WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE Summer 2011 The Baylor Lariatwww.baylorlariat.com SPORTS Page B1 NEWS Page A9 PHOTOS Pages A6-7 NBA draft can wait iNeed a good deal The year of the bear Perry Jones III will lead a skilled The campus bookstore helps Check out the photos that defined Bears squad next season, including students save on technology, the school year, including football, a batch of talented newcomers including Apple products homecoming and All-University Sing Vol. 112 No. 52 © 2011, Baylor University In Print >> Down in the dirt Scholarship drive edges toward goal Baylor professors collaborate with researchers from By Sara Tirrito communica- matter the amount, makes a big our students, both here now and Wright said that with affordability Texas A&M and make Staff Writer tions, wrote difference.” those destined to come,” has en- being a key concern for students an important geological in an email One gift came in late April abled the funds to be raised so at Baylor, the support shown discovery at a site near Waco Baylor is well on its way to to the Lari- from the Callaway Foundation, quickly. through donations to the initia- Page A3 achieving its 2013 goal of raising at. “We still which increased its Endowed He said the progress toward tive has been encouraging. $100 million in scholarship funds. have a long Scholars Fund to $1 million. The the goal was made possible by “Time and time again this With nearly 4,500 individual way to go, ExxonMobil Foundation also gift- the generosity of many within the year students have indicated that >> Laws of attraction donors and a number of spring- but the idea ed the university $372,630. community. financial affordability is the No. 1 Two Baylor graduate time gifts, the President’s Scholar- of helping The President’s Scholarship “We have had very generous issue on campus, so it’s so encour- ship Initiative has surpassed the students find love, despite our students Initiative was publicly announced gifts but no transformational gifts, aging to see that the Baylor family $25 million mark. Starr achieve their in September and is slated for so it reflects a great outpouring of has rallied behind this to help our studying very different fields “We’re very encouraged by dream of at- completion in May 2013. a large number of people,” Starr students financially,” Wright said. Page A3 our early progress on the Presi- tending Baylor through scholar- President Ken Starr said the said. “So it’s very encouraging.” dent’s Scholarship Initiative,” ship support resonates with the “enormous amount of enthusiasm Former student body presi- SEE INITIATIVE, page A11 Lori Fogleman, director of media Baylor family. Every donation, no based on the profound needs of dent and Houston senior Michael >> Get in shape fast Students can participate in many activities at the gym, including Bearobics Care of Page A4 live bear >> Champs or bust A talented Lady Bears basketball team will attempt mascots to win a title next year after falling short this past season Page B1 evolves By James Stockton >> Making it big and Clint Boehringer Reporter and contributor A former student directs an award-winning film The Baylor Bookworms. The based on the dark side of a name doesn’t exactly inspire fear, fraternity initiation but in 1914 the founders of Bay- Page B3 lor were considering making the bookworm the school’s mascot. The choice of mascot, howev- >> Just like Italy er, was given to the students and A Baylor alumnus opens a more than half voted for the bear. pizzeria with a brick oven “All you have to do is hang near campus out by the habitat any day of the week, and you see how many Page B6 people come off I-35 just to see the mascots,” said Dr. Martha Lou >> Eat her dust Scott, associate vice president for MAKENZIE MASON | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER student life. Tiffani McReynolds, Before Lady and Joy, the cur- track star, enjoys a stellar rent bear mascots, arrived at freshman year Can you hear me now? Baylor, more than 50 bears repre- Page B7 sented the school. The first bear, Fans in Floyd Casey Stadium take turns chanting during a football game against Kansas State in October. Baylor won, making the team named Ted or “Bruin,” came to On the Web eligible to participate in its first bowl game in 16 years. The Bears will open the 2011 season on Sept. 2 at home against TCU. Baylor in 1917 as a cub. Until SEE MASCOTS, page A11 Offense, defense tune up for regular season’s rigors By Chris Derrett Sports Editor Deep in the heart of BU After Baylor football’s spring Check out a photo slideshow scrimmage, head coach Art Briles of the underground admitted the play-calling was “va- maintenance tunnels that nilla” and not truly indicative of connect about 13 buildings the Bears’ full offensive or defen- on campus sive arsenal. MATT HELLMAN | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER