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SPORTS Page 5NEWS Page 3A&E Page 4America’s team After the Cowboys’ loss to the New York Jets on Sunday, are Dallas fans right in their frustration?

A teddy ‘bear hug’ In the midst of the Bastrop County fire, a new Baylor group uses a popular toy to comfort victims

Still on top of its game“The Legend of Zelda” came out 25 years ago but remains one of the best video games of all time

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>> Big 12 in reviewIn the midst of the Big 12 A&M turmoil, the 2011-12 season is one full of big hopes and uncertain futures.

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>> Go green with BUSThe Baylor University Shuttle helps students save money and the environment.

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“Taking a test on a clicker, especially when students must use the clicker to spell out words and figures, is distracting and unnecessarily time-consuming.”

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Baylor librariesjoin new venture

By Alyssa MaxwellReporter

Research just got easier for Baylor students and faculty. The University libraries have joined the Center for Research Librar-ies (CRL), a global resource ar-chive that acquires, preserves and provides access to resources for researchers that are often prohibi-tively expensive.

The center is a cooperative venture of about 250 libraries. By acting together, these librar-ies can purchase, collect and preserve materials through CRL. The headquarters is located at the University of Chicago.

“This means that, by joining CRL, the Baylor community gains access to this diverse collection of primary sources, foreign publica-tions and special print and digital collections,” Jeffrey Steely, direc-tor of central Libraries said.

The auxiliary collection sub-stantially enhances the libraries’ holdings.

There is no space to hold pub-lished foreign dissertations here at the Baylor libraries, Beth Elene Farwell, associate director for Central Libraries, said.

“The CRL holds the foreign dissertations that we can not hold here,” Farwell said.

Having a membership with the center will allow the Baylor li-braries to enjoy reduced costs for additional academic resources.

In order to be a member, each library must pay an annual fee. Annual dues are “calculated based on a library’s expenditures on li-brary materials,” Steely said.

Membership allows Baylor to have “more access to materials we could not afford to buy or house,” Farwell said.

Membership “allows us to make a major leap in the resourc-es we can provide to students and faculty conducting research,” Steely said. “This is why we made a decision to prioritize member-ship in CRL in our allocation of funds this fiscal year.”

Last year’s engagement with HathiTrust allowed invaluable re-sources to be easily within reach of Baylor faculty, staff and stu-dents.

HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and li-

Setting records, climbing rank

By Daniel C. HoustonStaff Writer

Baylor’s freshman class earned the highest standardized test scores an incoming class at Baylor ever has and helped drive overall enrollment past the 15,000-stu-dent mark for the first time.

University enrollment now stands at 15,029 students up from 14,900 in the 2010 fall semester with 3,033 of those being first-time freshmen, according to a report published this week by the office of Institutional Research

and Testing. Baylor intentionally admitted

226 fewer freshman in this year’s class than last year’s, in part be-cause of the difficulty associated with housing such large num-bers of students in the past, said Dr. Jeff Doyle, dean for student learning and engagement.

Doyle went on to say on-cam-pus housing facilities are at 98.3 percent capacity, meaning the university has not had an issue with overcrowding in the dorms this year.

The IRT report also indicated

the percentage of last year’s fresh-man class that returned to Baylor for a second year was 3.5 percent higher than that of the class prior. The retention rate for last year’s freshman class was 85.4 percent; the year before it was 81.9 per-cent.

“I can’t believe that we went

up 3.5 percent in retention rate,” Doyle said, “which for a school our size is just massive.”

Doyle and Dr. Sinda Vander-pool, assistant vice provost for enrollment management, attrib-uted the increase in second-year

Enrollment reaches 15,000, largest in university history

A graph showing growth of enrollment at Baylor in 2010 compared to 2011, with freshman population increasing as well. This year, Baylor has seen its highest enrollment rate in its history, at 15,029.

Matt HellMan | lariat PHoto editor

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West Texas teen accused of faking cancer

President Barack Obama waves to the crowd as he takes the stage at a rally to support his $447 billion jobs plan Wednesday on the North Carolina State University campus in Raleigh.

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Saving jobs, securing futures

by juan carlos llorca and linda stewart ball

associated press

A West Texas teenager who collected $17,000 in donations after telling people she was dying of leukemia and had only had six months to live faces theft charges after police determined she lied about being sick.

Nine months later, Ruth An-gelica Gomez, 18, of Horizon City is still very much alive and has been charged with theft by decep-tion for receiving donations un-der false pretenses.

“We haven’t found anything that indicates that she does have leukemia,” Horizon City police Detective Liliana Medina told The Associated Press on Wednes-day.

Police began investigating in June, after someone complained that Gomez claimed she was ter-minally ill but did not appear to be sick. Gomez collected donations through an organization called Achieve the Dream Foundation, which she created in May under the pretense of helping children with leukemia beat cancer.

Police filed state jail felony charges against Gomez earlier this week after subpoenaing her bank records, and the district at-torney’s office is reviewing the

case before authorities consider any possible arrest.

No other suspects were in-volved, police said.

Gomez, a June graduate of Horizon City High about 20 miles east of El Paso, could not be reached for comment Wednes-day and it was not immediately known if she had an attorney.

Although the website for her

foundation was no longer in ser-vice, an archive showed a smiling Gomez sporting a dark T-shirt with her organization’s green rib-bon-shaped logo and the tagline: “Behind every fighter there is a supporter. Will you be mine?”

