10 SPORTS p. 9 baylorlariat com No. 5 Baylor soccer takes on No. 1 seed West Virginia on the road today. Baylor Lariat WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE Friday | November 8, 2013 Boomer Loser TWITTER from Page 1 By Daniel Hill After a 3-0 Oklahoma lead in a rough first was a lot of hype and the fans were wonderful to- Sports Editor quarter filled with immense intensity between two night. We owe a lot to them. They were loud. Going ranked teams, the Bears asserted themselves by fin- into this game, it was kind of our first time to have Baylor After seven games without a true test on the ishing the game in dominant fashion and outscor- a true test as far as the whole hype of the situation gridiron, the Baylor Bears were supposed to be ing the Sooners 38-12 in the final three quarters for a big game like that.” challenged by the No. 10 Oklahoma Sooners, the of the game. In a game where the Bears needed to Before the game even started, the energy-in- first ranked opponent for Baylor this season. The make a national statement to advance in the BCS fused crowd at Floyd Casey Stadium was ready for No. 6 Bears answered the call and more by thump- standings, the Bears left no doubt with a 29-point a battle royal between two Big 12 juggernauts. In slams ing Oklahoma 41-12 in front of 50,537 fans decked victory over the No. 10 team in the land. out in black at Floyd Casey Stadium on Thursday “Keep doubting,” senior safety Ahmad Dixon SEE BEARS, page 8 night. said. “We’ll earn your respect sooner or later. If you “[The blackout crowd] was something I hadn’t want to keep doubting after that, then that’s your seen before,” Baylor head coach Art Briles said. “It loss. We’re a team that just focuses on us.” OU Senior safety Ahmad Dixon celebrates after making was very emotional and very humbling at the same “We definitely had adversity there and our guys a play in the first half of Baylor’s game against Okla- time. When you’ve got support, you can get things did a great job of moving on to the next play,” se- homa Thursday Night. The Bears look to continue going a little bit. It certainly made a difference in nior quarterback Bryce Petty said. “There were a their winning streak when they take on Texas Tech 41-12 the football game.” couple of distractions for us before the game. There on Nov. 16 at Cowboys Stadium. TRAVIS TAYLOR| LARIAT PHOTO EDITOR Twitter soars in Get your hammock BU offers up outdoor gear to students By Rebecca Fiedler tor of the Union Board and originally market debut Staff Writer brainstormed the idea for the rentals By Barbara Ortutay mance seemed to affirm the bright with Smith. Associated Press prospects for Internet companies, Students on the hunt for sports “I would say hammocks are our especially those focused on mo- equipment to play with have a new most popular item,” Dickey said. NEW YORK — Shares of Twit- bile users. And it could invite more opportunity on campus. The Stu- “When the weather is great, ham- ter went on sale to the public for entrepreneurs to consider IPOs, dent Union Board, located on the mocks are at an all-time high.” the first time Thursday, instantly which lost their luster after Face- first floor of the Bill Daniel Student Students are required to leave leaping more than 70 percent book’s first appearance on the Nas- Center, now offers free recreational their name, ID and email address above their offering price in a daz- daq was marred by glitches. equipment rentals for students. with the Union Board office in return zling debut that exceeded even In Silicon Valley, the IPO pro- From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., students for the equipment. Wall Street’s lofty hopes. duced another crop of millionaires have the opportunity to check out “It’s just a really cool way to offer By the closing bell, the social and billionaires, some of whom are equipment for a 24-hour period. students equipment on campus that’s network that reinvented global sure to fund a new generation of “Some of these things include free of charge so they can borrow for communication in 140-character startups. hammocks, soccer balls, footballs an amount of time and hang out with bursts was valued at $31 billion Twitter, which has never turned and volleyballs,” said Chino Hills, their friends and just enjoy Baylor — nearly as much as Yahoo Inc., a profit in the seven years since it Calif., graduate student Holly Smith, outside,” Smith said. an Internet icon from another era, was founded, worked hard to tem- KATHY WILLENS | ASSOCIATED PRESS the graduate apprentice for the Stu- The Union Board launched this and just below Kraft Foods, the per expectations