WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE TheTUESDAY | APRIL 19, 2011 Baylor Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com SPORTS Page 5 NEWS Page 3 A&E Page 4 Bust out the brooms Dancing for cash Production takes stage Lady Bears softball sweeps An outdoor Zumba event Baylor Theatre will retell Homer’s classic Kansas on the road, improving its raises money for victims of “The Odyssey” in a two-and-a-half-hour conference record to 7-3 the natural disaster in Japan performance beginning Wednesday Vol. 112 No. 46 © 2011, Baylor University In Print >> Ready or not Finalists seek semester at BU The much-anticipated video game Portal 2 is the winner to Baylor to teach for one velopment and excellent, but his research also corre- available today — to the Cherry Award semester. Educational sponded pedagogically with the goals disappointment of gamers hopefuls to lecture The finalists are Dr. Brian Cop- Assessment In- of the Robert Foster Cherry Award,” who were led to believe the pola, Arthur F. Thurnau professor stitute, which said Dr. Heidi Hornik, professor of art of chemistry at the University of aims to foster history and chair of the Robert Foster game would be released on campus in fall Macdonald earlier Michigan; Dr. Heather Macdonald, collaboration Cherry Award committee. By Sara Tirrito chancellor professor of geology at the between fac- Coppola is currently in China and Page 3 Staff Writer College of William & Mary; and Dr. ulty and stu- could not be reached for comment. Allen Matusow, W.G. Twyman pro- dents who are Macdonald is a co-director of the Three finalists for the Robert Fos- fessor of history at Rice University. interested in College of William and Mary’s minor >> Sports in brief ter Cherry Award for Great Teaching Coppola is the associate professor Coppola teaching. program in marine science and was a Read a rundown of BU will visit Baylor this fall, each giv- of the chemistry department at the “We very member of a team that created a web- sports teams, including ing two lectures in their respective University of Michigan, and is also much liked what he was doing with site, “On the Cutting Edge,” to assist baseball, which beat the departments as well as their official the associate director for the Univer- instructional development within the geoscience faculty in staying abreast Texas A&M Aggies 12-1 Cherry Award lecture. sity of Michigan-Peking University discipline of chemistry, because of of the latest teaching and research Saturday but dropped two of This biennial award honors teach- Joint Institute in Beijing. He is also a course this is a teaching award, so it SEE FINALISTS, page 6 three in the series ers from across the nation, and brings co-director of the Instructional De- seemed like not only was his teaching Matusow Page 5 Creation Viewpoints Week “By all appearances, the promotes ‘birther’ bill looks as if it was written and green approved in order to revive what some habits may consider trivial By Molly Dunn controversy Reporter in the midst of In celebration of Earth Week, financial crisis Baylor sustainability has dedicated and international the first three days of this week to educating the university about violence. The bill leading a sustainable life. is proof of leaders Creation Week focuses on sus- tainability and all of its aspects. acting childish and Whether by riding a bicycle, eat- hyperbolic. Instead ing outside, choosing to recycle or eating food that is locally grown, of creating more Baylor students will be educated in reason for division ways to live a sustainable life. NICK BERRYMAN | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER Smith Getterman, sustain- Toni Herbert, running for re-election to the Waco City Council, answers a question from an audience member during a meeting Monday at the Greater among its citizens, ability coordinator at Baylor, has Waco Chamber of Commerce. perhaps Arizona been working with the sustain- ability student advisory board and should review and the on-campus dining halls to pro- readjust its state mote Creation Week. City Council candidates share visions priorities.” “It’s the first time in Baylor’s history we’ve had a Creation Week By Daniel C. Houston In one of the more heated ex- is the heart of our city,” Herbert fighter,” Williams said, “so public celebration,” Getterman said. “It’s Reporter changes of the evening, Herbert continued. “We would be repre- safety is something that I do know Page 2 really fantastic that we have stu- fielded a question from Evelyn senting District 4 so my inter- a lot about and I will work with dents that are this passionate about Two candidates running to