The intensity on both sides of the ball, however, was just as pres- baylorlariat.com Dennis Ferguson, associate director of building services, leads a tour of ent as the threat of players losing the maintenance tunnels underneath Baylor campus. their starting positions this fall for Viewpoints unsatisfactory effort. “The first snap we take in Sep- tember should be better than the last snap they took in December. “My little nugget MATT HELLMAN | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER Tunnel Vision So that’s what we have to do. We’re of advice would be in advance due to all the security certainly not content, satisfied, Workers inhabit No. 8 sophomore running back Glasco Martin dives for a touchdown to plan, plan, and measures surrounding the facility patting ourselves on the back, be- against the Bears’ defense during the spring scrimmage on April 2. tunnels since the terrorist attacks cause we haven’t done anything,” plan some more, hidden world of Sept. 11, 2001. The Baylor po- Briles said after the scrimmage. Playing against Bennett’s de- after 2010’s spring scrimmage, say- while being open to lice and the Waco firefighters The offense, returning with ju- fense, Griffin said he has seen a ing, “In the Big 12 South, if you’re beneath campus were notified of the tour. About nior quarterback Robert Griffin III marked difference from last spring. friendly and nice, you’re going to alternative paths. By Lela Atwood three maintenance workers and his entire receiving corps from “Everybody schemes differ- have a long season.” One never knows Contributor were stationed at various points last year, looked as synchronized as ently. This team is very aggressive, Bennett said he wants none of throughout the tunnel as a safety ever. The new-look defense, now so you see that. It’s just about get- that. when a subject that Unexpectedly during conver- measure. under the direction of defensive ting those guys in the right spot,” “On third-and-7, I don’t want brings a glimmer of sations, rumors surface. Whispers Ferguson said it was the first coordinator Phil Bennett, showed Griffin said. “I think they’ve come to play 10 yards off,” Bennett said. of a secret series of underground such tour in his 30 years of work- its progress to the estimated 3,500 a long way since the beginning of “As you saw today, I want to force interest can evolve tunnels that connect every build- ing at the energy complex. Usu- Baylor fans in attendance. the spring.” the issue. I thought our [second- into a hobby or a ing on campus penetrate the air. ally only maintenance workers Going forward, the Bears hope From his first time speaking string players], in three drives Some people insist they exist, enter the facility tunnels. this means continued success after with the media at Baylor in Janu- against the [first-string] offense re- lifelong passion.” while others place the tunnels in Built in 1952, the facility tun- a Texas Bowl appearance last year. ary, Bennett has promised a more ally did a good job of making Rob- Page 2 the same category as Santa Claus. nels gave workers easy access to Most of the fans in attendance aggressive defense proving itself ert have to make a decision.” But they are real. protected wires and pipes during knew what to expect from an ex- with more tackles for loss, third The defense did not come In April, a group of three stu- a time when insulation was shod- perienced offense, so across the down stops and quarterback pres- away with any interceptions in dents from the Lariat toured one dy and ineffective. line of scrimmage was where the sure. The lack thereof in 2010 the scrimmage, but it did collect of these tunnels. The tour guide Through the tunnels run elec- attention went. prompted Briles to move last year’s five sacks, two from senior defen- was Dennis Ferguson, associate tric lines, water pipes, steam pipes That was where the defense defensive coordinator, Brian Nor- sive end Zac Scotton. Meanwhile, director of building services, and and fiber optic cables. continued working to learn Ben- wood, to associate head coach in among the linebackers and sec- Kenneth Halton, manager of the Brian Nicholson, associate nett’s schemes that widely depart favor of the more hard-nosed Ben- ondary, players like senior Elliot Baylor Energy Complex. from the Bears’ 2010 defensive nett. The tour was planned a week SEE TUNNELS, page A11 playbook. Briles might have put it best SEE FOOTBALL, page A11 Newspaper of the Year | Texas APME TheLariat Best Student Newspaper | Houston Press Club SUMMER 2011 | the Opinion 2 Baylor Lariat www.baylorlariat.com Chance encounter leads to unforeseen passion for culture How do I even begin putting myself studying abroad in Russia, the pieces together? immersed with the people whose As a graduating senior, I culture had so deeply touched long so much to write an article my heart.