WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE DUNN from Page 1 TheTHURSDAY | OCTOBER 7, Baylor2010 Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com SPORTS Page 5 NEWS Page 3 A&E Page 4 Football analysis Dinner and a resume Oscars in January? Our sports writer takes the Students enjoyed free food and Organizers of the Oscars contemplate temperature of each Big 12 South games Wednesday while getting moving the ceremony to an earlier date, football team, including BU career advice on Fountain Mall shaking up the awards season Vol. 111 No. 23 © 2010, Baylor University In Print Woman >> Cram session Counseling Services o ers advice on how to survive requests those killer midterms Page 3 dismissal >>Tag team Directors Ryan Fleck and of charges WILLIS from Page 1 Anna Boden collaborate on “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” B J M S W Page 4 Waco Police led an emergen- >> Volleyball wins cy protective order Tuesday on behalf of 21-year-old Lacharlesla e volleyball team wins one Edwards, girlfriend of Baylor se- on the road, beating Texas nior guard LaceDarius Dunn, fol- A&M 3-2 in College Station lowing his arrest earlier that day Page 5 on aggravated assault charges. e emergency protective order pro- hibits Dunn from having any type of contact with Edwards. On the Web On Sept. 27, o cers were called to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center to investigate an assault, according to a public information release from Waco police. Author- MAKENZIE MASON | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER ities said Edwards was su ering from a broken jaw. On Wednesday, Edwards re- I will destroy you leased a statement through her Denver, Colo., freshman Melanie Babb and Houston freshman Elliott Ehrhard joust during Kappa Alpha Theta’s Carnival for CASA lawyer, Jason Darling, saying what Wednesday at Minglewood Bowl. Tickets to the carnival helped raise money to support Court Appointed Special Advocates. occurred between the couple on Sept. 27 was an accident and Edwards went to the emergency Pictures from big win room as a precautionary measure. Edwards did not ask for the Check out a slideshow of police department to be called the best shots from Baylor’s Family helps others become Bears when she went to the emergency historic 55-7 massacre room, Darling said. of Kansas at Floyd Casey B S T by both Richard’s and Karen’s o ces, the “I am ne and my jaw is not Stadium S W donation became large enough to turn into broken as is being reported,” Ed- a scholarship. wards said in the statement. He was an upperclassman; she was a Today, the Willis family has endowed Darling added that Waco po- baylorlariat.com freshman. And they fell in love. seven scholarships and has also given back lice were informed when they Richard and Karen Willis worked their to Baylor by funding other projects, such as began their investigation that Viewpoints way though college at Baylor taking various the building of the Willis Family Equestrian Edwards did not wish to pursue jobs — he drove a delivery truck, worked Center. e family has established scholar- charges against Dunn for aggra- at the Penland dining hall washing dishes ships in the Hankamer School of Business, vated assault. “We cannot sit and worked in a tuxedo shop; she worked the School of Social Work, the School of “I never expressed any inter- idle, thinking that at Dillard’s, the Alico building and Cox’s Engineering and Computer Science, the est in pressing charges nor will I department store. George W. Truett eological Seminary in the future press charges on this poverty is being ey married the day a er Richard and in Baylor Athletics for the Baylor incident,” Edwards said in the e ectively eradicated graduated with his master’s degree in 1982. equestrian team. statement. Karen graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Richard, a member of the Baylor Board Dunn turned himself in Tues- because the numbers 1985, and four years later the couple began of Regents, and Karen chose to give back day and was released a er post- tell us di erently. giving back to Baylor in an e ort to help to Baylor because it was something they ing $12,500 bail. Head basketball students who need nancial support as they had in common throughout the various coach Scott Drew released a state- e numbers show did when they were in college — a practice changes in their lives and also because the ment Tuesday announcing that that despite our best they have continued ever since. students here touched their hearts. Dunn had been inde nitely sus- “From