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Workers operating a Six Flags Over Texas roller coaster from which a woman fell to her death in July recalled glitches with the safety features on the cars, according to police report.

Rosa Ayala-Goana died when she was ejected from the Texas Giant roller coaster July 19. One employee told police in the aftermath that the safety restraint on the car from which the Dallas woman fell 75 feet to the ground was “a little high, or not as tight as it should be,” The Dallas Morning News reported Thursday.

The only thing standing in the way of a Big 12 Conference Final appearance is a game against regular season champions No. 1 seed West Virginia in the semi-finals of the Big 12 Tournament. The game will take place at 5:30 p.m. today at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City.

No. 5 seed Baylor is riding a three-game winning streak and hopes to carry this momentum to take down the Big 12 powerhouse, but defeating West Virginia is no small feat.

TCU (3-6, 1-5) at Iowa State (1-7, 0-5)

Texas Christian has struggled mightily after coming into the season ranked in the top 20. The Horned Frogs are on a three-game losing streak, and have lost four of their last five and six of their last eight. TCU is coming off a tough overtime loss against West Virginia in Fort Worth, where their offense managed only 60 yards of rushing. Senior quarterback Casey Pachall has entered back into the offense, but the Horned Frogs still have one of the worst offenses in football. The defense has been solid, but a defense can only do so much when an offense averages only 23.4 points per game.

We can all agree that it’s been a pretty great year for movies.

But when it comes to this year’s best picture Oscar race, that’s probably where our accord ends.

At the moment, the critically lauded historical drama “12 Years a Slave” and the equally acclaimed box-office juggernaut “Gravity” head the list.

The debate over what defines art has existed for centuries. For quilt maker Ann Johnston, it’s more than just sculptures or paint on a canvas; it’s about a person’s intent and the meaning behind the piece.

Johnston’s solo exhibition, “The Contact: Quilts of the Sierra Nevada,” opened in late October and will be on display through Nov. 14 at Baylor’s Martin Museum of Art located in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center. As the title suggests, this collection of Johnston’s hand-dyed, hand-sewn art quilts have one unifying message to them that is especially close to her heart.

Lights, camera, propaganda.

This is the theme for the Cold War Film Festival, which will be presented by the history department Monday through Thursday.

The festival is an event featuring four days of movies from either the Cold War era or movies that represent it. The films will be shown in the Armstrong Browning Library Cox Lecture Hall. The event is free and open to everyone.

No matter how much someone thinks about preparing for the zombie apocalypse, nothing compares to actual practice. Luckily, the Electric Zombie Run is a perfect way to practice running from the undead cretins.

The Electric Zombie Run, hosted by Mellew Productions, will commence its inaugural run in Waco at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16.

Donors can now put their marksmanship skills to the test at an upcoming clay shooting competition to raise funds for student scholarships in Baylor’s business and engineering schools.

The Baylor Alumni Network is hosting the second annual Baylor Top Shot Clay Shooting Competition. The charity competition’s proceeds will go toward student scholarship funds in the Hankamer School of Business and the Rogers School of Engineering. The competition takes place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 6 and will be hosted at Walker Harman Ranch 3502 Rosenthal Parkway in Lorena.

The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a woman who donated an egg to her lesbian partner has parental rights to the child and ordered a lower court to work out custody, child support and visitation arrangements.

The case involves two women, identified only by their initials, who had a child together. One donated an egg that was fertilized and implanted in the other, who gave birth in 2004.

In an effort to educate students about AIDS, the Students Interested in Global Health Today officers are conducting an entire AIDS series.

SIGHT is selling AIDS ribbons at 4 p.m. today in the Alexander Reading Room. For a dollar, students can purchase a small red ribbon to wear on World AIDS Day, which is Dec. 1.

Two Baylor students from the interior design program have found a way to use their own academic and financial resources to fulfill their passion for international missions.

Bradenton, Fla., senior Ariel Pecoraro and Granbury senior Kelsi Cathey have partnered to form a tax-deductible organization called My Child Ministries.

Student football tickets have been at the forefront of people’s minds recently. First there was the issue with student section crowding at homecoming and then Baylor ran out of student tickets for Baylor’s game against Oklahoma.

Now that Baylor football is ranked in the top 10, football tickets are a hot commodity. For the past few decades, Baylor has done a great job of giving every student the ability to make it to football games with minimal effort on the students’ part.

A couple months ago, more than 100 people convened in Los Angeles for the Fifth Annual National Reform Sex Offender Laws conference, “Justice for All.” The purpose of the conference is to shed light and try to bring about reform of national and state sex offender laws that they claim deny the civil rights of more than 750,000 sex offenders.

