STAY CONNECTED >> LTVN FEATURES: Inside what it takes to be part of Baylor Club Lacrosse Baylor SYMPHONY WINS BIG pg. 5 LariatWE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE FEBRUARY 3, 2016 WEDNESDAY BAYLORLARIAT.COM Under Scrutiny Baylor addresses criticism concerning sexual assault cases JESSICA HUBBLE & KALLI DAMSCHEN Sta Writer, Reporter Baylor is facing several accusations of mishandling sexual violence cases involving a former football player now serving 20 years in prison. In ESPN’s “Outside the Lines,” which aired Sunday, three alleged victims of Tevin Elliott spoke out. e former Baylor Illustration by Penelope Shirey | Lariat Photographer tight end was convicted in 2014 of two counts of sexual assault SEXUAL ASSAULT According to the Association of American Universities, 23.1 percent of undergraduate female on a former Baylor student and sentenced to 20 years in prison students experience some form of sexual assault during their college career. and a $10,000 ne. e video features three women with their identity concealed from the camera. e women discuss the way they were treated she said she was sent to Baylor’s Judicial A airs O ce and met and help exempt her nal exams because she was having trouble by the university’s faculty and sta when coming forward with a with Bethany McCraw, the university’s chief judicial o cer. preparing. e woman said she felt like McCraw only did this sexual assault complaint. e woman said she was told by McCraw that she was the sixth because the woman was so close to graduating and McCraw just e ESPN report said that when one of the women went to woman to come forward with a sexual assault report against wanted her to graduate and be gone. the Baylor police department she said that she was told that they Elliott. When she asked McCraw if the football team knew, she e university responded to ESPN’s report by issuing a could not do anything because the assault happened o campus. said that McCraw said yes but they needed a court decision to statement Monday. When the victim went to the Health Center, she said she was act. She said McCraw said that was because it turns into a ‘he “Above all, we are most concerned about the safety of our told no one could see her and she should put her name on a said she said.’ students and our campus,” said Lori Fogleman, assistant vice waiting list or go see someone o campus. e victim’s mother e woman then asked for a restraining order and she said president of media communications. “We are doing all that we went to Baylor academic services group as a last resort, and she McCraw said it would just be a letter asking him not to come said she was told there were no resources for her daughter. near her and she would just have to “hope for the best.” e ASSAULT >> Page 4 When another woman brought allegations against Elliott, woman said McCraw o ered to email the woman’s professors Presidential candidates differ in campaign funding methods GAVIN PUGH funding process. which is even worse than an own money. Reporter Super PAC’s became a uninformed electorate,” Fort “It certainly allows him to means for individuals to Worth senior Laura Mahler spend less time fundraising, Campaign funding became raise money for or against a said. and more time holding events all the more relevant a er the candidate in the 2010 ruling ough some believe the where he tells people what he Iowa caucuses Monday night Citizens United vs. FEC. regulations are too vague, stands for,” Flavin said. with Sen. Ted Cruz’s win and e Federal Election and candidates are still able Trump can speak freely on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ virtual tie Commission, FEC, is to be bought out, Omaha, immigration and refuse to use with former Secretary of State responsible for the regulations Neb. graduate student Jordan a teleprompter without fear Hillary Clinton. of campaign nancing, Cash believes there has been of losing donors because he Sanders, D-Vt., has raised especially when dealing with “Money in politics as long as funds his own campaign. nearly $75 million through super PAC’s. there has been politics.” On the other end of the crowd-sourced donations for e FEC website states that “ is is just a new avenue spectrum, Sanders relies his presidential campaign, individual expenditures and for it -- it’s not that di erent entirely on crowd sourced with only $25,000 in super super PAC’s “may not be made from the way things have donations. According to the PAC’s. Cruz’s, R-Texas, has in concert or cooperation with, always been. And if money Center for Responsive Politics, raised $47 million, with $39 or at the request or suggestion wasn’t a ecting politics this a research group that tracks million in super PAC’s. of, a candidate, the candidate’s way, it would a ect it another campaign dollars, 73 percent “ e Citizens United ruling campaign or a political party.” w ay.” of Sanders’ funds have come Associated Press in 2010 really was a major turn “[Voters] are being fed But super PAC’s are not the from small donations. CLOSE LOSS Sanders has raised nearly $74 million through in how we do elections,” said things that corporations only means of getting traction “I really like Bernie’s crowd-sourced donations for his campaign. He faced a narrow Dr. Patrick Flavin, a political are basically making up. as a presidential candidate. approach: asking people to loss at the Iowa caucus on Monday to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. science assistant professor Unfortunately that leads to Billionaire Donald Trump has and expert in the campaign a misinformed electorate, paid for his campaign with his FUNDING >> Page 4 >>WHAT’S INSIDE opinion St. Andews offers global perspective ASHLYN THOMPSON and local students. e elite Reporter program accepts only 20 students per semester and requires a 3.2 e Baylor in Saint Andrews minimum GPA. program is only one of the many Ausitn junior Sarah Howard Editorial: Italy statue study abroad opportunities o ered recently transferred from the by the university, but this unique covering is courteous but University of Oklahoma, and said Helena Hunt | Arts and Life Editor sets a bad precedent for program is especially designed for the Saint Andrews program was foreign visitors. pg. 2 “Baylor students who are interested one of the leading reasons she came TRAVELING AROUND The ruins of St. Andrews Cathedral, which was in philosophy and religion and the to Baylor. destroyed during the Protestant Reformation, sit near the town center. intersection and manifestations in “I knew that I wanted to focus sports culture and history”, according to on early and modern British students on the Fall 2015 trip, took as well as other types of British one Baylor required course, and history, at a deeper level, and she Concussions: In light of the Baylor study abroad website. history,” Howard said. “It’s harder Twice a year, Baylor faculty to be a British history student [in then was able to choose her other was able to draw connections the NCAA’s decision on courses. Howard said she took a between what she was studying and concussions, Baylor reveals accompany students to Saint America] than over there, so I Andrews, Scotland to study course over Tudor history, because what she saw in her day-to-day life that it already had a similar knew I wanted to do it over there within a small community, taking where the sources and the history that’s what she wants to pursue in Scotland. decision in place. pg. 6 European-style courses and i s .” a er school. She said the program working alongside both Baylor Howard, as well as the other allowed her to study Tudor history, GLOBAL >> Page 4 Vol.116 No. 61 © 2016 Baylor University Wednesday, February 3, 2016 2 The Baylor Lariat opinionbaylorlariat.com GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? We want to hear it. Send us your thoughts: [email protected] EDITORIAL COLUMN When going out, make sure to budget for tips DIDI MARTINEZ just $2.13 for every hour they worked on News Editor Valentine’s Day, keep in mind that they worked on one of the busiest nights of the Valentine’s Day is coming up. Yes, I year. On holidays especially, people want know this column is already set up to look to have a good dining experience. Anyone like a cliche that only a young blogger in who works in the restaurant business romantic comedies would use to write knows this and, for the most part, attempts about love. However, I aim to write about to keep the increase in customer sensitivity a subject that is not nearly as synonymous in mind. with the day: tipping. Some might desperately try to justify From a business perspective, Valentine’s a low tip by attempting to remember a Day is a reliably pro table day for time during the dining experience that the resturants. Falling on Sunday this year, the service could have been better. Be sure to holiday will predictably bring longer wait keep in mind that not all the money made times. at’s not the problem, though. e from tips that night goes to the waiter. issue is what Depending on the restaurant, waiters are a portion of responsible for paying their busboys as well diners will be as a portion of the credit card fees accrued tempted to do from each customer transaction. is a er they’ve adds up quickly.