microso ’s O ce 365 service. e move will be complete BIKING VETERANS, HONORING VETERANS Veterans on motorcycles ride down Austin Avenue in Wednesday’s Veterans Day Parade in spring 2016. People lined the streets to watch the parade. Cloud storage refers to the storing of data on a server that isn’t local. Traditional email systems are housed in the same physical area as the system they serve. Baylor has had on premise servers, but is now moving students to the Microso cloud. “Anytime you wanted to check your email, it would come back to the server room,” said Bob Hartland, assistant vice president for IT infrastructure. Hartland his colleagues managed the servers that stored and authenticated all Baylor users email. “It was a struggle to improve storage as attachments have gotten larger,” Hartland said. ITS noticed many people utilized their email to store les. at issue, among others, prompted ITS to make the move, Hartland said. ITS infrastructure doubled the Richard Hirst | Lariat Photo Editor storage space for students even before SALUTING SOLDIERS A former Marine salutes a trumpet moving to the cloud. e cloud, player as the band member performs Taps and marches down however, is considered more cost the streets of Waco. e ective and bene cial for students and faculty. Although Baylor wasn’t one of Waco’s Veterans Day Parade drew a crowd the rst universities to move to the to the center of downtown Waco Wednesday Cloud o cials are con dent it was the morning. Children and adults of all ages right decision to make. Transitioning participated in the tradition and watched thousands of accounts is a delicate undertaking. Moving so much data at from the curb as veterans and Wacoans one time can be a risky task. paraded through the streets. “Because email is so critical we didn’t The parade included active-duty want to be on the leading edge,” said Trey Honeycutt | Lariat Photographer servicemen and retired veterans, local Becky King, associate vice president for school marching bands and the Waco and FLAGS OVER WACO Waco Police Department’s Color Guard presented the RIGHTS >> Page 4 American and Texas fl ags during the parade. Hewitt Police and Fire departments. >>WHAT’S INSIDE FIRST AMENDMENT opinion Missouri students’ free speech rights Editorial: Two Muslim drivers were fi red from their job for not delivering are being challenged across campus alcohol. pg. 2 news SUMMER BALLENTINE Missouri responded with a statement calling for write whatever they wanted on the large strip of Associated Press the university to not compromise the right to paper. Philanthropy Day: Baylor free expression in its e orts to ght racism. Its “Basically, if your feelings are hurt the police gives back to those that COLUMBIA, Mo. — Free speech advocates statement says, “Mistakenly are going to crack down on are expressing concern that instructions from have given to them. pg. 3 addressing symptoms — “I think that’s whoever hurt your feelings,” University of Missouri police on how students instead of causes — and doing Paris said. “I think that’s should report “hateful and/or hurtful” speech it in a way that runs counter to terrifying, because I terrifying, because I have could sti e legitimate di erences of opinion. the First Amendment is not the have opinions every opinions every single day that A campus email sent Tuesday instructs sports wise or appropriate response.” single day.” people nd o ensive or hurt recipients to call university police as soon as A University of Missouri their feelings because I disagree possible and notes that while such speech isn’t police o cial referred with them.” always illegal, students can nonetheless be questions about the email to the Ian Paris |Young Americans Authorities on Wednesday punished by the O ce of Student Conduct. school’s media relations o ce, for Liberty, President arrested a 19-year-old student e university’s student conduct code prohibits which did not immediately at another Missouri campus, harassment, which it de nes as “unwelcome verbal respond. alleging he posted online threats or physical conduct” against “actual or perceived e school’s email spurred a libertarian-leaning about shooting black people on the Columbia Lady Bears look to add membership in a protected class ... that creates student group, Young Americans for Liberty, to campus. e threats were posted Tuesday, a day more recruits to their a hostile environment.” e conduct code also set up a “free speech wall” in a campus walkway a er the university system president and the arsenal of athletes for the forbids bullying, retaliation and threatening or Wednesday. e chapter’s president, Ian Paris, said chancellor of the Columbia campus announced upcoming seasons. pg. 6 intimidating behaviors. school administrators seem intent on quelling free they were resigning amid student-led protests over e American Civil Liberties Union of speech, and members encouraged passers-by to their handling of racial issues. Vol.116 No. 42 © 2015 Baylor University Thursday, November 12, 2015 2 The Baylor Lariat opinionbaylorlariat.com GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? We want to hear it. Send us your thoughts: [email protected] COLUMN Think outside the Wack Clifton makes for perfect weekend trip RICHARD HIRST Photo Editor So it’s about the time in the semester when people are starting to stress out and could really use a weekend away but don’t have time to go all the way home, wherever that may be. Well, I have a great weekend get away for you to think about doing with a group of friends to unwind. ere is a small town about 40 minutes northwest of Waco on Highway 6 called Cli on. e Norwegian Capital of Texas, with a population of 3,442, may not sound very big but is de nitely worth a second glance. e rst thing that makes the trip worth it is a little theater there called the Cli ex. It is the oldest continuously operating movie theater in Texas. e theater was opened in 1916 and remains open on the weekends to this day. e owners have done their Freedom, not immunity best to make sure the Cli ex keeps its old look as much as possible. Up until 2011, the Cli ex still showed its lms on 35 mm lm equipment. Even though they ended Damages awarded unnecessarily to Muslim truck drivers up replacing the lm equipment, the theater has kept the intermission that used to occur at the changing of lmstrips. ere is even a e debate of religious freedom has were absolutely unnecessary. In both cases, there could have been story about how there is a bullet hole in the populated mainstream media signi cantly, is situation is similar to the Kim Davis accommodations made to have another side of the building from Bonnie and Clyde. speci cally in the last year. Furthermore, it’s incident that occurred in September. Davis, employee substitute and take care of the task e entire theater is lled with history. in ltrated the workplace yet again. a Kentucky county clerk, refused to issue at hand. A er watching a movie, I would highly In Illinois, Mahad Abass Mohamed a marriage license to two gay men because One of the main di erences between the recommend going down the street to a and Abdikarim Hassan Bulshale were red it con icted with her Christian belief. She two cases, though, is that Davis was working restaurant called Mitchell’s Grill. Coming from Star Transport Inc., a private trucking argued her First Amendment rights were for a government entity, and the drivers were from a person who has traveled all across company, for refusing to deliver alcohol. e violated, as she could not express her freedom working for a private business. In any case, the country and several European countries, drivers argued it was against their religious of religion. an employer or any sort this restaurant ranks in my top ten top values as practicing Muslims to handle these Davis was hired of authority gure has favorites and is easily my favorite place near goods, and the company ousted them. to do a job, which she This was not an issue every ability and right A 2013 lawsuit by the U.S. Equal refused to complete. In to hire and re who they Waco. Mitchell’s has food to die for. e time of religious freedom I went, I had a sirloin, and it was a beautiful Employment Opportunities Commission and her case, she violated feel will get the job done cut of meat cooked to perfection. While the the subsequent trial this October awarded the law. With Mohamed violation; the drivers in a timely manner. $40,000 in compensatory damages and and Bulshale, their While companies desert was delicious, it was di cult to bring were asked to do a job myself to eat it because of how masterfully it $200,000 in punitive damages by the jury in company hired them should respect the was plated. It was gorgeous.