Cowart, a Waco resident whose ests and the District 4 interests our public safety officials to listen caring for God’s creation and represent District 4 in the Waco city council district does not in- I think are coincidental. But I’ve with them, see what they need as a bringing attention to the fact that City Council elections discussed clude the downtown area. Cowart got residential neighborhoods person on the city council.” Bear Briefs we, as Christians and as a Chris- economic development and edu- asked whether the two candidates around the downtown area here Williams, when asked about tian school, should be leaders in cation Monday in a forum hosted planned to focus more resources and what we need to do is start her 10-year vision for the city, also this area.” The place to go to know at the Greater Waco Chamber of on economic development away focusing on some neighborhood- said she would focus on economic Creation Week began Monday the places to go Commerce building. from downtown. scale economic development that development both downtown and and ends Wednesday, with each The forum, which was mod- “There’s a motto that I’ve had is outside the very central part of in surrounding residential areas. day dedicated to promoting sus- erated by Karla Leeper, President for a long time now,” Herbert said. downtown. “I would really like to see this Don’t forget to vote tainability as a whole. Ken Starr’s chief of staff, gave au- “I’ve been trying to sell other peo- Williams stressed her family’s river [the Brazos] just happen- Vote in the runoff elections The film “Food Inc.,” spon- dience members the opportunity ple on it and it hasn’t really caught connection with public safety and ing,” Williams said. “Also I would between student body sored by the Baylor Poverty Initia- to ask questions of Toni Herbert, on, and that is ‘downtown is ev- health organizations, saying she like to see, 10 years from now, the tive, was shown Monday in the Bill president candidates Ben the sitting council member run- erybody’s neighborhood.’” would work to improve the safety poverty rate going down. It has to, Daniel Student Center, and a dis- Aguinaga and Zach Rogers ning for re-election, and Jonya “No, it’s not,” Cowart inter- of residents in her district. Williams, her challenger for the jected. “I am a former paramedic and and internal vice president SEE GREEN, page 6 SEE FORUM, page 6 position. “Well, it is in the sense that it my husband right now is a fire- candidates Brian Kim and Michael Lyssy from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. Voting is available at www.baylor.edu/ Senior lands competitive teaching position in France sg/vote. By Jade Mardirosian placed in Lille. and psychology before finally deciding Staff Writer Dermody studied abroad in the on a major in French. Work in Waco Normandy region of France in the city “Professor Boerm helped explain Students looking for a A Baylor senior has earned a highly of Caen this past fall through Baylor’s what you can do with a language ma- part-time or full-time job coveted position working for the French study abroad exchange program and is jor and that made me more confident in Waco, or even a summer Ministry of Education as part of the looking forward to being immersed in to change,” Dermody said. “After I Teaching Assistant Program in France. internship, will find the the French culture once again. switched to be a French major, I as- Carrollton senior Haley Dermody “I cannot tell people how much [liv- sumed I would go to grad school or resources they need at the was chosen to participate in the pro- ing abroad] helps with languages,” Der- teach high school. The more I thought Work in Waco Job Expo gram from among thousands of appli- mody. “I’m sure that by the time I come about it, I really wanted to go back to from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. today cants from the U.S. and Canada. back next year my French will be even France, so this is a happy medium.” at the Waco Convention “I was so excited,” Dermody said. “It better. Also, getting to discover new cul- Dermody said she may try to at- Center. Representatives from was such a relief to finally find out.” ture, northern France is different than tend graduate school or possibly teach local businesses will be on Dr. Michael Boerm, lecturer in Normandy for sure.” French at a high school when she re- hand to speak to students. French, has taught Dermody and said Boerm said Dermody will gain a turns from France next year. Don’t forget your resume. he was pleasantly surprised to learn she lot from her position as a teaching as- Boerm encouraged Dermody to was accepted to the program.