Baylor Lariat WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE Tuesday, September 10, 2019 baylorlariat.com Opinion | 2 A&L | 5 Speakers on Year of the Campus e-boys Why Baylor needs The subculture is more speaker growing. It could diversity on campus alter online beauty standards Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro to lecture on campus Nov. 21 Cole Tompkins | Multimedia Editor IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY Dr. Pete Younger and sons often spend their afternoons assembling kits of miscellaneous Lego parts in their family Lego distributory business. TYLER BUI the goal. You bring Ben Shapiro— Staff Writer this is as big as it gets, so I’m thrilled,” Miller said. “Hopefully Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief [Baylor] will react well, but you Lego connects life, education and founder of The Daily Wire have to prepare for the worst. He and host of “The Ben Shapiro hasn’t had an event on a college Show,” will visit Baylor in campus that hasn’t been rowdy, November as a stop on the Young and I don’t think this will be the for Baylor professor’s family America Foundation’s Fred Allen first.” lecture series. Miller said he hopes Baylor Baylor’s chapter of Young students will attend the lecture DAVID GARZA sorted and organized 108,000 Lego famous Lego artists like Eric Hunter, American’s for Freedom (YAF) regardless of their views. Reporter elements that they list and sell on who has over 43 years of experience applied to be one of the three “If you can get a ticket, come their website. building and designing Legos. schools Shapiro will tour this fall. out and listen. And if you can’t, Younger first began to sell Lego “Part of the joy of doing art in watch the livestream,” Miller said. Imagine having to sort through Of the 1,500 applicants, Baylor elements in 2014 while he was something like Legos is the restriction “We have a policy that students and organize stacked boxes of was the first school selected. working on his doctoral degree. that you’re placing on yourself,” who disagree get to go to the Lego bricks that stand higher than Shapiro graduated from the “At first, it was done for fun and Younger said. “Everything is going front of the line. Ask Mr. Shapiro an 8-year-old boy, with each box University of California, Los education. We weren’t trying to make to be pixilated and you’ve got a very a question, and he is going to containing over 4,000 elements. Angeles in 2004 with a Bachelor money with it, or anything more than limited color palette…but part of the engage you in debate. I would say That’s exactly the undertaking that of Arts degree in political science. trying to get stuff out of our house,” beauty of it is that it is done within come to the event, hear things Baylor philosophy professor Dr. Pete He went on to graduate from Younger said. “During the summer those constraints.” out and don’t try to shoot anyone Younger, his wife Rachael Younger Harvard Law School in 2007. of 2017 is when they decided that we In terms of current projects, down, whether you agree with and their two boys must undergo in He is also the author of the New would do it for profit as well.” Younger is working on creating a them or disagree with them.” order to continue their business of York Times best-seller “The Right This is when Younger & Son Baylor-themed Lego desk fan. Following Shapiro’s lecture, selling Lego products. Around June Side of History,” and works as a LLC was formed. Younger said that “I love teaching— be that here at Miller said he hopes the Baylor 29, the Younger family finished a columnist, radio host and speaker. he has shipped Lego products to six community will change based on seven-month project in which they Shapiro is currently America’s No. continents, to faculty at Baylor and to LEGO >> Page 3 1 requested campus speaker. his views. Shapiro will bring his brand “I think that the Baylor of conservative politics to Baylor community has been changing through his “Facts, Not Feelings” because of some administrative lecture and offer a platform for decisions that a lot of people of students to share their opinions my ideological viewpoint disagree and interact with him. with, and I hope that it changes Fort Worth junior Zachary for the better,” Miller said. “I hope Miller is the founder and that Baylor becomes what it used president of Baylor’s YAF chapter. to be rather than what Baylor He expressed his excitement might be trying to become.” regarding Shapiro’s upcoming Gamma Alpha Upsilon, lecture at Baylor, and how he an unofficial LGBTQ group at expects the lecture to go. “For every YAF chapter, this is SHAPIRO >> Page 3 Nathan De La Cerda | Multimedia