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THE BATTALION Friday, September 5, 2003
Cosby pep rally for Baylor draws 20,000
By Bobby Ross Jr.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WACO, Texas — Baylor University’s
marching band and a crowd of an estimated
20,000 greeted comedian Bill Cosby with
loud cheers Thursday night at a “pep rally”
designed to boost morale at a university shak
en by scandal.
Cosby aimed to replace beleaguered
Baylor’s tears with laughs during a free per-
fonnance at Floyd Casey Stadium, home of
the university’s football team.
“Tonight, it’s about you,” Cosby told the
crowd, which tilled the west side of the stadi
um facing the stage.
“It’s about the fact that you were left out of
all this. It’s about how tragedy came, but
nobody really remembered that you were
coming and you were a part of this as well.”
Cosby, sporting a yellow “Baylor Track &
Field” T-shirt, said he wanted to “build up”
Baylor’s students following basketball player
Patrick Dennehy’s death.
Since Dennehy’s death and the arrest of
former teammate Carlton Dotson on murder
charges, revelations of secretly paid players,
failed drug tests and a tape-recorded plot by
former coach Dave Bliss to cover up wrong
doing have shaken the world’s largest Baptist
university.
“We’re going to have fun,” Cosby prom
ised, drawing huge applause.
He didn’t disappoint, keeping the audience
laughing throughout a 90-minute comedy
routine that made light of his “C average”
daughter’s college experience. He told of call
ing a college president in an
attempt to gain his daughter’s
admission.
“Mr. President, I was just
wondering if your college
needed a hospital,” Cosby
said. “He said, ‘How low is
the SAT score?’ I said, ‘Oh,
it’s in the high 840s.’ He said,
‘We’re going to need housing
for the doctors.”’
But Cosby brought a seri
ous message too, urging stu
dents to rise above average
grades and not to disappoint
their parents.
“You’ve got to love your
self and you’ve got to have the strength with
in yourself,” he said. •
Before Cosby spoke, Baylor President
Robert Sloan presented him with an honorary
doctorate of human letters, while noting that
he was already “Dr. Cosby” by virtue of his
earned doctorate in education.
“He is really the icon of American come
dy,” Sloan said.
The rally was part inspirational, part pro
motional.
A half-hour video played on the big
screen before Cosby arrived, recalling
friends’ memories of Dennehy but also tout
ing new basketball coach
Scott Drew and Sloan’s con
troversial 10-year plan for
making Baylor a top-tier
university while strengthen
ing its Christian mission.
Instructing the marching
band before it played
Baylor’s fight song, Cosby
reminded them the rally was
not about a sports team but
about the students — and
the faculty.
“These are people who
are here to teach — and give
everyone an ‘A!’” Cosby
said of the faculty members.
From his favorite jazz station to the tele
vision sports report, Cosby said news of the
Baylor case kept coming at him. He said he
felt compassion for Baylor students dealing
with the constant flood and called Sloan to
offer to host the rally.
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— Bill Cosby to
Baylor crowd
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