WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE TheTHURSDAY | NOVEMBER Baylor 1, 2012 Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com SPORTS Page 5 NEWS Page 3 A&E Page 4 Ten for the win Professorial expansion Stylin’ and profilin’ Check out the breakdown of Baylor hires Wheaton College Find out how to dress like week 10 in Big 12 football English professor to join Honors Bond girl Berenice Marlohe by the Lariat sports desk College staff in the fall on a budget Vol. 113 No. 37 © 2012, Baylor University In Print >> HEAR IT NOW Baylor, Ditch your earbuds and up the quality of your music with alternate ways to listen Waco Page 4 >> THE BIG TIME Baylor soccer defeats OSU pair 3-0 in its first game of the Big 12 tournament Page 5 for job >> STORM BLEW IN See how Sandy affected Outreach office Baylor in NY students and others on a state-to-state set to expand basis efforts to fight Page 3 MATT HELLMAN | LARIAT PHOTO EDITOR child poverty By Maegan Rocio Staff Writer Viewpoints Rocking the chicken suit The Baylor-Waco partnership Katy sophomore Mickey Angel dresses up as a chicken during Golden Wave Marching Band practice for Halloween on Wednesday at is still going strong. “This generation Edgefield practice field. Many other students around campus showed their Halloween spirit by dressing up as well. Waco Independent School District, the City of Waco and of students has Baylor University are collaborat- the Internet, ing with other local organizations to create a new community-wide which puts an position that will tackle poverty unlimited amount Planned Parenthood stays for now in Waco: the chief administrative of information officer for community and family Program will receive state funding despite slash of federal money outreach. at our fingertips. The Waco ISD board will What is the point By Will Weissert continue at least until Dec. 31. choose a person to fill the posi- Associated Press Janek said the state has signed tion early next spring. The Waco of simply being told up enough health care providers ISD approved the position last the information — GEORGETOWN — Planned to launch a state-funded program, Thursday night. Parenthood will continue to re- but acknowledged his agency is Superintendent Bonny Cain instead of taught ceive funds from a joint Texas and still verifying they have the capac- said the position was approved it — when it can federal program providing health ity to take on the 50,000 patients with the need for a collaborative care to low-income women, de- currently treated by Planned Par- family and community outreach be found quickly spite the state’s promise to exclude enthood. program in mind. online” its clinics by Nov. 1 because they Complicating matters are “All of us have been working are affiliated with abortion pro- on poverty solutions,” she said. Page 2 three lawsuits that remain un- viders. resolved. A state judge last week “We’ve been doing so in a dis- Gov. Rick Perry has pledged temporarily ordered the state to jointed way. We’ve let individual to boot Planned Parenthood include Planned Parenthood in school campuses do it, but we from the Texas Women’s Health the program as long as it collects would like to have a person that Bear Briefs Program after the Republican- federal funds. The judge sched- reaches out into community in- dominated Legislature in 2011 uled a hearing in that case for stead of doing it on the side.” reinstated a law prohibiting state Nov. 8. Cain said the person who is The place to go to know funds from going to organizations Janek said he is hopeful the chosen must have a doctorate the places to go: linked to abortion providers. The courts will side with the state and degree and teacher and principal ASSOCIATED PRESS Homecoming federal government funds 90 per- allow the exclusion of Planned certification to qualify for the job. Texas Gov. Rick Perry announces that the state-funded Texas Women’s She said having such qualifi- cent of the program, which costs Parenthood. He said he also Health Program is ready to begin providing preventative health services cations will help them to better Today around $40 million annually, hopes the federal government will to low-income Texas women at a press conference Wednesday at the Pigskin Performance #1 but the Obama administration continue funding the Women’s Lone Star Circle of Care center in Georgetown. work with families in the com- 7 p.m. in Waco Hall claimed the Texas law violates Health Program, even with the munity. federal rules — prompting Perry ban on groups linked to abortion government will not halt fund- program — at least for now. The chosen person will also Freshmen Mass Meeting