Hundreds responded to pleas Gomez made through moti-vational talks and fundraisers. Among those taken in were stu-

dents at Da Vinci High School, who threw a prom party/fund-raiser for her after she told them that she had missed her own senior prom because she was in treatment.

It was a dream prom with a limousine, a dress donated by a fancy boutique and Gomez, named queen of the dance.

But the end of 2010 was ap-parently a turbulent time for the teen. After returning from a trip to Kansas City, Mo., Gomez told her church that the cancer she had spent 11 years of her child-hood battling had come back even stronger and she would not live to see the summer.

She also told Nicole Matsuda, a 28-year-old youth leader at the First Methodist Church and stay-at-home mother, that her parents had kicked her out of the house and asked for a place to tempo-rarily stay.

“That is something we would do from time to time, we work with a lot of teenage kids,” Matsu-da told The Associated Press dur-ing in an interview at her Horizon City home in June.

“Now I hear that she told her parents that one of my children was sick and that I needed her to come help me,” Matsuda said.

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Ruth Angelica Gomez stands in front of an “Achieve The Dream Foundation” sign May 27 in El Paso, Texas. Gomez, who collected $17,000 in donations after telling family and friends she was dying of lukhemia. Gomez told media she had been in and out of the hospital since age 2.

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The body of Joshua Campbell was found in the Brazos River Wednesday just before 6 p.m., ac-cording to the Waco Police.

Two homeless persons reported the body to the police after seeing it in the river near the suspension bridge. Waco police and fire de-partments responded to the report and recovered the body. The ex-traction sight was north of Frank-lin Avenue.

The body was identified as 22 year-old Campbell, who was re-ported missing by his family Tues-day.

Foul play is not suspected, and the body has been sent to Dallas for autopsy. Waco Police did not return a phone call as of press time.

Body found in Brazos

In a world filled with technology, it seems as though the practice of pen and paper has begun to disappear. Home-work is turned in online, notes are taken on laptops, research is done online and quizzes, tests and participation points are taken with clicker devices.

Over the past few years, Baylor and other universities have transitioned to using technology clickers in several large classes to poll, quiz and test students on the class material. The clickers are sold in the bookstore or online from clicker manufacturers.

Although these response devices al-low students to engage in classes with more than 100 students, the manner in which they are used in some classes di-minishes their effectiveness and allows students to take advantage of the system.

Clicker devices make it easier for stu-dents to cheat off what other classmates press into their device, or by answering for another student if he or she was un-able to attend class.

“The Chronicle of Higher Education” also believes clickers give students more opportunities to cheat and abuse the sys-tem.

In a Sept. 4 article, the Chronicle’s Jie Jenny Zou writes, “Students purchase remotes and register the devices in their names. Those who choose not to attend large classes can simply ask friends to bring along their clickers and get whatev-er credit the instructor assigns for show-ing up,”

Cheating is obviously a violation of Baylor’s Honor Code, but despite the university’s faith in each of its students, cheating still happens. If it never did, we would not have need an Office of Aca-demic Integrity.

If classes account for a majority of the grade to come from clicker responses, students will either answer for them-selves, or for their friends, which consti-tutes cheating.

Even situations where cheating is not an issue, such as tests where the number of students is counted beforehand, click-ers present a problem in terms of prac-ticality.

Taking a test on a clicker, especially when students must use the clicker to spell out words and figures, is distracting and unnecessarily time-consuming.

Rather than having clicker responses account for most of the points in the class, professors ought to use them for polling responses and engaging students throughout the lecture to grasp their full understanding or misunderstanding of

what is being taught.It is wonderful that in a class of 200

students, a professor can monitor what each student understands or needs help in; this interaction usually only happens with smaller classes.

If professors instead use the clickers

for students to provide feedback on what information they understand or what in-formation they would like more explana-tion on, then clickers can help guide the class in the direction they need to go.

An assistant professor at Trinity University, Benjamin Surpless, told the

Chronicle that he uses the clicker devices to assess how much the students under-stand in the class so he knows what needs to be focused on more in class. He used to use clickers for graded assignments but no longer does.

At this point, there is no way for click-

ers to ensure the authenticity that tests and quizzes on paper can provide. It is too much work for a professor to keep track of who is honestly answering ques-tions and who isn’t.

For now, keep the clickers and focus on student interactions without a grade.

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What’s for lunch? Kids suffer from unhealthy choicesSeventeen percent of American chil-

dren, or 12.5 million, ages 2 to 19 years are classified as obese. That means that nearly one in three children is classified as obese.

To put things into perspective, this number has nearly tripled since 1980. Although there are many factors contrib-uting to this problem, one of the main reasons children are obese is because of what they eat at school. Children spend the majority of their childhood at school, where they eat at least one meal, some-times two, and a snack. Being such a dominating factor in their lives, school systems ought to offer foods that nourish a child’s body rather than destroy it.

From sugary-flavored milk with sugar-coated cereal for breakfast to pro-cessed and fried foods at lunch, children in the United States are not receiving the nutrients they need to grow, develop and become healthy young adults. In most

American schools, children are offered a choice between chocolate, strawberry or regular milk. With choices like these, why would a child choose regular milk? The National Dairy Council said these fla-vored milks have four teaspoons of added sugar in addition to the natural sugar from the lactose, giving one 8-ounce

serving of flavored milk 28 grams of sug-ar. If a child has two servings of flavored milk, that child is consuming more sugar than he or she would from one 3-ounce can of CocaCola.

