TODAY ONLINE >> Don’t feed the bears: Our newest episode is streaming online. Go check it out! Baylor MILO WACO FOOD TRUCK LariatWE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE pg. 6 SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 FRIDAY BAYLORLARIAT.COM WACO FUN Artists plan to take over Waco Art festival allows Wacoans to perform, paint and more this weekend HELENA HUNT festival’s board members. Sta Writer e festival will open today with a free College Night geared to Baylor students. A e free Waco Cultural Arts Festival will range of musical acts, including Union Revival take over downtown starting at 6 p.m. today, and blues group Mojo Assassins, will play on with three days of music, food trucks, dance, the outdoor amphitheater at Indian Spring lm and more at the Waco Convention Center Park until 11 p.m. and Indian Spring Park. As part of College Night, students will also From tonight to Sunday a ernoon, students have the opportunity to listen to public readings and locals alike are invited to celebrate one of poetry and prose in the Waco Convention or more of the ve festivals making up the Center starting at 7:30 p.m. today. A er the Lariat fi le art Cultural Arts Fest. MusicFest, WordFest, {254} performances, Horton expects there will be an ARTISTIC ENCOUNTER The Waco Cultural Arts Festival will kicko at 6 p.m. tonight at Indian dance-fest, ScienceFest and Celebration Africa opportunity for students to participate in an FilmFest will provide something for every Spring Park and will be a weekend long extravaganza at other downtown locations. The festival will allow Waco residents and Baylor students to immerse themselves in the art of Waco. attendee to enjoy, said Sandi Horton, one of the ART >> Page 6 WI-FI FRIENDLY McLane to help guests use Wi-Fi JILLIAN ANDERSON Reporter Everyone has their phones out, checking the stats or other football games, but someone’s having a bit of trouble. He can nd a person in a bright yellow polo shirt ready to assist him by telling them his ip phone doesn’t have Wi-Fi capabilities. Micah Lamb, assistant director of support systems, said that the idea of Wi-Fi coaches was in uence by trends in NFL stadiums. e Wi-Fi coaches program was launched last year with the opening of McLane Stadium. McLane Stadium is one of the rst collegiate stadiums to have Wi-Fi and is one of the only two in the Big 12. Management Information Systems students, called Wi-Fi coaches, help fans with Wi-Fi set-up at games. Baylor Information Technology Systems and MIS partnered to give students the opportunity to test their skills and help fans. e goals of the Wi- Fi coaches are to give the students a more hands- on experience with solving real-time problems and giving fans a great game day experience. Wi-Fi coaches are students of the Hankamer School of Business studying Management Photo Illustration by Richard Hirst McLANE >> Page 5 >>WHAT’S INSIDE RALLYING REPUBLICANS CHILLIN’ opinion Editorial: College Students are reluctant to organizations are meant to make the assimilation process easier. pg. 2 ride Trump train into 2016 news KATIE GROVATT in deeper,” she said. Reporter Je erson City, Mo., junior Paul Kiekhaefer Professional Selling said Trump is gaining support from the far students are fi nding new e rules of politics are being rewritten, right and most extreme of the Republican and Republican front-runner Donald Trump opportunities. pg. 4 Party. is behind it. He’s released bold, undiplomatic “He’s tapped into the anger of the far- statements and stirred up controversy, all right wing of the GOP that despises the while dominating the Republican primary establishment, political correctness and the race. Washington, D.C. based political system,” e businessman and former “Celebrity Kiekhaefer said. Apprentice” host has led every Republican Both Kiekhaefer nor Riggs support Trump poll for the past two months. But as the as a candidate. Riggs said she is remaining candidate continues to sell out rallies, open-minded in the primary race, as she feels triumph in polls and gain supporters, some there are several candidates with thoughtful sports Baylor students are shaking their heads. policies. Trump is not among them. “He’s high up [in the polls] because no “I personally think Trump’s campaign is Sarah Pyo | Lariat Photographer Baylor Football Check one knows what his actually policies are,” just another attention-grabbing scheme of a Dallas freshman Luke Atkins and San Antonio out the preview for the said Dallas sophomore Michelle Rigg. “He’s narcissist. He would make a terrible nominee freshman Nicholas Pantanini raced on a water game against Rice this focusing on sensational issues and making and president, as he would give the U.S. zero slide called