WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE TheTHURSDAY |SEPTEMBER 22,Baylor 2011* Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com SPORTS Page 5 NEWS Page 3 A&E Page 4 Ch-ch-ch-changes Brutal reputation Driving interest After being turned away from the Media coverage of a hate crime The new film “Drive” has been getting PAC-12 conference and a break-up may have been to blame for a some buzz this week, but it’s based on threat, the Big 12 looks to rebuild Texas town being labeled racist the original book by James Sallis Vol. 112 No. 14 © 2011, Baylor University In Print >> ‘Roar’ radio Second Uproar Record’s new radio show will feature artists each week, and possibly try for some Common Grounds regulars as well. Page 4 denied >> Volleyball Baylor played No. 25 charter Oklahoma on Wednesday at the Ferrell Center, By Daniel C. Houston Staff Writer ending with a 2-1 loss. The Sexual Identity Forum, Page 5 an unofficial group of Baylor students, will re-apply this se- >> Baylor green mester for a charter as an of- ficial student organization, ac- A new research method cording to one of its officers. proposed by Baylor While the prospects for the ASSOCIATED PRESS professors makes it forum’s official recognition are possible to detect which Rital and Ritag Gaboura were born a year ago today as conjoined twins. The sisters are craniopagus twins, a condition only one in ten million uncertain, a Baylor spokesper- survive. Rital and Ritag have undergone a series of four surgeries to separate their skulls, all of which have been deemed successful. chemicals are harmful to son announced Wednesday the the environment university is preparing a pro- Page 3 fessionally facilitated program for discussing similar issues. Following the university’s On the Web Modern marvels save lives denial of a charter for the group last semester, SIF president and Pioneer of risky surgery Fort Collins sophomore Adam Short said it is unlikely Baylor will change its mind, but said shares his life story the more times an application is submitted and considered, By Ashley Yeaman geries, among them the first suc- the more likely he thinks the Reporter cessful hemispherectomy, or the administration will be to grant removal of half the brain, and a charter in the future. Ben Carson always wanted the first successful separation of “We just finished revising to be a doctor. Medicine, he conjoined twins who were con- our constitution completely,” said, was the only thing that ever nected at the back of the head. Short said. “We went through truly interested him. As a child, The Waco community had and basically rewrote our en- he would gravitate to the radio the opportunity to hear from tire organization’s constitution Worth 1000 words or television to listen to medical Carson at the annual McLennan to make it more clear that it’s news. He even enjoyed going to Distinguished Lecture Series on just a discussion group and Miss anything this week? the doctor’s office for appoint- ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday at the McLennan Com- that we discuss sexual identity ments. Check out the photos of Rital and Ritag Gaboura recover after a final surgery to separate their munity College Conference issues.” the week only on skulls. Success rates in separating conjoined twins is extremely rare. But it seemed an impossible Center. The Student Activities baylorlariat.com dream for the boy with poor Carson spoke on both his Charter Council denied grades in all his classes, the boy personal story of overcoming the organization a charter Viewpoints who was called “dummy” by challenges throughout his life last semester because it was Risky operation separates classmates so frequently that he to reach his goals, as well as the concerned “the organization’s believed it himself. importance of academics and intent was not consistent with “Although teachers Carson’s mother, however, discovering human potential. University policy,” according conjoined Sudanese twins challenged her son to work to- As a child, Carson faced to an e-mail provided to its should be granted ward excellence, despite having many difficulties, both in the officers. Dr. Kevin Jackson, only a third-grade education classroom as well as at home. vice president for student life, by raphael g. satter olds Rital and Ritag Gaboura. an agreeable herself. “My parents got divorced upheld the council’s decision Associated Press Twins born joined at the Today, Carson is a professor when I was young, and that was when it was appealed by SIF head are known as craniopagus contract with the of neurosurgery, oncology, plas- devastating,” Carson said. “[My officers. Sudanese twins born with twins and they occur in about tic surgery and pediatrics