In 2005, Jamie Oliver started his Food Revolution in the UK, working to change the school food systems due to the ex-tremely high number of malnourished and obese children. Oliver has come to America in an attempt to fix our school food systems so that American children can learn healthy eating habits to prevent diseases such as Type 2 diabetes or heart disease.

Children learn the most during the first few years of their lives. If their eating habits include a majority of foods high in sugar, fat, sodium and cholesterol, they will never choose fruits and vegetables over a chicken nugget at lunch. This is why school food systems need to educate children on healthy food options and eat-

ing habits not just in the classroom, but also at the lunch table.

Some type of action must take place to fix this problem. School systems need to re-evaluate the foods they serve to children. Rather than serving processed foods and fried fast food-type lunches, schools need to offer fresh, natural meals. Oliver’s impact on school food systems can be seen on his television show, “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.” After serving the community of Huntington, W. Va., in the first season of his show, Oliver went

to Los Angeles to tackle the Los Angeles Unified School District to improve the meals offered to elementary, middle and high school students.

Oliver promoted food education through serving fresh ingredients to stu-dents, teaching them how to cook with fresh ingredients and by having a garden at the school to show where food comes from. All of these efforts need to be im-plemented in the school systems across the country. By educating children, their food habits and choices will change, they will become much more aware of all the healthy options they have and they will live healthier lives.

No child should have to deal with Type 2 diabetes or obesity. That’s no way to live.

Molly Dunn is a junior journalism ma-jor from The Woodlands and is the Lariat’s assistant city desk editor.

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With the constant conversation about global warming and carbon footprints, students have an oppor-tunity to help the environment by using public transportation .

The Baylor University Shuttle (BUS) is a transportation system operated by Waco Transit and managed by the Baylor department of parking and transportation ser-vices.

It is a free service students can use to get around campus while simultaneously reducing negative impact on the environment.

Smith Getterman, sustainabil-ity coordinator for Baylor, said it is a better option for a student to take mass transport than for every individual to drive their car.

“The more people who use the shuttle, the better it is for campus overall. The air is cleaner, and there are fewer toxins,” Getterman said.

He said he hopes students will take advantage of this opportunity, as many colleges don’t provide ac-cess to a free shuttle system.

According to the U.S. Envi-ronmental Protection Agency the atmosphere is made up of gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, and the buildup of these gases can cause climate change.

If there is no significant change in the high-level of these gases, cli-mate models have predicted pos-sible temperature increases and flooding due to rising sea levels

consistent with global warming.According to a 2007 article by

the American Public Transport As-sociation, an individual switching to public transit can reduce his or her daily harmful carbon dioxide emissions by 20 pounds.

The levels of carbon dioxide produced by transportation is in-creasing. Greenhouse gas emis-sions grew 17 percent from 1990 to 2007, according to the EPA.

Students also have to take into consideration their normal routine when driving to class.

The simple act of trying to park on campus wastes fuel through in-efficient engine performance, pro-ducing a greater amount of carbon emissions than driving alone.

Matt Penney, director of park-ing and transportation services, said a common habit when parking on campus is “vulturing.”

This happens when students circle around garages and parking lots waiting for a spot to open up; it’s at those moments that car en-gines perform at their worst.

LEaP, an organization dedi-cated to “Lowering Emissions and Particulates” from vehicles, says idling is more harmful to the envi-ronment than driving.

According to LEaP’s website, idling causes the engine to use more fuel than necessary, reduc-ing the car’s mileage over time and producing large amounts of car-bon dioxide from burning through gasoline.

Both the parking and trans-portation services department are

working to promote shuttle use across campus.

“We’re trying to get the word out through Facebook, Twitter and student orientation,” Getterman said.

Students have several options when riding the bus. There are currently three routes that travel around different areas of campus.

Buses run in continuous loops around places like Jesse H. Jones Library and in front of the McLane Student Life Center on class days from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The Baylor Downtown Area Shuttle (DASH) gives students ac-cess to Waco’s downtown ameni-ties, starting at Penland Hall and stopping at Ninfa’s and the Dr Pep-per Museum.

Transportation services is try-ing to make using the bus system more convenient and easier to nav-igate than in past years.

Bus schedules can be found online on the Baylor University Shuttle website or at certain bus stop locations with new cell phone scanning systems.

Students with a mobile QR code reader application can scan these black and white images and instantly pull up the schedule of the bus that stops at that specific spot.

The numbers show that Baylor’s work is paying off.

“Last year, bus ridership went up 30 percent, and the DASH rid-ership increased by 40 percent,” Penney said. “That’s phenomenal.”

Switching methods of trans-portation now can be a big step in preventing environmental damage

in the future.“Switching to public transit

gives a person the opportunity to immediately become part of the solution to help reduce carbon di-oxide, a harmful greenhouse gas,” said William W. Millar, president of APTA, in a 2007 APTA article.

If sustainability and campus health are not enough motiva-tion to ride the bus, Penney said, the stress associated with parking could be lifted by taking the shut-tle, as well as the potential for get-ting parking tickets.

