STAY CONNECTED >> Lariat TV News Online : Baylor students reeling after campus lockdown Baylor BAYLOR CREW: pg. 6 LariatWE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE OCTOBER 7, 2016 FRIDAY BAYLORLARIAT.COM Crawford criticizes Baylor on Facebook GAVIN PUGH Digital Managing Editor Former Baylor Title IX Coordinator Patty Crawford, who resigned Monday night and lashed out at Baylor on “CBS This Morning” Wednesday morning, made a critical Facebook post against Baylor administration Thursday morning. “It’s ironic how Baylor’s response to my | resignation and my one voice, speaking the truth Molly Atchinson Opinion Editor with integrity, is by breaking the law and putting CRIME SCENE Waco police officers mark the site of Thursday’s shooting. The shooting took place at a parking lot on Ninth Street out more lies,” Crawford wrote on her Facebook and Garrett Avenue. Baylor students and staff received a Baylor Alert emergency text message instructing them to stay inside in page. response to the shooting. She went on to condemn Baylor’s “senior leaders” and encourage the Title IX office, including the recently appointed coordinator Kristan Tucker. Tucker was appointed Wednesday evening following Crawford’s resignation. Murder near campus “It’s not about me, or my job, it’s about discrimination…it’s about BAYLOR. It’s about a handful PEOPLE [sic] that actually run Baylor that hate that the work of the Title IX Office (not me, but Baylor responds with campuswide lockdown the amazing team collectively making change) was EFFECTIVE,” Crawford wrote. GAVIN PUGH Baylor said it were surprised by the actions Digital Managing Editor Crawford took following her resignation in a statement Wednesday. MCKENNA MIDDLETON “Her demands in advance of mediation for one Page One Editor million dollars and book and movie rights were troubling,” Baylor said in the statement. Baylor campus was on lockdown from Patty Crawford has not responded to the Lariat’s 2:53 p.m. to 3:37 p.m Thursday after a man phone calls regarding her post, which has since was shot near campus. been removed from her Facebook page. Tyrell Jordan Dever, 26, was arrested “The entire university community remains by Waco police at 4 p.m. Thursday. He committed to supporting the work of the Title has since been charged with the murder of IX Office as they lead our efforts in prevention, Frederick Lee Clark, 20. response and compassionate care for those who The shooting took place on Ninth experience interpersonal violence,” Baylor said in Street and Garrett Avenue around 2:15 a statement in response to Crawford’s resignation. p.m. at a vacant parking lot known to Waco Photo Courtesty of Robert Girdner Police for a site of criminal activity such as CLOSED DOORS Baylor students take shelter at Moody Library Thursday during the gambling and drug deals take place. said campus lockdown. ONLINE EXTRAS Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton, Waco Police Department spokesperson. The shooter “There is no indication that additional involve others outside our immediate Read Crawford’s full post here: allegedly approached a group of men in the citizens, Baylor staff or students are in any crime scenes,” Waco police posted on its baylorlariat.c o m lot, shot Clark in the stomach and fled by immediate danger. The shooting is not a vehicle, Waco police reported. random shooting and does not in anyway SHOOTER >> Page 4 Students advocate free feminine products LINDSEY MCLEMORE Thousand Oaks, Calif., senior available to those in need of one,” “It just makes sense to make feminine feminine hygiene products publicly Reporter Raquel Katch created a Change.org Katch stated in her Change.org hygiene products available to those available at all is an issue of health petition in favor of free emergency petition. who need them.” and hygiene. “There were no tampons or pads tampons and pads in every non- Trenton D. Garza, a Baylor Fort Worth junior Julieth Reyes “Women ought to have access to in the restroom, so I had to use rolled- residential restroom on campus to alumnus from Bushland, considers agrees. free hygiene products because of the up toilet paper.” It’s an unpleasant present to student government in feminine hygiene products to be a “I think tampons and pads should same reason we all have access to expression spoken by Baylor women coming weeks. necessity and actively supports the be treated like any other hygienic free soap and water and drying units,” across campus every day, but that’s “Each [on-campus] restroom petition on social media. product,” Reyes said. “I look at it as Garza said. “At the end of the day, it the reality of the unavailability should have a fully functional “Students have access to other free if I were being asked to pay for toilet supports good health practices.” of feminine hygiene products on distribution machine stocked with hygiene products because it promotes paper or soap.” campus. both pads and tampons freely good health practices,” Garza said. The petition argues that