The U.S. also wants veterans to be employed. I moved to Waco from the Washington, D.C., area. I was a little worried about finding a job because D.C. has an abundance of jobs available to veterans and Waco has a much smaller economy than the D.C. area. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to find a job at all.

By Daniel Hill Sports Editor The No. 6 Baylor Bears led the No. 10 Oklahoma Sooners 24-5 at the half at Floyd Casey Stadium in a game where Oklahoma took a 5-3 lead on a safety and Baylor rattled off 21-unanswered points to take the lead. The Bears went on to win the game 41-12. Junior quarterback Bryce Petty finished the game 13 of 26 for 204 yards and 3 touchdowns. Freshman running back Shock Linwood ran for 182 yards on 23 carries. The Bears will next take on Texas Tech at on Nov. 16.

Representatives from the Texas business and education communities said congress could do more to help veterans find employment.

Wednesday, Baylor hosted a field hearing for the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Economist Opportunity to discuss the different educational and economic opportunities Texas provides for veterans and how they can do more.

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Whether getting tickets or apparel in preparation for Baylor football games, procrastination is no longer an option.

Tickets for the game are sold out, and all student tickets have been claimed.

According to a Baylor Athletics press release, Floyd Casey Stadium could be the host of a crowd nearing 51,000.

The Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with the appropriate role for religion in government in a case involving mainly Christian prayers at the start of a New York town’s council meetings.

The justices began their day with the marshal’s customary plea that “God save the United States and this honorable court.” They then plunged into a lively give-and-take that highlighted the sensitive nature of offering religious invocations in public proceedings that don’t appeal to everyone and governments’ efforts to police the practice.

Baylor is set to celebrate diversity on campus Monday by participating in International Education Week.

Baylor’s Center for International Education will host events on campus and invites everyone to participate.

The first event will start at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the Mayborn Museum Special Exhibit Room with the Baylor Roundtable International Thanksgiving Dinner for international students, which is the main event of the night. During the day, other events will occur, such as a Baylor in China interest session and Caribbean food will be served at Brooks Dining Hall.

If there is a word that has been thrown around with Baylor football, it’s history. The Bears are ranked top five in the Associated Press poll for the second time in history and the first time since 1953. The Bears are ranked No. 6 in the BCS standings, the highest the program has been in the 16-year history of the BCS. Baylor is the highest ranked team in the Big 12. The Bears are 4-0 in conference play for the first time in Big 12 history.

With the wind of that success behind its back, Baylor (7-0, 4-0) looks forward to challenging traditional Big 12 power No. 10 Oklahoma (7-1, 3-1) today at Floyd Casey Stadium.

23 seconds made all the difference in the previous matchup between No. 4 Iowa State (9-9-2) and No. 5 Baylor (11-5-3), but not this time as Baylor came away with a 1-0 win on Wednesday at Swope Soccer Village in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Championship.

Thursday through Sunday Extraco Events Center This huge annual book sale offers 110,000 books, DVDs, CDs and videos for cheap prices. See www.wacofriendsofthelibrary.org for times.

7 p.m. Nov. 14 SBC Theater Mayborn Museum Complex Sponsored by the Zeta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the 2013 Annual Albaugh Lecture series presents distinguished lecturer Charles Ramirez Berg and his film depicting Latinas in cinema.

At Baylor, it’s not uncommon to see students careening down a street on top of a hospital bed while dressed in bizarre costumes.

The annual Chili Cook-Off and Bed Races is coming to campus for the 18th year at 5 p.m. Friday on Fountain Mall and Fifth Street.

Chi Omega and Alpha Tau Omega, have partnered together for the past nine years to make the event a tradition. ATO puts on the Bed Races, while Chi-O is heading up the Chili Cook-Off.

Astronaut Joe Acaba has been all over the world and to outer space and back. His life has taken him from college to the Marine Corps, to the Peace Corps, to NASA.

On Wednesday, Acaba brought his experience and knowledge to Baylor students in a broadcast interview from the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The interview was broadcast at multiple universities across the southwest. Students who came to Moody Memorial Library were able to ask Acaba questions about the Peace Corps and his other experiences.

“The greatest part of the President’s job is to make decisions — big ones and small ones, dozens of them almost every day,” President Harry S. Truman said. “The papers may circulate around the Government for a while but they finally reach this desk. And then, there’s no place else for them to go. The President — whoever he is — has to decide. He can’t pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That’s his job.”

Truman made that statement during his farewell address on Jan. 15, 1953. During most of his presidency, Truman had a sign on his desk that read “The Buck Stops Here.”

I need to know how to build a bomb.

This is not, I hasten to add, for my use or, indeed, for the use of any real person. Rather, it is for Clarence and Dwayne, two hapless wannabe terrorists in a novel I’m writing.