By Jordan HearneReporter

By Jade MardirosianStaff Writer

A team of Baylor faculty from the mechanical engineering and chemistry and biochemistry de-partments has received a Major Research Instrumentation grant from the National Science Founda-tion.

Major Research Instrumenta-tion grants are highly competitive, according to Dr. Leslie Wright, as-sistant professor of mechanical en-gineering and principal investiga-tor for the project. This is the first time Baylor has been awarded one.

The grant will fund the pur-chase of a high-speed, Stereo-

Particle Image Velocimetry for velocity measurements of the air, as well as a Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence for temperature mea-surements within the air.

These instruments will give re-searchers the ability to look at fluid flows unlike they have been able to before.

“We saw the potential to be able to get this instrumentation to take the research capabilities of the department, the school and the university to the forefront of things that are happening in the energy related field,” Wright said.

Dr. Kenneth Van Treuren, pro-fessor of mechanical engineering and associate dean for research and

faculty development, is a co-prin-cipal investigator on the project and said graduate and undergradu-ate students will have access to the new equipment.

“One of the things we really want to do is integrate our stu-dents in our research programs and give them the experience they need to be competitive in the job market and research laboratories,” Van Treuren said. “We are real hands-on and want to get students involved, and I think that makes them better engineers in the long run.”

Dr. Stephen McClain, assistant professor of mechanical engineer-ing, and Dr. Patrick Farmer, pro-

fessor and chair of chemistry and biochemistry, are also co-principal investigators for the project.

“We have a unique synergy of the researchers that are going to be working on this,” Wright said. “We also have unique facilities that allow us not only to get informa-tion that very few people around the world are able to do, but we are ready to implement that as well. So, there are a lot of things coming to-gether that I think really made this grant successful.”

Van Treuren said he and the team are very blessed and grateful to receive this grant and that it fits well with the Baylor 2012 plan to become a leading research institu-

tion.“This gives us cutting-edge re-

search capabilities,” Van Treuren said. “We are in competition with research universities all over the world, and having a system such as this and being able to apply it will give us notoriety and the ability to have an impact in these areas that we were not able to have before.”

The National Science Foun-dation is an independent federal agency created to promote the progress of science.

This is the only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental sci-ence and engineering except for medical sciences.

Baylor University Shuttle has worked to become a more efficient transportation system for the 2011-12 academic year. The bus, which has three routes, can greatly reduce carbon monoxide emissions when substituted for personal transportation.

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Baylor urges bus transportation

Baylor students and faculty are reaching out to help the children of the city of Bastrop find a sem-blance of normalcy amid tragic circumstances.

Baylor’s department of service and community partnerships be-gan the Bears2Bears Initiative this week.

Campus Kitchen is sponsoring the drive.

The initiative is an attempt to gather as many teddy bears as pos-sible for the children affected by the Bastrop County Complex Fire.

The fire started on Sept. 4 and is listed as still active by inciweb.org, an incident information system.

Though the fire is 75 percent contained, it still has a high growth potential, inciweb.org said.

The Bastrop Country Complex Fire has resulted in the loss of 1,554 homes, according to inciweb.org.

Rosemary Townsend, director

of service and community partner-ships at Baylor, was trying to figure out a way to help the children of Bastrop experience some stability in life as they continue to be affect-ed by the fires of the past month. She discovered the Bastrop High School mascot is a bear.

“Fifteen hundred families have lost their homes. If we equate that to the number of children in that kind of environment, that is a situ-ation to a child that takes a large piece of security away from them,” Townsend said

Townsend said an email from a friend who lives is an adminis-trator in Bastrop ISD, made clear the urgent need of donations to the Bastrop community.

Townsend noticed the very end of the listed items was toys.

She was aware of other orga-nizations providing avenues for physical needs to be met, but most organizations did not address the emotional needs of the Bastrop community’s children.

“We decided we would do the toys because so many children have lost toys to play with, and also for comfort. We just thought that if the children had something like a teddy bear it might be a piece of se-curity in their life,” Townsend said.

Lindsey Warner, Public Rela-tions and Marketing intern for the department of service and com-munity partnerships, said the at-tachment children form with toys allows the teddy bears to comfort them.

The Baylor department of ser-vice and community partnership is partnering with the Bastrop Coun-ty Ministerial Alliance to provide the children with the donated toys.

Donations will be collected un-til Oct. 14.

Teddy Bears can be donated di-rectly to the Service Learning office within the Student Activities office in the Bill Daniels Student Center.

The department has created a page on Facebook with updating information on the drive.

By David McLainStaff Writer

The Bastrop County Complex fire began Sept. 4 and has since destroyed 1,554 homes. Many families have been displaced by the fires, creating emotional stress for Bastrop children.

Photo illustration by Matt hellMan

Bears2Bears drive seeks to comfort Bastrop children

Science professors receive grant for new technology

News media forced to adapt to changing digital age

DENVER — News executives opening the Associated Press Man-aging Editors meeting in Denver on Wednesday said mobile news delivery offers newspapers and other media companies a good op-portunity to make money in the digital world.

Tom Curley, The Associated

Press’ president and CEO, said media companies lost revenue op-portunities with the Internet but have a chance to change that with mobile.

William Dean Singleton, pub-lisher of The Denver Post and The Salt Lake Tribune and chairman of The Associated Press, said print media is still the most profitable segment of the industry.

“Newspapers aren’t dead.

They’re not anywhere near dead. They’re not going to die. They’re going to change a lot,” Singleton said.