Life’s A Beach at Alpha Delta Pi’s weekend. pg. 7 provocative claims without giving any policy international credibility,” Kiekhaefer said. second annual philanthropic event, H2Oso at to support his statements. People are just Fountain Mall yesterday. The events proceeds go taking the headlines as true without digging TRUMP >> Page 5 to Ronald McDonald House Charities in Temple. Vol.116 No. 16 © 2015 Baylor University Friday, September 25, 2015 2 The Baylor Lariat opinionbaylorlariat.com GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? We want to hear it. Send us your thoughts: [email protected] COLUMN EDITORIAL Couldn’t In college, go clubbing make Campus ‘classier’ groups are friends meant to REBECCA FLANNERY Arts Editor assimilate We’ve all been there: Looking up Early in September, several the roster before the rst day of class Toronto public colleges including and scouring the list for a familiar University of Toronto, Ryerson name. Even an acquaintance would University and York University do for the sake of bringing up how found outrage over a ood of you know each other by x-amount iers posted promoting the new degrees of separation. organization of a “White Students But there comes a day when you Union.” e posters boasted scroll past the “Z’s,” and you might two young white men standing as well have with Toronto’s CN Tower urging seen John onlookers to visit their website, Doe ap- “Students for Western Civilization.” pear further e club is designed, according down the list. to its website, to oppose “cultural Your rst- Marxism.” day-of-class “Students are taught that all of excitement Western Civilization is inherently is shi ing ‘racist’ and that Western countries to battle- are plagued by a ‘systemic and field-level institutionalized’ racism which strategies of reinforces a ‘system of white arrival times supremacy,’” states an editorial and seat placement. on the club’s website and rejected Here’s the thing: Class Friends are by York University’s newspaper are both examples of di erent races unions all allow students to be se, nor should it be, but a topic the best friends. for print. “It would serve as a and cultures learning to acclimate around friends who understand of understanding cultures and e singular best thing about hav- platform to promote and advance in the same city together. them completely and share in a people’s di erences. In a 2005 60 ing a class with those you don’t know the political interests of Western Especially in colleges, similar culture or belief. A White Minutes interview, actor Morgan is that you’ll soon get the chance to peoples.” assimilation is key to every Student Organization perhaps Freeman said he believed Black know them. While you may con- e formation of this group student’s well being. People simply is inappropriate for colleges like History Month should not be nect with other friends through the brings about several topics relating want to be around others who are Baylor, but what is important is con ned to one month because same club or social group, these class to more than just race. It’s also likeminded, such as the Literary to seek common ground among black history is also American friends are in the thick of it with you worth discussing exactly why Society or the wakeboarding club all races, religions, political beliefs history. In order to get rid of — struggling to pass the same tests groups of any kind exist in the rst team. is also is why cultural and ideals. No other platform exists racism, he said, we simply must and turn in the same homework on place. organizations like Asian Students for this to occur better than in stop talking about it. time. One real life example is present Association, Black Student Union academia, where people of all walks It’s important to nd the value You’ll learn with them but also even in today’s world. Little Italy and other international student of life have the endless opportunity in other cultures and respect where from them, as you get more com- and Chinatown in New York City clubs are in existence in a majority- to grow from each other and learn they come from. Let’s celebrate this fortable to speak up in class and were both designed to accustom white student body. about other cultures and mindsets. melting pot we nd in America share ideas. In many ways, this con- immigrant Italians and immigrant Clubs, organizations and is is not a topic of race per and boast in the diversity we have. trol-group of friends withstands the Chinese to American life. ese same stages of friendship like any other relationship you have. For example: Stage 1: Meeting — You may have the rst interaction by happenstance and then sitting next to them and consequently being paired in a group Do it project.