making FREE >> Page 4 Professors weigh in on student voting >>WHAT’S INSIDE BROOKE BENTLEY 31 percent of youth support at the opinion Reporter polls, according to a study by Pew Presidential Debates: Research Center. What we should expect As the presidential election Baylor professors, critical but from candidates. pg. 2 closes in, many students still remain frequently overlooked resources for unsure of not only who to choose, political insight, advise students to first become educated on the process but also how to choose. Constantly arts & life thrown an overwhelming amount as well as to remember how pivotal of information about the important the young vote can be. Welcome to Waco will topics of today’s political world, Dr. Martin Medhurst, a take place today complete students often have trouble sifting distinguished professor of rhetoric with a fire juggler and a through the contents and finding a and communication as well as a pop-up carnival. pg. 5 like-minded candidate. professor of political science, is Although the impact of the a nationally recognized expert on Timothy Hong | Lariat Photographer youth vote is often underestimated presidential rhetoric, having written REGISTRATION Students register to vote at the NAACP campuswide voter in America, it has greatly impacted or edited 13 books on political registration block party Sept. 12 on Fountain Mall. sports several past presidential elections, rhetoric and contributed more than Baylor Soccer relies on including the 2008 election in which 100 published articles in scholarly articulated,” Medhurst said. “They for that issue and compare it to the strong defense to win Barack Obama stabilized his victory journals. need to look at their platforms, and rest of their beliefs. Then make games. pg. 6 by receiving 66 percent of the youth “Students need to study the if you’re interested in a particular vote, as opposed to Mitt Romney’s positions that the candidates have issue, find out what candidate stands VOTING >> Page 4 Vol.117 No. 23 © 2016 Baylor University Friday October 7, 2016 2 The Baylor Lariat opinionbaylorlariat.com GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? We want to hear it. Send us your thoughts: [email protected] EDITORIAL Debates need more substance, fewer insults This Sunday, the political battlegrounds statements, frequently interrupting reopen for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s rebuttal and sometimes speaking Clinton and businessman Donald Trump over Holt’s questions. to continue fighting for the presidency of Although the candidates managed the United States. At the first debate on to transition through each category of Sept. 26, both candidates showed up with questions fairly easily, their arguments guns blazing, ready to shoot each other throughout the debate became less and down to get the desired results. According less factual. PolitiFact’s fact checking of to CNN, this monumental debate had each presidential candidate has a complete a record-breaking audience of over 80 list of all fallacies in Trump and Clinton’s million viewers, and unfortunately, it can be arguments. summed up in three words: unprecedented, The debate quickly became less about unprofessional and disappointing. policy and concrete plans, which the When watching a presidential debate, audience seemed to have no problem with. one would expect the participants to be just The studio audience, while required to be that: presidential. However, Clinton and silent during the debates, proceeded to Trump were both decidedly more interested cheer and clap several times when their in bringing up each other’s flaws than favored candidate made a particularly actually answering questions about policies. potent dig at the other, making the debate As moderator, Lester Holt held the seem even more like a sitcom. metaphorical key to Pandora’s box. He had The presidential election of 2016 has the ability to open and shut both candidates’ become a source of comedy for the nation lids in accordance with the pre-determined (and many nations who are tuning in). guidelines, giving him a powerful position The candidates both have a problem with on the stage. However, when he insisted credibility, and because they are both more that “he would press for specifics” in the Joshua Kim | Cartoonist centrist than any candidate in the past two opening statements, we expected more. elections, their often overlapping opinions Instead of directing the candidates’ add another layer of confusion to this arguments, pushing them to cover specific that the candidates had previously signed a agendas. We understand that this was a timed, already confusing race. What this election details of their agendas and properly managing formal agreement to adhere to the time limits, two-minute overview of their talking points, but needs is a harsh reality check, whether that be their time, Holt let the candidates run away with guidelines and expectations of the debate, and it did not seem nearly as effective as hard facts.