But he advocated for rapid ad-aptation to new technologies.

“We must find an economic business model to operate within the new economic rules, and it’s been painful,” said Singleton, who compared the challenge facing the news business to walking across a

canyon on a tightrope.The APME board voted earlier

Wednesday to change the associa-tion’s name to the Associated Press Media Editors to better reflect the organization’s varied membership, which includes broadcasters as well as college students and profes-sors.

Curley said the AP will an-nounce partnerships with dozens of newspapers to bring mobile

advertising content to mobile de-vices. He assured that the mobile news delivery will be profitable.

While the media executives said they were optimistic about the future, they were frank about the rocky path ahead, predicting fur-ther layoffs and consolidation in the news business.

“This ain’t the job we applied for, but it’s the job we got,” Single-ton said.

By Kristen WyattAssociated Press

“Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” Trivia:

Pretty much any notable Nin-tendo game of the 1980s or ‘90s carries the mark of Shigeru Mi-yomoto, including “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.”

Most gamers are probably al-

ready aware of his role as a one of the creators of the “Legend of Zelda” series, but what few people know is that “The Leg-end of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” was originally developed using the same game engine as “Super Mario 64,” a remarkably different game also directed by Miyamoto.

Don’t go back to “Ocarina of Time” expecting a “Mario”-like experience, however, because de-velopers “had to make so many modifications to it that it’s a dif-ferent engine now,” Miyamoto said in a Nintendo Power inter-view posted on miyamotoshrine.com.

By Tyler AlleySports Editor

A legendary sword, a noble steed, deadly monsters, a princess in danger and one big bad tyrant controlling the land — these as-pects can be found in multiple sto-rylines and games. I doubt, how-ever, that many stories also contain a magical musical instrument needed to save the world.

Then again, not many stories or games even come close to “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” for the Nintendo 64.

The “Legend of Zelda” fran-chise was not new to video game fans in 1998 when “Ocarina of Time” was released, but this “Leg-end of Zelda” game was the first to have 3D graphics.

“Ocarina of Time” features a mixture of action, puzzles, com-bat, exploration and questing. One minute you could be fighting off walking lizards with armor and swords, and the next minute you will be moving blocks to get to the next room in the dungeon.

As always, players control Link, the iconic protagonist of the “Leg-end of Zelda” series. You play part of the game as the young boy Link and then play rest of the game as an adult Link. The ability to play as both versions of Link added a whole new element to the “Legend of Zelda” series.

Adult Link could do things young Link could not, such as wield both the Hylian shield and the Master Sword. Young link could also perform tasks adult Link could not, such as fit into tiny crawl spaces. These differences were referenced and expanded upon in later games, most notably “Super Smash Brothers: Melee” for the Nintendo GameCube.

Another huge element of the game was music. Learning differ-ent songs on the ocarina is required throughout “Ocarina of Time” so that the player can accomplish dif-ferent things during gameplay.

Throughout the game, Link learns 12 melodies that allow him to solve music-based puzzles and to teleport. I remember reading later that this game generated an increase in sales of ocarinas.

When I was younger, I must have played through this game three times trying to do things I could not accomplish the first time. I loved venturing through the different temples and dungeons. I got excited every time I found a new item. I remember going on side quests to obtain the Biggoron Sword and the ability to ride the horse, Epona, as well as finding as many heart pieces as I could.

“Ocarina of Time” is the great-

est video game ever. Don’t believe me? The game has won multiple prizes, sold 7.6 million copies worldwide and in 2008, 10 years af-ter its release, the Guinness World Records declared it the highest-rated game ever reviewed.

The game’s popularity has been so high over the years, it has been re-released for the Nintendo GameCube, the Wii, and the 3DS. It is also the most downloaded Nintendo 64 emulator on emu-paradise.org.

When I think of “Legend of Zelda” games or the character Link, this game comes to mind first. Though many “Legend of Zelda” games follow a similar for-mat, I have never enjoyed a single-player game as much as I enjoyed “Ocarina of Time.”

For me, no game comes close in story, gameplay and even the sound and graphics for its time. The famous sound made when a new item is found can still get stuck in gamers’ heads years later, including my own.

This is part of our running series on “Great Video Games.” Games from any time period are selected on a weekly basis by dif-fering authors each week. If you are interested in writing a “Great Video Game” piece for the Lariat, please email us at lariat@baylor.edu.

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“The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” was released for the Nintendo 64 in 1998. Link, the game’s protagonist, is featured riding on his horse, Epona.

Alexie’s ‘Flight’: fantastic Native American literature

By Joshua MaddenA&E Editor

Is the answer to violence really more violence?

This is one of many questions that Sherman Alexie asks in his 2007 novel “Flight,” which follows a young Native American boy nicknamed “Zits” as he struggles to find his place in society.

In and out of foster homes, Zits shows a difficulty dealing with the anger he carries with him every-where.

Other characters include a friendly police officer who wants only the best for Zits, despite hav-ing had to arrest him on several occasions, and a mysterious figure that may not have Zits’ best inten-tions in mind when he gives him advice.

If you are familiar with Na-tive American literature, you have likely heard of Sherman Alexie or read one of his short stories. Many of his short story collections, such

as 2009’s “War Dances,” are well known in literary circles. “War Dances” was reviewed in the New York Times.

