WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE SCRIPT from Page 1 TheFRIDAY | FEBRUARY 1, 2013Baylor Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com SPORTS Page 5 On the web A&E Page 4 Finding talent The Baylor Beat Ring in the New Year Check out how Hurricane Get up to date on all of this Gear up for Chinese New Year and Katrina helped create a Baylor week’s top news with Haley find out how Asian students and track star Peck at www.baylorlariat.com faculty at Baylor celebrate Vol. 115 No. 7 © 2013, Baylor University In Print >> GAME ON Baylor BU first Get the low-down on the men’s and women’s basketball games on helps to study Saturday against Iowa State and OU Page 5 iCivics script >> IT PAYS TO EAT Get in a drawing for from $1,000 by submitting a grow review of dining halls Page 3 O’Connor’s 1380s Baylor students project takes On the Web translate ancient off in Waco Austrian text with help from By Brooke Bailey students Reporter An undergraduate research By Dan Henson DAVID J. PHILLIP | ASSOCIATED PRESS Reporter team is piloting a study on an Austrian manuscript dated from Baylor’s Law School and Will bark for beads! the 1380s. School of Education together have Jenna McMullen walks her dog Abigail during the Mystic Krewe of Barkus Mardi Gras parade Sunday Baylor students are the first to brought Former Supreme Court in New Orleans. The annual parade is one of many leading up to the annual Louisiana holiday on study this document. Don’t Feed the Bears Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s Fat Tuesday, Feb. 12. “No one’s ever done it,” Lake The sports desk weighs iCivics program from 400 Waco Jackson senior Amy Freeman in on the topic of player and Midway ISD students last said. Freeman has been working on safety in football this spring to 2,000 today. the Speculum Humanae Salvation week. Only on O’Connor’s iCivics program provides primary and secondary since her sophomore year, along baylorlariat.com school students with a learning Allbritton exhibit opens with a team of five other students; experience by teaching them civ- Houston senior Rachel Butch- ics in a fun, er, Leander senior Ian Conn, Viewpoints Internet- Roundrock senior Zerek Dodson, based video window to Baylor’s past Waco freshman Callie Hyde and game for- Waco senior David Welch. The undergraduate group “Ivy League mat. By Kate McGuire tablishments to honor Baylor’s the George Bush Presidential works with faculty members to The stu- Staff Writer legacy in Texas higher education. Foundation in College Station, atmospheres are transcribe and translate the mate- dents “don’t Allbritton was the former and the Lyndon B. Johnson Foun- rial. expensive. Top- even realize A new exhibit allows students publisher of The Washington Star, dation in Austin. He was a mem- “This is rare for undergrads to that they to time-travel through Baylor’s a trustee for National Geographic ber of the Baylor Foundation and tier professors be able to do this kind of work,” are learning history while telling a story of Society, The Ronald Reagan Presi- chairman for the Baylor College Freeman said. and facilities all about the past alumnus. dent Foundation in Los Angeles, of Medicine. are expensive. Constitu- Berkley Knas The exhibit, “Joe L. Allbrit- Few have access to manu- tion and the ton: A Legacy to Baylor Univer- scripts of this magnitude. To achieve Bill of Rights,” said Berkley Knas, sity,” will be in Moody during the “Most grad students don’t that overnight, director of alumni relations for spring semester. have this research opportunity,” Baylor Law School. “The exhibit not only chron- Dr. Melinda Neilson, a Baylor Baylor would “When Justice O’Connor re- icles the life of Joe Allbritton, it ISR Postdoctoral Research Fel- have to double tired, she became very aware of a gives a snapshot of Baylor’s his- low said. “It’s unique for Baylor lack of understanding of civics in tory,” said Carl Flynn, director of to have these resources at its dis- its prices, and America,” Knas said. marketing and communication posal for students to have.” with our current O’Connor founded iCivics for information technologies and Also known as “The Mirror of to reverse Americans’ declining university libraries. Human Salvation,” the 14th-cen- endowment knowledge and participation in The exhibit includes stories tury Latin manuscript functions there is a good civics in 2009. from The Daily Lariat along with as a teaching mechanism for the O’Connor wanted a way to pictures of construction of Bay- Bible. chance that if incorporate the program into lor’s Moody Library and Presi- The manuscript shows the his- you’re reading classrooms. She challenged Bay- dent Lyndon B. Johnson giving tory of God’s reactions with peo- lor President Ken Starr to develop his graduation speech at Baylor’s ple in pictures and poetry. this editorial you and implement the program in Law School. “It helped preachers in the would not have Waco and Midway’s elementary Allbritton, who died Dec. 14th century break the Bible down,” Neilson said. been able to attend school in 2011. 