Baylor Lariat WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE Friday, November 22, 2019 baylorlariat.com Opinion | 2 A&L | 5 Sports | 7 Stream smarter, Baby Yoda? Rival Revival not harder The Austin based Think before Mandalorian QB’s Brewer you buy Episode II and Ehlinger review set to face off Shapiro expresses his views on the left MATTHEW MUIR justify abortion just like there’s Staff Writer no social benefits to justify slavery,” Wei said. Ben Shapiro attacked what he After abortion, the sees as a left-wing war on science commentator set his sights on If I say that a in his speech Thursday night at transgenderism. Shapiro said “ Baylor, one of several stops as the growing acceptance of man is a man part of the Fred Allen lecture transgender individuals signified series. a breakdown of societal norms. and a woman is The 35-year-old conservative “If I say that a man is a man commentator for The Daily and a woman is a woman, this is a woman, this is Wire drew a packed house at obviously deeply controversial obviously deeply the 2,200-seat Waco Hall for his because the entire society has speech titled “Why Does the Left fallen down and hit its head,” controversial Hate Science?” Shapiro’s speech Shapiro said. “I know, this is was sponsored by Baylor’s basic stuff. There are these because the chapter of Young Americans categories— they’re called male entire society for Freedom. In the hour-long and female, they exist in all speech, Shapiro took aim at mammalian species… If they has fallen down three issues he claims represent were just talking about intersex liberal denial of science: people they’d at least have an and hit its head. abortion, transgenderism and argument. If they’re talking climate change. about Caitlin Jenner is a woman The first target for Shapiro in the same way that my wife is a BEN SHAPIRO | Nathan De La Cerda | Multimedia Journalist was abortion, and his main woman, this is obviously untrue EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF argument centered on the and it’s very silly to boot.” THE DAILY WIRE LATE NIGHT LECTURE Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire and conservative discussion of when human While Shapiro railed against political commentator, spoke to an audience in Waco Hall on Thursday night, and railed life begins. Shapiro is ardently mainstream acceptance of against those on the left whose ideas he said were “utterly, utterly unscientific.” pro-life, and he said the human transgenderism, he clarified that life has one clearly-defined transgender individuals deserve beginning. respect. Shapiro said he would “The left insists that it call a transgender individual by has a scientific perspective their preferred pronouns to be on abortion, which is bizarre polite. because their perspective is that a “This is not meant to be woman gets to decide randomly mean. If I’m in a room with when a human life constitutes somebody having dinner with a human life,” Shapiro said. them and they happen to be “Literally at any point she can transgender, I’ll call them by decide one day it’s a human life, any pronoun they want because she can decide the next day it’s I don’t want to be rude because not a human life… This is utterly, I’m trying to be polite,” Shapiro utterly unscientific… By every said. “But as a society if we’re biological criteria a new human going to dictate that men and life begins at conception.” women are interchangeable Pamela Wei, a Baylor alumna terms… then we have gone off from Shanghai, China, attended the deep end.” Shapiro’s speech. Wei said she Andrew LaGesse, a student at did not agree with all of Shapiro’s Southern Methodist University, points, but found herself in made the trip from Dallas with lockstep with Shapiro’s views on a few friends to see Shapiro. Nathan De La Cerda | Multimedia Journalist abortion. PACKED AUDITORIUM Waco Hall’s 2,200 seats were packed for Thursday’s event. Tickets sold for the event, which went on sale back on October 16, sold out within a couple of days. “There’s no social benefits to SHAPIRO >> Page 4 Baylor SAVE emphasizes importance of vaccines MEREDITH HOWARD actually on campus there hasn’t been a lot Staff Writer of hostile people, Anzures said. “Actually, I haven’t experienced anyone hostile with our The Student Association for Vaccination events or group.” Education has only been at Baylor for about One opportunity that SAVE provides to a year but is already conducting research and all of its members is to participate in research making efforts to educate the student body opportunities in the hopes of gathering data to Photo Courtesy of Baylor Chi Omega about the science behind vaccination. increase the use of vaccines at Baylor. BED BENEFIT Alpha Tau Omega’s Bed Race will be a key part of Friday’s event. Participants SAVE “supports current scientific “We send out a survey - we’re collecting can race in groups of five on hospital beds through a blow-up obstacle course. consensus with an emphasis on objective data on what the current status of vaccination data,” according to their Connect website, and use is on campus. We ask questions like, ‘Did part of its goal is to increase the percentage you get the flu vaccine this year?’ If you did of students at Baylor who are receiving not, why did you not receive the vaccine? vaccinations. Was it because religious preference - was Chi O, ATO race to benefit “Vaccinations do decrease the incidents it because of cost or availability? And so we of disease, and that has been proven over ask questions like that, and we just analyze multiple studies over decades,” Waco senior where the community is at, and we’ll meet philanthropies with chili, Angelica Anzures, SAVE’s president, said. “We the community wherever they’re at,” Anzures are raising awareness for what would happen said. if we didn’t get vaccinated, especially with the Anzures said she hopes to expand SAVE’s team hospital bed race anti-vax movement becoming more and more research pool into the Waco community in the prevalent.” future, and she is passionate about vaccination Canyon Lake senior Jillian Schley, SAVE’s because misconceptions can have dangerous BRIDGET SJOBERG respectively. The main activities of the night will public relations chair, also said scientific consequences. News Editor be a chili cook-off where participating groups studies point to the effectiveness of receiving “There’s this idea of herd immunity, that submit their contribution to a panel of Baylor vaccinations. if these young, healthy people are not getting As part of an annual partnership to benefit faculty and staff, and bed races, where students “The consensus is vaccines are necessary, their vaccines, then they could potentially both groups’ philanthropies, Chi Omega and can register in teams of five to race each other and they’re great. We just really want to pass it on to someone who is at risk for illness Alpha Tau Omega will be hosting Chi O Chili on hospital beds—often in costumes— and support that,” Schley said. like infants, or the elderly, and those people Cook Off and ATO Bed Races, a night full of complete a blow-up obstacle course. Both Anzures and Schley expressed are the ones that are dying,” Anzures said. “A contests and community. Houston junior McKenna Koy, Chi Omega’s concerns about the anti-vax movement in lot of people don’t know that influenza kills It will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight director of community service, said that the relation to SAVE, but they said they haven’t thousands of people every single year in the on Fountain Mall, and all proceeds benefit cook-off and races will be an opportunity for experienced any problems at Baylor with that U.S., not [only] in other countries, it kills Make-A-Wish Foundation and CoHope, movement. the philanthropies of Chi Omega and ATO, BENEFIT >> Page 4 “I anticipated a lot of push-back, but SAVE >> Page 4 Vol.118 No. 26 First copy free, any additional copies 25 cents © 2019 Baylor University Friday, November 22, 2019 2 The Baylor Lariat opinionbaylorlariat.com GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? We want to hear it. Send us your thoughts: [email protected] EDITORIAL Stream smarter, not harder Video streaming services are at an all-time high. 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