“Flight” deals with many of the same themes that other notable Alexie works deal with, most no-tably the persecution of all minori-ties, not just Native Americans. “Flight” contains one particularly poignant section that deals almost exclusively with the relationship between a flight instructor and his Muslim student.

The story, in fact, features Zits learning about several different types of people in a unique way, in-cluding historical figures and peo-ple who have played an important role in his own life.

I won’t spoil how exactly Zits learns about these other people, but it’s a really neat way of having a character learn to relate to others.

“Flight,” however, may not be

for everyone because it is a violent book.

This is not a criticism of the work in any way — “Flight” deals with Native American history and Native American history has been violent. Alexie is perfectly justified in writing a violent novel in this situation.

That does, however, limit the potential audience, much like the vulgarity in “The Heming Way,” which we reviewed previously in the Lariat, limited its respective audience.

If you’re interested in Native American history or literature — or even just looking for a fast-paced novel to flip through on a quick break somewhere — “Flight” is a must-read.

Reviews in the Lariat repre-sent only the viewpoint of the reviewer and do not necessarily represent the views of the rest of the staff. Please send comments to lariat@baylor.edu.

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Big 12 Weekly ReviewOklahoma plays game of week; Cowboys dominates Arizona

By Krista PirtleSports Writer

1 Oklahoma

The College Gameday setup is down at Florida State, where the Seminoles have been talking about this game all summer long. The big question is: has Oklahoma been talking about this game all sum-mer long?

If the Sooners do not acknowl-edge the threat from Florida State, they will be vulnerable for a loss. Last season in Norman, OU domi-nated Florida State 47-17. The high-tempo Sooner offense had the Florida State defense looking to the sideline to figure out what to do.

This is Oklahoma’s first true test of the season. Can the Soon-ers live up to the hype of their No. 1 ranking? This game will de-pend on Florida State’s ability to keep up with the fast-paced Sooner offense.

8 Oklahoma State

A stellar performance by senior quarterback Brandon Weeden led his team over Arizona 37-14 last week. Weeden threw for 397 yards and two touchdowns but one in-terception on the evening.

Junior wide receiver Justin Blackmon was unsurprisingly Weeden’s favorite target as he re-ceived for 128 yards and 2 touch-

downs. Sophomore running back Joseph Randle rushed for 121 yards and two touchdowns. The breakdown of the offense favors the pass game by 200 yards (197 rushing to 397 passing.)

The Cowboys travel to take on Tulsa at 9 p.m. on Saturday. If the Cowboys can do what they did last week, they could be 3-0.

9 Texas A&M

What do you get when you mix a top-ranked football team, h o p e s for the SEC

and denial

together? Texas A&M. This mixture will prove deadly as the Aggies host Idaho at 6 p.m. Saturday.

Passion for a different atmo-sphere of college football is pro-pelling A&M this season. Saturday will be a sure win for A&M. The Aggies look at their season like SMU was an extension of their preseason, allowing them more time to add to their schemes. A&M held SMU to no scores in the second half of its season open-er two weeks ago, leaving room to improve its defensive stand in the first half.

This easy victory for the Aggies will provide them with the practice they need to face their next two opponents, Oklahoma State and Arkansas.

19 Baylor

The season is “starting” for the Baylor Bears this weekend in Waco. After an ecstatic victo-ry under the lights of Floyd Casey Stadium two weeks ago, Baylor has taken last week to heal and prepare for the 2011 season.

Saturday the Bears face Stephen F. Austin. One main

concern is Baylor’s focus: the team does not need to look beyond an easy W against SFA. Losing focus dur-ing that game will bring about a prime oppor-tunity for an upset by SFA.

Saturday will

prove a great time for the Bears to strengthen the depth of their team and increase the defense’s knowl-edge.

23 Texas

Don’t worry. If you heard “Mc-Coy to Shipley” several times dur-ing their close win, 17-16, over BYU last weekend, you were not mistaken.

Sophomore quarterback Case McCoy and freshman wide re-ceiver Jaxon Shipley are following in their brothers’ footsteps. Junior quarterback Garrett Gilbert, the starter for the evening, did not last a full quarter as his accuracy is not up to head coach Mack Brown’s standards. McCoy threw for 57 yards. His favorite target was Shi-pley, who recorded 39 yards.

Freshman running back Mal-colm Brown ran the ball for 68 yards. The offense acquired a mea-sly 289 total yards and two touch-downs, scored by senior running back Cody Johnson by runs of 1 and 4 yards.

Last season, UCLA humiliated Texas in Austin with a 34-12 up-set. This season the Horns want to avenge their loss, but they won’t be able to unless their offense solidi-fies itself.

Missouri

Dropping from the polls this week was Missouri, which suffered a loss on the road to Arizona State 37-30. The Tigers recorded 501 total offensive yards, with sopho-more James Franklin throwing for 319 yards and two touchdowns.

Sophomore wide receiver Mar-cus Lucas led in receptions with 87 yards. The ball was never thrown deep in the secondary for Mizzou as the longest reception for the night was 49 yards. The run game also needs some work as sopho-more tail back Henry Josey led with 84 yards and a touchdown.

Missouri hosts Western Illinois, which will provide an opportunity for Franklin’s arm to be strengthened for more options downfield. The Tigers’ run game will be presented with a great opportunity to improve as well.

Texas Tech

Coach Tommy Tuberville re-ferred to his team as “a gumball machine because you never know what you are going to get.”