12, set forth initiatives such as Baylor Law Alumna Wendy the creation of Moody Memo- The document is ornate and an Ivy League May works closely with Justice rial Library; the Baylor president’s contains abbreviations that take Baylor.” O’Connor, as the iCivics Texas house, known as the Allbritton time to translate. State Coordinator seeking out House; Baylor’s Law School Facil- “Transcribing the handwriting Page 2 new schools in which to imple- ity Fund; and the Allbritton Art is difficult,” Neilson said. ment the program. Institute. Freeman said the scribes’ writ- When she joined Starr for Allbritton founded many Bay- ing and editing tells a story. Bear Briefs lor buildings and funded Baylor- “You get a glimpse of that part PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MATT HELLMAN | LARIAT PHOTO EDITOR of history,” she said. SEE iCIVICS, page 6 sponsored scholarships and es- Two years ago the Specu- The place to go to know lum was at Baylor, and students, the places to go including Freeman, conducted Christians discuss ethnic boundaries hands-on research with the physi- Get a rocking resume cal document. Learn to impress potential By Sierra Baumbach ony charge caused his green card The manuscript is currently in Staff Writer employers before ever to be revoked. Charlotte as a part of the traveling “I was detained in a detention shaking their hand by Passages Bible Exhibit. The Spec- Christians crossed ethnic center, and in that time I saw how creating a flawless resume. ulum has been on tour all over the boundaries Thursday to explore being detained broke people’s world, Freeman said. Join John Cunningham, how Waco churches serve immi- lives,” Mustakim said. “I was Students study the Speculum a senior lecturer in the grants in the community. sent to Mission Waco’s treatment with digital scans. Freeman said College of Arts and Only a few days after a biparti- center after I was convicted and in some ways it’s more useful be- Sciences, from 4-5 p.m. san group of U.S. senators agreed although I was born Muslim, I cause the high-resolution tech- Tuesday in C105 Baylor on a way to overhaul the current found God then. Four years after nology makes it easier to see all of Sciences Building for a immigration system, Calvary I pled guilty to that charge, an of- the details rather than looking at Baptist Church came together resume writing workshop. ficer came knocking on my door the document itself. with 20 local churches during telling me that my green card had There will be pizza and Freeman witnessed the scan- “God’s Heart toward Immigrants,” been revoked and that was when I giveaways. RSVP in your ning process. She said the high- to challenge how immigrants was detained.” tech scanner and the ancient Hire A Bear account. were seen in the church. Mustakim said that he wanted 14th-century document were an “This is the first time we’ve people to gain a different perspec- unusual sight because of the con- brought all of our churches to- tive from the ceremony. MONICA LAKE | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER trast between modern technology gether,” Dr. Lydia Bean, assistant “I want people to see that God Calvary Baptist Church hosts ‘God’s Heart Toward Immigrants: A Com- and the archaic manuscript. professor in the Honors College munity Worship Service’ where Naz Mustakim, an immigrant form Singa- sees immigrants as his children Faculty members selected and Calvary Baptist Church rep- pore, gave his testimony to the congregation on Thursday. as well,” he said. “People say ‘we Freeman to conduct research on resentative, said. “We’ve talked to don’t like immigrants because the Speculum with an interna- our own churches about immi- reverends from local African- mala. they take our jobs, our economy tional project, the Green Scholars gration, but we wanted to gather American-based churches and Naz Mustakim, an immigrant is going bad,’ but God always pro- Initiative. collectively and cross the ethnic Hispanic-based churches, as well from Singapore, came to America vides and I want people to under- Studying the Speculum lends boundaries.” as immigrants who came to the when he was 13 years old and was The night’s speakers included U.S. from Singapore and Guate- detained for 10 months after a fel- SEE ETHNIC, page 6 SEE SCRIPT, page 6 Rounding up campus news since 1900 TheLariat Best Student Newspaper three years running| Houston Press Club FRIDAY | FEBRUARY 1, 2013 | the Opinion 2 Baylor Lariat www.baylorlariat.com Baylor isn’t trying to be Ivy League - and that’s OK between the universities is geo- stances is the fact that Baylor was graphic location.