ahead of the IPO, A banner adorns the facade of the New York Stock Exchange dent Union programming board. service mid-September. grocery conglomerate founded but all that was swiftly forgotten in advance of Twitter’s initial public offering Thursday in New “We also have a kite and a bocce ball “We’re really just working on pub- more than a century ago. York. By the closing bell, the company was valued at $31 bil- set and tennis balls.” The stock’s sizzling perfor- SEE TWITTER, page 10 lion. Jordy Dickey is the assistant direc- SEE RENTALS, page 10 Inside WEB NEWS p. 3 A&E p. 6 We caught all the Two Baylor students Artist Ann Johnston action in Baylor’s pursue their passion uses quilts to tell blowout game last in international the story of her night against OU on missions by building life in the baylorlariat.com. a Kenyan orphanage. Sierra Nevada. Vol.116 No. 39 First copy free. Additional copies 50 cents each. © 2013, Baylor University OpinionFriday | November 8, 2013 2 Baylor should change football ticket system tickets go unclaimed. Demand is all of the games get their tickets, high and supply is going down, students who only want to go to Editorial with Baylor Stadium holding 5,000 big games can selectively purchase fewer seats than Floyd Casey Sta- tickets and students who don’t dium. want to go to any games can opt Student football tickets have Football tickets are currently out of the fee completely. been at the forefront of people’s included in student fees. All un- Baylor will also have a bet- minds recently. First there was the dergraduates are required to pur- ter idea of how many tickets will issue with student section crowd- chase them. This creates an equal be claimed because so many will ing at homecoming and then Bay- playing field for students to claim be sold far in advance. That way, lor ran out of student tickets for tickets at the Bill Daniel Student Baylor can get a better idea of how Baylor’s game against Oklahoma. Center during game week. many non-student tickets to sell. Now that Baylor football is Now that tickets are starting The main problem with a ticket ranked in the top 10, football tick- to become scarce, some students package system is that overselling ets are a hot commodity. For the claimed their ticket with the sole can cause the university to turn to past few decades, Baylor has done intention of selling it or giving it a lottery system. This means that a great job of giving every student away. This means that some fans students purchase a chance to get the ability to make it to football who wanted to attend the game, tickets to certain games. games with minimal effort on the who admittedly probably waited While this is a system that the students’ part. too long to claim their ticket, were editorial board would never advo- This won’t work in the coming turned away. cate for, there is no need for that years, and Baylor should switch This is a problem. to ever happen at Baylor. For a to offering student football ticket A student ticket package would comparison, Texas A&M, which packages. solve this problem. The football has a form of a lottery system, has A big reason for the system’s ticket fee should be removed from 44,570 undergraduates and a ca- past success is the level of interest student fees entirely. pacity of 82,589 at Kyle Field. If a from the student body. Baylor sets Students should have to go on lot of students purchased tickets in aside 8,000 tickets for students BearWeb to purchase season pass- a non-lottery ticket package sys- each game, and when fewer than es into the stadium. This change tem, about half of Kyle Field would 8,000 students claim tickets, the would take tickets out of the hands be filled, and that means that Texas system works to perfection. With of students that only intend to sell A&M couldn’t sell as many tickets interest peaking, more than 8,000 them or give them away. The rest as it wants. students are trying to claim tick- of the 8,000 student tickets (if that On the other hand, Baylor has ets, so the system has been altered, number remains the same in the 12,575 undergraduates, and even and rightfully so. future) that weren’t claimed by if all of them purchased season Baylor’s national attention season ticket holders could be sold ticket packages, only 28 percent TRAVIS TAYLOR | LARIAT PHOTO EDITOR coupled with the excitement of the in the SUB all week so moderate of the 45,000 seats at Baylor Sta- Many students that received tickets sat in the south endzone because of the high demand Thursday at the football opening of Baylor Stadium next fans can purchase tickets for just dium would be full, leaving plenty game.