His Red Raiders hit the road for the first time this season to face New Mexico. Like half of the Big 12, Tech was off this previous week.

In its first game of the sea-son, the Red Raider secondary held Texas State to only 79 rush-ing yards. Last week, New Mexico gained barely any ground against Arkansas (52-3.)

The sum of the inability of New

Mexico to rush and the strength of the Texas Tech secondary finds the Raiders a win for the weekend.

Iowa State

The Cyclones are coming off an unexpected win against in-state ri-val Iowa in triple overtime 44-41. Iowa State accumulated 473 total offensive yards but had three fum-bles on the night.

Junior quarterback Steele Jantz led his troops with 279 yards and four touchdowns. Senior Darius Reynolds was the lead receiver for Jantz with 85 yards and two touch-downs. The rush game has expand-ed for the Cyclones as sophomore Shontelle Johnson ran the ball for 108 yards.

Iowa State plays at 7 p.m. Friday at UConn, which rummaged a loss last weekend against Vanderbilt, 24-21. The Huskies had four turn-overs, including three intercep-tions, earning only 193 offensive yards. If the Cyclones can keep up the intensity and momentum on the road, they could find them-selves 3-0 Saturday morning.

Kansas

A high scoring matchup last weekend favored the Jayhawks against Northern Illinois 45-42.

Sophomore quarterback Jordan Webb threw for 281 yards and 3 touchdowns, 70 of those yards to junior wide receiver DJ Beshears for 2 touchdowns. Running the ball was sophomore running back James Sims with 110 yards and 2 touchdowns as well. As a whole, Kansas recorded 534 offensive yards.

This weekend the Jayhawks hit the road for the first time to face Georgia Tech, which has a more experienced and mature offense. This game will be the toughest yet for Kansas. The ability of the young gun Webb to lead the Jayhawks over a more mature Georgia Tech team seems shaky, especially on the road.

Kansas State

After an embarrassingly tough victory week one over McNeese State, 10-7, the Wildcats had a bye week to get things together before hosting Kent State at 6 p.m. Satur-day.

Sources said the offensive struggle Kansas State has is due to the limited playbook. After a gen-erous amount of time for practice and preparation, the Wildcats’ playbook has had plenty of time to expand its threats.

Even with seemingly little con-fidence in the offense, Kansas State should be able to win this game. If not, the Wildcats need to look for more places to blame than their of-fensive playbook.

Sports Take: Give it a rest, Dallas fans

Let it be said upfront that I am a Houston Texans fan and, therefore, I love seeing the Cowboys fall apart on opening night yet again.

Having said that, can Cowboy fans calm down, turn off the panic alarm and get off quarterback Tony Romo’s back? It’s getting annoying, and I think your irritation is mis-placed.

Are Dallas fans really blaming Romo for their loss to the New York Jets? Tony Romo threw for 342 yards and two touchdowns against one of the best defenses in the league. The Jets’ defense al-lowed the sixth-lowest passing yards per game last season. New York held Tom Brady to under 300 passing yards in their 28-21 play-off victory over the Patriots (queue Bart Scott saying, “Can’t wait!”).

Romo was hurt the second half of last year, and then the lockout canceled most of the offseason training, yet Romo still led the Dal-las offense to scoring 24 points.

Here is where Cowboys fans everywhere say, “Well, he did not show up in the fourth quarter.” Let me take you through the fourth quarter and show you how that’s not completely accurate.

The quarter began with Dallas running back Felix Jones running in a 1-yard touchdown to bring the score to 24-10 in favor of the Cow-boys. The very next drive, Mark Sanchez and company go 84 yards in only 2:54 and score a touch-down. I am pretty sure Romo had nothing to do with that.

The next drive, the Cowboys kept possession of the ball for 2:57 and took the ball down to the New York 2-yard line. On third down, Romo was sacked, fumbled, and the Jets recovered.

Sanchez ended up fumbling the next drive anyway, so other than lost points, no real harm done. Cowboys still have the lead.

By the way, before you whine about a quarterback fumbling, give Colts fans a call. Kerry Collins had two fumbles on two consecutive drives against the Texans.

The next drive, New York blocks the Cowboys’ punt and re-covered it for a touchdown. Again, I do not think Romo was involved.

On the following Cowboys drive, Romo throws for a first down, then the coaches call three straight run plays before punting. Why is Dallas calling three run plays with under 5:00 to go in a tie game?

The final issue for Cowboys fans was the final interception. I’ll admit that was a bad decision, but Dallas fans, you need to realize something: Tony Romo is not Tom Brady. If anything, he is a young Brett Favre. He goes for the big play. Sometimes he will win you a game and sometimes he will lose it for you.

Tyler Alley|Sports Editor

As promised, here are the results from the first week’s fantasy football games in the staff ’s league. You will see some failures and triumphs right off the bat. Enjoy.