to vow to use only state money to providers in place. If the courts ing until the end of year, despite Perry’s office says continuing need to have experience in work- its previous assurances that of- the program for at least two more ing with families and communi- 11 p.m. in Waco Hall keep the program going. decide in the state’s favor, then a The governor traveled to a new state-funds-only program ficials would be ready to run the months is not a retreat from its ties that are impoverished, said program using only state funds earlier promises to immediately Jon Engelhardt, the dean of the Friday health clinic north of Austin on will be unnecessary. Wednesday to announce that the “The state program is ready by today. The federal Centers for defund Planned Parenthood. School of Education at Baylor. Pigskin Performance #2 state is ready to begin a program to go, but we’re continuing in the Medicare and Medicaid did not Texas Attorney General Greg Ab- “One of those tactics is iden- 6:30 p.m. in Waco Hall with only Texas funds starting to- federal program until such time immediately respond to calls and bott has filed suit in Washington tifying a person who is an expert day. Health and Human Service that the courts say ‘you either let emails seeking comment. arguing the federal government to interface with the community Pep Rally Commissioner Kyle Janek said the in Planned Parenthood or other That means, no matter what, should have never severed fund- and working with families and 9 p.m. on Fountain Mall program will not begin operating affiliate groups,’ or ‘stop the pro- enrollees in the Texas Women’s ing to the program over the so- communities by working with the immediately and may not take ef- gram entirely,’” Janek said. Health Program can continue to called “affiliate rule.” sponsors,” Engelhardt said. Bonfire fect until the end of the year since Still, even if Texas loses in visit Planned Parenthood clinics 9:30 p.m. on Fountain Mall Texas expects federal funding to court, it is assuming the federal and have their care covered by the SEE PLANNED, page 6 SEE JOB, page 6 Pigskin Performance #3 10:30 p.m. in Waco Hall Immigrant killings case to go to grand jury Saturday Homecoming Parade By Christopher Sherman truck. Later it was discovered that and presents evidence, they can 8 a.m. begins downtown at Associated Press there were no drugs in the truck, take the investigation in any di- 17th Street and Austin Avenue but rather nine Guatemalan im- rection they see fit. and travels through campus McALLEN — A grand jury migrants in addition to the driver “The only thing that we’re dis- will consider the case of two Gua- and another passenger. cussing is an overview of the inci- Football vs. Kansas temalan immigrants killed when The only charge Guerra would dent,” Guerra said of his meeting 2:30 p.m. at Floyd Casey a Texas state trooper in a heli- confirm was a felony evading ar- with investigators. “They brought Stadium copter opened fire to stop a tarp- rest for the driver, whom he de- preliminary facts and we are redi- covered truck that authorities scribed as a boy about 14 years recting some areas in the investi- thought was ferrying drugs near Pigskin Performance #4 old. The boy was detained and gation.” the Mexico border, a prosecutor later released to a grandmother, The Texas Rangers, an elite 7 p.m. in Waco Hall said Wednesday. he said. arm of DPS that often investi- Hidalgo County District At- The boy did not show up Tues- gates police-involved shootings, torney Rene Guerra said after day for a scheduled appearance is leading the probe. meeting with Texas Rangers that before a judge and state game Guerra asked the investigators the case “will be taken to a grand wardens were actively search- to relay to their bosses that the ASSOCIATED PRESS jury, there’s no doubt about that.” ing for him, said Texas Parks and policy that allows shooting from He added that he asked the in- A red pick-up truck is moved from the scene of an incident after a chase Wildlife spokesman Mike Cox. the air should be reconsidered. between law enforcement and suspected human smugglers on 7 mile vestigators to tell the state De- road north of La Joya last Thursday. Asked about charges for the “They need to review that partment of Public Safety that trooper who fired, Guerra said, policy because of the high risk shooting from helicopters should La Joya in pursuit of what they Guatemalans who died. La Joya “That’s not even under consider- we have to the public and trav- be suspended until policies are thought was a drug-laden truck is about 250 miles south of San ation right now.” elers on the roadways,” Guerra reviewed.