at the mother] discovered some years The university’s statement school district, the tops of their heads joined one in 2.5 million births. Sepa- Johns Hopkins School of Medi- later that [my father] was a biga- on human sexuality holds that together have been separated in rating them can be dangerous, cine in Baltimore, Md., and has mist, had another family. And “both heterosexual sex outside deciding to go on a rare and risky series of opera- especially if — as in this case also been the director of pedi- we winded up moving to Boston of marriage and homosexual tions at a London children’s hos- — there’s significant blood flow strike to achieve atric neurosurgery of the Johns to live with her sister. We lived behavior” are deviations from pital, officials said Sunday. between their brains. Hopkins Children’s Center for in a multi family home in a very a biblical understanding of Facing the World, a charity “It’s extremely high-risk,” it is not the best more than 25 years. bad neighborhood. I remem- proper sexual behavior, and which helps disfigured children, said Dr. James Goodrich, who Carson is known worldwide ber seeing people lying on the that “it’s thus expected that way to fix the said it had helped fund the four- for his innovative brain sur- Baylor students will not partic- stage operation on 11-month- SEE TWINS, page 3 SEE CARSON, page 3 problem.” ipate in advocacy groups which Page 2 promote understandings of sexuality that are contrary to Bear Briefs biblical teaching.” Although it is not clear The place to go to know Georgia follows through with execution how the university’s statement on sexuality would apply to a the places to go by greg bluestein testimony, state and federal judges discussion group that does not Welcome home Associated Press repeatedly ruled against granting engage in advocacy, last semes- him a new trial. As the court loss- Baylor Parents ter the university did release a Georgia executed Troy Davis es piled up Wednesday, his offer to statement ruling out the pos- Weekend is this on Wednesday night for the mur- take a polygraph test was rejected sibility of allowing students to Friday, Saturday and der of an off-duty police officer, a and the pardons board refused to moderate a discussion group of Sunday. The school crime he denied committing right give him one more hearing. this nature. to the end as supporters around of music will kick off Davis’ supporters staged vigils “Having healthy and re- the world mourned and declared in the U.S. and Europe, declaring sponsible dialogue is best es- the festivities with a that an innocent man was put to “I am Troy Davis” on signs, T- tablished through established concert at 5 p.m. Friday death. shirts and the Internet. and professionally facilitated in Jones Concert Hall Defiant to the end, he told rela- Some tried increasingly fren- programs,” Lori Fogleman, in the Glennis McCrary tives of Mark MacPhail that his zied measures, urging prison director of media relations, 1989 slaying was not his fault. “I workers to stay home and even Music Building. told the Lariat in March. “It’s did not have a gun,” he insisted. posting a judge’s phone number the university’s opinion that a Undefeated “For those about to take my online, hoping people will press chartered student organization The Bears will play the life,” he told prison officials, “may him to put a stop to the lethal in- is not the most viable medium God have mercy on your souls. jection. President Barack Obama third football game of through which to pursue such May God bless your souls.” deflected calls for him to get in- dialogue.” the season from 6 to Davis was declared dead at volved. ASSOCIATED PRESS Fogleman affirmed 9 p.m. on Saturday at 10:08 Central Daylight Time. The “They say death row; we say Protesters chant anti-death penalty slogans for Georgia death row Wednesday that the university’s Floyd Casey Stadium lethal injection began about 15 hell no!” protesters shouted out- inmate Troy Davis Wednesday in Jackson, Ga. Davis was scheduled stance on this issue remains to die Wednesday for killing off-duty Savannah officer Mark MacPhail. minutes earlier, after the Supreme side the Jackson prison where unchanged, but said Jackson against Rice University. Davis was executed at 10:08 p.m. Central Daylight Time Wednesday. Court rejected an 11th-hour re- Davis was to be executed. In is moving forward to provide Will we go 4-0? quest for a stay. Washington, a crowd outside the The scene turned eerily quiet be “the best argument for abolish- such a forum based on a model The court did not comment on Supreme Court yelled the same as word of the high court’s deci- ing the death penalty.” that would allow 10 to 15 its order, which came about four chant.