Krista Pirtle, Sports WriterUnicorns ----- 167.98Jonathan Angel, Web EditorAdande’s Angels ----- 93.70

Daniel Wallace, Sports Writerjk lol my bff jill ----- 97.76Daniel Houston, Staff WriterSan Jacinto Siesta ----- 130.98

Tyler Alley, Sports EditorYoungGunz ----- 117.56Joshua Madden, A&E EditorAvocado Wobblers ----- 105.20

Chris Derrett, Editor in ChiefFlush Out the Pocket ----- 112.00Matt Larsen, Focus EditorLarsen Loafers ----- 62.28

Matt Hellman, Photo EditorDomination Station ----- 100.76David McLain, Staff Writerdmac’s fleet ----- 75.22

Lariat Super League: Week OneTA: “Guys, there’s only one girl in our league, and she just outscored all of us. By a huge margin, too.”KP: “I don’t even know how to work this thing.”JA: “Unicorns have magical powers.”

DH: “I didn’t even have to get out of bed for this one.”DW: “Hey, it ain’t over until the fat lady sings, and I ain’t sung yet.”TA: “Well now we know who the better Daniel is.”

Monday, Joshua Madden holds a 24-point lead.JM: “I think I’ll write a 500-word article on how I beat the sports editor.”Monday night, Wes Welker scores 28 points for Tyler Alley.TA: “WES WELKER IS MY HERO! I told you it wasn’t over.”

CD: “Larsen Loafers...a pretty prophetic name if you ask me.”

MH: “Trust me, the pain will go away one day.”

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retention to the academic back-ground of the entering students, among other factors.

“We did a bunch of retention data analysis,” Vanderpool said. “We found that the single greatest predictive factor as far as whether a student is likely to return to Baylor the following fall semester is their fall GPA. The higher that

student’s GPA was, the more likely they were to come back to Baylor the following fall; the lower the GPA, the less likely they were to come back the following fall.”

A Thursday press release an-nounced the incoming class earned a 1236 average on the SAT and a 27 average on the ACT, both Baylor class records. This

gave Vanderpool a reason to be optimistic next year’s retention rate could be strong once again, she said.

According to the IRT web-site, fall 2010 first-time freshmen earned a 1218 average SAT score, and 26.4 average ACT score.

In addition to Baylor admis-sions, Doyle gave credit to several

on-campus departments whose work he believes played a key role in increasing that retention rate.

The Paul L. Foster Success Center, the Division of Student Life, Student Financial Services and Baylor faculty across the board all attributed to creating an environment in which students could adjust to a new college envi-

ronment and thrive academically, Doyle said.

“That’s one of the reasons we offer University 1000 and pro-grams similar to that— because if [freshmen] get behind, it can be a big mountain to overcome,” Doyle said.

Vanderpool said one of the reasons why the retention

rate is so important is because one of Baylor’s top priorities is producing the highest number of four-year graduates within its means.

“What we really want when we recruit a student to Baylor is for them to be successful and graduate in four years,” Vanderpool said.

braries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future.

HathiTrust has more than 50 partners and membership is open to institutions worldwide. Baylor remains a member of this part-nership as well.

“Faculty, graduate students and undergraduates performing serious research will all benefit from CRL membership,” Steely said.

The university will now have access to over five million items including: newspapers, journals,

dissertations, government publi-cations and other traditional and digital resources with strength in foreign publications.

“I expect humanities and so-cial science researchers will use the collection most frequently, but the breadth of resources at

CRL will be useful to those in al-most any discipline,” Steely said.

The center is for “specific, unique research and extra re-sources Baylor faculty, staff and students couldn’t find here in the library,” Farwell said.

“CRL also produces topic

guides that provide concise win-dows into the CRL collections,” Steely said.

Once you identify a resource, and have a request processed through OsoFast, CRL will ship items second day air. The loan pe-riod allows for long-term use.

In addition to extending the collection, being part of the cen-ter allows reduced costs for ad-ditional academic resources and immediately bring Baylor librar-ies into conversation with rep-resentatives at other top-tier re-search libraries.

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The two weeks that the Matsudas expected Gomez to stay with them turned into six months. “She came across as very nice, not what you think of when you think of a problem child,” Matsuda said.

Pale and skinny, it was not hard for some people to think Gomez was ill. “She would be weak, always sleeping,” Matsuda added.

From time to time, Gomez

would ask people to drive her to a nearby hospital to get treatment but not to wait because she did not want to impose.

In an El Paso Times story in March, she said that from age 2 until she turned 13, she practically lived at the Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City Mo., battling leukemia.

Hospital records show that no patient with her name was treated

at Children’s Mercy within the past 10 years.

She also said she had been at the St. Jude Children’s hospital; a medical center that specializes in cancer treatment. Hospital records show no one under the naeredme Angie or Angelica Gomez ever being a patient there.

At times, when her story seemed contradictory, Matsuda said she would not get satisfactory

explanations but “you almost felt guilty if you had a suspicion: How can you question someone who is dying?”

Freddy Alcantar, Gomez’s fiancé, said she fooled him, too. They were making plans to marry in August, he said in a June interview. She would take medications, he remembered. “But I didn’t ask what kind; it was a sensitive subject.”

The last he heard from her was a brief call where she told him she was going away. “She just disappeared,” he said.

After the news came out, Alcantar said he was fired from his job but he didn’t blame her.

“I don’t know what’s real and what’s not,” he said. “Hopefully, it’s a rumor and it will blow over.”

Jose Ramirez, a teacher that accompanied the teen to press

interviews and even proposed the El Paso City Council declare a week to raise awareness on leukemia, declined to comment because of orders from the school district.

In March, he told the El Paso newspaper: “A lot of times we don’t pay attention to what students do. But the magnitude of what Angie is doing is something that can’t be ignored.

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