Journalist BUSINESS NOT AS USUAL Several business owners in areas close to construction claim that the difficulty of getting For students, club to their locations is negatively affecting sales. formation can be I-35 construction affects profits long, exhausting of local Waco businesses process MATTHEW MUIR difficult,” Thakor said. “We can’t be helping— they’re definitely very Staff Writer supported if we can’t get traffic.” supportive of my business and other According to Thakor, Stone businesses downtown,” Thakor said. MEREDITH HOWARD priority deadline is Sept. 20 and As construction crews convert Hearth is losing $300 to $400 per day “It’s very much a necessity even at this Staff Writer the spring deadline is Nov. 8. the I-35 highway and surrounding on average. He believes much of the point for everybody to find ways to “Please note that applications roads into a quagmire of traffic cones lost business comes from the difficulty get into downtown and support local Many students know they submitted after the final semester and concrete barriers, surrounding of crossing I-35 when traveling to or businesses.” have the ability to start a club at deadline will not be reviewed until businesses have begun feeling the from Baylor. Next door at Dichotomy Coffee Baylor based on their interests, the following semester,” Baylor’s effects. “Evenings are a lot more slow & Spirits, assistant manager Jordan but the process of chartering Student Activities page reads. The construction is a result of the for us right now due to the kids not Colyer noted a slump in sales, but these organizations may not be as The last step in the official Texas Department of Transportation’s being able to get over here,” Thakor couldn’t say with certainty whether it obvious. process is to attend a chartering project that began in April to improve said. “It also isn’t allowing the staff is tied to construction. Baylor outlines that students boot camp. Student leaders and expand I-35 through Waco. or students to be able to cross over as “Compared to last year it has been should begin with five basic steps will receive an email from the Roshan Thakor is the owner fast as normally people would like to a little bit slower— typically in the when wanting to begin their own Department of Student Activities of Stone Hearth Indian Café in so they’re not being able to explore fall we see a rising trend as it starts club. The first task is to meet to schedule this. downtown Waco. Stone Hearth the city.” to get busier with students coming with the Department of Student Another resource available to suffered a significant drop in business Thakor also said his restaurant back into town,” Colyer said. “It’s Activities and for the applicant to interested students is meeting with over the summer, and Thakor lays sees fewer customers who are not a huge difference but it could be review Student Activities policies. Student Involvement Specialists the blame squarely on the intensified passing through Waco, as travelers the construction… making it a little Clubs must have at least one through Student Activities— construction along I-35. on I-35 prefer to stay on the highway bit harder for students to come this rather than navigate the detours and way… I’m not for sure.” full-time faculty or staff member they can fill out a form on Baylor “If the three main exits to your acting as their adviser. The next business are closed … it becomes very closures. “The local regulars are definitely I-35 >> Page 3 step is to complete and submit a charter application. The fall CLUB >> Page 3 Vol.119 No. 5 First copy free. Each additional copy 25 cents. © 2019 Baylor University Tuesday, September 10, 2019 2 The Baylor Lariat opinionbaylorlariat.com GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? We want to hear it. Send us your thoughts: [email protected] EDITORIAL BUPD has taken away their nightly escort system. Inviting LGBT advocate promotes discourse What are your thoughts? Ashley Brooke Boyd | Cartoonist Ben Shapiro, a prominent conservative political commentator In its pursuit of becoming a Tier 1 research institution, Baylor and editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, will be guest speaking at must address the existence of a variety of stances. Positions that Baylor in November. One of Shapiro’s employees, Matt Walsh, differ from the mainstream should not go unacknowledged. spoke on Baylor’s campus last semester. His speech opposing gay Baylor’s Student Policies & Procedures on Campus Speakers marriage prompted peaceful protests and a petition with nearly holds that “candidates for public office may only be invited to 2,000 signatures in opposition to Walsh’s invitation to campus.