not having a lot of money when “We shared Baylor, so I think for us it pended from all team activities. e orts, more people we were here, we just noticed that over the was something that we could do together. Edwards said she was not in are slipping into years, you can’t work your way through With all the moving around, and all the favor of the protective order or school anymore. We did that,” Richard said. di erent changes we had, Baylor was a COURTESY PHOTO Dunn’s suspension from the team. poverty.” “It’s impossible.” constant we had,” said Richard, who works “I respectfully request that the Page 2 And so the giving began. as an operating partner at Advent Interna- Richard and Karen Willis are shown with their kids (from left) Katie, Sarah and Marc, a junior at Baylor. district attorney’s o ce dismiss e couple decided to make a donation SEE WILLIS, page 6 The family has endowed seven scholarships at Baylor. SEE DUNN, page 6 Bear Briefs to Baylor in 1989, but with fund matching e place to go to know the places to go Law school wins award for service excellence B C G tice Commission. e law school lawyer, and I’m glad that someone students, and we’re really glad to of the Baylor Public Interest Legal Guest violinist S W was self-nominated and was cho- took recognition of the fact of what see that someone recognized our Society and a third-year student at Steven Greenman, an sen from the nine accredited law our students are doing.” e orts,” Creed said. the Baylor Law School. internationally recognized e Sheila & Walter Umphrey schools in Texas. e school will e award is based upon the e law school students host According to Patel, attorneys violinist, will perform at Law Center has been awarded be recognized and presented with law school’s promotion of justice and participate in various service and a judge from the Waco com- 12:30 p.m. today in Jones the 2010 Commitment to Service the award in November at the New issues and service, which is one projects, one of their largest be- munity go to the law school to le- Concert Hall of the Glennis Award, an annual award honoring Lawyer Induction Ceremony in of the most important aspects of ing the annual National Adoption galize child adoptions pro bono. McCrary Music Building one Texas law school for the out- Austin. the law profession, said Heather Day held in November on the law Each family is then given an indi- standing promotion of community “I think it’s a nice recognition of Creed, assistant dean of profes- school’s campus. vidual cake and gi basket includ- From Russia with Love service and justice among its stu- the work that our students and the sional development and student e Baylor Public Interest Le- ing a picture frame for their rst dents. Dr. George E. Munro of Vir- school itself is doing,” said Bridget relations for the Law School. gal Society coordinates and hosts family portrait, stu ed animals e law school was noti ed of Fuselier, associate professor at the “We’ve really been trying to do the event to make the day special and donated passes to the zoo or ginia Commonwealth Uni- the award last week by the award’s Law School. “Public service is a even more to promote the idea that for families nalizing their adop- versity will present a lecture sponsor, the Texas Access to Jus- really important part of being a is service in our profession to our tions, said Anjulie Patel, president SEE AWARD, page 6 from Page 1 titled “ e Most Intentional ROTC City: Russia’s St. Petersburg,” at 3:30 p.m. today in 100 Morrison Hall Air Force ROTC grabs Army ROTC 2nd Platoon competes Summer camp against Air Camp directors from Commander’s Cup Force Bravo Company Peaceable Kingdom, B C S e Commander’s Cup, played Mustang Island and Wednesday R on Russell Fields and Fountain for the fi nals Camp John Marc will tell Mall, consisted of four military match of tug a students about involvement e Baylor Air Force ROTC events in which the Army and Air war during the opportunities at 5 p.m. claimed victory over Baylor Army Force competed. second annual today in 107 Mary Gibbs ROTC, the defending champions, Each ROTC program elected Commander’s Cup at Russell Jones Family and Consumer in the second annual Command- two events for the competition. er’s Cup on Wednesday. Air Force’s events consisted of Field. Air Sciences Building Force won the e competition ended with a modi ed version of Ultimate competition a sudden death game of tug of Symphony Orchestra Frisbee and tug of war. and took home war between Army’s 2nd Platoon e Baylor Symphony Or- “It’s more of a frustrating ex- the cup.